You ever go into a store and either one or all of the staff makes you feel like you don’t belong there? Like you are the nerdy middle schooler trying to sit with the popular kids and though you do acquire a seat with them, it’s at the end of the table and everyone’s back is facing you. That was us at the Supreme store yesterday.
My 13-year-old has had a dream of visiting the Supreme store since November and yesterday, my cousin F and I fulfilled the dream by taking him and my 9-year-old there. We had heard stories of massive lines outside of the store to get in. How once you got in, the only thing left to purchase would be a key chain. To my enjoyment, we rolled up to empty stantions (those are the dividers to form a line) and began to make our way past 4 what? Bouncers? I don’t know. They all wore black, had a combined total of 400 tattoos and were engaged in conversation with each other until we attempted to pass the threshold.
“Nope,” five o’clock shadow said. “Have to wait in line.”
I looked at the non-existent line then back at him. I didn’t want to cause a fuss so I said, “come on boys,” and stood next to the stantion.
“No, get behind the tape,” he said. 
This was getting ridiculous. There wasn’t even enough people in the store to say it looked like Black Friday. We could have easily gone in and shopped. Regardless, we did what he said and got behind the tape.
It’s Our Turn
When 4 people left the store, clearly tourists, five o’clock shadow walked up and opened the barrier.
“Oh I get it, X amount of tourist in the store at a time. That’s good,” I said. To say his grin at my joke registered as a grin would be a lie. He didn’t find it funny nor cute. This offended me as I wasn’t the ass hole guarding a store decorated by cinder blocks that will just be another Ed Hardy in 5 years. I gave him the finger in my head.
Once in side, the starkness overwhelmed me. I’ve seen Goodwill stores decorated nicer then this. It was like a garage sale, but with a skating thingy in the back. No ambiance, no pictures, just some pipes with a few shirts hanging on them and some skateboards. I made it a point to take this selfie with C so you could see the ass hole in the background along with the other “too cool for anyone” attitudes that barely let us in.
I couldn’t stop giggling as this shit was ridiculous. My son would later tell me there was a sales associate just standing there with his arms crossed. When he asked how much something cost, the sales associate’s response was,
“go ask customer service.”
Wait…what?
I feel bad for P. He was really looking forward to checking out this store and these ass holes let him down. I’ve been in retail for years. I live in the same city of the corporate offices of Victoria Secret, Express, Bath and Body Works, Abercrombie and Fitch and many, many more fashion brands. Even worked many years at one of them so caught on to a thing or two. And if they think this is a sustainable, long-term set up, they are sorely mistaken. With regards to customer service, I have 3 words for you Abercrombie and Fitch. They are set to close another 60 stores this year, according to CNBC.
Here is one more picture of this debacle for good measure.
The Rest of the Day
- We ate at In and Out Burger for the first time and it was really good. When she said $15.99 for all of us, I thought I had misunderstood her and thought that was just for mine. I was elated.
- We saw Kevin Bacon in a convertible. My sons were like, “who’s Kevin Bacon?” Fred and I managed to come up with 2 movies he was in.
- We saw the house of a Saudi prince that was built for the bargain price of $120 million dollars.
- We saw where the Kardashians went to high school. Thank God! I can die a happy woman now. Just kidding God. God that was 100% sarcastic. God, under no circumstance are you to take that statement seriously. I would die unhappy. I don’t care where the Kardashians went to school. Let me live!
- Because pot is legal, I think I smelled it about 4 times.
- F picked us up next to the Scientology building where followers were outside, handing out pamphlets. It was surreal when you looked inside. It was a bright, cheery welcoming center. After P learned it was a cult, he asked if he could go inside. I looked at him as if he had 2 heads and said he better NEVER ask that again.
Well.that was an experience and a half!
Smelling weed 4 times in one day is shocking, I smell it 4 times on one BLOCK usually LOL so glad that you got to experience In n Out!
What part of the world do you live in?
Northern California!
Ah, cool! I’m in the same state as you!
You smell it a lot up here in Canada too! It’s funny because the police can be really strict about alcohol (checking what people are drinking at the beaches) but they seem to ignore the weed.
In my experience, stoned people are nicer/calmer/more compliant than drunk people so I somewhat understand them lol
Lol fair enough!
That’s cool!
Really? Well slowly it’s becoming legal in each state in America. Apparently it’s legal in California now. It smells horrible! I’ve never smoked pot but does your breath smell like skunk afterwards? I dread when people have coffee breath. I can’t even imagine skunk breath!
Not so bad if you use a vape. Joints are bad. And it depends on the weed. Bongs also take lots of smell out of the smoke.
And that is my Weed 101 tutorial for this evening! LOL! I know nothing about it!
Agree and verified by Canadian #2
You can be Canadian #1 (I just live here, but I’m not cool enough to be Canadian yet!!) 😉
Lol! Well maybe someday!
This shop sounds awful! Was it really expensive as well as a bit rubbish?
IT’S SO STUPID! At Christmas, my sister managed to score a Supreme headband for my son for $40! $40!!!! That thing isn’t worth a nickle! IT’S SO EXPENSIVE! I have nothing positive to say about Supreme other than it’s an amazing fad.
Sounds like you are having a great time! But I’m sorry the Supreme experienvce wasn’t all you wanted for P
I know, right! Such arrogant pricks. I could have shitted in shoe boxes, wrapped it up in pretty paper and it would have been worth more then these clothes.
Yeah totally! Poor P!
I know. Jerks!
You are on vacation? Geez, don’t go shopping. You can do that at home. Do things that you can’t do anywhere else.
I know Sheila, right!?! You need to tell my 13-year-old this! He is sooo into labels. It drives me crazy but I was like that too growing up. I cut him off today. We are DONE! Tomorrow we are going on a studio tour!
It looks like a pop up, poorly planned at that. I actually sincerely wonder if they make you wait in line as part of the experience it’s not about capacity. They have you wait until 4 people leave so that their kids say ‘oh we had to wait’
Oh that’s true. I just hated their attitude. I wanted to be like, “listen up buddy, right now I’m debating on if I’d rather be in a Wal-Mart right now with 100 shopping carts, each containing their own Kool-Aid mustache baby rather than this shit hole. So don’t take up that attitude with me.”
I totally agree, it’s a sham of a store! They sold you on the brand and the experience and then failed you. I’ve never heard of it. I feel old
No your not old. That place is just stupid.
You should have let him go in to get his midichlorians tested! (Or whatever they call them) They do a reading to find out if you’re happy and how much money you need to give them, but the reading is FREE!
OMG, that is hilarious! I didn’t know you have to give money to go to the next level till my cousin was explaining it. How stupid must you be to realize you have to give money then STILL do it? Have they ever heard of Amway? Jesus! I should have had a reading, your right. That would have been amazing content!
It’s not too late—I guarantee there’s a center in your neck of the woods.
*whispers* they’re everywhere!
I LOVE Kevin Bacon- how very exciting. That store looks shit. And I had no idea pot was legal in LA *books flight to LA*
LOL! Yeah, they’ll apparently even deliver it to you. It’s also legal in Colorado! Eventually it will be legal in every state.
Excellent. We do have Amsterdam not far away of course and to be fair the laws surrounding pot in the UK are pretty relaxed. It’s practically legal, I think it’s just an issue for people who sell/grow it rather than those who buy it.
So are you arrested if caught smoking it?
Technically yes, but I think in most cases you’ll just get bit of a warning & allowed to go on your way. We’re not quite at the freely-smoking-it-whilst-walking-down-the-street-phase yet, but some people do.
Interesting! Well I seemed to smell a lot of it while I was there. That’s fo’ sure….