It Just Ain't Right! Walmart Sucks!

[Jennifer]

2002-01-05
Douglas, Georgia. Disabled Man Removed from Wal-Mart Store

Here's another "the customer is boss" story from a Wal-Mart shopper who says he was certainly not treated like the boss. Rodney Jackson, a disabled man from Lebanon, Ohio, shared the following close encounter of the Wal-Mart kind with us: "On 19 August 2001, I flew to Douglas, Georgia with my Service Dog to help a young girl that had just been abandoned by a Florida police officer, and she was pregnant. She didn't have any maternity clothes. so, on Sunday , just a little after noon, we went to the Douglas,Georgia Wal-Mart. As, I approached the store, I noticed a rather large 12" x 12" Sign that simply stated "Service Dogs Welcome".

Not so. As I stepped inside, the young lady that I was with needed to use the restroom so I took a seat and waited. Immediately, the Greeter walks over to me and tells me to get the dog out of the store. I told her it was my Service Dog and that the store had a sign posted. She then angrily repeated herself and I again stated the obvious and she walks off in a huff. Within seconds a male employee starts the same demands and I again make the same statements, I then told him that I just told all of this to the Greeter and he apologizes and leaves.

Another female employee came and repeated the situation and I again follow my previous behavior. Within minutes, store security arrives and again I go through the same. He informs me that he is a retired police officer and aware of the law and that he wanted me out of the store. I told him about the trip I made from Cincinnati and how difficult it is to be disabled and to travel but that I was simply there to assist a pregnant lady but he didn't give a damn. He tells one of the employees to call the police and he too walks off. Four police officers arrive and begin telling me to get out of the store. I again repeat myself. I offered to let them look at my dog's ID Tag, as I offered each the opportunity to read the law that I had then in my hand. All refused and then the confrontation was made by one of the officers.

Question: "Are you refusing to leave"?

Note, the officer is only inches from my face.

As a retired police official, who has successfully served on (5) police jurisdictions, I knew a fight was about to start and I quickly asked about my friend that was then in the dressing room and that I needed to be inside to pay for her clothes. The Wal-Mart security officer then stated " I should have thought about that before I left Ohio". What that meant I had no idea and I was then aggressively escorted out of the store, with the threat not to go back inside..

As I waited outside for about twenty minutes, the young lady finally came out. She said that she was all looking all over the store for me. I couldn't believe none of the store employees bothered to inform her that I was outside."

[Jennifer]

astonamous,
I'll get it!

[JTF]

Jennifer,

It is Georgia...

He should have stayed until the cops forcibly removed him. He'd soon be shopping at "Rodney Jackson-Mart!"

[jane_haze]

Jennifer,

We've got a ten reasons why not to shop at walmart posted at my work with very good social reasons not to. I'll try to find it online and post it.

Jane

[brandes]

Jennifer,
I feel bad for the man. I wonder if he pointed out the fact that just outside the entrance a sign had been posted. He should still attempt to sue those idiots for discrimination and harrassment. My mother told me not to shop there because they pay below minimum wages to desperate illegals. This is just another reason to go to target. Do you think this is what Sam Walton would have wanted his brain-child to become?

[Nothing_Beats_RP]

Jennifer, My god...

People are such assholes

[Jennifer]

dumbass,
This is great---thanks for putting this up!

[jane_haze]

Jennifer,

Well, I couldn't find the top ten reasons why not to like wal mart, but I did come across this at the UFCW site.
http://www.ufcw.org/issues_and_actions/ ... /index.cfm - Anti Walmart stuff.'

It also has a few more links to why Walmart is the devil. Most of the reason are economical and business related rather than "Oh I hate the fact the majority of the customers are named Jimmy Wayne and you can find more wife beaters in there than at a fruit of the loom production line."

I know this is a bit delayed, but I recently went to a walmart and remembered why I hated it so.

[jane_haze]

Because that store has pissed me off so much, it inspired a bit of a rant that'd I'd like to share with you. I realize this should probably go to the "I hate Walmart" mb...but I live you people better. Enjoy.

I went to Wal Mart today. Do you realize how horrible that store is? I was in there five minutes tops and I felt a hatrid deeper than a cheap hookers cooter. I saw Easter Peeps on sale for 94 cents. A whole five cents cheaper than Safeway. That's some non union, sending jobs overseas, outsourcing savings!

Their products are worthless. To save yourself the time and energy of it breaking down on you, you'd be better off just sending the money straight to the Walton family, then buying your futon at IKEA.

And you can just observe the quality of people that set foot in a walmart. You have the bible study, fat girl that always hung around the outside of the popular circles, because she was never invite in. She's also throwing up in the bathroom after every meal, because she has "image problems". Then you have the military, that think they are doing their country a favor by shopping at a store so Amurican like Wal-Mart. Then there is the country music listening, mcdonald's lovin', republican votin', slightly chunky housewife, that has short, unnaturally curly hair, that finds the clothes in the store "cute" and has one of those ponchos in her cart already. And honestly, how many of these wal mart shoppers go to the CD section to buy Yanni: Live at the Acropolis? I know that'd be one of the items on my list if *I* were an avid Wal-Marter. "Let's buy some camo. Some shitty sandals that will fall apart in two months. A double pack of cheetos and spam. A new fishing pole and stink bait. Oh my, almost forgot the Yanni! What'll I ever listen to next time my husband beats me into submission? Silly me."

-el Jane

[jane_haze]

dumbass,

I've gotta wal-mart a block away from my house. How soon can you get here?