{"id":214,"date":"2017-01-23T08:38:31","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T08:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/retail-shopping-shaming-what-it-does-to-customers\/"},"modified":"2017-01-23T08:38:31","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T08:38:31","slug":"retail-shopping-shaming-what-it-does-to-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/retail-shopping-shaming-what-it-does-to-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"Retail shopping shaming &#8212; what it does to customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read an online article about how a woman was body shamed while shopping at Lululemom.<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;ve had retail sales people be rude to me, and I can tell you from experience, getting the apology doesn&#39;t get me back in the store.&#0160;&#0160; There is an Avenue near me that I haven&#39;t shopped at since one of the employees accused me of having a fake service dog.&#0160; I rarely even go into any of their stores now, even though I don&#39;t use the service dog.&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I&#39;ve always been treated graciously at Nordstrom, with or without dog.&#0160; Their small touches, such as giving gift cards, merchandise and their generous return policy get me going back.<\/p>\n<p>I will say that getting a substantial gift card has gotten me back into stores, but only if the employees are gracious.&#0160; Retail needs to treat all customers with open arms.&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read an online article about how a woman was body shamed while shopping at Lululemom. I&#39;ve had retail sales people be rude to me, and I can tell you from experience, getting the apology doesn&#39;t get me back in the store.&#0160;&#0160; There is an Avenue near me that I haven&#39;t shopped at since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}