I am a woman who has lived in salem all her life anyone who knows me will tell you that im a sweetheart. This story is a bit shocking! 2 weekends ago i stopped in at my local convenient store for some milk and lottery. I have been shopping at Nicoles Food Mart for as long as i can remember. Recently they have switched owners which is ok they pretty much left things the way they were except for one thing! So it was late night and the store was going to close and i was standing in my usual spot scratching my 2$ cashword with a friend when the owner of the store (a fairly young guy) comes out to inform me and my friend thay he wants us to leave before he calls the police because he saw my friend urinating on the side of the building! Now this in fact never happened so i asked him nicely to show me on the camera and that if this was true i would leave and never come back. Then he changed his tune explaoning that a customer had come in and said they saw this that it was a waste of his time to check the camera. He said that i should just forget it but it better not show someone urinating un believable! ! So i leave and shrug this off. So a week goes by without any problem and we speak nothing of it as sometimes its better to leave well enough alone or so i thought!! The weekend comes and im standing in my usual spot scratching my ticket when some kids a few buildings down light of a firework and scare me nearly out of my sneakers. Do you see where im going with this story? Yup you guessed right the owner comes out yelling at us to leave saying he saw us light the firework! So at this point im fed up ive been shopping here for years and this new guy is really on my nerves so i decide to call the local boys in blue. I tell them about both situations and kindly suggest that the owner review his tapes and apologize to me and my friend. Instead the officer sides with the clerk does not bother looking at the tapes and tells me to find somewhere else to shop! I am so outraged by all of this, so not only was i accused of doing something i didnt but i have to walk halfway across town for milk and cigarettes because i was banned from my loval convenient store!! Please give me feedback id love to hear from anyone
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