Understand that.
I wasn’t responding to your personal circumstance, I was responding to what @ubit had said.
I wouldn’t lose sleep over it - I just wouldn’t shop there or even consider buying from them in future.
give it another 5 or so years and there most likely won’t be any guitar/bass shops left to visit, for reasons outlined above.
crap margins, aging customer demographic, business rates, online business models with lower overheads - etc.
But the elitist behaviour exhibited by some people in some stores is mental, I never understood it when I was in the trade - even less so now that the MI retail trade is dying.