Tea Desire Edit

The sheer chaos and dirtiness of this store put me off. I’ve wandered in a few times and have yet to make a purchase as it always feels overcrowded, the tea pots and cups are dusty, and the employees clueless.

I did get a free tasting of their blueberry yohgurt tea while I “shopped” there (walked around in a circle as the employees were taking up all the space and once again restocking their stock – replacing dirty wares for new dirty wares?) and it was semi-flavourful. I tried to ask the tea guy more about it but his extent of help was to read the sign above it to me.

They did have “samplers” for sale for 2-4 dollars but they didn’t include their entire tea line and were just enough to make one pot of tea.

Wow, dirty decorative tea tins (they were clearly used and returned to the store) and after the time I had I was in no mood to go back and return them.

The employee, looked as though she did not want to be there, and I was unimpressed with the lack of information offered to a first time customer. I was told that I would need to buy tins if I only wanted sample sizes (our bags are for 50g or more only) and the list goes on.

I will say this company could use some help from “The Tea Guy” – yeesh! The woman who was scooping my tea spent more time mashing the dry oolong leaves, I nearly had a heart-attack! Those are tea leaves! Not sand or dirt!

Oh my gosh! If I want tea from this store again, I will seriously have to consider if the cost of gas for the travel is worth my time.