The employees pre-accused us of stealing the moment we walked in the store. Me and my friend Nick both had backpacks on, so it's fair for the employees to kind of keep an eye on us to make sure we aren't stuffing our bags with merchandise, but they WAY over did it. Nick overheard one of the guys say "keep an eye on them" talking about us. The female wouldn't get off my back for 1 second. She bombarded me with questions and wouldn't leave my side, I couldn't even think about what I was trying to buy because she kept asking me the SAME questions over and over, even after I answered her. My favorite was when I grabbed a stack of shirts off the shelf to look for the size I needed and she says "Need me to find a size for you?" No...I can handle it. That happened EVERY time I grabbed a stack of shirts.....she was not being courteous, she made me feel like I wasn't allowed to touch anything. I finally found a shirt I liked and slung it over my shoulder, like I do EVERY time I shop at Zumiez and it's never been a problem. The female immediately said "I'll hold that at the counter for you." Now for my friend Nick who's 23 and homeless...doesn't have a single family member that cares about him...he was dirty and has face and hand tattoos so naturally he looks sketchy, but you can't just profile someone based on their looks. He was not ACTING sketchy....he was just politely standing by me the whole time I was trying to shop because we're friends from high school that haven't seen each other in a long time, so I dragged him with me while I did my Christmas shopping so we could spend time together. Even though he wasn't doing anything except standing by me, two employees starting giving him a hard time about how to pronounce "salmon" and "gnarly"....at first they were just messing around but very quickly it turned into something not fun...they were being very obnoxious towards him. He's not stupid, him and I could both tell they were just trying to keep us as preoccupied and distracted as possible so that we wouldn't have time to sTeAL anything. He got upset and left the store, the employees still loudly heckling him as he's walking out. I followed him out to see if he was okay. He was very very upset that the employees targeted us the moment we walked in the store and assumed we were there to steal and wouldn't leave us alone, especially when we gave them no reason to think that we were there to steal, other than wearing backpacks (which we were wearing because my car has a broken window so I can't leave my stuff in it unattended). It was very upsetting and ruined our night, I left with him at that time and never bought the 2 shirts I wanted. read more