Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> In article >,
> hahabogus > wrote:
>
>> "jmcquown" > wrote in
>> :
>>
>>> sf wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 10:54:59 GMT, hahabogus >
>>>> wrote:
>
>>>>> 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.
>
> Thing is, apparently many of the stores around them don't stay open
> until 9:00. I was told that, in fact, many close at 6:00, most by
> 7:00. Seems strange to me because it is an upscale area (not a mall)
> and I think they'd want as many customers in the evening as they
> could get and would have hours that reflect that. OTOH, maybe their
> customer base is wealthy suburban women who don't work outside their
> home and can readily shop during the day. There weren't many
> customers in the place at 7:40 p.m. Dunno.
>
> Inasmuch as the store had been open for only four days, I'm willing to
> cut them some slack as far as knowing their stock, etc. I do think
> it's funny that they didn't know I was there. I wasn't skulking
> around.

Of course you were! You were planning to slip into a corner and when they
left clean them out! <G>