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| Yelp Review: Cheap Chic (Allston, MA) |
This is Why I Hate The #@$%#*@ Phone
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So tell me if you think this is weird.
On Tuesday (4/18/2017) I called Cheap Chic. "Hello!" I said to the woman who picked up. "My name is Michelle, I'm a local, I come to Cheap Chic all the time. The reason I'm calling is to ask if you guys could maybe bring your box of vinyl out from behind those shelves? Since Saturday is Record Store Day, I'm planning to walk around and shop for records. Yours used to be on a shelf at waist-level and people could just thumb through them. Now they're on the floor, behind those racks of old office equipment, and it's dusty and cramped back there. The records are hard to get to, so I thought if I called you could pull them out for Record Store Day...?" [Note: Yes, I burbled all that. This is why I hate the fuckin' phone.-md]
She said, "Well I would argue that they're NOT hard to get to. They're behind the shelves at floor level." Uh...yes, well. You could "argue" that, I suppose. But I just told you that "behind the shelves at floor level" is, in fact, hard to get to. You just said the same thing back to me, only your thing makes no sense.
Here is the back story: Since Store 54 closed last May, Allston Rock City does not have a record store anymore. Yeah, that's fairly astonishing, I know. But we DO have four thrift shops in close proximity that have a fair-to-middling vinyl collection. So take a nice walk, come home with some cool records, it's nice. But the last few times I went to Cheap Chic, I was puzzled that there were no more records. The box of records was gone from where it had always been. They sell junk at dumb prices, so I poked around and left each time.
Last time, about a month ago I guess, I decided to just ask. "So hey, you guys don't have records anymore?"
"Oh, we do," said probably-the-same-person-who-answered-my-phone-call last Tuesday. She pointed to the dusty rack of old office equipment (is there really a market for 90s-era fax machines?) and told me the records are "on the floor behind that shelf."
Oh...huh...well, that explains why I didn't see the records. I went over to look, walked past the rack ("...where?...") then I peered behind the shelf...I saw the records. It doesn't even look like you're supposed to go back there.
I left.
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Here is what I say directly to you, Cheap Chic.
1. You no honor the Record Store Day, you off my list every other day.
2. Normally a store does not "argue" when a customer tells of a problem and makes a simple request. Nobody knows you even have records, ya knuckleheads.
In sum:
1. Cheap Chic is neither cheap nor chic
2. Whoever works there likes being "right" more than making any sense whatsoever.
3. None of us need to go to Cheap Chic anymore.
