I went into this store today to look at playground...
I went into this store today to look at playground equipment with my son. The sales rep was incredibly condescending and rude. Without getting into too many details they have a $5 pay-to-play program that is not open on the weekends, but they let potential equipment purchasers try out the equipment anyway. So the sales rep's job on the weekends is to try to figure out which customers are going to buy equipment and which are there to try to play for free. There were a couple kids playing on the equipment, presumably because a sales rep or employee deemed them likely customers. My son started looking at equipment. The sales rep ask me why I was there and I said we were next door and decided to look around. I didn't want to tell her immediately that I was planning to buy a $10,000 Rainbow set, just like I don't walk into a clothing store and announce immediately that I'm planning to buy two new suits and four shirts - it's just not an intelligent way to shop in my opinion. But she basically told my kid that he couldn't climb on anything, when there were two or three other kids climbing on equipment right next to him. She assumed we were wanting to play with no intention to buy. I just said thank you and left and my son started crying. I recommend Bergfeld Recreation on Manchester. We bought some expensive equipment two years ago because when we went to look the owner said, "sure your kids can climb on anything - have fun." I didn't even plan to buy anything beforehand, but the owner was cool and my kids could try all of their equipment.




