Indio — Local services in Durham

Wanted to shop to buy a gift for my mother only to be followed around the store by the owner. Fitting for a store name that's literally a RACIAL SLUR.

I was excited to come in and shop and I was READY to buy something until I noticed that as soon as my sister and I came in and the store owner saw us, her energy changed. She immediately started following us around wherever we went, pretending to pick things up and move them to another part of the table. My sister asked her where the book store was because we were having a hard time looking for it. She seemed annoyed we even were talking to her and she just said "it's two doors down." At this point, I am so annoyed because I'm now noticing that she feels so threatened by our presence, she's ignoring other customers walking around looking as well to just monitor us. My sister and I then went to the book store, and it had been closed and empty for like a month. The woman in the book store who was sweeping an empty room was very kind and talkative and was glad to tell us the story of why the book store closed. But I couldn't help to be annoyed that the "INDIO" store owner knew this and sent us over there anyway because she just wanted us out of her store. I'm no stranger to racial profiling and this was too obvious to pass off as if it was nothing.

And to the store owner, if you see this, "Indio" to some people is a slur, when I simply googled the name of your store to write this review it, it came up. If you are so triggered by people of color, then maybe don't name your store something that...

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