My story and I am sticking to it!
Went to the CVS this morning. First time out shopping in
ages. Walked through the front door, turned to get a basket, NO SHOPPING CART
Where are the shopping carts or baskets? The clerk says, "People stole
them." WHAT?
The manager came rushing over because she thought something
had happened because of my very loud outburst. We explained that I was
surprised that people had stolen all of their baskets. She said, "Ma'am,
we have ordered shopping carts and baskets three times in the past several
months. It takes months to get them and weeks for people to take them. There
are no tracking devices on them, the wheels no longer freeze up, and the days
of the long poles are gone. Thus, people just walk out with the shopping carts
or baskets and KEEP GOING!"
Yep, I was at WOW! Is that what we do now? It is okay to
just take other people's property and inconvenience everyone else, and it is
all right! REALLY! I know we are BETTER THAN THAT. I know that even if we don't
go to church, don't believe in God, have no home training, and have no respect
for others, we have got to know that stealing, i.e., taking something that does
not belong to you, is WRONG.
After listening and talking with the manager of CVS, I
promised to post a request for the return of the shopping carts and baskets and
to share this story on my Facebook pages.
First of all, we need to return the shopping carts and
baskets because they did not belong to whoever took them no matter the reason,
they took them.
Secondly, the seniors, like me, use the shopping carts to
hold us up while walking around the store.
Thirdly, there are other seniors and young people who NEED
them because of physical conditions. Have you ever noticed that there are no
motorized chairs in CVS? Have you seen the number of people on canes or
walkers?
Finally, every time CVS or any other story have to replace
the shopping carts and baskets, the cost of their products also goes up, AND
staff decreases to cover the cost and overhead.
SO HERE IS THE DEAL, if you see a shopping cart or basket,
PLEASE RETURN IT or call our local CVS at Queenstown Shopping Center and let
them know where the shopping cart or basket can be found.
Please talk to your family, friends, and neighbors about
the need for the shopping carts and baskets to remain at the store so that
others may use them.
Finally, report sightings of people pushing those shopping
carts out of the parking lot. We all KNOW THAT THEY DO NOT OWN those shopping
carts. When they take the shopping carts out of the parking lot, they know that
they are stealing, you know that they are stealing, and so does everyone else,
and it is WRONG!
CVS, 3130 Queens Chapel Rd, Hyattsville, MD 20782 -- (301)
864-7177