I've had comic store experiences like that. I once went to a store with irregular opening hours announced on the door that then weren't even correct, so I had to come back a second time, and the store was in a side street, in a basement, and I had to climb down a narrow stair partially blocked by some boxes, and then climb over a dog, but the comic store guy somehow still assumed I had wandered in there accidentally, and was disbelieving when I asked where the Batman back issues were. Incidentally he couldn't even let me browse, because the boxes were just then blocked by some more boxes, and he didn't want to rearrange them just for me. I ended up ordering the back issues I was looking for on an internet store...

My regular comic book store isn't like that though, maybe because it is co-owned by a m/f couple, and other women work there too.