"jmcquown" > wrote in
:
> sf wrote:
>> On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 10:54:59 GMT, hahabogus >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Melba's Jammin' > wrote in
>>> news:barbschaller- :
>>>
>>>> Surly Table has Demeyere cookware. Holy crap, that stuff is
>>>> expensive! My Bigass jam kettle is Demeyere and I bought it at SlT
>>>> in Seattle in 1999. It was $165 then. Alex only knows what it
>>>> costs now. I think I don't want to know. I hope Cooks can
>>>> prevail.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I prefer the smaller cooking stores myself....Surly T always feels
>>> too snobbish for me. But that could be their web-site, as I've
>>> shopped in their stores.
>>
>> Haven't looked at their web site, but I've been to several stores and
>> none of them strike me as snobbish.
>
> I've never been to one. But the fact that they ignored Barb when they
> didn't have her particular style of butter curler, to the point of not
> even knowing she was still in the store at closing, strikes me as
> possibly snobbish. As if to say, "We know she won't buy anything so
> let's don't waste our time." Granted, I hate when salespeople hover
> over me but I do like to be acknowledged from time to time.
>
> Jill
>
>
>
that and the fact they close at 8pm while all around them, stores stay
open till 9pm...seems snobbish to me.
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