Finally located the new store. I had marked my calendar for May 8 to get fresh European style bread, but only saw an empty store and figured Covid shut it down.
Finding out you had instead moved, and finally seeing where to, I head there full of anticipation.
Sadly, the store has totally lost the intimate coziness of the old location. It is now a long, wide open, bare locale devoid of charm or personality, and no warmth, taking away any desire to browse.
Figured I'd get a croissant for my late breakfast coffee, but no - only cheese or chocolate croissants. I didn't even feel like trying one of the few breads on the back shelf at that point.
Pity. Used to like going in, but being told by the gentleman at the cash desk that "I needed to be on my toes" added to the feeling of not being welcome there.
And they posted a pic with fresh baguettes, literally minutes after I was there, so I said:
I was just there, not only did I not see any baguettes, I didn't smell any either. Knowing bakeries in France, how do you manage to not have the smell of baking/freshly baked bread in the store?
You won't find my comment on their FB page. After telling me to "keep my negative energy oyt of their store" and calling me troll (for posting the above comments), they took diwn ny comment, and have blocked me from even answering other people's comments.
Not surprisingly, all posts shown are positive!
I wish them luck. I went in with a good attitude, positive, loiking firward to shopping; the store abd their attitude drained that energy from me and all I was left with was a feeling of disappointment. This used to be a nice place, friendly staff. No more.
Even if they were to appoligize, which they won't, I'll never set foot there again.