I was stalked around a store today by rude staff members. Should I write a bad review or forget about it?

why not name the store OP?

They were clearly profiling you due to your colour OP. Lodge a complaint about the store with the Human Rights Commission.

Are you white? If so, get over it. If not, sue them.

R2 I'm white and so was every other customer.

[quote] The staring is the reason I won’t go back.

Once you shop black, they don’t want you back.

Op go ahead and be a mean ass bitch sitting on her laptop crushing a small business

R1 It's not a well-known chain. I don't want to dox anybody.

If you try to buy department store/mid-high end perfume or cosmetics in an actual brick-and-mortar these days, you get the Pretty Woman treatment. No wonder everyone just orders from Sephora.

Mild annoyance = a scorched earth review. Yes, totally normal.

OP is a thief and a shitkicker.

Go to war!

So Goodwill is on to the OP, AKA "Petunia the Pinch," the Hoarder Whore of Harlot Street.

3 French Hens?

A day ending in “y” for us black person.

I had the same experience in Walgreens once. Homeless people were plentiful in the parking lot. So I wasn't surprised. But to be honest. The only things I would be tempted to shoplift are in the candy aisle.

I forgot to mention that this store doesn't have a website for online shopping. All they have to offer is the in-store stalking experience.

In Hawaii, that is very common for black people when they enter a store. And it is so overt. Not subtle. So wrong. So hateful.

The things they don’t tell you in the travel brochures.

OP I wouldn't bother with a bad review but there should definitely be a way for you to communicate the issue to them. Maybe the staff have been threatened that anything stolen comes out of their wages?

“Slightly” my ass, R15. YTF.

Isn't that better than being ignored by salespeople chatting or on their phones?

I don’t think a bad review would impact them terribly. There can’t be THAT many stores selling glittered covered pitbull statues. If you’re looking for that type of thing, it’s likely the only place to shop.

I am aghast at how some people behave in stores so completely understand staff being watchful. It's their store, not your home.

Who is doing the profiling in Hawaii? Whites?

Go back tomorrow and pull a Julia Roberts.

Send them a gentle letter spelling out how you felt uncomfortable being stared at while you were shopping. You felt the need to go elsewhere. Kindly suggest they evaluate other options to track shoppers in their store. Mirrors, perhaps? An obvious security camera? Tell them you'll return to the store sometime in the future, and do it.

If things haven't changed, you'll know never to go there again.

Extremely common for blacks. Don't take it personal.

That was me at Pier One.

OP was juggling Faberge eggs.

While the sales clerk was following you around, you should have engaged with him / her. Ask where things were (even if it was something you had no interest in), let them feel useful. If it's a guy watching you and he's somewhat attractive - ask him out. He may get offended and finally leave you alone.

Are you DL white or one of the groups DL does not consider white, e.g. Italian? Are you Eurasian looking or vaguely indigenous looking, e.g. Keanu Reeves? Can't be too cared by DL standards.

^ too careful

You should have handed them the basket and said "I'm so glad I have a personal shopper! Come with me!"

R30 I look like a plain Celtic man (reddish-blond hair, pale skin, innocently dressed)

I was followed around by undercover security in a store I regularly shop once, I don't steal so I found it amusing. If it bothers you OP then don't shop there, I am fine with just about anything they want to do to stop stealing as it keeps their overhead down and prices lower.

Probably just selecting their next white slavery target, OP.

Lunch and a shopping afternoon in London with my dear friend the Princess of Jaipur was ruined when we were stalked around Harvey Nichols.

[quote]A day ending in “y” for us black person.

That charter school and going to summer school every year was wasted on you, wasn't it, Sapphire?

You owe us for all those free breakfasts and lunches.

I was stalked around a Jos. A. Bank by a Russian saleslady (both of us were slumming) who insisted on standing right next to me as I sifted through the sweaters looking for my size. She wasn’t helping, just watching. I’m usually pretty meek in these situations but I raised my voice and told her to back off.

I was just wondering how high sweater sizes go.

OP, I hope those two golden dogs are not your idea of “nice stuff”.

The heart wants what it wants r40.

Shoot! If I'm in a store where a good-looking man is working, I ASK for his help. I keep him as occupied as I can, without being obnoxious.

Does OP seem a little ... off to anyone else?

If a salesperson hovers over me I tell them that if they’re going to just stand there doing nothing they could make themselves useful and get me a Diet Coke and an ashtray.

They normally get the hint and occasionally it gets you a free Diet Coke.

He raises more questions than he answers r43.

R43 In what way?

Maybe once you buy something and become a regular customer they will know to trust you.

R40 They have have stuff like this

Another sort of shopping experience: I met a guy at Jos. A. Bank below Dupont Circle many years ago when we grabbed for the same sweater (both size 38). We decided it looked better on me, and we chose something else for him. We stayed together for about a year, and then he moved away with his job. We weren't in love, but we liked each other a lot, in bed and out.

He got sick; the last time I saw him, we ran into each other on 17th Street. He had that crater face look. Otherwise, I'd have invited him over for a nice afternoon spent licking and sucking each other's parts. Shortly thereafter, he died. I still have the sweater. I don't want to let it go. RIP, Van.

R38 - then what happened?

R47 I've bought things there in the past. Nothing expensive, just stickers, plates and vases.

You buy stickers and vases?

R49 What kind of sick?

R52 Yes. This store has a huge selection of glittery stickers, mostly of butterflies and small animals.

Bubonic Plague, Rose!

R33 Innocently dressed. That's the problem. Next time, wear seatless chaps, a leather vest with nothing under it, motorcycle boots.

This sounds like a cheap Asian store in a dying mall.

OP

Probably some homophobia going on here. Don't know why else they would follow OP around store.

Apparently they follow everybody around r59. Somebody wants some mussy.

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

Where do you put the glitter butterfly stickers? On the vases? How old are you?

Just go somewhere else.

Were you shopping for a vibrator, OP? Women with big gunt always look suspicious there.

pic.

No wonder she was followed around.

R62 I put them on the fridge, on notebooks, on my laptop, around the mirror in the bathroom.

OP is that deranged tranny who steals women's luggage at random airports.

It used to bother the FUCK outta me when I was much younger. Being a Black in Texas, it's just a thing I grew up with. I've even had people apologize because I was...confrontational about it. "I KNOWWWW you ain't following ME. Up in here?! I wish I would! " type of shit.

I was also VERY naive and lacked perspective. I think what really bothered me was their lack of being subtle about it.

NOW, it gives me a chuckle when I get followed by some "minimum-wage peon" whose mind would be blown if they knew how much I make. Looking the way I do,

Yes, it's narcissistic, BUT it also keeps me from losing my shit.

I see it as part of the job description - they definitely rather gossip at the counter.

OP = Sam Brinton