I asked a Nino Salvaggio Customer Service Desk employee and another employee who I believe was some sort of Manager if I could make a phone call because I was having trouble with my cell phone accessing service to the area and offered to pay the store $1.00 if they allowed me to use the phone to make a call but I was refused by both employees.
OK, I know my cell phone is my problem and no one else's problem and the store is not a phone company.
So, I went to the Customer Service Desk near the door and spoke with the lady working there. I explained my situation and asked if I could make a local phone call. She stated to me that they're not supposed to do that and suggested I try walking around outside and go past storefronts south down the outside of the strip mall and go inside the crosswalk where the Deli is and turn the phone off and turn it back on again.
I tried that and also went to the other side of the strip mall complex by the movie theater but I still had no luck getting phone service in this location. I went back to Nino Salvaggio and updated the lady employee and asked her if I could make that phone call and she said no. I then offered to pay $1.00 if she would let me use the phone, and she said no.
I then spoke with a tall Nino Salvaggio employee wearing a black shirt. I think I saw the word "Manager" of some sort on his name badge. Thus, someone with some authority in my opinion. I asked him if he could override the lady at the service desk and let me make a phone call, and I offered to pay $1.00 to use the phone. I explained to him that I had a skin condition and need to put sunscreen on it (and thus I can't spend time outside that long). He asked me if I was shopping at the store. I said I could buy something if he wanted me to buy something. He stated something to this effect: from what you told me, I feel pretty uncomfortable about it and that no, he could not help me with that and would not let me use the store's telephone.
I am not certain why he felt uncomfortable to receive $1.00 in exchange for use of a telephone.
I looked around the store at some of the goods on sale. I think it was $4.99 for some asparagus. Hmm, that's kind of pricey to me. Oh, whatever the price the market will bear I guess in my opinion.
Meanwhile, I asked some of my fellow American shoppers in the time of COVID-19 for some help with making that phone call for my ride.
Well, I asked five folks ( all shoppers and non-employees), male and female, white and black and an other ethnic background, all adults. Despite the COVID-19 propaganda we're all in this together, helping one another, blah blah blah blah blah, all I met were, in my opinion, somewhat grumpy and unhelpful people. After asking the first shopper if they could help me out and make a call for me, and was refused, I offered $1.00 to the next person I spoke with to pay them for their assistance if they made the phone call and showed them the dollar. Still no help. I then offered $2.00 to the three remaining people I spoke with asking for their help to make a phone call and showed them the $2.00 but no one wanted to help me.
A few minutes after speaking with the employee / manager or whatever job he had in the black shirt, I noticed some Nino Salvaggio employees, in my opinion, trailing me. One other fellow in a black shirt, and then a second fellow in a red shirt.
This red shirted employee, in my opinion, followed me into the frozen foods section. So when I asked a fellow Joe Shopper who had a cell phone if he could help me out in placing a phone call for two dollars, the red shirted guy, in my opinion, probably knew what I was asking about because he was roughly behind me. The Red Shirted employee then interrupted my conversation and spoke to me and said something like sir, you can't do that, that's soliciting and you are allowed to just shop in the store.
Soliciting??? I thought soliciting is what prostitutes do or salesmen who are selling things to people, not a person offering compensation for helping them make a phone call and asking for help. I followed the red shirted employee's decree and stopped asking other human beings for help in making a phone call.
A few minutes later, I realized there was not anyway to reach my goal of acquiring help to make a phone call because of what the red shirted employee had said to me. I gave up and decided to leave and maybe try some other business nearby even though I was worried about my skin condition becoming sun burned. The red shirted man was still close by, so I spoke with him and said I going to leave but I am a writer and I'm going to write a review about how lousily I have been treated in my opinion at Nino Salvaggio.
Well, guess what? Upon hearing that, this red shirted employee changes his tune and says I can help you make that call! I told him the lady at the front desk said she could not help me. Finally, I was able to call and to get my ride to pick me up. read more