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Are You Safe Shopping At Wal-Mart?
Posted by honest_scoop on 12/01/2009
Of course I love the great deals, but the shopping experience at the Bowie Wal-Mart is uncomfortably unsafe. It's not the lack of service, or the product that has not been restocked for whatever reason for 4 weeks, it's my safety that concerns me at this Wal-Mart, because the Bowie Wal-Mart tolerates patrons abusing other patrons in the store. If you want to be, PLEASE EXCUSE THE WORD WITH THE EXTRA PARENTHESIS, BUT YELLOW PAGES CONSIDERS PROFANITY, SO I HAD TO SPELL IT IN THIS MANNER, but(t)-in-front of and have your safety threatened by the offender when you object, even when you get the front-end supervisor involved to honor the "first come, first serve" policy for customers waiting in line, try this Wal-Mart! I contacted Wal-Mart Home Office and the manager of the store a couple of years ago to ask what a person should do at Wal-Mart when they get but(t)-in-front of - I was told to get the front-end supervisor; SOOOO, let me get this straight, I need to request assistance from management because there is another customer that but(t)-in-front of me...OKAY, so I did, and I have needed to on 4 occasions, and each time, the offender followed me around and harassed me while I requested assistance from a Wal-Mart employee (one offender actually shouted repeatedly, "Life ain't fair!" to justify it; another time, someone kept pushing me with their cart, physically, into the candy until an employee stood between us). I suggested that Wal-Mart put up something like "NO BUTTING IN LINE, PERSON OR EXTRA CART!" and no sign was ever put up requesting customers not to "but(t)" and the "butting" continues. Another "butting" phenomenon at Wal-Mart? People standing in line with minimal amount of product in their cart during busy shopping seasons, and low and behold, here comes a family member with another cart to dump-off in line, FULL of items, in front of you, while you've already waited for 20 minutes, and sometimes, even 2 carts, and they but(t)-in-front as if they are entitled because they consider it some kind of loophole, it being a cart instead of another customer; when the mass-product/cart "butters" are confronted about it they start abusing the person that they butted-in-front of, even worse than the body "butters," AND WAL-MART LETS THIS HAPPEN BECAUSE THEY KNOW ABOUT IT, BUT THEY STILL CHOOSE TO LEAVE IT TO THE CUSTOMERS TO JEOPARDIZE THEIR OWN SAFETY AND REQUEST THAT WAL-MART UPHOLD THEIR STORE POLICY ABOUT "NO BUTTING." If you shop at this Wal-Mart and have the same problem, please request that they take a pro-active stance on this matter and let the people who want to spend their money at the Bowie Wal-Mart do so without the safety-jeopardizing drama that could be eradicated with simple signs with simple statements to take care of the simpletons that "but(t)." I shop at the Arundel Mills, Hanover, MD, Wal-Mart, yes, I drive that far, but it only takes 15-20 minutes from Bowie if you take the Baltimore-Washington Parkway (NOT during rush hour(s) of the DC area); the Hanover, MD, Wal-Mart is much cleaner and more pleasant than the Bowie Wal-Mart. The only problem that I've ever experienced at the Hanover Wal-Mart was an employee that decided to say something rude when I made a complaint about waiting at the return counter for more than 5 minutes as I watched her goof-off with other cashiers instead of coming to the return counter, after being paged several times -- the manager apologized profusely for it. I've only had this type of safety concern at the Bowie Wal-Mart, no other store that I have ever frequented, so shopper beware!
