Let me venture a guess that Venture Fireworks in the town of Hudson would never let you have as bad an experience as a Minnesconsin man over a two-day period at one of those big box stores further into St. Croix County. The locally owned and operated store simply handle customer traffic, which is plentiful enough to show their popularity, much better in part via use of their large staff that just keeps racing around but fully under control and thus use their Wisconsin work ethic. They keep the shelves full of all the many choices, to the point of getting on their knees or being prostrate with the just-the-right-size items in order to restock each particular shelf, so there never was a need for customers, although legion, to wait at all — unlike the ordeal you are about to read with a place further toward Eau Claire.
The lines in Roberts were not only out the door, but stretched well into the parking lot, however not quite as far as the porta-potties around the corner that would salvage a use for the wait. At the end of the night there, when it was clear that in part because of remaining people, some of whom could not make up their minds about which if any of the inventory items they would buy, people were turned away as the minute hand on the clock moved past half. The promise was made that they would be served a discount if they came back the next day to try again, which likely was not pleasing to the many people from Minnesota there. But when morning came, and potential clients came edging back, their promise of keeping the two-for-one special was disavowed, the area man said. So all those can’t-be-rebagged goods that were present in excessively large quantities in the first place, ended up being really pricey.