I love having a vinyl store in Pasadena, and this ...

I love having a vinyl store in Pasadena, and this store has great history. That said, currently the majority of the floorspace is still given over to CDs, and their Record Store Day policy is atrocious (basically, the lines are irrelevant - if you're in like in front of someone else, it doesn't matter if they run past you after the doors open). Also, I've been shopping here for years and I recently came in right after they re-opened after the quarantine/shut-down, and I bought a record I didn't even really want, because I want to support businesses like this in our community to make sure they're here for the long haul. My interaction with the person who runs the place was to tell me how much I owed him. There was no "thank you for coming in" or an acknowledgment of the customers supporting his business. I get that he's not a super outgoing person, because I'm not, either, but I can tell you that the businesses I return to repeatedly are the ones that learn who I am after having shopped there for a few years and acknowledge me while I'm patronizing their business.