Walmart customer attacks 100 year old greeter for checking her cart.

That is your choice. It does not make someone else WRONG for not choosing to accept the same treatment.

Wal_mart, as does any other store, has the right to bar people from their store. They do not have the right to treat an innocent shopper as a criminal not not expect some backlash.

Are they checking your ID as you enter or as you leave?

Personally if any store demanded to see my ID before I entered because they thought I was a convicted thief I would go back to my car and shop elsewhere. If they were checking everyone's ID (like a bar) I would have no problem with complying.

Now if they waited til after I've already spent my money to demand my ID there will be police involved (because I would call them and refuse to comply with anything a store employee asked until the police arrived). I will be getting a complete refund and I would never spend another cent in that store again.

If I have done nothing criminal I see no reason to allow myself to be treated like a criminal. The is my choice. If you choose differently that has no bearing on the rightness or wrongness of my choice for me.

 

I don't believe I've played the victim card......but whatever.

One doesn't not need to be a victim to exercise their Rights.

Choosing not to exercise Rights that we have as consumers does not make a person superior to one who does. There is no victimization involved.

 

Well now, we finally agree. You're choosing to see yourself and your friend as victims of every little thing that happens in life. Your choice.

However your choice to be a victim doesn't give you the right to physically attack a person.

 

Choosing to create or imagine victimization serves no one. In fact it damages the status or rights of those who have true claims.

 

Where have I advocated physically attacking anyone?

How is standing up for my Rights as a consumer being a victim? If anything by standing up for what I believe is right I am refusing to be a victim.

If you are going to reply to me by quoting me please reply to what I've stated not what other posters have. You are calling me to task for positions I do not hold.

 

Okay, you're right. I lumped you in with Ghost child and included the original thread topic. You see, I thought we were all discussing the topic of the thread which is the actions of a wal-mart shopper who attacked a wal-mart greeter for asking to see the shopper's receipt.

But, you're right. You didn't say that you advocate the attack. Please accept my apology.

Now. Do you believe that a wal-mart associate who asks to see someone's receipt has given that shopper the right to physically attack them? And actualy, if you reread my post you'll notice that I made a statement. I didn't say you had said it. I made a statement that "However your choice to be a victim doesn't give you the right to physically attack a person. " And it doesn't.

 

Again where have I stated anything about personally being a victim or victimized? I may share the position with another poster that I will not tolerate poor treatment from a store employee but I have not once stated I feel victimized by it. I feel as a consumer I am empowered to voice my displeasure with a company with my wallet and my ability to not do business with them.
There is a huge difference between feelings of victimization and simply standing up for yourself.

And had the entire thread been read, the greeter was not the victim either, the shopper...while attempting to get said receipt had accidental contact with the greeter.

Now to answer further No I don't think it is proper to assault an employee for what I perceive as poor service, doesn't matter how old they are.

 

Where did I say YOU have? Seriously. WHERE???? Can a person not express a difference of opinion from you without you thinking it's a personal attack?


Now, if I'd wanted to make it personal I would have. I have no problem with that. I certainly didn't when I spoke specifically to Ghostchild and if I felt the need to say that YOU had then I would have.

However, I very strongly believe that those who choose to take every small event in life and try to elevate it into a victimization of them self harm those who actually have been victimized. It will and does on a regular basis make it harder for true victims to have their claims considered much less obtain justice.

 

Well now, since you've decided to change your post I'll respond to it.

I've read the entire thread, and I'm glad that you have now as I suggested in pm to you. Perhaps you might wish to reread some of the posts that support violence towards the Wal-mart associates who ask to see the receipts.

However, as for me I'm done with the discussion. It's absurd when people insist on creating victimization out of receipts and when people disagree with them. (yes that last phrase in bold font was directed to you)