Today I had one of the worst and weirdest encounters in a long time. As I was leaving the store, already out in the street, some crazed out woman jumps in front of me and starts swearing and accusing me of stealing something from the store. I suggested that we should go back to the store to resolve the issue and not make a scene on the street. Upon returning to the store, she (her name is ANNA KOPER) re-accused me of stealing a CD player, based on some other customer's assertion that he saw me LOOK at it. In order to prove that I did not steal the CD player (or anything else for that matter), I offered to let them check both my shoulder bag and to search me for the missing (?) CD player. Between her and that other moron (the customer who saw me LOOK at it) they did not have the balls to search me, while at the same time insisting that it must have been me and implying that I had something to do with it. Never mind the fact that any of the other 20 or so people in the store could have taken it or just moved it somewhere else inside the store. Long story short, she refused to apologize for unfairly accusing me of theft, even after I proved that I did not have it. Just because it is a thrift store, it does not mean that they should hire any idiot and let them interact with customers without at least basic training. They should not forget that without the customers buying the stuff, all their donations would just pile up and not bring in 1 dollar. By the way, the admin offices do not have an email address for complaints or customer feed back. Rating should be -1 star.
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