Tonight bought about $333 worth of groceries and gardening supplies (a rake and a thing to scoop dead leaves into), after wandering around store for 1.5 with a bad back hanging on the cart using it as a walker and then going to the sel-checkout to avoid noise...got self checkout machine making more noise than most humans but still managed to scan most of it myself and pack into my own bags. then we arrived at the ""green"" organic coffee...this is a Fred Meyer house brand and the name is not on the database but the number is. this was communicated by a clerk after Manager Mike failed to understand me telling him at least SIX separate times, I AM DEAF, NO TALKING. the clerk pointed to the code for next time...Mike is either also deaf or severely impaired in some other way, he continued to bark at me until I asked him to stop harrassing me. No help offered to the car this time, (deaf does not mean we don't like help with heavy lifting!) and the Glacier Water machine in the lobby is not working at all, I had to go to Albertson's after this wonder experience. I do admit to hating shopping, but more than that I hate people talking AT me after I've told them DEAF.
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