11-20-2010, 07:39 PM
Those who know me know what an effort it was to get myself to even enter the IN store in Pahoa. I started breaking out in hives just entering the parking lot -- but I was having a vegan friend over as part of a larger dinner party and needed advice and assistance on suitable products to serve him. Not only was the clerk hard to engage (I clearly wasn't as interesting as her co-worker), she spent more of her time castigating me for being a meat eater and trying to turn me vegan then she did helping me get what I came there for. Needless to say, I beat a hasty retreat and haven't been back since. The folks at Down to Earth were much more helpful, and I've been back on a couple of occasions and bought stuff that I actually ate myself! So Russell, please remind your staff that they'll catch more customers with organic honey than with the vinegar they seem to prefer.