"13"^^ . "I found this store 3 years ago and it was a blessing until today when I went there to get some stuff for New Year's Eve to find out I was forced to buy weights for the numbers spelling out \"2017\". I of course was very resistant on being forced to buy anything that I don't want. \n\nThe lady that owns the store came from her little desk behind the balloons and said to me \"is there a problem\" so I said \"yeah I don't know why I HAVE to by weights for the numbers\" she quickly said to me with a rude attitude \"you can go somewhere else\" with a straight face and everything. I've never had such unprofessional customer service in my life and I've been a long running customer. She didn't even take the time to let me know why this was the so called *new rule*\n\nI called her out for being rude to me and she started giving me a sappy sad voice. \n\nI don't like being rude to older people because I think as a youth in this generation we have to start respecting the ones before us. However this lady needs to learn some customer service. \n\nAfter getting home I asked myself, was it because I was black? Was it because I had some party stuff already with me in a michael's bag?? I couldn't find the answer so I took her advice and I went to this amazing dollar store down at Liberty village that had the same thing at the same price but 100 times better customer service."^^ . . . "0"^^ . "2016-12-29T00:00:00"^^ . "1"^^ . . "6"^^ .