Justin Ward
Google
Racist encounter by staff so people of all color save your money and go elsewhere. Me and my girlfriend were looking for records, and I noticed this old dude walking around near me for no reason. I’m like, “w/e.” I have like $30 worth of records in my hand, and there’s another part of the store in the back, so we walk down the hallway. My girlfriend’s like, “Oh, they have DVDs too,” so we start looking at them.
Then the old dude comes over and says, “Excuse me, I need to take those to the front.” I’m like, sure, whatever. I walk to the other room (mind you, there are glass windows so you can see into the other rooms). I’m in this one room by myself looking at jazz records, and he walks in, acting like he’s messing with records. I was about to say something, but I just chill and keep looking. Then he walks out to the main area and starts fake organizing a box of records directly in front of the window I’m facing. I’m like, bro, you’re this obvious with it?
My girlfriend comes in and goes, “You see what he’s doing, right? How obvious he is with it?” And I’m like, “Ik.” Then she says, “See how he didn’t go bother the other two white girls in the room next to us? I was gonna buy some DVDs, but not anymore—that pissed me off. Will do my best to get the word out to make sure this place get as less customers as possible. I’m already getting other to help me get the word out and other course of action ready. This was disgusting and embarrassing for fantasyland to do this in 2025. Even with a convenient sign asking for cds to be placed at the front being followed around and not asking others is a big red flag. It’s best to apologize and own up to the situation instead deflecting fault. Apparently I’m not the only person of color that has complained about being followed.