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| - We experienced flat out profiling when visiting this store a few days ago. Searching for items with a friend to create an altar for her and myself, and spent about an hour being harassed by "Wade" about how we made him feel uncomfortable because we were holding too much merchandise and had a backpack. When selecting items for an altar, it is common knowledge that it takes a while to feel the energy of the pieces and select the ones that are of the appropriate size and feel. When he approached us the FIRST (of multiple times), we'd only been in the store 10 minutes max. Another employee offered to hold some of our items at the counter and I stated I needed to carry them with me as I was checking the size of everything I selected to ensure it fit in the altar box I had chosen. The employee, with no hesitation, stated he understood and left me to my shopping. Finally we had had enough when Wade decided to approach us again and flat out state, in his exact words, that we were "making him very uncomfortable because we had been in the store too long, had too much merchandise, and we had a backpack." He also stated, "Usually when people come in here and do this, they are up to no good." So I asked him directly did he think we were stealing. He said no but that we were making him very uncomfortable because what we were doing "did not look good".
Under no circumstances did we do anything to provoke "Wade" to be uncomfortable. In fact, when we picked up certain merchandise that could easily be stolen, we even made a point to let the lady who assisted us know how many pieces we'd selected (from the locked case containing various crystals/stones) when she'd stepped away from monitoring us at the cabin to assist another customer. At one point "Wade" even came over to us after we'd selected the altar boxes we wanted and asked if we'd "gotten all the rest of the boxes packed into (my friend's) backpack".
While I have always enjoyed shopping at the South Blvd location (quite frequently) and once at the University location, this experience of trying out the Independence location was one that will have me no longer spending any money at this location and possibly the others. I will also encourage my friends and family who shop at Infinity's End to discontinue. Our money, energy, and presence would be better appreciated elsewhere. After such an experience, I would no longer want to be in possession of any spiritual items contained in an environment with such a person's energy anyway.
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