Afghan Halal Supermarket — Local services in Grand Rapids

I used to enjoy coming here. After a crazy and horrible situation my sister experienced with the store owner, I will no longer shop here and I told my friends to also stop shopping there. Long story short, my sisters boss told her that the owner of the Madina Afghan Market called him and showed him pictures of my sister shopping in the store. Claiming that she has been taking photos of the Afghan products he is selling and basically recording the prices. Apparently taking a photo inside the store is wrong 🙄 and he proceeded to treat my sister like a criminal and keep photos of her, me and our friends while we were innocently shopping in the store. We used to like stopping by this store and giving them business as most of our friend group is Afghan. When my sister went to the owner to talk about why he called her boss and tried to get her in trouble (for nothing of course) he was very rude and disrespectful. Treating her like some criminal. He also assumed that my sister is essentially asking me, her boyfriend, and our friends to help her take photos of the products to record the prices. Basically, anyone who goes into the store with her is labeled, treated badly, and followed around the store too.

For example, imagine you take a photo inside of a store to send to a friend to show them the product and ask if this is the right product they wanted you to buy. Then the owner decides to hoard photos of you and all your friends, ask his employees to follow you closely around the store, and then calls your employment to make nothing into a big deal.

This is NOT how you treat customers that have done nothing but give your store money and support your business.

For the owner, taking a photo of a product is not wrong nor is a crime. Your ignorance has caused you to lose business. The way you treated my sister is why I chose to write this review urging people to take their shopping to other stores where they can be treated like valued customers. My sister told people to shop at your store, she enjoyed supporting your store and now a group of your customers will never give you business again due to your actions. If I could give you 0...

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