Floating down to Camelot

Yes, this is all v true. A few low-key remarks over the check-out are very pleasant; I quite often have that in Tesco ("Oooh, these are nice aren't they?" or something like that:). I remember the first time I encountered the "American" variety of service -- it was my first ever trip to the US, on a conference; I'd wandered into a shop, and someone hailed me with "Hi! How are you?" I honestly thought it must be someone who knew me because that is just NOT how a stranger greets you in the UK -- I was frantically thinking who on earth it could be and where they knew me from, until she said "Can I help you there, or are you just looking?" and I finally realised she was a shop assistant! - Neuromancer