Country Classic Antiques — Local services in Alma

I like antiques. The one lady swears I am a thief. Though I have spent good money in that store. One guy sells cedar chips, and I came back several times waiting for him to stock. They have a camera system, yet they have followed me around unlike they did to white customers in a very obvious way!!!! The one woman really needs to deal with her bias and maybe one day she can apologize for your bad behavior towards me. I look for particular things and surf for fun, cause there isn't much to do in this town. But when I feel followed and treated like a thief my desire to return and spend my money with them is diminished. They need to get out and expand their worldview of people. But they do have good items, and if I hear there may be something there I would like I will think twice before I return cause the energy it takes not to say something cruel to them is not worth any item I may find nor the money I would spend in...

The flea market is nice and big with lots to look at. The owners weren't the most friendly people, but the size of the store and the variety of items made up for it. The only thing I didn't like was the owner tracking us down in the store to let us know they were about to close and pressuring us to leave. I've been in so many flea markets where the owners just lock the doors and let the current customers finish shopping in the hopes that they'll buy something, that it kind of surprised me that the owners of this market would rather close up exactly on time rather than make a sale. But that's okay, maybe they had somewhere they needed to be,...

Seems like high vendor turn over here. Most booths have left over yard sale looking items that are over priced. Owners are always sitting behind counter, rarely say hello, never see them trying to show or sell their vendors items . One or two booths that are set up nicely and priced fair. Also, they charge the customer an extra $1.00 if you use a cc card or debit.....someone needs to explain that the fees from cc charges the store pays per month is called store over head and part of doing business. Not good customer service charging...