Marco S.
Yelp
I am a huge fan of moncler, and have always shopped directly at their retail stores. Today, my husband, myself and a very good friend of ours decided to take a day trip to the Woodbury commons outlet Moncler. NEVER shop at this location. To begin, waiting on a thirty minute line, with little to no people in the store was not only ridiculous but inconvenient since it was fairly cold. That wasn't really the issue. The issue began once we walked into the store. As we were already beginning our shopping experience the guard at the door called us back and insisted we leave our bags at the door. Now, that isn't such a big deal, the big deal is that previous to us entering, several other Asian, and white people walked in and they were not instructed or demanded to leave their bags at the door. As I did not want to cause a scene, my group decided to comply. What struck me as the attitude of the guard. I am a 52 year old professional of European background, my husband of latin origins and our friend is a professional black male. None of us need to steel anything. Not only had we shopped at other high end stores that afternoon (ysl,verace, gucci, frette, and several others). We had many bags. No one before us was asked to leave their bags at the front and I quickly pointed that out as the Asian and white people that went in before us were all walking around with shopping bags. I decided to go to the stores manager. Although she was apologetic, she did begin by saying that it's the discretion... to which I immediately stopped her and said "if you are going to say it's the discretion of the guards to pick and choose who has to leave their bags, you are profiling"! She immediately changed her course and said it's not mandatory to leave one's bags. Yet, our group was made to leave our bags. She a middle aged, blond woman with black framed glasses and a bit on the ruebenesque side came from behind the counter and tried to placate me. She said she can assure me that that is not how she runs her store, and tried to get me to shop. I told her to not tell me to calm down and I would most definitely not be shopping at her store.
Point of this rant is, first and foremost, never judge a book by its covers. Two, if you are going to have rules in place those rules should be for everyone and lastly, you are minimum wage workers and have literally, in your ignorance and rudeness ruined your company's reputation.