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In article <3v09ts$p38@portal.gmu.edu>,
Arielle Kagan, Frumious Bandersnatch <akagan@osf1.gmu.edu> wrote:
>[summary:  Macy's rude; Bloomingdale's, China Closet, Williams-Sonoma good]
>
>
>My fiance and I went to the Jessica McClintock at the Galleria at
>Tysons Corner Saturday night to pick up the bridesmaids' dresses.  After
>putting them in the car, we went to the Macy's at the Galleria to register
>for a nice stainless pattern and possibly some china (we hadn't decided yet).
>We needed to make sure they had the particular stainless pattern we wanted
>(they had that brand, but we didn't see that style on the floor), so we
>waited by the desk in the registry area where a woman was working.
>
>We stood there for a few minutes (about 3 feet away from where she was
>on the other side of the counter), waiting for her to acknowledge us.  She
>looked up at us a couple of times, but said nothing.  She then walked
>past us onto the floor to help someone else.  She came back.  She still
>didn't acknowledge us--no "I'm busy," no "Just a minute," no nothing.
>We said something to each other loudly enough for her to hear us; nothing.
>
>Two other women went in and out of the back room.  Neither of them
>said anything to us either.  The first woman ignored us again to talk to
>someone else who had come up to the counter, so it's not that she didn't
>notice anyone was at the counter.

I've had similar experiences down here when shopping for presents on people's
registries at Macy's.  I'm in the east, and my friends and family are
considered to be in the west, so when I do finally get help from them (usually
after 15-20 minutes of standing there saying "excuse me..." to every
salesperson who walks by and finally hunting someone down and dragging that
person to the computer), they have real trouble finding the registry in
question.  A couple of times they haven't been able to find relatives from
California at all!

Once I did finally get the registry, however, I've had some good experiences
buying things for my friends from other departments.

In quite a few cases now, though, I have ended up calling the mother of the
bride a second time (the first was to find out where the couple was registered)
to ask exactly what the patterns were, then going and ordering them from 
Ross-Simons, which discounts their china.

Luckily for us, Macy's wasn't even a real viable option for our registry.....

-- 
Allison Mitchell, (math grad)
Emory University, Atlanta, GA 
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