A spot we can call Deluxe 👀
This is a Buy-Sell-Trade store I had an incident at where the security thought I was stealing and had the staff check everything in my hand (I brought stuff to sell) well wouldn’t you know it I didn’t have anything of theirs and he couldn’t let it go (I thought at first he had a problem with me but then I realized maybe he was just having a bad day) As I walked out of the store the security guard insisted on talking and when I turned around he got in my face and threatened me. (Again not really worth my time since I shop here) As I’m on the street and only after I turn my back to him does he insist on following me to my car hurling insults like come on fight me, you a bitch and when I turned around he continued saying do something (while infront of the liquor store a few stores down) as we stood there for a moment insulting each other i realized he’s trying to get me into assaulting him so they could ban me out of the store (for context: i sell often and always had this feeling they didn’t like how I’d say I’d rather keep my items than give em away for such a low price, also I’m a flea market/event seller and I’ve seen familiar faces working there that also resell vintage clothes and I know they hate competition) so instead I walked him back to his job asked the manager to get their security in line (who’s following me to my car) before have to handle it myself. The entire time he’s being unprofessional, loud, and obnoxious to the point where it was embarrassing to be a party to this and the fact he took it to the public street means he has no regard for being a public nuisance. The staff walked him to the back. And the manager walked me outside, apologized for his behavior and said she’ll talk to the regional manager about this.
The Regional manager gets back to me the next day and tells me their staff mentioned I was saying racist remarks towards the security guard who happened to be black (not knowing my family is half Latin-American and half Black) and proceeded to tell me I’m not allowed back at the store and I asked them to pull up the recording of me saying anything racist but lord and behold she informed me they don’t have audio recording just video proof, so they can’t prove I did or didn’t say those things…. at this point it’s a he said she said situation but since that location already had it out for me they just said the staff feels uncomfortable to deal with me after that (also they said they have a witness who said we were being loud but never once said we exchanged racist remarks. Never once have I been more disappointed in the way things were handled; even after verifying that their guard was pestering me she proceeded to say well you probably deserved it by saying what you said, I’m also not okay with how they lied and tried to say I’m a racist just cause i don’t look black doesn’t mean i go around calling people derogatory names for kicks.
0/5 stars
Chelsea was the lady who called me but when I look up the regional manager for the location it says Kyla so IDK how that goes
Beware don’t even try to be a bit resistant at this location if they wanna see your items let em, they have armed staff and they are unpredictable(I work security too I know I can’t pepper spray or shoot someone without a reason and he just wanted a reason)
Highland Park
Figueroa store