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IM, I was thinking the same thing, but I am not familiar with how Walmart does their tractor displays. I know at the Sears I work at they are not fueled, the batteries are not connected and the keys are not with them.

Seems to me this person needs to have a care-giver with him whenever he is out and about.

I have, (had) two Black Walmart money card accounts. One with my daughter who lives two states away, and one with my boyfriend who travels to other states to work. The account with my boyfriend was blocked so I called and the recording told me that "after the funds have been spent and the card was at 0 my account was closed and I would never be able to open another money card account." No explanation why? I can't seem to get through to a customer service rep. When I call I enter the card number and my verification. But it won't give me a prompt to speak to a customer service rep. My boyfriend uses this account to send me money to pay the bills. Are they going to close my other account too? My other account is how I send money to my daughter two states away ! Why can't I speak to anyone? Now Steve will have to use Western Union to send the bill money which costs a lot more. It's very upsetting. Especially when you can't even get a reason from them.
Barbara Dill
1274 W Hoff Rd
Blackfoot ID 83221
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I receved a Walmart money card that had $50.00 on it for Christmas from my sister, I just looked in my wallet and foun it It is July 2013 now I checked it last month and the money was still on it I checked it again They said my card number was invalid. I cannot get any response what a bunch they are. Now I know why Walmart is going to be put out of business.

I went to do a transfer funds to my walmart money card that I personally set up and since I cannot verifiy an address that I never lived at they cancelled the transfer and my card

I'm sorry you're experiencing problems with your account and would like to help. The prepaid WalMart card is managed by Green Dot.

Please email them at customer.advocacy@greendotcorp.com your name and contact information. They will research this matter and assist.

Regards,
Nicole
GE Capital

I am DebtorBasher. The queen of my3cents. I am astonished at all the childish behavior that goes on here. I want you people to cut it out now. If you don't, I will report you to elfkin, the site administrator.

You didn't say that in your original post..

Did you ask if you can bring it to the store closest to you?

When you paid for it, didn't you notice you were paying too much?

Why don't you bring the receipt the next time you go to Walmart which is 3 times a week..

Walmart and the Chinese? Lol. You are funny.

Stop buying bad produce. If it is bad when you buy it then you are the stupid one. If it turned bad in your home then you should not be able to return it. You kept it too long.

Stopping you to check your receipt or bag is not illegal. Whoever told you that is also stupid.

Well you should fit in with the rest of the higher ups in walmart here, sounds to me you expect a lot from someone who is making at least 3.00 less an hour than they would in California, I too am from California and hate it here, there is no middle class you are either rich or poor here, they tax you for everything and fine you for anything they can. It is not the people here, I find them to be the nicest, but Bentonville Ar is more expensive to live than northern California, and they can keep walmart, I hate them, I feel I am forced to shop there, any other places, harps price cutters, price gouge you and look like welfare stores, I am rooting for Target and praying for Costco, with the cost of living so high and the wages so low, I don't expect anything more from people who are doing me a favor and waiting on me, I would love to go back to California but now am to broke, you should go back, I bet you anything your from the orange county area, am I right, can you say OC Housewife, leave your attitude, your the only one who should have had a complaint made against them and asked to leave

Ok, sorry for my lack of comprehension.

Jedi, what complaint did you read? Nowhere does the OP mention a man trying to scam a cashier.

Even when you are standing up to people you have to be careful first born triplet. You never know what kind of nutcase you are dealing with. This lady had a child with her and she was in a retail store. She saw this man verbally abusing and trying to scam a cashier. She stood up for the cashier and in turn the man who was abusing the cashier told her to mind her own business or he would drag her son to the washroom and rape him.

You make a good point, in theory. However, you make the assumption that condemning her on this website forum is an equivalent grievance to her in-person behavior toward another person. Logically fallible assumption. Perhaps I shouldn't have used such harsh words, I agree with you there. But I'm afraid I do not share the belief that calling her out on such inexcusable behavior is equivalent to treating another person like garbage when they're servicing you. If we bit our tongues every time instead of standing up for those being mistreated, the people that need to be called out for their behavior would have no reason to stop. That is more inhumane to me than being "nice" to someone who doesn't afford others the same respect.

What is wrong with you? Is this a joke?

You use U-Scan so you don't have to interact with the cashiers, eh? You feel they're beneath you or something? Well, let me tell you something lady - (although, you hardly deserve to be referred to as a "lady") the ONLY measure of an individual's worth as a human being is how well they treat others. Not their job, the size of their bank account, the way they look - nope. It's their humanity. And you seem to lack even a trace amount of it. Your vitriolic, self-entitled arrogance, and smug hatred is disgusting to me.

You did that cashier a favor, I wouldn't want to talk to you either. Please continue to use U-Scans whenever you can, to spare as many innocent bystanders from your disturbing presence as possible.

But did you find everything you needed at Walmart?

First of all, it is apparent that you feel you are better than the employees because your husband works in the home office of the company. Keep acting like a ### in the store and see how long that lasts.. Really, the cashier tried to talk to you? My goodness woman, that is called being polite and interested in your customers. Most people complain about cashiers being disinterested and not saying anything. If the cashier did not try to talk to you, you would be ### that she was rude. BTW what did your husband say when you told him your story?

It's 9:30 p.m. I don't shop at Wal-Mart, but you can't argue that there are few stores that offer that wide a variety of products at such a late hour (and 24 hours, as you said). But no, they cannot give you specific product information at 9:30 p.m. The customer service girl told you that--the employee who works that department leaves at 6. They keep fewer people on staff at night due to the decrease in sales that the time tends to bring. That leaves you to choose whether to wait and call in the morning, or make the drive and risk them not having the item. This is just a normal, everyday occurance in anyone's life, and truly an example of how entitled a person you are to type up an entire post because you couldn't get a store to confirm stock of a specific type of modeling clay (not super a common item, by the way, not a grocery item) at a inarguably late hour for business. Oh, and your lost modeling clay sale is not enough to pay the salary of someone to work the hobby/craft goods section of a grocery store all night long. Be reasonable.

Sounds like they need to hire more people.Unfortunately, businesses can't seem to afford to pay more people.It's happening everywhere, not just Wal*Mart.I would suggest just going to K*Mart when you can.I know K*Mart isn't open 24 hrs. but it might be cheaper because you will use less gas.Hope it works out for you!

I have been a customer of Wal-Mart for years. I had a prescription transferred so I could pick it up on my lunch break. So I called it in first thing in the morning at 9:00am and told the associate about the transfer and I would be by to pick it up at 12:00pm. She said that would be fine. Then, I called and made sure that it was ready before I came to pick it up. The pharmacist said he had to call the other pharmacy and get the transfer and for me to wait "just like everybody else" because there were other people ahead of me. I told him I had already called first thing in the morning and they'd said they'd have it ready. He says he will do it then. I call back a little later and I am told it is all ready for me to pick up. I went to the pharmacy to pick up the prescription. I stood in line for 15 minutes while the only clerk looked for peoples prescriptions; walking in circles and taking an extreme amount of time on each person. While the clerk had already been looking for the order for the lady in front of me for quite some time, I told her that my prescription was ready and could I get it? She said "NO, You have to wait your turn!" Then she stood there doing nothing, waiting for someone to bring her the first ladies prescription. Finally, she asks the first lady to step aside while they locate it. Now it is my turn and I ask for my prescription. She proceeds to go through the whole ordeal of finding my supposed "ready" prescription. I leaned over to see her looking through random piles of prescriptions for the third time and told her my prescription was done; I had already checked. Then the pharmacist ( Vincent Collin) comes down and proceeds to tell me (in front of the whole store) that I had to wait my turn like everybody else and I needed to get in line. I told him it was my turn and I was next in line. Then he tells me "Who do you think you are? You can't talk to me like that." I told him he shouldn't speak to customers that way and I just wanted my medicine and to get out of there. He says to the line of people behind me " Does anyone mind if this lady cuts in front of you?" Angry and humiliated now, I tell him again "I am next in line!" He says I can't have my medicine and to go somewhere else. A woman in line responds to him saying I have over 5 items to be checked out. I have about 10 small items, candy and such. It was never a problem before and I didn't see any sign indicating that was the rule. They refuse to ring up my purchases. I have to ask the pharmacist please several times can I just have my medicine? He is standing there with my medication in his hand. He says "NO! You have to calm down you should go somewhere else!" He said he was the manager and he did not want me to come back. Finally, after I don't leave the counter, he let's the clerk ring up the prescription and walks off.

went to buy lcd tv and was sent from martinsville store to danville store no stock they said but 6 in danville virginia and when we got ther 45 minutes drive later they tell us yes they have six but they are out for repair and the manager was the 1 telling us this now that makes me think walmart is selling refurbished items as new is that fair to the consumer NO . the manager argued with us about this for an hour and will i shop in walmart again NO . How would you feel if you where there . It was the worst experience I have ever gone through . And the managers seem to not understand CUSTOMER SERVICE OR CUSTOMER RESPECT . i would never think of treating anyone like this EVER

I think this youtube video says it all!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktg7Dfwn-Yg

we were in the deptford walmart and being i am on wic and 81/2 months pregant handed the cashier Tom op#[protected] was very rude and apparently was not faminular with the wic system. I even showed him what i could get and still argued with me about it. One of the checks had 36oz of ceral and took one box of ceral away and said i couldn't get that mind you i only had one box of 12oz. After i was done i found and supervisor in the front end she got the wic check and rerang it. I feel that i was treated unfairly by the cashier Tom.

Watch the charges to your credit & debit cards. The cahrged mine 3+ times and kept telling me to swipe again because it didn't go through.
It went through every time! My bank could reverse the credit purchases but when they had me do it as debit the money came right out of my account and couldn't be put back.

My wife, two children and i went into the altoona walmart to spend a little income tax money, ...well alot of income tax money. we went to the electronics department and looked at a very nice toshiba satelite. Went to the customer service desk and asked for help. The silly man came over with some sort of gun, scanned the product we wanted and just walked away, ...no "ill be right back" or even "ill get a manager to help you in a minute" he just walked off...I realize walmart hires "less fortunate" folks but when they are in a customer service environment, at least train them to do customer service...anyway...my wife and two children wait in the small aisle for 10 mins...finally the less patient of the two of us, myself...walks up to the silly man and asked if we can get the laptop and go...he says "you need a manager and i dont know how long its gonna be, you just need to wait here". After feeling the blood rush to my head, and knowing the man is "less fortunate", I kindly ask him if we can shop around in a different area while we wait and you can call for us over the intercom..."im not allowed to use that, you'll just have too wait in the aisle" So we do, waiting and waiting for a half an hour with a 6 year old and a 3 year old, who by this time are getting EXTREMELY impatient, FINALLY "less fortunate" comes back and unlocks the case himself...?... and takes it to the desk for us to pay.

my "beef" is if im gonna spend close to 600 dollars in this department...dont you want to treat me a little better?
If it werent for my wife wanting that exact laptop, we would have taken our business elsewhere.

http://www.walmarI ordered Lighting McQueen 6V four wheeler for my grandson on walmart.com, as I was leaving GA heading out for a 6 hour drive to KY I stopped by my LOCAL Walmart to pick up my order, after waiting 20 or so minutes someone FINALLY showed up at the counter. She tries to pull up my order and says that the order is not there, NO explanation, just that it wasnt there, I told her that she needed to find someone that could explain to me why my order wasnt there, and that "It's just not here" a few miutes later a manager came out only to tell me that there is no record of my order. They told me that I needed to pull up the order on my email for proof of purchase. They then said they would call corporate to find out where my order was. Keep in mind that I have a 6 hour drive ahead of me, and this present was for my grandson's 1st birthday, they come back to tell me that my order is at a Walmart that I have NO idea of the location, needless to say by this point I am very upset, 1st: why would I place an order to a Walmart that I have no idea where it is, 2nd: the gift was for my grandsons 1st birthday, 3rd I had a very long drive ahead of me, 4th: The customer service was appalling they could have cared less about my situation. I asked to call corporate, the manager, acting manager, looks me in the face and spits out a number I told her that my phone was dead where they made me pull up my email and I needed to use the store phone, she looked at me as if I had 4 eyes. I begged them to help me and they would do NOTHING although they did in fact the item in the store, they said all i could do was repurchase the item in the store, and wait 3 days for the return of my online order, I do not have $60 to pay twice, I explained to them that i had a tank full of gas and enough money in my pocket to pay for gas to KY and back home, and to buy my grandbabies birthday cake, and that I didnt have $60 to buy the same item. They basically just stood there and looked at me..i went to the customer service counter and asked to call corporate, they did not hesitate to take me to the phone and then give me the number to dial. I live .6 miles from the Chastain Meadows location and I will never return to that store, i realize that me as a person will not effect the overall $$$$ amount of income coming into the store, but I will tell everyone that i know how bad the service is at this location. My order should have not been sent to the location that it was but I found the store thank to my friend I picked up the car and was on my way to see my grandson. My experience at the atual location that I picked up my order was great, the experience at the Chastain Meadows, Kennesaw, GA location was horriblet.com

I had unhappy experience with the cashier at Wal-Mart store #5091 (Receipt ID #:7CL2KV1S4267).
After checking out, I took several additional plastic bags. The cashier stopped me and said to me "You should ask me first. You are stealing bags". Then I asked him "Can I have some additional bags". The cashier replied to me "No. Policy doesn't allow that". I went to customer service to find manager. Surprisingly, the manager was the one who stood there, observed everything and did nothing. This makes me even more unset.

Because customers take items by themselves, Wal-Mart should have a sign to ask customers not taking additional bags.
Wal-Mart should train the cashiers and managers how to deal with the situation instead of accusing customer "stealing bags".

Customer service at the Colby, Ks Walmart is horrible. You cannot find any one in the store who will say "How can I help you?' When you ask for help in an area they will say that is not my area and call on their walkie talkie for help but no one ever shows up to help you or they will use the intercom system and page customer service to that area, but no one ever shows up.You can ask five different employees and get the exact same response. But I am sure that if you were to mix your own paint, get your own photo's or jewlery from behind the counter there would be a rapid response!

On Black Friday I did my xmas purchase online. Via email they notified me that my purchase was in I waited for 1 half hour when someone assisted me with my order they bring out a box I ask that it be opened prior to me taking home. When the box was opened came to find out there was a $20 plastic toy instead of the Laptop and case that I had ordered. Then they begin to look for it in the meantime the girl that was assisting me left TO LUNCH and leaving me there when someone else comes out I ask what had happened where is my order? They scramble around looking for it again they come back an hour later and tell me my package was given to someone else a day ago, they stated that I would have to wait for the customer to come back with my order 2HOURS later someone else comes out and tells me if I look for it in electronics that I could bring it back there and take that... I DID MY SHOPPING ONLINE FOR THAT ONE REASON DID NOT WANT TO SHOP AT THE STORE. I called customer service but still to no avail 1 hour later a female assistant store manager comes out and tries to tell me to pick something else which I did not want anything they had at the store (again wasting my time) in the meantime an elder man came thru with a packing and just by coincidence I asked him if he that package was given to him by accident he stated it had. And surely that was my laptop.

I was irate the Assistant store manager would think that my time was worth $20? she hands over a gift card that was an insult to that 20 dollars was worth my 3 1half hour wait at the store.

Unfortunately this happens in every walmart store as young people are yelled at, grabbed and disciplined in manners that are in- conceivable. and they get away with it as too many people are too afraid to stand up to them, why i am not quite sure as hopefully when other retailers come to Canada this will silence and humble walmart from running wild in Canada.

Beware. Diabetics buying $4 Metformin extended release at Walmart may have an issue with the drug company that supplies Walmart.
If your blood sugars are not coming down or are hard to control, it could be because the generic Metformin pill has too much corn flour content around the drug.
This can make the drug ineffective or digestive incompatible with food intake!
Get your store manager to ask Bentonville to advise what drug company manufactures generic Metformin for Walmart to determine whether it is one or a dozen companies, so this concern can be discovered as fact or not.

Did your child have brain damage before he got in the cart or did he suffer brain damage when his head hit the concrete floor?

That may have been the case in the past, but it seems that they have upped their game. I purchased a set of slipcovers and they never arrived. I contacted walmart.com via chat and the representative said they had been delivered but since I hadn't received them it was possible that was a mistake and they had been lost during shipping. She offered me a my choice of either a full refund or replacement. I opted for the refund simply because I wanted to get the slipcovers asap as the were supposed to have been delivered the previous week.
The representative processed the refund and it was credited to me the next day!

Someone went into my Walmart account on line and ordered some kind of xbox membership.
as soon as I found out about this which was about 7 hours after the purchase I contact Walmart. They refused to refund my money. Please beware Walmart has an unsecure site, do not store payment options.

My experience with wallmart was positive. I ordered something precious from wallmart and fedex left the package at my door in 5 inch snow. Somebody took the package or the delivery guy never left the package. When I found out that my package is missing, I contacted wallmart and they sent me replacement at no cost! I got my replacement package today. I am really glad and I recommend wallmart. My experience says that Wallmart is a very responsible merchant. Do not hesitate to buy anything from Wallmart, you will get your item, one way or another.

You have no right accusing a cashier of hitting your child, and risk getting her fired

I really hope this person was a troll. I don't work at Walmart, but I do work in retail and I have to work checkouts too. I can tell you that uncontrollable/undisciplined children can be very annoying, but I am normally more frustrated with the parents then I am with the children. Small kids like that have to be conditioned to act respectful in public.

If the Original Poster is not a troll, then she is a very self-absorbed and dangerous person to cross paths with. Not only is she harming her children by denying them crucial social behavioral skills, but it also sounds as though she will stop at nothing to insure that her own sick sense of "justice" is carried out regardless of circumstance. Consider this: Lets assume you are right (which I think you are wrong here), and the cashier turned the carousel purposefully and intentionally caused your child to drop her piece of chicken. Does this really constitute calling the cashier a "Child Beater"? I mean, it sounds to me like the child was unharmed, and if anything at all was hit, it was the chicken, not the kid. In fact, the child was so unphased by the incident, that the whole thing would have escaped your watchful eye had it not been for the precious piece of chicken that laid ruined on the floor. If the cashier did this on purpose, then I might go as far as calling her a jerk, but to be fair I think we have all been a jerk at some point in time. You don't know what kind of mood she was in after standing there all day having to put up with an untold number of people just like yourself who have debilitatingly limited perspective on reality.

But what really burns me up is that you tried getting this person fired from her job. I'm not sure what part of the country you live in, but most places are still experiencing economic turmoil. Employees at Walmart are not payed a whole lot, and I'm sure this cashier, like most Americans today, is struggling from paycheck to paycheck just to make end's meet. When you lose your job due to a violation of company policy, most states will not allow you to draw unemployment, and most cashiers at Walmart are probably working at Walmart because there are not a lot of options left for employment. I'm not sure that job is at the top of anyone's list of desired careers. When you take it upon yourself to get someone fired just because on one occasion they rub you the wrong way it shows that you are so desperate to get the last laugh or that you are so grudgeful you are willing to DESTROY another human beings LIVELIHOOD.

Even if the cashier was having a ### day and decided to knock your kid's piece of chicken from her hand with the bagging carousel I do not believe this is something that warrants your actions. Maybe you have it lucky and don't have to work a difficult job and don't realize what working Americans have to deal with on a daily basis, especially when working with the public. That cashier might have been a single mother working at Walmart to provide for HER 3-year old. Maybe she was a college student working her way through school so she doesn't have to work at Walmart for the rest of her life. Or maybe she was just an average Jane, who needed that paycheck this week that you made an effort to deny her, to pay her rent this month so she isn't thrown out on the street.

By the way, if you tried to sue Walmart for having merchandise sitting in the floors of the isles you'd be laughed out of the courtroom. As long as there is room for a reasonable/normal person to operate a shopping cart then Walmart is at no liability. At one point during the trial, probably rather close to its beginning, the judge would ask you why a 3-year old was attempting to operate a shopping cart anyways. Its probably twice her height and therefor could not possibly operated safely in ANY circumstance. The judge might go on to remind you that shopping carts are not complimentary toys that Walmart offers to all children, and that Walmart is not a playground. THEN, if as a society as a whole, we are lucky, someone will report YOU to the Department of Children Services for being a negligent parent by allowing your 3-year old to operate a piece of machinery designed for an adult without supervision leading to the child sustaining an injury. It would indeed suck to get a taste of your own medicine, but I'll tell you one thing. If you travel through life leaving a trail of pissed off people in your wake, you will eventually get a taste of what its like to be on the business end of another person's wrathful vengeance.

OMG is this person for real. Lady (term is used loosely) . Do you have any idea how irritating it is when a child is climbing on things like a monkey and running around? I am ready to pull my hair out when I clock out of walmart at the end of my shift on most days. Also a grown person should not call another child a "###". But then it takes one to know one and YOU are the one that is abusing your children. God help them when they get older there gonna get there ### kicked. Are you raising them in the jungle with no social skills and no manners or are you guys just trashy. People this is the generation that's gonna run our country on day and we are in a big enough mess with who's running it now...
GODS HELP US PLEASE

Also your kids are probably gonna be in and out of the prison system through out there life. Some people should not be able to have children and be fixed right away.

Sarah Megan Flauta
Aka Sarah Megan Grodsky
1324 Lambert Cir.
Lafayette, CO 80026

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Troll or not unfortunately there are parents like this who think their child can do no wrong. Who always make excuses for their child's behavior. Who blame someone else, other children, teachers, Scout leaders, for being "mean" to their child causing the child to act up.

The child is not too stupid to control herself. The child is not to blame here. She is only three years old. The child is not stupid. She is just being a three year old. However the mother needs to be a parent and control her child. It is the mother who is "stupid" and not in control. I mean if she made an effort to control her child that would be a different story. However she just lets her child do whatever she pleases hopefully it won't cause her daughter to get seriously injured or killed.

your child got in the way of someone trying to do his work. you have got to be the DUMBEST most IDIOTIC person to ever. Get your STUPID child under control, you ###.

you sound like the kind of person who spoils the crap out of her child and lets them get away with ###ing murder. heaven forbid this underpaid, poor sob accidently bump into your ADHD child. if your so damn terrified of your stupid kid getting hurt, then don't take her places, because she's obviously too stupid to control herself.

If you really felt someone put hands on your child, why didn't you call the police?

I call shenanigans.

Before you go saying I have no idea of how to deal with a rambitious three year old. I have triplets. They are ten now and I too had to deal with taking them shopping while they were bored. I was a single father at this time. If they were misbehaving I firmly told them no. If they did not listen the first time I told them that if I had to repeat my order they would get a spanking. Thankfully it did not come to that often where I had to spank them.

Yeah you posted the exact same complaint on pissedconsumer. The thing is you have to sometimes tell you child. "no" and "stop". You cannot let your children do what they want to do. You have to be firm with them and not allow them to run around the store. What if while your daughter was running around the aisles and got hit by a buggy or ran into something? You have to tell your daughter firmly to stop what she is doing and explain to her that she could get hurt.

I have been to this store for years, I will rethink and go to Target from now on. One of the managers (African American) woman, I saw her jump an employee in front of all the customers on the floor, because she answered a question for a customer. She told her she is NOT allowed to speak to customers. I worked at Walmart and we were told "you better not ignore customers, if they ask for something dont just tell them where it is show them and be polite" This woman talked to that poor girl like she was total dog ###. We then came back and this SAME manager jumped another girl and when the manager walked away she passed our group and said"honky b". The store manager Angela did NOTHING and come to find out this African American manager has been complained about SEVERAL times. This one girl I found out is a bit slow and has a mental disability, I will be going back and urging this worker to file discrimination charges on this woman and Walmart, and I WILL go to court for her and tell them what I saw. This ungrasteful, biggoted, racisted manager is allowed to still have a job, go ask for LINDA in lake jackson walmart shes the one.

Anyone else notice this from the OP:
" I knew that if i took my son to the store with me my quick trip would take longer because I would have to watch him" in the complaint and one day later: "Learn how to read, I am saying I had no idea my son was in the car."

I'm just curious how you went from knowing that if you took your son in you would have to watch him (God forbid a parent does that) to thinking he wasn't even there to begin with. Personally, I wouldn't have went to the front desk, I would have called the cops while standing next to your car.

veganchica, YOU are a horrible parent. If you think leaving a in a locked car is okay, then you deserve to be trolled and harassed by any police officer in the world!

An idiot's born every minute, so other people born at the same time you were born are off the hook. Any number of tragedies can befall a three-year-old left alone in a vehicle. A child can choke to death. A child can work himself into a crying frenzy, vomit, and then aspirate the vomit. You are one of those people who leaves a child in harms' way and then stands in front of the microphones saying, "Please...Please...If you have my son just send him home safely." OMFG!

You have got to be the dumbest person I ever heard. You are stupid for leaving your 3 year old in a car! What if he opened the door? You should have been arrested. Your right, I would like to know that police officers badge number. You should have been arrested and your kid needs to go to an orphanage where someone will watch and care for him! That officer should be fired for not arresting you. What is the world coming to? All these stupid criminals plead a stupid case and want sympathy for their ignorant actions! Yes you are a criminal and you should be arrested.

If anything would have happened to your kid You would be in jail for a long time. I can tell your mammie did not teach you anything either!

BTW, my 'attitude towards the Complaint' should have been "DISAGREE" (that's what I checked - I don't know why it's showing 'Agree'). I kindly and thoughtfully DISAGREE. :-)

Oh, and please excuse the half-dozen or so typo's … I hope you can move past them and get my meaning regardless. Sorry!

-- Beach Mom

Dear VeganChica81: I too am a single parent and have been in the same situation that you described so *many* times I've lost count. My ExH & I divorced fairly soon after I became a parent, but he was never around/available even when we were married (& his lack of physical, emotional or financial support only INcreased as the years have passed) and I can tell you that 'Girl, I KNOW how unbelievably HARD it is to be a TRUE Single Parent (the Ex Spouse/Parent isn't around/doesn't help; no family or grandparents to pitch in, no 'Significant Other' to share the load or at least be another BODY around, much less Responsible Adult). I've been a TRULY Single Mom for over 14 years and although I know a number of other 'Single Parents', who are overcoming obstacles at every turn, I have other friends who are Truly Single Parents like myself and although each group is rarely (if ever) distinguished from one other - even by the members themselves - we couldn't be MORE DIFFERENT, nor can the Single Parents (who have, and *Heavily* utilize, their SUPPORT Systems) relate - AT ALL - to the plight of the Truly SINGLE Parent who doesn't have the Support System that these other Single Parents take for granted. The Support System that never enters the mind of those who have an Ex-Spouse who co-parents, takes visitation (the ONLY time you can "Punch Out" your Parenting Time Card) or actually SPEAKS to you; GRANDPARENTS (nearby/in town) who are the next best thing the child's Actual Parents; extended Family who are the next best thing to grandparents; a Trusted & Reliable Sitter old enough to drive & take on tasks normally done by you or to fill-in when you're 'deathly' ill; or even a 'Significant Other', just to enable an errand to be done or watch the child in the tub so that you can go be sick in the commode like a civilized person who has the Flu (which you caught from the kids after nearly a week with no rest or actual sleep, doing your best 'Florence Nightingale' impersonation) …. and that's just the 'cream of the crop' of the "Single Parent Support System" that separates the 'harried from the keeping-it-together', the 'downtrodden from the overcomers' and those who are 'doing it' as opposed to having it 'done to them'.

I just want to make it CLEAR to VeganChica81 and all who read this that there really are two different classes of single parents (and former socio-economic status has ZERO bearing to which class a single parent will belong) and for those of us thrown into the abyss of Truly Single Parenthood, we are NEVER "Off Duty". We work 24 hours, 7 days a week and most of the time, it feels like more (ha-ha, but true). We are over-worked, over-tired, over-stressed, overwhelmed, over-obligated, over-loaded and always in 'overdrive'. We are under-paid, under-appreciated, under-loved and definitely mis-UNDER-stood! Single Parenthood has become so commonplace in the day and age that no one stops to think anymore, "How is she/he doing it all alone?" "How is she/he taking on all the responsibilities, obligations, tasks and wage earning that was previously being done by TWO people?" I can tell you: if they are overcoming/succeeding/coming through unscathed mentally & physically, they are leaning on others. This can range from one to many; from just another body there - which is a Huge help all on its own, to forming a patchwork system of support in multiple areas, all the way to pulling out the "big guns": partnering with another for income, housing, parenting or all of the above - a replacement spouse or family. If they don't have access to any of this - or are averse to such choices (for various reasons) - then they are like me and VeganChica81 and many others whose plight is, in my opinion, quite deliberately IGNORED by everyone from the mainstream media, the public at large, neighbors, social acquaintances, friends and yes, even their own FAMILY. Truly Single Parents like us do NOT have the LUXURY of choices MOST of the time (or, if we do, none of those choices is very positive or inviting).

Truly Single Parents find themselves in situations like the one VeganChica81 related that happened to her at Walmart. I know. I've been there. I've run into the Gas Station to pay for gas when the pump wouldn't work because I could watch my child, strapped in her car seat the ENTIRE time and doing so would take 3 minutes max, whereas going through the entire process of taking her out, waking her up, having her scream and cry, using ONE hand to dig through my bag to pay AND scariest of all, the whole time feeling (and truly being) Vulnerable to being robbed, car-jacked or worse.

But if you start that, you'll do it again. And again. When you're a Truly Single Parent these situations DO NOT STOP HAPPENING … and then your child gets older, or the weather gets a bit warmer, or you lock your keys in the car because you were up all night with a sick child and you're bleary-eyed … and something happens….something BAD.

There's a reason that leaving a child unattended is against the law. Too many things can go wrong. They WILL go wrong. It's rare they don't and those 'good' outcomes only lull you to sleep so that you'll do it again and the chances for disaster increase to near certainty.

I spent a LONG time on this post to (hopefully) provide some insight and understanding into WHY any mother, this mother (VeganChica81) would leave their child in the car to run into a store "for just a minute". Please, please stop berating her. I know you didn't understand before …. hopefully, now you have more sympathy for her plight and what brought her to that decision.

But as a mother who has lived this HARD and very LONELY life of Truly Single Parenthood (though hardly anyone would know - I always put a good face on it and it has taught me the most important lessons I never could've learned otherwise -- to learn on the Lord as truly my Savior and My Father - a girl needs her Daddy, always, and especially when things get hard), I hope I can pass on to you, VeganChica81 the hard-won lessons I've learned … and this 'just running into the store thing' (that I know so well), will ONLY have a BAD outcome. Look for a different choice. Look hard. It's not an option.

Finally, help another Truly Single Parent out -- giving to them will help YOU more than you could ever imagine.

May the Lord Meet All of Your Needs and may you truly Know Him,
BeachMom

Why are you getting upset with the comments u received and calling us names for judging you for what you did.! Your the one that posted on your parenting skills for every one to see .! So now then, .! Who is the IDIOT.!?

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I can't see where you thought leaving your child unattended in a car while you went in for a few minutes was right...Any number of things could have gone wrong regardless of whether the doors were locked or not, you just dont do that to one of your kids...Sounds like someone needs to take a parenting class cause i will be the first to say that if that had happened where i live you wouldn't have your child or your freedom...

You are an idiot wrapped in a ###, sadly you can't fix stupid!

Cancer patient. Two years. Same meds same WalMart Phamacy in Indialantic FL. End of year. . Made special trip to dr's office for refills under new law. Ativan and Hydrocodone/apap. Brought to drop off window. Said I wanted Ativan filled but would keep Hydrocodone scrip for another time since I didn't need it. Lady told me she would keep it on file or enter it and all I would have to do is call for the hydrocodone pain pill prescription to be filled. So last week I went to the pharmacy while I was in the store to order that prescription dated end of December - refilled. . Girl at desk said no such prescription. And they were 'not allowed' to keep those prescriptions on file. And so basically I was wrong and no such prescription existed. HAH. She called druggist over and he basically repeated the same story. That it didn't happen. They saw in their computer the Ativan prescription, filled on January 2, 2015 and my past two years history of using these drugs regularly (single cell carcinoma patient). I told him I had NO REASON to lie about it. And that that 'girl' did take both of my prescriptions the same day but only entered and filled one. . What she did with the hydrocodone prescription has become pretty obvious after reading some of the stories on this. page. I think someone got 90 hydrocodone pills somehow with my prescription. . I had no dog in this race. I have new prescriptions under the new law already. But ya know? At some point they're going to get caught. I also have been given the 'story' many times that they didn't 'have enough' cough syrup to fill my prescript so I only got half, and never got the other half. Scam City here I'm thinking. I really want to make this public and will probably report it to Headquarters somehow but this is a public forum and I hope it will help, although I don't see any very recent entries. Thanks for the opportunity to say my piece.

I Mark Freed went to Walmart Super Center theis last Monday thee 7the of January 2013. I went theere to get a new wick for my kerosene burner theat I had previously bought theere a little over a year ago. I went in and approached thee isle of kerosene burners and such. I did not see replacement wicks anywheree. I proceeded to look for a clerk. I happened to spot a gentleman. I asked him if theey had replacement wicks for kerosene burners. while walking away from me in anotheer direction thee clerk responded if we have theem theey are in thee isle withe thee kerosene burners and thee man kept walking. I figured as much as he said. I went back to thee kerosene isle and did not see any replacement wicks like before when I was just in thee isle. I looked for anotheer sales clerk and found one in thee paint department near by and asked him if theey had replacement wicks for kerosene burners. He actually looked at me unlike thee otheer clerk and responded theat he did not know if theey had any but a gentleman came in thee day before to get one and he had took him to thee kerosene isle and theat all thee hooks where thee wicks are kept were empty and did not know if theey had got any in. I went to thee kerosene isle again now for thee theird time by myself and did find thee hooks theat thee clerk was talking about and theey were all empty. They did not have one replacement wick. There must of been five to six hooks and theey were all empty. Withe thee busy lives we live, thee gas prices, and economy I was very upset theat I had come all theis way just to get a simple replacement wick and theey were totally out of all replacement wicks. They have plenty of TVs, cameras, video games and all sorts of otheer products but no replacement wicks. In thee winter season not a one. They have a huge storage space in thee back of thee store for back-up storage and non to replenish thee isle when thee replacement wicks are out. This Walmart so called Super-center. As if no one in charge of ordering could do proper inventory and order more product so theat theey never run out. To me theis day theere was notheing super about theis store. Now I am out my time and gas money. Now I still need a replacement wick. This is also not thee first time I have been to theis store looking to buy sometheing I need and theey were out of a item withe no back-up merchandise in thee back eitheer. Once again I am very upset and frustrated. Out my time and money is all I can think off!

Im shure theres a sign somewhere usually the lightpolls that says were not responsible for damage in parking lot.
Almost any place you go is like that its standard

I don't believe it has anything to do with whether or not you're a loyal customer. Most stores, grocery stores at least, post signs at the store entrances and where the carts are collected in the parking lot stating that they aren't responsible for any damage caused by carts. The security chick could tell you the store would pay you a million bucks, but her word means nothing unfortunately.