"Just For Feet" Sucks
Jim Wade
Bob,
I had the opposite experience at the store. I brought my teenage
son (very picky). There was no pressure to buy any shoes. The
prices were low on the shoes on sale. The people at the front of
the store ran upstairs to the warehouse on top of the store 6-8
times to find different sizes of different shoes for him to try
on.
I did get approached about buying a tennis shoe cleaning product
but only after they asked if they could clean my dirty yard sneakers
for free (the cleaner worked great and I bought it).
All in all my experience was a good one but I was not looking for
a high dollar cross trainer or specialty shoe, just a pair of Nikes
for my son to wear to school.
Jim
Bob Nagy (kre...@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu) wrote:
: Just a quick tip to you Sport shoe buyers.
: "Just For Feet" is a ripoff.
: They have a great stereo system...lots of posters and
: cool looking displays....but-
: The prices are the highest in town....a dollar or two from "List".
: The sales people are jockyed around by headset wearing managers.
: Sales people pressure you to buy expensive add-ons.
: Security is so tight you feel like a criminal.
: No true effort is put into satisfying you as a customer.
: Just one customer's opinion...
: Bob
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Bob Nagy
charles
> Bob Nagy wrote:
> > "Just For Feet" is a ripoff.
DH wrote:
> AMEN!
Personally, I stay the heck out of that South Dallas, errr, I mean
North Austin Yuppie filled Suburban hellhole of bad traffic, overdone
women and evil attitudes.
The only way I found out about this store was a close friend's 9 yr old
son. He insisted we go there to buy the latest, jazziest, most ugly
shoes I ever saw.
They did not have them, we beat a hasty retreat back to south Central
Austin, God's Country, and What Do You Know, they had same shoes at
Rooster Andrews!
I was able to spend MY money at a LOCAL business, supporting the LOCAL
economy, and possibly would not have even had to venture into that
miserable craphole that northwest Austin has become.
Yuppies, Stay up there, that really is the beautiful part of town. You
don't want to go south, nothing but bubbas down here,......
--
Ciao Baby!
at work, not working
DH
Bob Nagy wrote:
>
> Just a quick tip to you Sport shoe buyers.
>
> cool looking displays....but-
>
> The prices are the highest in town....a dollar or two from "List".
> The sales people are jockyed around by headset wearing managers.
> Sales people pressure you to buy expensive add-ons.
> Security is so tight you feel like a criminal.
> No true effort is put into satisfying you as a customer.
>
> Just one customer's opinion...
>
> Bob
AMEN!
The only good prices are the "discontinueds" which are stacked by the
front door- and are usually only available in sizes for elves or giants.
The staff jumps on you as you pass through their "zone".
The only clothes that are bargains are "1994 Olympics" t shirts.
If you do make it to the huge racks of shoes, and find something marked
"sale"- THEY NEVER HAVE THAT STYLE IN YOUR SIZE! It seems like they just
write down your size, walk in the back, stand there going BWAAAA_HAAAA!,
then come back out and inform you with a sad face "I'm sorry, we're out
of that size in the $29 special. We DO have your size in the ATOMIC
WONDER for only $149, though".
I'll never set feet back in the place......
David
Dwight Williamson
On Wed, 15 Oct 1997 10:34:33 -0600, charles <csta...@flash.net>
wrote:
>What happened to Austin? Well, a damn lot of Dallasites moved here, El
>Carnivore Shut Down, Stevie died, Kelso's the only good thing in our
>newspaper, The highway department cut down all the Oaks & flattened all
>the Hills, drove Polk's feed out of business, and Using the net beats
>the hell outta choppin' cedar for money.
>
>As far as holes stomped, I dunno, the fellas at IV's don't pay me no
>mind when I try to sound all high falutin & silly.
>
>Because, as you know, if you can't make fun in South Austin, there
>ain't no fun to be made.
>--
>Ciao Baby!
Now that's funny.
Arrivederci (Dang, I kinda like these furn words)
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Byron D. Krohn
charles <csta...@flash.net> wrote in article <3444D7...@flash.net>...
> > Bob Nagy wrote:
> > > "Just For Feet" is a ripoff.
>
> DH wrote:
> > AMEN!
>
>
> Personally, I stay the heck out of that South Dallas, errr, I mean
> North Austin Yuppie filled Suburban hellhole of bad traffic, overdone
> women and evil attitudes.
> Yuppies, Stay up there, that really is the beautiful part of town. You
> don't want to go south, nothing but bubbas down here,......
>
I dunno, what with Yuppies in the North and Rednecks in the South, what are
we Normals to do??
Byron, in Oak Hill
Dwight Williamson
On Wed, 15 Oct 1997 08:46:29 -0600, charles <csta...@flash.net>
wrote:
>Yuppies, Stay up there, that really is the beautiful part of town. You
>don't want to go south, nothing but bubbas down here,......
>
>--
>Ciao Baby!
Bubbas that use the Net and use terms like Ciao????? What the heck
has happened to Austin? I used to go to bars in South Austin where
that type of "bubba" would have gotten a hole stomped in him. ;-)
>
>csta...@flash.net
>
>at work, not working
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charles
Dwight Williamson wrote:
>charles <csta...@flash.net> wrote:
> >Yuppies, Stay up there, that really is the beautiful part of town. You
> >don't want to go south, nothing but bubbas down here,......
> >Ciao Baby!
> Bubbas that use the Net and use terms like Ciao????? What the heck
> has happened to Austin? I used to go to bars in South Austin where
> that type of "bubba" would have gotten a hole stomped in him. ;-)
What happened to Austin? Well, a damn lot of Dallasites moved here, El
Carnivore Shut Down, Stevie died, Kelso's the only good thing in our
newspaper, The highway department cut down all the Oaks & flattened all
the Hills, drove Polk's feed out of business, and Using the net beats
the hell outta choppin' cedar for money.
As far as holes stomped, I dunno, the fellas at IV's don't pay me no
mind when I try to sound all high falutin & silly.
Because, as you know, if you can't make fun in South Austin, there
ain't no fun to be made.
--
Ciao Baby!
at work, not working
Les Ross
Arn't we suppose to have an annual tug of war across the river to vent
these north vs south hostilities? Someone call John Kelso. This is an
emergency.
I mean, it's hard enough selling those "On Earth As It Is In Austin"
bumper stickers.
charles
Dwight Williamson wrote:
> Now that's funny.
>
> Arrivederci (Dang, I kinda like these furn words)
see? it feels good. Kinda like why Ladybird rolls around on her back
out in the horse pasture,.....
Buenos Tacos....
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Ciao Baby!
trying to promote fun & happiness on the Information Farm-To-Market
Road!
Andrew Amsel
austin.forsale.
charles
Bob Bell wrote:
> Charles wrote:
> > Using the net beats the hell outta choppin' cedar for money.
> Some people think chopping down the Water Sucking Brush Scum we
> affectionately call Cedars and replacing them with some indiginous
> trees would be a Great Idea...Watershed quality is
> threatened and less rain reaches the soil because of a closed cedar
> canopy. Cedars rock..
> Yeah, let's keep all these freaking Cedars..
Bob,
I think you missed my point. I also, hate Mountain Juniper (cedar)
they are gross, nasty trees. However, my point was that working with a
computer pays me a lot better than driving around with my chainsaw
cutting wood.
anyhow, the best comment on this thread was that it should not really be
here, and I am all for stopping it now...
Chris Anderson
Actually the BEST comment on this thread is, Get it to Austin.General
and OUT of Austin.Forsale!!!
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Bob Bell
Charles wrote:
> the Hills, drove Polk's feed out of business, and Using the net beats
> the hell outta choppin' cedar for money.
Some people think chopping down the Water Sucking Brush Scum we
affectionately call Cedars and replacing them with some indiginous
trees would be a Great Idea... Cedar trees outcompete more favorable
species of browse, forbs and grass for light, water and nutrients.
Livestock forage suffers in quality and quantity. Watershed quality is
threatened and less rain reaches the soil because of a closed cedar
canopy. Cedars rock..
Yeah, let's keep all these freaking Cedars..
" ... burn er anyway.."
- Monty Python, Quest for the Holy Grail
Bob