With respect, you've just confessed to being dishonest.

Honesty is like virginity - you either fit the bill or else you don't.

That said, the 2X I worked retail for short periods I never had to lie because I didn't need the money as desperately as you seem to do.

you are either honest or a liar, and you appear to be the latter. Rationalize it however you like.

When you are shopping?

Well thats an oxymoron right there.
" An honest salesman "
Baha
Ok

Don't all salesmen lie? It's normal practice in that business. I forgive ya, got nothing to sell, it just feels right sometimes to give insufferable scorpion cons a taste of their own medicine. Survival.

A SUPER-salesperson believes in their product and knows how to match a customer with the product he/she needs the most. If you are good at this, business will find you and you will be successful. Lying is a super sleazy sales technique and is completely unethical.

a liar is not honest

is like someone telling me the sky is blue

If you have to lie to make a sale, you are not a salesman.

Wrong thinking ! Do good and good will follow you. If you fraud for shot term gain you always will bring forth long term pain. That's a universal law like gravity. Mock gravity if you so choose to jump off a high cliff without parachute or glider and the result will always be the same. And if you try it with parachute or glider, suggest you first know what you'r doing.