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Date: 2007-09-04 07:59 pm (UTC)A few years back, they started a big growth-and-self-branding thing, coinciding with their sale (it's no longer the local worker-coop it was), but I'm not sure whether the sale came before the changes to their personality, or after.
I couldn't find products I'd always gone there for, they'd replaced them with higher-priced, lower-quality, but otherwise similar items. The staff didn't seem as helpful anymore. I stopped feeling like I was going into a sex-positive, feminist-sex-is-fun little store and started feeling like I was going into a Sex Store. Then I saw that Blowfish had all the cool toys that GV used to have, for half the price of their similar items, and . . . switched.
I still go into the store, when I need a good local sex store, and I'd like to see it last for that if no other reason. (Hell, I bought my first vibe at GV something like 24 years ago.) But I find myself wondering what they did to bring this on themselves.
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Date: 2007-09-04 08:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-04 10:30 pm (UTC)They were also very unprofessional when it came to telling me that they did not do the parties anymore.
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Date: 2007-09-04 11:03 pm (UTC)By the way, I also have stories of rude workers and out-of-stock goods, but don't really think that's relevant to their current problems. I suspect a big portion of their in-store sales are to tourists and shy first-timers, who wouldn't be as affected by such problems. But I'm just guessing.
(I have an irrelevant story of GV's illegal discrimination in hiring, which maybe I'll tell another time.)
I actually do hope they survive -- I really do like the smug bastards.
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Date: 2007-09-04 11:16 pm (UTC)I haven't been too pleased with them in recent years either. I do appreciate their commitment to holding drop-in classes, though, as well as their historical role in encouraging Americans to talk about sex and sex toys without whispering.
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Date: 2007-09-05 05:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-05 05:43 am (UTC)Sad, but they ain't what they used to be.....
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Date: 2007-09-07 04:45 am (UTC)That page no longer exists.
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