PCC Community Markets - Central District — Local services in Seattle

This is just…….bizarre. I’m an older woman with short hair. It’s short, actually, because after chemo it never came back as full. So I have one of those boring, old lady short haircuts. Anyway, my short hair is all I can think of that possibly triggered this man.

I was checking out, chitchatting with the cashier and bagger. The gentleman bagging was retirement age. I mentioned I was in Seattle for a couple of months and I really thought the fall here was gorgeous. One of them asked me where I was staying. I said west Seattle near Alki Beach and he said, “Really? You look like you live on Capitol Hill. You must feel safe around Capitol Hill, they go for all that alternative stuff.”

What?

I was wearing a forest green gap sweater , a black rain jacket, and Athleta dark blue pants. And olukai shoes. The most absolutely bland middle class outfit you can possibly imagine.

My whole entire life, I have never felt unsafe because of the way I look. Until that man opened up his mouth. What the ever loving hell? I am the most boring, Talbots-wearing, pbs-viewing divorced middle aged woman you will ever meet.

Ask the cashier, a young gentleman. He was very nice. It was so strange. It was unsettling.

Makes me want to start dressing like a witch or something, if I’m going to be targeted when I have always dressed to disappear.

Edit: I know I sound out of touch; I think this just shocked me because I was in Seattle of all places. Plus, I still don’t know what I “look like” lol. It was just something I never thought about. I just had short hair now. I think it’s good, because it reminds me I have to be a more active proponent of respect for all people. I just didn’t know I personally had reason to be afraid if I was in a conservative area. Now I know. And I’m glad I’m counted in the...

I absolutely LOVE PCC and Metropolitan Market, so it pains me to have had a bad experience, but luckily, it wasn’t THAT bad. I just paid over $6 for an egg and cheese bagel, crazy price, but I don’t mind, since quality is king at these grocery stores. Unfortunately, I got to my car and opened up the packaging, and found that the bagel is rock hard, completely inedible. I scraped part of the egg and a little bit of cheese to salvage and at least have a little something in my stomach, but that’s all I was able to do. $6 down the drain. I purchased right about 10am, so it’s still relatively early. I was surprised that the bagel was so bad at this hour, maybe if it was like 1pm, sure, I’d anticipate a less than favorable bagel that’s been out all day, but 10am seems a bit early for bad food. Just a warning to everyone. If you want a bagel at around 10am, go somewhere...

Why are you closing one hour early, my cat needed food, I'll make sure to go to food coop instead now since same hours.

3 yrs ago: This store seems notorious for workers running into shoppers, when they first opened ( 2 yrs ago) I was ran into by a few of the workers, then again last week it happened again and my hand got mildly injured. Brennan filled out the report and I told him that it seemed the workers were under alot of pressure because this keeps happening. A couple of days later Brennen was pushing a cart and told me that my cart shouldn't be in the middle of the isle which seemed kind of rude especially since last time I was on the side of the isle... what does it matter? He also commented to his co workers and laughed about me after telling me this. As a paying customer who also got her hand injured at the store I don't appreciate this...