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My kids and I go barefoot for religious reasons. tonight my kids and I entered the Dollar General in Carolina Beach North Carolina the employee Jay told us that we had to have shoes on . all I wanted to do was get a key to the bathroom and was almost denied that. if you look up federal and state laws on going Barefoot those laws protect me not your "policy".
I was humiliated in front of other customers simply because of my religious beliefs and also was trying to spend money in your store. he gave us the key to the bathroom and told us that we had to leave after because we didn't have shoes on I've already called and made a complaint but normally the general manager doesn't do anything about it because it's your supposed policy please correct this because I have been in this store numerous times over numerous years and not had anybody say anything to me. I take full responsibility for my feet and if you make me wear shoes to shop in your stores and I get hurt and y'all are reliable for that however I take full responsibility for my feet and if I get hurt in your storage than I am liable. This needs to be addressed ASAP. I do not appreciate being humiliated in front of other customers and my children are not allowed to shop either because of our religious beliefs North Carolina state and federal law says that nobody including managers or customers can tell us to leave or put on shoes and if something is not done about this I will be forced to take a lawsuit out
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It's not gross. I have a habit of doing it myself around home. However, having worked in the medical profession for several years, I know that it makes us more likely to cross contaminate. I always take my shoes off at the door because there's no telling what one has walked over with their shoes. However, you can't take your feet off at the door. Unless you're washing your feet at the door ( and very thoroughly) this means you're trekking germs all over your home. Children and pets play on the floor and can easily pick these up. Even someone visiting your home can walk out cross contaminated. Not to say it can't happen when wearing shows. Being that your feet have pores ( btw, as someone mentioned sweating... your feet are still sweating when you have no shoes on. So you can still make bacteria and have smelly feet my dear. We all sweat microscopic drops all day long. It's call the human cooling system.) it makes you more susceptible to picking up germs... even parasites. The feet being porous and wet (even if you can't see the moisture) is a good incubation place to grow and pass germs, just like the hands. The bottom of a shoe is not a good growing place for germs, but your feet are as they are attached to a living organism which provides the best growing habitat! So no, baby, the feet that are walking all over the ground and floor is not cleaner than someone's hands. I'm sure anyone that's walked a lot w/out shoes can see. Take a wet wipe and wipe your hands, then take one and wipe your feet and see which one makes the wipe dirtier. I can walk through a hospital w/ my shoes and come out w/ staff all over my shoes or in your case feet. Trek that all over, cross contaminating the places I walk in the hospital. Then get in my car and cross contaminate it too. Then guess what?!? When I get home, if I don't wash my shoes at the door or take them off, I will then cross contaminate my home as well possibly. The same goes w/ feet even more so as they are a better growing environment for it and other germs and bacteria to thrive. I think I'll take a chance w/ hands more than feet. I can walk through a place and come out w/out having touched a thing w/ my hands. Plus wash my hand more than my feet. Not so with feet, unless you know how to levitate to keep you feet from touching the ground or floor. Just think about all the surfaces one walks on. You might as well be willing to get down on the ground or floor and lick them if you think for one minute your feet are cleaner. If that's the case you shouldn't have dishes in your home. Just serve the food up on the floor. Or when you go to a restaurant tell em to drop the food on the floor and you'll eat it from there. I guess the person who suggested this are one of those who walks in off the street to a buffet restaurant and go straight to the food to fix their plate w/out going to wash their hands first. I'm always amazed at the number of people who do this. So because they like proper hygiene, they figure everyone else does as well. I always wash my hands before I eat or cook and during cooking if I do or touch anything in between. When I come home from being out in public the first thing I do is go straight to the restroom and wash my hands, no matter what.
My point being that both of you pointed out, there's germs everywhere. You can pick up anything from your hands to your gums from the dentist. A guy died after he cut his leg open and got an infection. So my choice of barefeet should be my choice and not have anyone tell me it's gross or to even leave a store. How do you think bacteria gets on the floor... From shoes..bam shoes are nasty, my choice. It's your choice to not wear gloves shopping because of germs, it's also your choice to sanitize your hands before during and after whatever you're doing. Just because I go Barefoot doesn't mean I lack proper hygiene, just like you washing your hands religiously doesn't make you better. Being in the medical field you would understand a compression fracture in my lower spine..well shoes hurt, when I'm barefoot my hips are in proper alignment, I walk upright and not slouched down so it alleviates most of my pain. I'm more healthier than I ever have been because I am getting exposed to germs and letting my own immune system fight them.
In the medical field you aren't taught the proper use of the body's immune system, you're taught that babies are born with a defect so you give them shots, you are taught that if you have a cold you need antibiotics, you are taught that in order not to get the flu you need a flu shot. What about getting a yeast infection, more medication, the body needs to be exposed to germs to learn how to fight them off, not everything has to have medication and not everything has to fit in to society's little bubble of what people think is acceptable. I went to the dentist and he said that he used to do work overseas and it was almost like their religion to take their shoes off before they had dental work done or walked into a house or restaurant, because shoes are dirty
I wasn't directing my post to you but to the other poster who said that they were in the medical field. And athletes foot..you only get that from wearing shoes, just like any foot fungal infection they need a moist dark place to thrive therefore shoes are the perfect place to have those. MRSA you can get from anything. Something has MRSA, touches a door knob or a cart at Walmart, you touch it and have an open wound on your hand... Now you have it. I don't eat with my feet and I don't touch carts or anything else for that matter with my feet except the ground.. And just how am I putting anyone else's health at risk by going barefoot. No worse than someone having the flu and coughing or sneezing in public and it gets on you. The things people say too try to justify the bubble of society
Someone can step in dog [censored] with their shoes and a child fall and lands in it, a plane can fall out of the sky, a tree limb while you are walking down the street can fall, you can get into a car crash, should we all get bubble wrap and wear helmets? My feet has nothing to do with your health, and no if I get hurt while no wearing shoes I can not sue. Absolutely zero cases have been won where a Barefooter got hurt and sued and won. But how many have won by wearing shoes? Look it up. Insurance companies do not care about customer dress codes, and what's the difference in wearing flip flops, a small piece of rubber as thick as a newspaper? What's that going to do? A jar can still fall on your foot, a nail can go straight through it, a piece of glass can go through it too, oh but I need something to protect my feet and pacify onlookers who don't like looking at feet but have no problem with someone wearing the thinnest shoes ever
Another point proven... etiquette.. So basically society. I don't care what society says, federal and state law says different. You don't have to ask her. I posted the law above, do your own research. Why would I spend $200 at a doctor when there's a more natural and healthy way of doing it. Your logic is ridiculous. So you stay home during cold and flu season, that's good at least I'm not putting your health at risk by being Barefoot in a different state
Its true the about the barefoot thing in NC but the DG was trying to protect themselves from possible liabilities if you had stepped on something and got hurt.
If I'm in their store and I got hurt I take all responsibility. Their insurance does not cover customers dress codes. If they force me to wear shoes and I get hurt then they are reliable