Today was my first time in this place, not even with a gun held to my head will I ever darken the door of this place! Rude! I came into the store, which has pathetic hours and is only open three days a week, and being my first time in the place, was observing what happened. Unlike the Crow Wing Co-Op, all spices and everything are behind a counter with an attendant to serve you. Nice, right? One gentleman brought up a container to the older girl working, she thanked him for grabbing it. So, trying to go with the flow, I grabbed the larger jar of ginger, then went to grab the container of cinnamon, being nice and accepting this was something people did here. Another dark hair bat came walking up and, with no tact or politeness whatsoever effectively scolded me for doing what another customer had done. I apologized and since I already had the container, brought it to the counter by the scale. Minnesota nice is a fallacy, this woman continued to bitch me out. I said this was my first time in the store, and simply stated I was just bringing it to her, and added the information about another customer whom had done the same thing as I had. The place was busy. It got worse from there, bad enough I was ready to drive to Brainerd for my spices.
In addition to this, there are two cash registers, and two people behind the counter to check out. An older gentleman was ringing customers purchases up, and the other person, and older woman, was bagging the items, two other people waiting with carts loaded, and only one till open. Poor service. Hopefully there is a place in Bemidji that is polite and knows how to work with customers. The place is run by volunteers, and at least one would be better off working in Saint Cloud, at the prison. read more
