What don’t you care about in a beer store?

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Message DietPepsican P beers 1592 º places 63 º 18:56 Sun 9/28/2014 Riffing on the "bottle shop" thread. What don’t you care about? Me Personally? Import beer selection. "Vintage" beers. Large selection.
Message drfabulous beers 15589 º places 239 º 18:58 Sun 9/28/2014 beer under the window and the stacks of Bud cases
Message mikem409 beers 2032 º places 251 º 18:59 Sun 9/28/2014 Fancied wine and booze. Cigarettes.
Message PorterPounder P beers 11032 º places 775 º 19:00 Sun 9/28/2014 Being asked more than once if I need help after politely indicating I don’t need any previously.

Message RABinCO P beers 1511 º places 103 º 19:03 Sun 9/28/2014 Originally posted by PorterPounder Being asked more than once if I need help after politely indicating I don’t need any previously. Wait...so you enjoy being asked multiple times if you need help?
Message StefanSD beers 2449 º places 57 º 20:52 Sun 9/28/2014 I actually like un-knowledgeable store staff. Thanks Ratebeer.
Message nuplastikk P beers 9840 º places 73 º 22:43 Sun 9/28/2014 20+ dollar bombers.
Message maxwelldeux beers 4373 º places 148 º 22:45 Sun 9/28/2014 I don’t care about "The staff recommends..."

Message OldGrowth beers 3472 º places 204 º 03:31 Mon 9/29/2014 Originally posted by drfabulous beer under the window this
Message 574deadzone beers 1420 º places 11 º 03:53 Mon 9/29/2014 Agree on imports. Some selection is nice, but if you have a shelf as long as a football field full of Belgians and no shelf talkers or Ratebeer tags to tell me why I might want to drop $9-$27 on a random 330 ml bottle, I will most likely scroll past.
Message ContemplateBeer beers 2092 º places 154 º 04:10 Mon 9/29/2014 Probably the selection being dominated by whatever IPAs happen to be popular this month.