I have been to Countryside Consignments in Coventry, RI before on a couple of occasions, most of the time other then being a bit messy and hard to find anything, the people tend to be nice and friendly. Well, this last time (and I mean LAST) I went in and was shopping around the back room for old wooden boxes. There was a man also looking through much of the horrible mess that was that room. He had moved things around but hadn't picked anything up as if to indicate he would be buying anything. He also made NO comment to the fact that he would be taking anything. So he left the room and I decided to check out the space he was just looking in. There was an old box, under a lot of crap and I wanted it. I could clean it up and I had use for it. Well, I was walking up to the register with the box in hand, and the man and the owner of the store came up to me. The man pointed at the box I was holding and said to the store worker "that is the box I want" so without even considering the fact that I was HOLDING and PLANNING ON buying the box, the woman took it out of my hands! They said nothing to me, no apologizes ,& no thank yous for giving it to him. I will not return to this store ever. Why would I want to take my time looking for things I wanted, to just then have them literally ripped out of my hands and given to another customer, as if my business wasn't as important at his. I AM very mad about this! If you put it down and walk away from it, and someone pick it up and wants to buy it, well sorry, but SNOOZE YA LOSE! However, in this case, I guess I lost. But in the end, Countryside Consignments will be losing my business for good! They are rude, unprofessional, messy, dirty and a bit pricey in my opinion! How they stay in business is beyond me! read more