Why Was this Grocery Store Still Like A Ghost Town The Last Weekend Before Christmas?
Yesterday 12/21/2013 after I "fought" to push through my shopping carts through the holiday-shopping crowds in Chinese Ranch Market in Lynnwood WA and then in Fred Meyer, Burlington WA, I still had to run into this whitest and most expensive grocery store nearby to get two pieces of beef tenderloins and a bottle of locally-made Whiskey (made in Woodinville WA) which my white husband wanted. The whole store had probably at most 20 customers, including people were checking out and walking in. I do agree with some of the reviews here that this is a specialty store that carries some of the good stuff that you can't find somewhere else-- and that's probably the only reason this store is still here with its uptight management and staff.
After I read one of the reviews here giving only one star, it was re-confirmed I did not misjudge this store when I sent an email directly to the store website complaining about its bad customer service because this store does not treat all customers the same no matter what their origins, skin colors, ages, genders, income, or appearances, etc are. As an Asian, I am not fond of non-colored people treating me differently because I am different. I am particularly not fond of this young man/store staff who treated me badly because it appeared it was very difficult and a lot of work for him to pick two pieces of decent and same size beef tenderloins (costing me more than $28.00) from a glassed display cabinet out of total about 6 pieces of them. Given the facts that I am probably older than his parents, my son may be older than him and is being deployed overseas (U.S Navy), I work more than 40 hours a week at customer services front line too almost 9 years, my husband is an Army Infantry veteran working more than 70 hours a week, I believe I deserve much better customer service than what I can get from this store, not mentioning that his over-eaten/sugar-poisoned adolescent girl friend (if any) might still get jealous of old Asian women such as me because we try to eat and live as if there is a tomorrow and people such as this young man and his overweight girlfriend show us that we are better persons and deserve better life.
Life is a circle of cause and effect. We all know it will teach them lessons eventually anyway, therefore we stay happy and young no matter how life treats us.
Evidently this town has some people/businesses that only want to treat/serve their own people that they like. If you don't belong to their circles, you don't get good treatment. What kind of mindset is that? I guess that's the reason this store is always like a ghost town! read more