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| - Unfortunately my frequenting this store regularly does not matter. The color of my skin does. I was treated poorly on a couple of occassions, but thought that it was isolated and perhaps my overthinking. My last visit was met with the same hostility, but more overt rudeness and apparent treatment like a thief......The Stepford wife that was helping find an item that was not on the shelf.....looked into a cabinet underneath the shelf and pulled out a bottle of oil from storage. Usually when someone is getting a product for you, they hand it to you. But when I reached for it, she pulled it back......I've had this happen to me before where these very kurt women have allowed white female customers to use the restroom located in a meeting room area in the back of the store, but when I asked to use the same restroom, I'm told it's not working. I thought that was strange, but again wrote it off. I came in another time and a clerk insisted on walking the product that she was helping me with to the counter herself....saying oh I will hold it for you up front when you are ready. Again....seemed odd the way she insisted, but I still did not let what was happening to me fully register. Now this last time was blatant and obvious. I could not hold a $53 bottle of oil in my hand while I continued to shop for fear that I might slip in in my pocket and walk out......while this lady was helping me with the oil again she jerked the bottle away as I reached for it. She wouldn't let me hold it in my hand....she is also the one I've encountered the most. I looked at her and said oh you want to take it to the front yourself and she never responded...just looked at me. The store is racist. It's an air when you walk in. It's how some of the girls talk to you. It's how they handle you. It's how they don't trust you, the tone in which they speak to you....watch you....and even handle my credit or debit card when I hand it to them. If you want to end this type of behavior in this country, stay away from this store. I thought I was helping the local economy by driving many miles out of my way from Henderson to patronize this place, but they are racist and are not worthy of our dollars. There is one lady who is nice. They speak with you walk in. But treat Black customers like thieves and criminals. I will order my pure essential oils online. You've been told so now what you do with the information is up to you. And perhaps you don't care. But no thanks.
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