Some of the bigger businesses here in Tehachapi lack good customer service. I am redoing alot of things in my Mother's home right now and each and every time I go to Home Depot I walk out thinking that I will NEVER return there. I cannot count how many times an employee has told me to go look somewhere else for help and how many times they have pointed there fingers and said go look that way for someone. The customer service there just plain stinks!! I could go on and on about how they screwed up ordering my dishwasher and I ended up having to get a more expensive one...

I personally think alot of these businesses do not train their employee's on good customer service or how to order products....

Yeah, when i came up to visit i stopped at the newly opened starbucks, I live in SD and there is a starbucks on every corner.  The one in tehachapi SUCKED.  i ordered the same thing i always order and it tasted weak and not so good. 

which not so sanitary fast food are you speaking of?

dirty lime , hell i have put worst in my mouth !

LOL! Sunshine! Ding, ding, ding!!  The only reason I go to Sonic is to get my kids corndogs because they love theirs and the only reason I'm willing to do that even is because they are deep fried!!  I on the other hand will NOT eat the food from there!

I believe the employees unfortunately get the bad rap for not knowing what they are doing it is the Company's fault not even the Manager.  I can't speak currently, but anyone who have worked in K-Mart or Walmart and maybe some others know what I am talking about.  Yes when you go to electronics, or garden, or hardware, or sporting goods, you expect to have an employee who can answer your questions and might have more knowledge than you.  Or at least knows their dept.  This is not the case.  The company puts anyone in those depts.  You don't have to have experience, it is up to the employee to learn.  They normally don't  have training for individual depts.  If you can run a cash register, then they'll put you anywhere, especially to cover breaks and lunches.  This is the company's fault in my opinion.  Nothing against K-Marts, etc, but I only go when I know what I want.  I will go to a store that specializes in a product if I don't know what I need or want or have questions.  Now sometimes I will go back to the Dept Stores and get my product but I go else where for info.  Is the right? Maybe the Dept stores are cheaper because of cheap labor practices so is fair to go to the Specialized stores and not buy but use their knowledge.  I haven't figured that one out for myself yet.  Don't get me wrong I am not downing the actual people, even management, but the companies.  There are many places who train their managers, but mostly for human services and not actual knowledge on products.  But normally they have working at their dept for a period of time and have some knowledge. 

Also, if you don't grow and package your own food, you never know what might be in it or where it has been.  And not just during the processing.  Just a little info:  for those of you who don't wash the top of your soda cans. or any, do so.  I have personally witness mouse droppings, urine, many other things on top of them.  For example:  when a truck comes in at a grocery store, it is unloaded in the backroom, stored, then stocked.  No one washes anything off.  So if you have a mouse in the backroom, which is normal, or even from the vendor, you don't know what's going on.  This again isn't any ones fault, people just need to wash things off.  There's also the cross contamination issue.  If some spills or leaks it can get on anything.  There is no way to control this except at home.