Greenside Recreational - Des Moines
6/13/2015
What a terrible experience. This is the worst setup of any shop I have been to yet. There are about 6 glass display cases or "stations" with various types of bud and each station is identical, so you wait in a line and wait to be called to a station. They have other cases in between those cases with other products as well. Down at the end of the counter are the concentrates, etc. and then there is the register with an ATM next to it which seems kind of awkward to me.
I almost just walked up to the counter but I didn't realize the way their little system worked as it wasn't very clear to a first time customer such as myself.
I waited in line and was called up by a younger guy with like reddish facial hair and I think a couple piercings in his face or mouth. He didn't listen to anything I said and didn't make any sense when he responded to me. The whole time I was looking, I felt pressured because people are in line and this guy is staring at me while I try to choose a strain. The whole time people keep coming up and fist bumping him and saying what's up to him, which is making the fact that he isn't paying attention to me even worse.
It feels like they are just trying to shuffle you in and shuffle you out like cattle and it isn't a nice relaxed environment where you feel comfortable selecting a product of your choosing and browse at your leisure.
A seriously disappointing experience. I just left without even buying anything since I just did not feel comfortable in there, and the Budtender helping me was just awful... I mean he was a total dick. I actually spent more time in the front room looking at the pipes and stuff because no one was in there breathing down my neck while I browsed.
I'll never return here.