Profiling and following potential customers around the store is really gross! Do y'all realize people see y'all surveilling them around the store...? Literally came in to buy a grad outfit with a friend just to be strictly followed, isolated from any service, stared at, and discussed by employees to target/discriminate against Asian and Black people. Thank you for absolutely nothing!
I asked two employees questions about shoes, specifically heels. I asked if they had any more shoes in the back or if only the ones on display were available. They said they had the two shelves worth of shoes on display. I said okay and started to grab the shoe I wanted. I turned back around to ask, "Do you have a size-" and before I could even finish, she had left mid sentence. Why???? Y'all spent so much time and energy profiling us that you forgot to do the part of your job regarding customer service... literally over shoes.... So I asked another employee if she could help me and before I could finish, I got an abrupt, "One sec." I had gotten less than bare minimum service for the whole visit I was there, because they were staring from afar instead of doing their jobs of interacting and helping customers... and I was inconveniencing her? Interesting... After she was finally ready, I asked if they had size 6.5 and they didn't. I asked for 6, and they said they had size 7 but that was all. I was disappointed but then went to try to find any dresses I may like.
I looked around the whole store and only found two decent looking dresses. The pieces look like the designing team just resent in their past designs from 2007 (not even kidding, I saw a dress my sister wore for homecoming... she's been graduated for OVER seven years). Once I tried the only pieces I sort of liked on, I knew for a fact they were horrendously designed and made, so there was nothing left to salvage by staying in the store.
Stay away from yet another racist establishment. The team there is dedicated to their operation behind keeping People Of Color out by playing musical chairs around us and following us around the store, eyes GLUED to my friend and me! Can we shop?!!?! Or are we spectacles to goggle over because I am Asian and he is Black...?
Once I left this place, I was unsure that I would even leave the mall with a graduation outfit. Every store I visited either had disappointing selection or a bigoted staff (both in this case)!
Once I left, I looked for other stores to see where I could head next for *hopefully* a dressy, business casual outfit. I had been searching for this all day. I ended up going to Francesca's across from here and found my outfit thankfully! They have a good clothing range and shoes for reasonable prices :) I recommend Francescas's over this seriously anti-POC establishment if you are close by and looking for better designs. I spent a great deal of time here in frustration due to the lack of creative or even decent looking pieces here.
I've actually shopped at Windsor since my high school days (homecoming hello!), but this experience was so demeaning and humiliating that I will not ever associate with this brand in the future.
EDIT: To the business rep in my DMs, your message does nothing to address your hatred and practice of systemic discrimination. You were literally taking part in instructing your team on how to follow us around. Don't front for Yelp! #NoThanks read more