Another Day Another OS wrote:

> sueb wrote:
>
>> What ever you do, don't get the Vrut!
>>
>> I'm not a big TJ's fan. A lot of it has to do with the employees. I
>> once stopped in a store at 4 in the afternoon after working out at the
>> gym. I grabbed some salmon, a bag of frozen gyoza, and a big tin of
>> Altoids. The checkout girl asked if it was my lunch.
>
>
> I have to add my two cents here... We made our second trip to TJ
> yesterday afternoon and while the crowd we saw the first time was gone
> and we were able to pick up a few things our encounter with the
> employees was less than encouraging. TJs seems to have followed the GE
> model of hiring the - service jobs are beneath us crowd from the
> immediate neighborhood - in fact many of them reminded me of the former
> Shop -N Save crew that I desperately avoided when I lived in Squirrel Hill.
>
> We couldn't get anyone to help us find what we were looking for and when
> we located the stuff and went to check out, it was all the cashier could
> do to tear herself away from her conversation with her co-worker and
> trouble herself to check us out.
>
> Whatever Whole Foods does to hire their pleasant and helpful, if a bit
> quirky and sometimes too familiar staff, Whole Foods is about the only
> store in the city that has figured out a way to keep the sneering at the
> customers they loath element out of their employee ranks.

Well, so far I've found the employees to be extremely polite,
friendly and helpful.

Kate

--
Kate Connally
“If I were as old as I feel, I’d be dead already.”
Goldfish: “The wholesome snack that smiles back,
Until you bite their heads off.”
What if the hokey pokey really *is* what it's all about?