Reply #1: Same thing when you're a white-haired old white woman,

[Sal Minella]

it's like I'm totally invisible to many people, don't exist at all, am not standing there, waiting for information, waiting to get help with an item, waiting to ask about something.

Some people fairly reek with the "What are you going to do about it?" attitude. It's "I have the power to ignore you, here, so I'm going to." I'ts more like endemic rudeness. But I'm sure it happens on racial basis as much or more than on white-haired geezerette basis. I've often thought if I could be a buff young guy with tattoos on both forearms, I'd get waited on a heckuvva lot faster.