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Browsing at a Victoria’s Secret store one day, and a young black woman came in. Let’s just say she was full-sized. After mostly being ignored by the young employees, she finally managed to get the attention of one of them. Told them she wanted to look at bras, but wasn’t sure what size she’d need. One of these size 1 waifs looked her up and down disdainfully and very loudly declared, “Oh we don’t sell anything big enough to fit YOU. There’s a WalMart across the road.” I watched tears of mortification well up in the customer’s eyes as she made her way to the door. I turned to the two employees and said, “You should be ashamed of yourselves for being so cruel. It costs nothing to be kind and tactful. Maybe you don’t have anything in her size, but if you’d treated her with respect she might have come back some time and bought gifts for others. Anyway your lack of respect just cost you my business.” And I left and have never set foot in that store again.

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