To start off, I'm a MAJOR stoner. I have diagnosed PTSD, severe anxiety and depression, and marijuana helps more than any prescriptions I've taken. Thus, I spend hundreds (at least $100-200) every week.
I was so unhappy with my first (and last) experience yesterday that I've written reviews on Google and Leafly as well. Rarely do I go through such lengths regarding a bad experience, but this is a WEED store! There's so many that have popped up in the area, there is NO excuse to have crappy and rude service.
I went here because when I worked as a bud tender myself, my coworkers talked about how cheap it was compared to the store I worked at. A year later, I finally decided to check it out.
The blonde lady in front who checked my and my boyfriend's IDs was super nice and friendly. It's MUCH bigger on the inside than it appears on the outside. That being said, why not a larger flower and concentrate selection? I browsed before being approached by a bud tender, and was unenthused with the varieties. I specifically wanted THC/THCA powder, but the closest they had was hash powder (which was still a good compromise). The bud tender could have been a bit more knowledgeable, but he was very nice and friendly and tried to be helpful.
What ruined my experience was the cashier (who is a bud tender as well, I'm sure). He was a somewhat tall, thin-average build guy with thin brown hair that was short to short-medium in length (he kind of had it swept across his forehead). To start with, he looked like he wanted to be ANYWHERE but this store, but I try not to judge based on initial appearances.
When he started checking me out, I tried having some idle friendly chit chat. Apparently, this guy wasn't interested in being friendly, since he completely and totally ignored me even when I asked him a simple pleasant question (I asked him how he was enjoying the beautiful weather recently). I figured he might be new, or he might just be really really concentrating on scanning those barcodes.
He got exasperated and visibly frustrated when I asked him to repeat the total amount for me, since I didn't hear him initially. $96 for an eighth, 1 gram of hash powder, and two hash prerolls. Not the best deal but not the worst, and a small order for me. I gave the $4 as a tip (he watched me give the tip but didn't acknowledge it at all, which made me feel really awkward). The tip was definitely for the bud tender - not this dude.
He asked me if I wanted to join their rewards program and handed me a tablet to fill out off to the side. I was finishing up (not done yet) when he yelled "OKAAAAYYYYY YOU'RE DONE!!!" I thought he was talking to the customer he was cashing out - not me, because why would he yell at me?
I finished and was watching it load my information, making sure I did everything correctly, when I hear him, even louder, yell "YOU'RE GOOD..... YOU'RE DONE!!!!" I look up and he is leaning my direction, less than 3 feet away from me, yelling AT me! WTF?! Not only is that incredibly rude and intimating for someone like me, but the customer in front of him seemed appalled as well.
I gave the tablet back and walked out of the store, looked at my boyfriend, and asked "Was that guy totally rude to me or am I just being sensitive?" When my boyfriend found out it was ME he had been yelling at (he was on the other side of the store and heard the guy yell) he told me to go in, return everything and get my money back. Well, I know you can't return items from a weed store unfortunately, so I just left feeling crappy about $100 I spent getting yelled at, when I could have gone to a store a few blocks from my house, paid less, and the people would have been NICE!
Also, having severe PTSD, I trust that going into stores like this that I WON'T get treated this way, because having strangers yelling at me can easily start a panic attack and leave me in a stressed out fog for the rest of the day. Feeling publicly embarrassed, such as being yelled at by strangers in front of other strangers, really exacerbated my anxiety and again, leads to severe panic attacks. So thanks dude! The handicapped community really appreciates your rudeness (insert sarcasm here)
Seriously, there's too many weed stores in Washington, especially in this area, to have rude service. Marley 420, less than ten minutes away on Kent Kangley, is my favorite neighborhood weed store, and the people are always friendly or nice (otherwise they don't last!! Go figure...). I'd also rather go to Joint Rivers in Auburn, or Evergreen Market in Auburn or Renton, or even the overpriced Euphorium in Covington, rather than this place.
How disappointing, I was fully expecting to love this place.
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