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I am a 25 going on 26 year old adult man who entered this store on Sunday Oct. 13th at 2pm with my 3 friends, all of whom are older than 23, all femme presenting individuals. 3 were from out of town and we were in the store for about 15-20 minutes shopping for clothes and accessories. As one does when shopping with friends, we were laughing and joking quietly to one another, but absolutely were not being disruptive or loud in our shopping as we perused the offerings. As we were looking at some creature cock keychains to buy, a man approached us and said "Go on, git." We laughed awkwardly because we thought he was joking, but he kept waving his hands at us like we were pests. He kept repeating "Alright, get outta here, come on kids, time to go," and "Git," and even whistled at us like one does at dogs. We don't know whether he worked there because he didn't have a lanyard or a name tag, but the person behind the counter did not react so we assumed this was a manager of some kind, when he said, "You're loud and annoying and not buying anything."
We are all people who either have worked service industry or loved ones who do, so everywhere we go we treat the space and the people working there with decency and respect. We were just chatting - again in quiet tones and absolutely no yelling or guffawing that would have made such a disrespectful tone make sense. We were actively holding things we were looking to buy, so we put them down and left as he quite literally shoo'ed us out.
It was incredibly disrespectful and demeaning way to kick out patrons. Obviously he must have thought we were children having a giggle, but his tone was so demeaning and rude that explaining we *were* in fact patrons would have been an escalation that we didn't want to have to do. It's also important to note there was no one else in the store while we were there except one or two patrons when we first entered. We went back to apologize and he was visibly annoyed and actively hostile. JOHNATHON is the name of the employee, and aid he should've kicked us out for "humping" each other which was incredibly uncomfortable since we are all indeed just friends and we were trying to apologize.
This man is uncomfortable and rude. Obviously the situation of a manager on a power trip who either needs a vacation or a different line of work.
I will never support this store, but especially never at this location. Get what you're looking for somewhere else! read more