Dollar Tree

Store Number - 5628

Store Manager - Chris (Female)

When I arrived at the store, 2pm on June 17,2022, Temperature being 103. I immediately noticed 4 children, (ages 6,4,2, and 1) standing outside the store unsupervised. The 1- and 2-year-old boys were only wearing pants, no shoes, and no shirts. The 4- and 6-year-old girls were dressed in winter looking clothing. I attempted to make contact with the children to ask where their parents were, they did not speak English. I then brought the children inside the foyer of the store, after they were safely inside the store in cooler temperatures, I made contact with the store manager, Chris. I made her aware of what I had just encountered. Chris then proceeded to tell me that she knew the father was inside the store shopping and that it was fine that the children were standing outside the store in 103-degree temperatures and unsupervised. I am still astonished that a store manager would allow this. After I made her aware, how inappropriate it was that she knew about this and was allowing it, I made her aware that I would be contacting the authorities and reporting her inappropriate behavior. After contacting the authorities, I saw the store manager returning with the father of the children. The father took the children and left before the authorities were able to speak with them. During my wait for the police to arrive on scene, I had numerous customers that were leaving the store, stop and thank me for doing something about the children being left unsupervised and in the heat. Many of them made statements about not returning to the store due to the store manager knowingly allowing these children to be neglected. I did make a report with the Fort Worth Police Department.

01/25/2020

Store# 5628
8640 Camp Bowie W. Blvd
Fort Worth TX 76116-6102

Employee name was Sam

Today I went to Dollar Tree at 7:40 am to stand outside the door to wait on the store to open at 8 am. I went to Dollar Tree to purchase the Early Sunday Edition Fort Worth Star Telegram newspaper. It was about 15 other ladies waiting outside the store, when the doors opened everyone went to where the papers are normally kept just to find out that the workers seat the newspapers in a different location. The sales of the papers on lasted thru the first 5 customer, One customer walked in the store and went straight to front office and an employee with a name tag on that read Sam personally handed that customer about 10 newspapers. A few minutes later another customer walked up to Sam and asked if she had newspapers for her, Sam said "I only have 4 more newspaper and I can give them to you if you like." The customer said " sure I would like the newspapers and next week I will bring you some coffee.

This type of practice is very unethical to get gifts from customer to do favors for them. For example ( keeping newspapers in your office that have not been purchase because a worker have customers that give them gifts for unpaid goods.)

I will contact Fort Worth Star Telegram about this situation.