Save-a-Lot in Portland denies mom groceries for 'hungry children' because she could only pay in change: yay or nay?

by tncdel Posted 2011/11/10 03:15:24

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	Yay! [explain].	2 votes	7%
	Nay! [explain].	25 votes	93%

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GeorgiaGirl 2011/11/10 03:51:15

Nay! [explain].

+8
Change is legal tender. The cashier should have been made to count it, or the supervisor. I hope the community boycotts the store.
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kcandi 2011/11/10 17:50:09

Nay! [explain].

If the stores can give us change, they can damn well take it!

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Cricket 2011/11/10 16:03:45

Nay! [explain].

+1
Link is not opening for me. They are idiotically insane to do this to her! All establishments that take cash will take change, even pennies, heck, penny rolls in a lot of cases. I hope she presses this issue!

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wolf sloan 2011/11/10 15:44:11

Nay! [explain].

+2
change is just like real money...for now anyway

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TC 2011/11/10 14:23:38 (edited)

Nay! [explain].

+2
That was wrong legally because it was legal tender and wrong morally too because she was denied a chance to provide her kids with their basic right!

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Blair C 2011/11/10 13:10:30

Nay! [explain].

+1
so your going to starve children b/c your too lazy to count some change?!?!?

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RobHom 2011/11/10 13:06:29

Nay! [explain].

+1
Refusing the change...which is legal tender under our laws...was illegal. Its just that simple. Maybe the crappy store has employees who can't count. I hope the people around there boycott the place!

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tom C 2011/11/10 13:03:18

Nay! [explain].

Most of our grocery stores have a Coinstar in the Store...so whats the big deal??

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tncdel to tom C 2011/11/10 16:55:27

+1
They would have charged her an exorbitant 10% surcharge, THAT's the big deal!

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Lady Whitewolf 2011/11/10 11:36:32

Nay! [explain].

+1
Change is STILL money, fer cryin' out loud!

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Autarchic 2011/11/10 10:31:24

Nay! [explain].

+2
According to law, offer is synonymous with tender! When your offer is refused, the debt is canceled!

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RobHom to Autarchic 2011/11/10 13:03:27

+2
That is correct!!

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tncdel to Autarchic 2011/11/10 16:56:23

+1
So, by law, they owe her the goods she attempted to purchase.

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Autarchic to tncdel 2011/11/10 16:58:34

If she got their refusal in writing.

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Brian Tristan MacQuillan 2011/11/10 08:47:08

Nay! [explain].

+3
Save A Lot caters to this exact demographic, so why would the chain be surprised that someone might pay in change. Save A Lot is not Macy's, and it should have worked something out.

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tncdel to Brian T... 2011/11/10 16:57:14

+1
I think it was just a lazy employee's cop out, not actual corporate policy.

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Brian T... to tncdel 2011/11/10 22:16:28

I bet you are right about that.

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sglmom 2011/11/10 07:44:16

Nay! [explain].

+2
For crying out loud .. it is LEGAL Tender! (sheesh .. and to think that stores are LOOKING for change for their change drawers .. )

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Barbara 2011/11/10 06:09:00

Yay! [explain].

+2
I voted NAY and then the screen jumped on me. What's wrong with change? It's certainly legal tender. Besides, cashiers are always asking supervisors to bring them more change. If it had been my grocery store, I would have given food to the woman to feed her children!

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TheMadChameleon 2011/11/10 04:18:42

Nay! [explain].

+3
Oh hell no.

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Gooky 2011/11/10 04:00:29

Nay! [explain].

+4
If she'd have had food stamps,they would have accepted it.This was legal tender,so is food stamps...if they aren't punished for doing this to that mother,we should boycott them.
I think they owe her a years supply of food for the humiliation!

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Dramha ... to Gooky 2011/11/10 12:41:28

+1
15% of the households are on Food Stamps [SPAR?]. Are you proposing that all those folks boycott the Lot???

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Gooky to Dramha ... 2011/11/10 13:33:15

+1
Maybe everybody should pick a day and come to the store with change,only.What do you suggest?

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GeorgiaGirl 2011/11/10 03:51:15

Nay! [explain].

+8
Change is legal tender. The cashier should have been made to count it, or the supervisor. I hope the community boycotts the store.

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Mark In Irvine 2011/11/10 03:33:43

Nay! [explain].

+5
boo! hiss!

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Dagon 2011/11/10 03:25:25
tncdel to Dagon 2011/11/10 03:33:02

+4
My wife worked a cash register at a store. She told me as long as the count at the end of the day was no more than $2 under or over, the store owner wasn't concerned.

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Dagon to tncdel 2011/11/10 09:48:54
Blair C to Dagon 2011/11/10 13:13:08

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so if the kids start to starve what happens then??

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Dagon to Blair C 2011/11/10 18:59:34
Blair C to Dagon 2011/11/10 23:25:18

you ask "how many kids are starving" but that doesn't even matter. even if its one child it shouldn't have to starve. and yes it is a bit the moms fault as the provider but by not accepting the change you are hurting the kids too!!

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Dagon to Blair C 2011/11/10 23:29:21
Blair C to Dagon 2011/11/10 23:35:58

may I ask why the retailer is not obligated to serve the customer? Is there some rule somewhere that you can't pay in change? If so why do the clerks get to give us change? And even if the retailer isn't obligated there is a little thing called compassion that should be shown.

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Dagon to Blair C 2011/11/10 23:43:06
Blair C to Dagon 2011/11/11 17:06:24

No don't think the world "owes me something" the man doesn't have to serve the customer but it reflects badly on him and the store if he doesn't. So you don't believe in compassion? Well its a virtue and I believe it's an important one. If we can't have compassion for our fellow man, then how are we supposed to get along at all?

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Dagon to Blair C 2011/11/11 19:26:37
Blair C to Dagon 2011/11/11 23:11:34

"a little effort on the part of a customer", could we not flip that and say maybe the retailer could put in a little effort. Though you may understand compassion is it wrong to ask that the retailer uses it too.

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Dagon to Blair C 2011/11/11 23:33:26
Blair C to Dagon 2011/11/11 23:41:48

It was all in quarters!! Its not that hard, all you have to do is take it in groups of four!! Thats just laziness on the retailers part. What does the retailer standing have to do with that anyway?

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Dagon to Blair C 2011/11/12 00:01:09
Blair C to Dagon 2011/11/12 00:06:46

+1
their job isn't that hard for the most part ,and besides it doesn't matter if the are "hardly qualified" they are the ones that accepted the job and besides even if they weren't that good at counting ,they could get the lady to hand them four quarters at a time and the task would have been completed easily!

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