I don't normally write reviews, especially not negative ones. However the situation that took place last night was not excusable. It was my first time going to a Sierra store. I walked in and there was a woman employee near the front. I politely asked her if they sell something I was looking for. She bluntly said no they are out of stock. I found the response a bit rude and unapologetic, but I thanked her and decided to browse the store anyway since it was my first time there. Another employee walked by me and gave me a rude look. I didn't understand why, so I kept browsing. I was looking at a sale rack, and had been in the store all of 5 minutes, when a third employee came over to me and said very bluntly: it's 9:00 the store is closed. I felt shocked and embarrassed. I didn't know they closed at 9. As I was escorted out of the store in a very rude way, the woman I had spoken to at the front was closing the door as I was trying to leave, and I was being rushed out of the store in a way that was very embarrassing. It felt like a set up. I asked the woman why, since I first walked in 5 minutes ago, she let me in and didn't say anything? Why was the door wide open if the store was closing, no announcements, no flickering lights, no warning that the store was about to close? She bluntly and rudely said the door closes at 9. Why had all 3 employees watched me browse without saying anything for a full 5 minutes only to rudely rush me out 5 minutes later, and further embarrass me by closing the door as I was trying to leave, like they were making it into a scene? I walked back to my car crying, so upset and shocked by the situation and how poorly I was treated. When I got inside my car, the time was 9:01. Clearly 1 minute was more important than treating a customer with respect. This review could have been prevented by a single kind, apologetic, or polite gesture as I was leaving. Here is what the store could have done differently: I would like to have known the store was closing in 5 minutes before walking in, or be prevented from walking in. The woman I spoke to in the front should have told me the store was about to close. The 2nd employee, instead of walking past me giving me a dirty look should have said: the store is about to close, is there anything I can help you with last minute? Before the third employee ever came over to me, there should have been some kind of warning, announcement, something like: attention shoppers, the store is closing, something that prevents embarrassing situations where individual shoppers are singled out. The 3rd employee should have been respectful and said something like: I'm sorry, the store is closed now, but we would love to have you back a different day. I would have liked to leave the store in a way that made me feel like a positive valued customer, instead of having the doors closed and embarrassed as I'm trying to leave, and made to feel like I am being rushed out of their store like a criminal or something, where I was afraid they might call the cops if I stayed until 9:02. I try to treat every person I meet with respect, and want to be treated the same way. I didn't know the store closed at 9, and felt I was embarrassed and treated unfairly and rudely. There is no excuse for causing a polite customer who comes to a store for the first time, to walk away crying. I am writing this review so that future customers can be spared the embarrassment, and management can take steps to remedy this situation. Thank you. read more