----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3.20.08 Okay, please keep in mind that my original review was for the store when it had just opened, so not that many people knew about it.
Well, I took another trip to the store yesterday evening (in the hopes of de-stressing from the challenging day I'd had at work), and shopped around for about 1 1/2 hours. I was disappointed to see that the typical ghetto low-life types had managed to sully the store to the point where it looked like an indoor flea market stall. I picked certain things out and stood in line. First of all, a prune-faced old "M" lady snapped, "Are you in line?" And when I nodded, huffily went to stand behind me. Then, after waiting in line for 30 minutes (by the way, the line had extended to halfway across the store because there were only 3 old, slow-ass clerks working the registers), the security guy (whose only job seemed to be to make sure no one took the carts out) made us split the line up so that I was forced to go in the slower line! Although I didn't want to move from my place (I was about 4 people from the register), he forced me to move. 10 minutes later, I am still waiting in line and the line I USED to be in started moving faster. Finally fed up, I call out, "Dude! Dude! Hey, GUY!" He comes over. "Hey man, I've been waiting for more than 30 minutes, and now THAT line is moving, after you move me to THIS line. This is totally unacceptable. THEY were BEHIND ME. Now they're ahead? Come on man, this is ridiculous. I have places to go. I have a Warriors game to go to!"
Instead of trying to assuage the situation, he asks me who the Warriors are playing and if I'm going to the game.. WTF? "Yeah," I spat back, "I was SUPPOSED to go to the game, but not NOW." He then throws it back at me, "Then why didn't you SAY something?" Then he tells me that I can move back to the original line I was in, but hearing this, the fucking old "M" biddy behind me (and the "M" couple behind HER) jumps ahead before I have a chance to go back. So, as I wait EVEN LONGER, the two parties that were behind begin their checkout process.
The "security" guy does nothing about it, just shrugs his shoulders and goes back to his post. I wait another 10 minutes. At this point, I am FUMING. I noticed that the clerks started moving EXTRA SLOW since I'd moved up to the registers. Finally, at about 8pm (keep in mind that I'd been in line since 7:10pm), I stalked past the register and exited the store with a loud "FUCK!"
Okay, so a year ago, this place was a great find. Now that all of the (young and old) fucking ghetto-ass motherfuckers have found it, I wouldn't go back to this place if you paid me.
APPEARANCE - 0 STARS
PRICES - 1 STAR
CUSTOMER SERVICE - NEGATIVE 20 STARS
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------4.27.07 After walking my dogs, I decided to stop by this new store called "dd's discounts." I'd seen several of these stores pop up in recent weeks, and of course, being the Extreme Deal Hunter that I am, the word "discount" always catches my eye. I imagined it to be something akin to Big Lots! or Dollar Tree Store, but I was pleasantly surprised to discover that it was more like Ross in terms of set-up and merchandise. And no wonder -- apparently the bigwigs at Ross have decided to open up a new franchise of discount stores, "designed for households with annual incomes of $30,000 to $40,000 -- below the $50,000 to $60,000 typical for customers of Ross Dress for Less stores." (Source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/a/2004/08/14/BUG6B87P1B1.DTL&type=printable)
The typical customers at Ross stores make $50-60k? So, what, do customers who frequent Marshall's and TJ Maxx make upwards of $70k+? That is just crazy.....
But I digress...
I was surprised to find labels such as Baby Phat and Fubu on the shelves of this new "dd's discounts" store. They also had Guess, Tommy Hilfiger and Polo. The clothes are basically the same as you would find in any discount store, but much, much cheaper. I don't know if any of you have made similar discoveries, but in the recent years, I've found that Ross, Marshall's and TJ Maxx's prices have steadily skyrocketed, to the level of the regular department stores, whose prices they are supposedly trying to beat.
Anyway, I ended up purchasing a cute "Look, the world NEEDS Drama Queens" Pac-Sun t-shirt for $3, some other tops and sweaters for $5.49, and a hot-pink Rampage bra-and-thong set for $4.99! I was in bargain hunter's heaven. As I piled clothes and household items into my bright-yellow cart, I thought to myself, "I am SO gonna YELP this tomorrow."
And as I swiped my credit card at the register, I proclaimed for all to hear, "dd's discounts is my new favorite store!" read more