Riverbend Shopping Center — Local services in Rome

Okay, so I don't have any complaints about any of the businesses inside the shopping center. Mostly, the reason I chose to only give Riverbend 3 stars is the PEOPLE who SHOP in the center. For whatever reason, many people walking into Panera think it's cool to just take a leisurely stroll from their cars to the restaurant, nevermind the stopping of traffic. Oh, they'll dart out quickly in front of your 1 ton+ car, but then stagnate like molasses. And why is it that so many think the 'no entrance' sign or whatever it says off McCall doesn't apply to THEM & it's fine to jeopardize lives, including their own, to turn in at Kroger rather than at the light? Okay, rant over (though I'd like to complain on other issues). As for the shopping center itself, it's always been convenient for me. There's been times I've spent all day there & able to get done all I needed to. For instance, a few months ago we had a semi-formal event. We got our nails done, then to TJ Maxx for new shoes (& a few other things I didn't exactly tell my hubby about), then to Supercuts for our hair (Stacy is awesome), then over to Kroger for corsages & drinks. We also grabbed lunch at Outback & a snack later at Barnes and Noble. My daughter & I enjoyed our girl time whilst my husband occupied himself at GameStop & B&N, all without moving the car & leaving it centrally parked. So it's nice to have such a variety of shops and things to do. We've had similar excursions numerous times, so I'd like to have given Riverbend a higher rating. But if you go, just be careful as apparently few people in this town don't obey traffic laws & seem to think that because they're eating at Panera, they think they're something super...

I stop by the Ross here about once a week. The staff is consistently super friendly, at least to me, but I don't go out of my way to be as awful of a human being as I can to them either, so there is that. It could be that they are either somehow completely ignorant of how awful customers can and will be, perhaps through some sort of mystic arts or even hyper-tech lobotomies, or....simply very professional. Ya, it is probably that even though a hyper-tech lobotomy could be pretty fascinating.

Everyone I have interacted with over the last couple years, some on a fairly regular basis, is totally Trans friendly. It is a pretty small town (in the south even), so I suppose theoretically, someone with Neandertal-like thinking could work there somewhere in the deep dark recesses of the elaborate tunnel system they have in the basement that goes straight through the earth to China where they get most of their super cool, insanely cheap clothing that I can't seem to get enough of. but personally....I...

We went to Michael's when we entered, no greeting as we shopped we were greeted by a nice associate in the frames counter. Checking out was a total game changer for us, we watched as the cashier greeted a customer as she entered my wife said we didn't get that. We continued to check out with the cashier offering No interaction at all. We concluded our transaction and proceeded to exit when my wife said " your welcome" the cashier said nothing. It would seem that the cashier had a problem with...