The place is beautifully landscaped with several buildings to appeal to different eras of antiques. Shea's Restaraunt has incredible food and the only shinning place about Whistle Stop. I love love love sunday lunch and always feel welcome with great food and service.
Unfortunately for the antique mall, they hire some of the rudest, most sarcastic, nasty snot nosed Btchs's, possibly I would even use the C word, you could ever find in the country. I used to frequent the place on a monthly basis but the dealers want way too much money for their garage sale finds and so their merchandise sits and sits not selling. There is one woman in particuliar named Nancy who works in the front building whose sarcasm and demeanor is offensive and snooty with her inappropriate comments to customers. Every conversation with her is condenscending and demeaning as she looks down at you finding humor in every comment as you attempt to make small talk. My housemate and I went in there today to purchase an item I have had my eyes on for 6 months. They finally had a sale bringing the item down to what I thought was a fair price. Nancy thought it quite comical that I had looked at this item for so long and her attitude suggested I couldn't afford it with her snarly remarks. I bought the item anyways but do not feel good about my purchase. I will never set foot into the place again untill this horrible woman is gone. What a horrible shopping experience to make a person feel like they aren't worthy of your merchandise and prejudge people's pocketbook. Other times I have been in there, the antique dealers like to sit around drinking coffee and eating cookies complaining about customers and people in general. Its disgusting behaviour and I am in professional comission sales and would never dream of treating my customers in this manner. Every experience like this is always a reminder of how NOT TO treat customers and ALWAYS make them feel welcome and that I apprecaite their business no matter how small a purchase or large. Every person deserves the same level of service and I am there to entertain THEM, not the other way around. This place needs a major change in staff and some better pricing on merchandise. I will enjoy garage sale shopping to find items of equel value and pay what I should for them!!!! read more