text: As a Gender and Womens Studies major and a year resident of Madison I love the idea of A Room of Ones Own the locally owned feminist bookstorennHOWEVER putting aside the stores selection and what it stands for I absolutely DESPISE entering into this store The UWMadison Gender and Womens Studies program has students buy their textbooks here to support a local business and I am down for that absolutely but the HORRIBLE customer service here makes me avoid it like the plaguennOver the years I have so badly wanted to enjoy visiting A Room of Ones Own that I have tried to start with a clean slate each time I enter the store but am always let down The employees are extremely rude any question I have asked has always been answered as if I am taking up the employees precious timennI have even called with questions and have been told to come into the store and figure it out myselfreally not coolnnYou would think that a store like this would be happy to have any sort of customer and that as a local store it could be more conscious about how it treats its visitors but this is not the case Specifically over the past years I have been in school I have never once been treated kindly and I do not support that