I worked last night, Saturday 12/3/11, in Vincennes and was returning home, arriving in Bicknell at about 9:30 or so and noticed that the Dollar General on the corner of highway 67 and Mary Street was still open so I pulled in to pick up a couple of cans of dog food hoping to save myself a morning run to the store. As I entered the store I read the hours sign advising that they are open until 10 o’clock so I entered.

To my surprise was the lady clerk’s response when I greeted her by saying to her “hello how are you tonight? Her response to me”why don’t you people just stay home?” I thought that I misunderstood her so I went on to pick up the cans of dog food.

When I arrived to check out there was nobody available to run the register so I waited and after a couple of minutes or longer then she came in from outside and walked over to ring up my cans of dog food so I could pay for my purchase.

“This is worth you coming in!” was her response to my purchase of dog food so I asked her what she was talking about and she told me the when people like me don’t just stay home at night and keep coming in to the store after 9 pm that Dollar General will never start closing at 9 o’clock again and she will have to work to 10 o’clock from now on.

I told her that I was not coming from my home that I was return from my job in Vicennes and that on the other hand had she not been open I wouldn’t have stopped in and she said “that’s what I mean people like you will never stop coming in.”

I left.

I think that it may be time for Dollar General to help out this employee and allow her to look for other employment where she can get off at 9 o’clock pm instead of 10 o’clock pm where she will be much happier. I’m sure that Dollar General can easily find a replacement especially in this economy. Then all of us will be happy, the clerk because she will no longer be required to work until 10:00, the Dollar General because they will stop losing customers because of her attitude and for me because it won’t make me feel like I’m evil for shopping at Dollar General after 9 pm.

Right now my choices are to never stop at the Bicknell Dollar General again after 9:00 or face a hostile employee when I do shop there so I'll most likely just not shop there as there are many other places for me to pick up things on the way home from work.

Just my opinion
John R. Stanczak