Hey Free Rangers,
Granted I have a lot of pet peeves, but what the f@ck is up with people who reach behind each display bottle to pull one from the cubbyhole in back simply to fondle it, read the back label (there is often only importer info there), and then lay it back on its side before doing the same to the next. These people never want help, and aren’t interested in any interaction at all. And even after I explain that the display bottle is exactly the same as those in back, they usually continue to reach around the front bottles instead of just grabbing the one literally looking them in the face, increasing the chances of breaking something by several times, for no benefit to them at all. By the time they do knock the front bottle while pulling one from behind, and I have to ask directly, “Please stop pulling bottles from the back. They are the same as the bottle in front,” they usually look at me like I just kicked a puppy and insulted their mom at the same time, when really we’re just asking for the barest bones respect for our physical space and our inventory. The problem is that these people aren’t shopping in the traditional sense. They are just scrolling. But this isn’t a website, and we are real human people that you are choosing to disregard. If you want to shop online, shop online from the comfort or your own home, or under the shade of a tree in the park on your phone. If you’d like to come into a boutique shop and converse with the fine folks here about what you might want to drink, please come on in. If you’re just killing time and want to enjoy our AC, that’s cool too (pun intended), but please keep your sweaty, lotioned hands off the merchandise that you have no intent to purchase, and aren’t likely to put back where you found it. If you know you aren’t going to spend any money here, the least you can do is not create extra work for us during your visit. I get that it’s just free entertainment for tourists and others aimless, but small businesses don’t pay the bills with personal anecdotes about your travel, nor with hearty thank yous.
I continue to contest that if every kid in this country had to work a semester of retail and a semester of service industry to graduate from high school, we would all share a much more empathetic society. I am also of the belief that if you want to eat meat (which I do), you should have to get a license for that by going to a slaughter house and killing a cow yourself. People would be a lot less disconnected from the food chain, and there would be many more vegetarians. But let’s re-can these worms for another time.
Now, while many of you have already hit this one hard (thanks!), the COST SALE page remains live, and new bottles have been added, including some profoundly popular Nikki Whiskys from Japan, as well as bottles by Woodford, Armorik, Iron Smoke, Penelope, Dalmore, Heaven’s Door, Garrison Brothers, Jack Daniel’s, and more. THIS SALE IS ONLINE ONLY! Check it out!
(!) Click here for COST SALE page (!)
This week’s FREE in-store tasting is of a number of sakes, which are also on a sale page of their own. If you are here in town, please come join us this Thursday, July 11th (5-7pm) for FREE tastes of these sakes: Bushido Ginjo, Tozai Snow Maiden Junmai Nigori, Tozai Living Jewel Junmai, Rihaku Wandering Poet Junmai Ginjo. All of the above in all available sizes are 10% off, or 20% off 6+ bottles all week, ONLINE ONLY!
(!) Click here for Sake Sale page (!)
Cheers,
Jack
Proprietor
Free Range Wine & Spirits
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