Thorntons

WATCH YOUR CASH!
Last night I went to Thorntons as I have been doing for nearly 10 years, at least twice a day. Made my purchase with a $ 20 bill and got $ 18.04 in change. I go again this evening, make my purchase and give the cashier a $ 10 bill, which was part of the change I got last night. She tells me she can’t accept it. It’s counterfeit. I explained to her it was part of the change they gave me yesterday and now I’m displeased that they passed off a counterfeit bill to me. Her response is what do you want me to do? I said start checking your security video of the cameras and try to figure out who passed it off to you. I’M OUT $ 10! (The ironic part of this was last night their automatic change machine didn’t give me all my 4 cents and I had to ask the girl for it and she made a comment about how that would be bad that Thornton would rip me off of money).
Ultimately this evening, I left there and did the RIGHT thing and turned it in to the p.d. and made a police report.
$ 10 may not seem like a lot to lose but being my hubs and I are both temporarily living on an extremely tight budget, it was going to hold us over until Wednesday when we got paid.
Tomorrow morning I will be on the phone with Thorntons corporate hoping they right their wrong. If their employee accepted it, they were responsible for catching it and not accepting it or passing it on. Furthermore, how do I know that they don’t have an employee that isn’t laundering counterfeit money through work?

It is the closest Thorntons to my home, so I fill up here at least three times a week. On four separate occasions at different times throughout the day I attempted to use the men’s room, and each and every time there is an out of order sign on both the men’s and women’s restrooms. The clerks here are very rude, they’d rather talk to each other then say hello and greet a customer. I also believe they are lazy and just putting up those clipboards saying the restrooms are out of service so they don’t have to clean them. Maybe upper management can find out why the restrooms are always out of service. The coffee area is also dirty quite often.

It’s much more spacious then the one in Park Ridge on Touhy both outside and in. Decent sized convenience store. 18 pumps to choose from. Good coffee and friendly attendants. What more can you ask for?

These clerks are so rude. No thank you when you buy something. All they do is stand around and talk to each other in Spanish

Definitely the cheapest gas you’ll find around the O’Hare area. They also have a huge selection of carbonated drinks.

The seedy avenue that is Mannheim.
Infrequent passerby here.
Redbox is available.
gas + Ciggies + snacks… what else are you looking for??? hmmm?

Cheapest gas in the area!

I’m very fond of this Thorntons gas station and mini-​mart for a number of reasons:
A.) It’s always on the way, too & from work.
B.) Gas prices are usually cheaper than other gas stations in the area.
C.) They have an AWESOME little beer section. One of those refrigerated rooms with nothing but beer. Also, they’re open 24 hours and they’ve let me purchase said beer as early as 6:20am. (Don’t ask why I’ve purchased beer so early in the AM. Ah, on second thought, ask. IDC.)
If you’re wreckless enough, they also have a decent sized hot dog bar, and a huge fountain drink stand. The coffee here sucks though. That’s about the only negative thing I can say. But other than that, Thorntons has pretty much whatever anyone will ever need in life. On the reals, homes.