Small Shops Mall — Local services in Rocky Mount

This review is specifically aimed at the woman owner of small shops mall with blonde hair. Please understand this is essentially a flea market shop. Vendors pay rent to have the ability to sell there stuff here. The vendors I have met have been wonderful, the owner of this shop is consistently terrible. I was in the store shopping the other day and witnessed the owner being extremely rude and yelling at a woman employee. I witnessed what i think was the unjust firing of this employee. I frequent this shop and noticed the employee she was yelling at was newer. I also happened to noticed earlier this employee was working extremely hard. The entire time I was shopping she was engaging with customers, working the register, etc. She was eventually yelled at while she was up at the register area. I over heard a woman worker from the trade-it side with shoulder length dark hair, snap at her and tell her to get to work. This poor woman was working hard and maybe just by coincidence the woman from the trade it side happened to look and made an assumption that no work was being done. The dark haired woman went back next door and the employee did as she was told but I noticed she was crying as she worked. A little while later the owner came out screaming down the aisle at the employee, told her to clock out and fired her on the spot. Even went as far as to follow her out the door and say she would call the cops if she did not leave the parking lot immediately. The owner is absolutely terrible and so is that other woman from the trade-it side. The regular employees they hire are great, but seemingly are just micromanaged to death and eventually quit on their own or get fired for insane reasons. It is so unprofessional to yell at employees, never mind with no care of customers being in the store. This business is owned by a husband and wife who also own trade it. They are two peas in a pod. If you read reviews for trade it, they are pretty similar in regards to customer service. All that to say, I won’t be going back, which is a shame that all the wonderful vendors are going to lose my money becausen of the way their landlord treats THEIR customers.

Edit: clearly what I said struck a chord. This was not a fake review or a scam post. I was not the only customer in the store at the time. Maybe others will also come forward and place a review. As the reply from, probably the owner says, I also encourage you to visit and you will quickly see just as I have explained if you have the misfortune of dealing with the blonde owner and the woman from trade it. Notice the events i mentioned weren’t even denied… they just tried to brush off and discredit my comments with some time span claim… There is not too much to this shop to be an “expert”. I entertained selling there and took home a application, but found the rules and rates to be obviously geared toward the owners benefit in...

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