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Old 02-05-2009, 01:07 AM   #214
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Default Re: The Harbor Freight PASS/FAIL Thread...

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Originally Posted by Chris Adams View Post

I’m in Southern California. Here, it’s the big stores that don’t want your business. It’s mostly because Southern California is about 80% Hispanic and they don’t want Anglos in ‘their’ stores. I mean, REALLY don’t want Anglos around. Big chains can’t control this behavior but smaller stores either don’t wait on Anglos or give good service to everyone, depending on the manager. Example, we have 3 local Kragens parts stores. Anglo are welcome at two, distinctly not welcome at the third. Nothing about Kragens, all chains get this here. Just goes with the territory, it’s a cultural thing.
Glad to hear I'm not the only one that gets to enjoy that treatment in SoCal.
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