The Grand Opening" for the newly-renovated Pavilions in West Hollywood was a festive event for neighborhood shoppers who were treated to coupons offering up free merchandise, scrumptious food samples lovingly prepared by a handful of celebrated Chefs, and even on site wine-signing events featuring Napa Valley wine producers of note.
Regular readers will recall a couple of features I penned and posted - when the doors of the aesthetically-pleasing grocery - swung wide-open once again and droves of excited customers swarmed in to take a look-see and snap up the inviting offerings.
Post: 07/22/09
http://ijulian.blogspot.com/2009/07/pavilionsspanking-new-grocery-swings.html
Post: 07/26/09
http://ijulian.blogspot.com/2009/07/pavilionsgrand-opening-dazzles-queer.html
Unfortunately, just a scant two weeks later, customers are grumbling about employee attitude.
The way a couple of the managers have been haughtily striding about the store, sizing customers up-and-down, you'd think they were blessed with a ten-inch dick swinging between their legs.
For loyal Pavilions fans like myself shopping at that location for over twenty years (and other long-time residents in the neighborhood) the snotty attitude is off-putting to say the least.
But, it is undoubtedly a handful of tall Afro-American security guards all-decked-out in black-tailored suits (who stand stone faced at the entrances and exits of the store), that are causing shoppers to whisper disapproval inside-and-out the grocery.
Tight shoes, or a bout of diarrhea (bad sushi?), may account for the unpleasant scowls are their emotionless mugs.
I doubt that scenario, somehow.
In gentile WeHo, the Pavilions henchmen are a blight on the landscape, without doubt.
Pavilions, you're hardly out of the starter's gate, and you're scaring away customers.
Wake up and smell the Starbucks java, that no one is buying.
