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I quit shopping at Union Square and Valley Fair a couple years ago.

Everywhere I wanted to go in are by appointment only now.

2 years I needed an ink refill for one of my Cartier pens.

Had it in my hand and wanted a manager to just get one, charge me and they could spend time as a tour guide with people who probably aren't going to buy.

Was told appointment only.

I was furious and called their HQ.

I got no where.

Found a fellow owns a high end writing instrument store and he had the refill I needed.

I'm done with these retail places.

Now, I only buy online

1 posted on 07/22/2024 12:06:28 PM PDT by Vendome
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To: Vendome

I guess in some areas, it’s either this or close altogether.


2 posted on 07/22/2024 12:09:14 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Vendome

How long before this applies to Walmart?


3 posted on 07/22/2024 12:12:02 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: Vendome

Trying to stay open, but what’s to stop someone from making an appointment and showing up with a posse to loot the place?


5 posted on 07/22/2024 12:21:51 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Vendome

White People Problems, lol, just kidding.

Seriously though, how is the crime and squalor that has infected Union Square not get raised here? What’s the use of free parking if your car is pretty much guaranteed to be broken into.


6 posted on 07/22/2024 12:23:17 PM PDT by keat
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Why blame the retailer? They are being overrun by barbarians if their stores are open. With the blessings of a criminal state.


7 posted on 07/22/2024 12:23:49 PM PDT by fwdude ( Never trust a movement whose symbol is a raised fist.)
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To: Vendome

Isn’t shopping for high end women an emotional experience, an outing of immersion and stimuli that is triggered by the mood for that day?

Making an appointment for the grocery store to pick up your grocery list is one thing, but isn’t the shopping for scarves and purses, outfits and accessories an indulgence experience for women that that doesn’t fit as pleasantly into scheduled in advance appointments, for instance the day they feel bloated?


8 posted on 07/22/2024 12:24:23 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Vendome

My wife is a Cartier shopper. She looks like a Cartier shopper.

They are appointment only, but always open the door for her.

Magically, an appointment opens up when she arrives in her Range Rover.

Note, not saying that you don’t look like an MB shopper. But smart stores know this is basically a scam just done to keep out “youths”. MB needs to get with the program.


17 posted on 07/22/2024 12:46:13 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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How else are urban youths suppose to claim their undocumented reparations?


22 posted on 07/22/2024 3:39:21 PM PDT by Organic Panic (SDemocrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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