boycotting walmart
December 14, 2005
i’ve had it.
i’m sick of walmart harrassing minority customers as they leave the store. it happens all the time. i’m a very passive person and i don’t usually stir up controversy. but in this case, i’ve lost all patience with wal-mart.
i’m not sure if most of you know about this recent story where wal-mart harrassed this man for attempting to buy $13,000 worth of gift cards for his company. a company which in the past, didn’t have any issues with the purchase when a white woman bought them:
GAF has been spending about $50,000 a year on gift cards at the Wal-Mart Supercenter at 11110 Causeway Blvd. in Brandon. For years GAF sent a white, female administrator to buy them without incident. This time, when she was on vacation the day before Thanksgiving, Pitts did the job himself. He phoned in the order for 520 cards, got the accounting department to issue Wal-Mart a $13,600 check and then encountered a royal hassle trying to exchange it for gift cards at the store.
“For a while there I thought I was going to prison,” he said. “It was a totally humiliating experience.”
For about two hours, store managers stalled on accepting the check for the already-printed gift cards, while Pitts stood waiting by the customer service desk. He had handed over his GAF business card, his driver’s license and the toll-free numbers to GAF’s bank. His accounting supervisor assured them over the phone that GAF, the nation’s biggest roofing systems maker with revenues of $1.6-billion in 2004, was good for the check.
full story here. this year, my siblings and my immediate family will be boycotting walmart this holiday season. if they don’t adjust their attitude towards minorities in stores, we will continue to boycott them until they do. i have personally been searched several times as i exit the store while others walk through the door and the alarm goes off!! and nobody lifts a finger. haven’t spent thousands of dollars at walmart over the years, i hope others join me in this.
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