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For those of you starting with a new stylist, perhaps asking the business if they require their employees to sign a non-compete agreement and refusing to use the salon if they do have such a requirement will decrease the practice. It is true that the business provided the opportunity for you to meet the stylist, thus it should own the goodwill. But if consumers simply say, in enough numbers, I will only use salons that do not require non-compete clauses, perhaps they will disappear from the industry. Maybe Gracie's posse can post the results of asking at all the local establishments to determine how widespread this may be.