Anonymous
Post 04/25/2016 16:57     Subject: Re:When I have a retail question I call a store located in part of VA where the employees speak ENGLISH
s/o title of this thread -- When I want a particular answer to prove I am right, I'll ask the person who will give me that answer.
MikeL
Post 04/25/2016 14:35     Subject: Re:When I have a retail question I call a store located in part of VA where the employees speak ENGLISH
Anonymous wrote:Maybe OP just couldn't understand their accents. I once had a coworker from Britain meet with a vendor from Tennessee and they couldn't understand each other's English.

I understand "southern" very well and speak it when I'm in the South and I've never had to ask people to repeat themselves more often than when I've been to Nashville.
I didn't quite understand how "pen" could be a two syllable word.
Anonymous
Post 04/25/2016 13:48     Subject: Re:When I have a retail question I call a store located in part of VA where the employees speak ENGLISH
Maybe OP just couldn't understand their accents. I once had a coworker from Britain meet with a vendor from Tennessee and they couldn't understand each other's English.
Anonymous
Post 04/25/2016 13:34     Subject: When I have a retail question I call a store located in part of VA where the employees speak ENGLISH
Anonymous wrote:I've lived a lot of places, and generally in lower cost areas, people working retail are more helpful. It has nothing to do with race or ethnicity. It's because in cheap cost of living areas, retail is not such a terrible job. In high cost of living areas, retail is a shitty job and people are generally very stressed and unhappy to be working those jobs.


I would work at an AMES if they were still open.
Anonymous
Post 04/24/2016 23:44     Subject: When I have a retail question I call a store located in part of VA where the employees speak ENGLISH
I've lived a lot of places, and generally in lower cost areas, people working retail are more helpful. It has nothing to do with race or ethnicity. It's because in cheap cost of living areas, retail is not such a terrible job. In high cost of living areas, retail is a shitty job and people are generally very stressed and unhappy to be working those jobs.
Anonymous
Post 04/24/2016 22:21     Subject: When I have a retail question I call a store located in part of VA where the employees speak ENGLISH
18 year DC resident. I don't recall ever encountering a retail salesperson who didn't speak English. I don't buy a lot in the burbs these days, since shopping online is easier, but I don't recall my encountering anyone there who couldn't help me. I also don't usually have a problem understand ing accent s
Anonymous
Post 04/24/2016 22:09     Subject: When I have a retail question I call a store located in part of VA where the employees speak ENGLISH
Have some of you truly never encountered retail staff who do not speak enough English to help you at a store? Aren't you lucky. It's not common, and other times the person clearly understands English very well, even if they don't speak it very well. Sometimes I just can't understand the accent.
Anonymous
Post 04/24/2016 22:01     Subject: Re:When I have a retail question I call a store located in part of VA where the employees speak ENGLISH


I have a relative who spent over 100k for Llamas.
Anonymous
Post 04/24/2016 21:54     Subject: When I have a retail question I call a store located in part of VA where the employees speak ENGLISH
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Anonymous wrote:I buy EVERYTHING I need from Lowe's at lowes Woodstock, va. Including my 39k in kitchen cabinets. The people that work there are great.


#39k #humblebrag


If I spent $39,000 on kitchen cabinets, I'd be embarrassed, not braggy (humble or otherwise).


If you spent 39K at Lowes it's pretty hilarious. Could have hade a complete custom job for that. That is probably a record sale for them. 39K for builder quality stuff with lipstick marketing.


Actually it was for 3 condos I own that I was gutting. Schuler cabinets are quite nice. In my primary residence I have custom built cabinets and they were well over 39k.


How nice for you! If I had well over $39,000 to blow, I wouldn't blow it on custom-built kitchen cabinets, but different people are different.
Anonymous
Post 04/24/2016 21:52     Subject: When I have a retail question I call a store located in part of VA where the employees speak ENGLISH
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:Every retail person I have encountered in DC speaks English. Where in DC is this not happening?


You should try to shop in the more diverse suburbs sometime.


I shop in the more diverse suburbs! And every retail person I have encountered speaks English.


Stop lying.


No, I'm not lying. I live in Montgomery County, and I have never encountered a retail person I couldn't communicate with in English.
Anonymous
Post 04/24/2016 21:50     Subject: When I have a retail question I call a store located in part of VA where the employees speak ENGLISH
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I buy EVERYTHING I need from Lowe's at lowes Woodstock, va. Including my 39k in kitchen cabinets. The people that work there are great.


#39k #humblebrag


If I spent $39,000 on kitchen cabinets, I'd be embarrassed, not braggy (humble or otherwise).


If you spent 39K at Lowes it's pretty hilarious. Could have hade a complete custom job for that. That is probably a record sale for them. 39K for builder quality stuff with lipstick marketing.


Actually it was for 3 condos I own that I was gutting. Schuler cabinets are quite nice. In my primary residence I have custom built cabinets and they were well over 39k.


No need in trying to justify yourself to some of the people on here who are obviously living in an alternate reality than the rest of us.