Comments on: Why you gotta be like that?

By: Becca

Becca — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:12:17 +0000

Um, ok, I know you posted this months ago, but like the commenter above I just came across your blog tonight. (I’ll be back I love your style!). But YES I have gotten this attitude from our local quilt shop.

Um, hullo?

I got a nicer lady the next time, who actually entertained my 3-year-old so I could browse. Bless her.

By: Kim B.

Kim B. — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:17:03 +0000

I just came across your blog because I’m in the early stages of learning to quilt and have been oogling quilts online for the past week. I read this entry and all I can say is that I have so been there. This is the experience I have from time to time at a local cross stitch shop. You’d think people would be enthusiastic to share their craft, to help a beginner, and to make every potentially paying customer feel welcome. Unfortunately, that doesn’t always happen.
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By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:04:43 +0000

Ugh- how rude of them! I often feel like people are wishing I would leave when I walk in fabric/yarn stores in the middle of the afternoon with my 1.5 year old daughter. I recently moved to a town NW of Minneapolis and have found THE BEST fabric store- and I am not even talking about wha they are trying to sell me! They have a large toy section and they didn’t even care that my daughter had them all over the store before we were done shopping. They also didn’t care that she was picking up the baskets that they used for the displays and carried them around (she love baskets- well, anything with handles). They just told me how cute she was and how they didn’t mind- they were all grandmas or moms of young kids too. LOVE that store. We did clean up before we left- I didn’t want to give moms with kids a bad name!
Rebecca´s last blog ..doll quilt swap!!

By: Lynne

Lynne — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:59:18 +0000

Places like that piss me off. So I don’t spend my money there. I’ m older than you are, my son is grown, and I have some gray hair. My tv died and I wanted a flat panel. So I took myself (and my ca$h) down to the local Best Buy, where I was ignored, even though I spent 30 minutes looking at each and every flat panel tv over 32″. As I was leaving, an employee asked if I had had a pleasant shopping experience. I told him that since nobody wanted to talk to me, I was taking my dollars elsewhere. In any economy, not being personable to customers is just plain bad business.
Lynne´s last blog ..Doll Quilt Swap 7

By: Kathy

Kathy — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:17:58 +0000

I can totally relate! I realized that when I go to a store with or without my husband or parents I have to have a plan. Go into store, kids get ancy, start singing (toot, toot, chugga chugga big red car is a fav now), then start to drive cart/stroller crazy racing down empty aisles to make them laugh, offer snack, offer juice, offer different snack, start asking them what things are…once they say, UP, UP! Then it’s ok let’s go outside! ‘Yeah!!!’ 90% of the time it works but not the same length of time so any craft searching is pretty much a blur.
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By: Brenis

Brenis — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:55:14 +0000

Oh Geez!! Yep. You pretty much summed it all up! LOL Thought it was just me, and our quilt shops!! You have written this perfectly, expressed my experiences exactly, as well as my feelings on it. Welllll done!!
What’s most frustrating, is that I get along with just about everybody…very friendly… and have been sewing my whole life. And it’s ONLY in quilt shops that i have experienced this!!! WHY is that????
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By: jess

jess — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:09:44 +0000

Oh gosh, I hear you. There is one shop I will NOT return to because of that… and they carry only acrylic yarn in their yarn section. ; )

My local shop, those ladies are grandmothers… my kids have autism and they are certainly not always the best shoppers, but if they act up, I apologize and keep their hands busy. The shop owners have always been fabulous and understanding. And they love my DH. They are EXCELLENT when men go in.

Another shop within 45 mins of here, they actually have a toy section, and they’re a very high end shop. Again, they love kids, understanding that little angels naturally act like little devils.
jess´s last blog ..Crack that whip!

By: Cathy

Cathy — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:49:24 +0000

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I live in Minnesota and most of the local quilt shops surrounding Minneapolis act the same way. I hate going in and feeling like I want to run for the door soon after I arrive.

By: gina

gina — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 03:39:29 +0000

I know exactly what you mean. We have a local shop that is just like that. I don’t get it!
gina´s last blog ..A Little Weekend Sewing

By: Cheryl S.

Cheryl S. — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:23:25 +0000

I’m so sorry you had a bad experience. At the shop I work at, we would never treat customers like that. And believe me, we love beginners!
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