I don't often feel inclined to shitpost a store for one bad employee, but the night manager Ashley…read morehas brought me across the threshold.
My question to Ashley was "what is vape flavoring made of?" Her only reply was "it is flavored with PG."
Good 'ole PG - the colorless, odorless, virtually tasteless liquid, happens to be the Everlasting Gobstopper of vape additives.
The appropriate answer would've been, "I don't know, let me find out from someone."
I tried politely rephrasing this simple question twice over. This one tastes like blueberries - is it made with actual blueberries, I asked. "It's just PG blueberry," she said.
Then she tried insulting me by asking if I could
"name the thousands of chemicals in an American Spirit?" ...an irrelevant and factually innacurate assertion about my favorite cigarette.
"PG is approved by the FDA, if that makes [me] feel better?"
It doesn't, because my question wasn't about the laughable safety standards of the FDA, whom also regulate cigarettes and toxic food pesticides.
PG is so magical, so "coolio," as Ashley would say, just before she fills up my fiancé's vape to "get it nice and juicy for [him]."
With side-eye, she then asks me if she should stop mixing my order? Too bad she didn't want to make it nice and juicy for me, too.
She's here six days a week, folks, including tomorrow as mentioned to my fiancé, when he said he'd probably be back for the inevitable replacement vape. She's very available in case he wants to come by and hear her golden nuggets of wisdom.
Someone should notify her the coquette nit-in-booty-shorts sales tactics are for the strip clubs and gullible single dudes.
Ignorance is forgivable; an ignorant rote response, overt with wrongfully held condescension, is not.
She was so rude, sassy, and weirdly flirtatious with a taken man. Her complete deficit of professionalism was the first thing he noted when we stepped out of the store. It wasn't just me.
Food grade flavor additive is mixed with a PG base, Ashley. "Knowledge is power," as she had patronizingly reminded me.
The shop itself is nice and has a robust and tasty flavor selection. The other staff I interacted with were pleasant. A mistake was made by letting this chick represent a product meant to be consumed by adults.