Nov 12 2008
Daiso Shopping Experience
Howdy folks, it’s been a few days! A few crazy days! But I’ve been thinking of you and mr. blog here…
Yesterday I stopped by Daiso, the japanese dollar store. Actually it’s a dollar-fifty store and the price goes up from there. There are all sorts of things and it was my first time going. I heard many great things of this Daiso… so I had to see for myself.
There are holiday items, traditional items, cleaning supplies, and housewares in the furthest left section. Then the next section over had storage items, shelving, baskets, office supplies. Then in the back beside that there were pet items, pillows, slippers, and gardening items. In front of those items, in the middle of the store, there were bags, luggage, tools, and various other things. Then in the right area of the store, there were staggered aisles containing plush toys, toys, stationary, boxes, crafts, pens/pencils/markers, and porcelyn type collectibles. There were japanese snack foods by the register.
You can find everything there except good service. I bought about 6 things, a few of them being fragile porcelyn. After ringing up my items, the lovely cashier named Gumbu placed my items back into my basket on top of a plastic bag and pointed, “Here’s a bag.” He pushed the basket at me then crossed his arms and just stood there staring at me. Bagging things is not beneath me, I worked retail for a good many years and can bag my own things. Putting the plastic bag under my things is retarded because I had nothing to put my items in while getting the bag underneath so I tried to slide the bag out. My items knocked together but nothing broken. That’s pretty lame; one plastic bag to bag 6-7 things together to knock together and break the whole way home. I was skateboarding also, not just putting the bag in the car. Maybe my skateboard makes people treat me like crap… I don’t know.
So I was bagging my items as quickly as I could and another customer comes up. The cashier says “Can you move this please,” referring to my items I was bagging. So I said “Next time, if you want it to go quicker, help bag. Just set these to the side.” So he moved the stuff one foot aside because he needed it right then and I had no hands. Then he proceeded to bag the next customers’ items. I felt very discriminated against in that moment because the cashiers were both asian and the next customers in line were young asian adults. He would bag theirs but not mine and treated me like garbage that needed to be tossed aside. Racism is happening everywhere and people pay it no thought. The days of segregation are over but it has given way to other poor treatment that is not so easily identified. That made me pretty sad. Overall I really liked my trip to Daiso but I could have done without that. Either bag everyone’s items, or bag no one’s items. Don’t treat me differently because of my color because I don’t even see my own color. I only see outward from myself.
I purchased a few fun things. I’ll share a few of them tomorrow. I am currently over-tired and under-slept. I got one item I’m very excited to share with all ya’all so be sure to stop back here soon, ok! :D
