Lawton Liquor

Lawton Liquor is a typical family runned convenience store with little inventory. and little selection. beers just the usual micros and mainstream brews. pricing of goods above average.
buys: tsing tao paper (.60)
–all chinese newspapers available here.
notes:
–lady never looks up, doesn’t follow patrons visually around store,

I’ve visited this place my entire life since I was in elementary school, and the one impression that I had of this place over the years come down to one word: cheap. Not the prices, mind you, but the owners of this place. Remember when candies like a bar of Snickers or Skittles or whatever were 50 cents each back in the 1990s? Remember when a bottle of water was 50 cents, a can of soda was 25 cents, and a bottle of Gatorade was $ 1? Well, back in the 1990s, the candies here were 55 cents, the soda were 35 cents, the water was 65 cents, and the Gatorade were $ 1.25. Literally everything here were overpriced. Even the fucking small bags of chips back then that were meant to be 25 cents were sold for 30 cents. The airheads were 20 cents when all other places sold them for 15 cents. But that was back in the 1990s, right? Cut them some slack, things must’ve changed over the period of 20 or so years. Yeah, you think it would, but they remained ever so pathetically cheap. The owners changed once (was once owned by some Indian or Middle Eastern looking family) but the stinginess, cheapness, and dishonesty remain the same.
So let’s talk customer loyalty. I’ve been coming here over the years since I was a kid, and not once when the cashier (and owner) would even look up to say hi to me. This woman literally watched me grow up over the years, from coming here with my mom in the past after school to coming here with friends in middle /​high school to coming here by myself once in awhile to buy a scratcher or two, and not ONCE she would say hi to me. I’d be lucky if she even looked at me; that bitch be glued on watching some Chinese drama shit.
Okay so back to the point about this dump. For one, I remember coming here last year to redeem some scratchers I won. I had like 5 of them, some winning a free ticket, others were like $ 3 or something, but I remember the total amount was $ 12 (with $ 2 in free tickets). The bitch gave me back $ 10. Okay, so with the other 2 free tickets, I wanted a cross word puzzle one that cost $ 3. So I gave her $ 1, and asked for the crossword. She looks at me weird like I owe her another $ 2. I told her I should have enough credits for it. She sighs and scratched /​scanned one other ticket I gave her, which redeemed one of the free ticket, then looked at me for the other $ 1. You must be joking right? You have my other ticket with another redemption you shit. This retarded retard is trying to rip me off $ 1 off a scratcher by pretending to act confused and not scanning my 5^th fucking winning ticket. You know, that really pissed me off — I’ve been a customer here for 20 or so fucking years, and you’re going to pull this shit on me over $ 1.
To be honest, I could just let that off. Maybe she’s a complete moron or maybe she sucks in math, I don’t know, but I wouldn’t hold a grudge over $ 1. Then I see something on the counter that really screams out «I’m a cheap fuck.» She’s selling pens that she picked up from the floor or other places. I see those half used Bic pens from hotels, restaurants, etc and she’s selling them for 15 cents each. ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS?