Hi, I am renting an Airbnb with my wife in the Monclaire village. I stopped in to this liquor store…read moreto buy cigarettes. My phone, which holds my wallet in Apple pay, must have fallen bc it no longer works to tap to pay. Wanting a cig with our cappuccinos, she waited at the cafe. Arriving, I found that I had left my cash with her. Carrying, as I was, my art supplies in a leather rucksack and MacBook Pro in its case, we were headed to work on art in the city.
When my wife came down with me to this liquor store, the clerk, up this point, very nice, rang us up. 13 and change. I presented the 13 and looked through my wife's purse for the change.
It was at this point that the clerk took things to a rude and strange place. He said, " Why don't you take this outside." There was no one behind us in line beyond a gentleman who, dog at his side, warned, "He bites, I'll wait outside."
I said just a moment, we almost have it. He said derisively "take it outside, carrying around everything you own." "Excuse me," I said, "we are paying a lot of money for a place up there," pointing to the hills.
He ignored me and continued insulting my wife saying, "good luck out there" she said, "you too," to which he said directly, "unlike yall I have a place, good luck on the streets."
I just want to say, we were dressed not in formal wear (lol) but in designer clothes, Rick Owen's shoes and jacket, Raf Simon's shirt, Casablanca sweatshirt, Yamamoto jacket.
But if we weren't, we didn't need to be treated with such disrespect from a shopkeeper in what we knew could be a bourgeoisie village, confirming our suspicions. Instead of giving out money to the shops around here, we will take out business elsewhere.
2 stars instead of the 1 because they did have the cigarettes we wanted.