Westridge Plaza — Local services in Salinas

Seems like this place was engineered to make everything take a lot longer than it should. Stopped here for a quick shopping trip that should have taken 15 minutes but took over an hour. The parking lot is designed to put the most possible miles on your car from the time you enter until the time you exit with Islands crosswalks and silly driveways that go in a circle. The one store I went to I spent 15 minutes just waiting to check out in line. Hint to employers, if they can't do math they should not be a cashier. Or at least give them a calculator so that they don't have to puzzle over a simple mathematical equation such as 20 - 7.88. This shopping center seems to be just like this town and its cashiers, stupid, aggravating, and a complete...

A couple of OK stores (WalMart, Hobby Lobby) that might be more useful to people other than me. Plenty of ample parking, and I probably stop here for B&R, Tortilla House and BofA more than any other reason. While this is kind of the low-end shopping center here in Morgan Hill (WalMart kind of anchors that) it still fills-out the diversity of shopping that often spares local residents from having to take the trip into San Jose or down to Gilroy. Historical Note: this and the original "Wiltron" industrial park across the street is the former site of Morgan Hill International Airport (not really - it was a sock GA light craft airport). Now you need to drive down to San...

Wow. What a difference 2 years makes. Came thru here 2 year ago on the way back from Madras, OR for the solar eclipse. This time, we parked by the Costco in our late model RV and were going to do some shopping and have lunch. Security guard comes pounding on the door and tells us that we can't stay for more than an hour. So we left and went down the street to a Walmart that also had a restaurant nearby. That security guard met us before we could even finish parking and was even nastier than the first. I didn't know that Salinas hated people trying to spend money so much. King City about 45 miles down the road was much...