I walk by this store every single day on my way home from work. It is very close to my house, and I will stop in most every payday to pick something up. I have been coming for 2-3 years now. When I replaced my living room floor, I got the supplies there. Every light bulb in this house is from there. Needed some chains and masonry bit to secure my trash barrels, got them there. When I repainted the house, fixed the toilets, needed acid for the drains, even when I built a Ghostbusters proton pack for my nephew, I got the supplies there. It's close, convenient, decently priced, the staff was always helpful, and I prefer to support local businesses over the Home Depots of the world.
I went in today, July 11 2019, as it was payday. I started looking around, knowing I would see something that would remind me of a project I could get done this weekend. An older man I had not seen there before asked me if I needed help with something. Just looking at the moment, I said. Looked around for maybe 5 minutes, and the guy comes up to me again and tells me this is a store. Either I tell him what I want or I have to leave. I told him I am a regular customer there, and he said oh, are you, now? I asked if the place was under new management, or if he was new there, and he said he had been there 45 years, he'd been there since before I even walked the earth. Well, unfortunately, he never learned in all that time how to treat (or keep) a customer. I've never been spoken to so condescendingly, or treated so disrespectfully at a store in my life. My family and friends are all going to be warned not to shop there again, and I'll be certain to warn anyone I see venturing in or out, or looking in the windows about what kind of guy they would be giving their money to. Such a shame arrogant people like that spoil all the good little places. read more