Dollar General review: Employees smoking in front door of store

Employees have 2 chairs and a table set up on the sidewalk that customers use to get from parking lot to door of store. They sat with their legs out and smoking cigerattes so the customers have to walk over their feet and through the smoke to get to the door or they have to step out in the parking lot to avoid this. I have asked the manager a couple of times to have the employeees move yesterday july 8, 2003 I spoke to her again about this problem and she told me that she had other problems and the only compromise that she would make is to move the employees to the other side of the store (still on sidewalk and close to front door and that I and any one else could just park on the east side of the parking lot if we did not want to walk in smoke. Having said this I agree that employees are entitled to take a break and smoke cigerattes if they so desire, but as a paying customer I feel that I have the right to walk in the store without having to breathe second hand smoke and take a chance on tripping over their feet and legs. I think that they should have a smoking area at the back of the store so as not to interfer with customers. I do not live far enough away from wal-mart, albertsons, and numereous dollar general stores to have to be treated as someone that does not matter to this store manager. I know that I as one customer will not be any problem if she lost my business (and she did) but we are a small community and word gets around. I have a video showing but it is longer than you will accept and I don't know how to make it shorter