I spent a bunch of days working in plus-size clothing. A woman brought her granddaughter in. Girl was maybe 12. Needed bigger clothes.
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This woman spent the entire visit humiliating her granddaughter. Finding the ugliest clothes for her. I kept trying to slip her nice things.
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Whenever I think of the ugliest parts of Pennsylvania, I think of that grandmother in a Boscov's department store, humiliating a child.
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(We also got a ton of customers from Ontario that summer. Canadian dollar was strong and PA doesn't tax clothes.)
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Anyway, despite everything happening to malls and retail stores nationally, Boscov's is, still, the anchor of my hometown mall.
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But when I think about working there I think about how just unrelentingly mean my coworkers were.
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Anyway, this wasn't supposed to be dark. Hell I think I STILL have clothes from Boscov's.
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But it's the great big shining target representing a lot of bad things about where I grew up.
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Like if you shopped at Boscov's it was because Bon Ton was 'too expensive.' But they sold 99% of the same stuff. At the same price.
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But somehow people in high school knew which one you'd bought those shoes at.
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