This Just Isn't Right

Hi Everyone,

New York State has a handicap law that provides handicap parking spaces, that are located closest to the store's entrance. Obviously, that makes it easier for people to get into the stores. I have a few older friends who are in need of a motorized cart to be able to shop in larger stores. Home Depot, Loews, Walmart and others offer motorized carts to those in need. The carts are easily accessible, since they are located near the entrances. But do all larger stores have their motorized carts so close to their entrances? You would think so, but the answer is an unfortunate no.

Our local ShopRight grocery store also had their carts located next to their entrance. Someone in ShopRight's management, either local or corporate, thought that the space where the carts used to be located would be more beneficial to the store's bottom line by using that small space to sell more products. So, in their infinite wisdom, the carts were moved to an outside wall located near the furthest cashier from the door. Not only are the carts located too far away, the people who need them must try to walk by customers who are exiting the store. Just getting to them is now difficult to say the least.

Where was management's common sense? Didn't anyone think that moving the carts was a bad idea for the people who need them? Is money so important, that the people who are most in need of a motorized cart are forced to walk a long distance, trying to pass by people leaving the store? This just makes no sense what so ever. Because of their actions, it is very obvious that money is more important to ShopRight then offering motorized carts close to the entrance. If I was I need of a motorized cart, I would certainly tell ShopRight management that the location of the carts is too far away from the entrance and that walking to them through the exiting customers makes it even more difficult. Maybe then ShopRight might reconsider relocating the carts, but unfortunately, I doubt that they will do the right thing. But they should relocate the carts back to the entrance!

Til next week.

Peter