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If you found a local shop keeper creepy, would you still go to the shop?

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Jippers · 09/11/2022 14:36

We have a handy small grocers nearby, very convenient. But the chap behind the till gives me the creeps. There's nothing outward I can put my finger on though. Do you trust your gut instinct?

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TheYearOfSmallThings · 09/11/2022 20:11

No. No way would I choose to give my money to someone I find creepy or unlikeable, when there are plenty of other businesses out there.

MrsTerryPratchett · 09/11/2022 20:15

Jippers · 09/11/2022 20:08

I have read @MrsTerryPratchett that there are more neurons in the gut than the brain. Wish I understood it more. I decided to look up the business at companies house and it makes an enormous amount of money pa (very very healthy profits) which got me wondering if it's used as a front for laundering some other operation elsewhere. That's by-the-by though.

Oh yes there's a front business around the corner from me. I suspect dealing. I had a right go at them once about someone clearly 'unwell' outside their shop after using their 'services'. Arseholes.

I don't recommend confronting drug dealers though!

frolific · 09/11/2022 20:30

No, I would not go back to a shop if the owner/staff gave me creepy vibes.
I have done so (stopped going) in the past.

paintitallover · 10/11/2022 09:15

I never think about it. I do avoid a clothes shop where I felt I was dealt with badly over a new faulty item.

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