San Xavier Beat
June 10, 3:37 p.m.
A woman randomly took her personal problems out on an unfortunate female convenience-store clerk—screaming, throwing things and even pulling out the clerk’s hair, a PCSD report stated.
A deputy responded to the southwest-side store and met with two women clerks, who said a small, tattooed Caucasian female had just tried to buy a pack of Newports, but her ID card had expired, so the first clerk (who was serving her) couldn’t let her buy them. In response, both reportees said, the woman suddenly lost control, loudly cussing at the first clerk and reaching over the counter to grab her hair, some of which she did manage to yank out. Then the woman allegedly went around the sales counter to pick up a sizable credit card display and hurled it at both clerks, sending cards flying at them and spewing them all over the floor.
The clerks said the woman then got into a silver car and sped away.
Another deputy was able to get the car’s license-plate number from a photograph taken by the clerks, and located the subject through her boyfriend (who owned and had been driving the car). The woman said she’d been upset that day over a child-support issue, which “kind of set her off.”
She was cited and released for criminal damage and assault.
This article appears in Aug 4-10, 2016.
I may be on your Police Dispatch next week. TPD may be looking for me after the manager of the Pet Club Tucson told me to “GET OUT OF MY STORE!”, and called the police when I refused to do so.
At 9:15 this morning, I had just enough time to stop there and pick up a bag of dog food before meeting friends for breakfast at Robert’s. I’ve been buying her food there or at the Broadway store for years because Wonderdog has allergies and needs grain-free (read: expensive) food and I’m kind of locked into buying it from PC because after you buy 10 bags, your 11th bag is free, and I’m into my 6th bag an the way to my free one.
I brought the bag of AvoDerm up to the counter, held out my $60.00 cash and the cashier asked me for my name. I told him, “No, it’s OK. I’m paying cash.” He said he still needs my name for “the system”, but I told him again that I’m paying cash and I’ll just hang onto the receipt for when I bring the others in to get my free bag. He said something like it doesn’t work that way ( despite my doing it that way for YEARS!) and, again, I told him I’m just paying cash. He refused, at which point I said loudly, “This is fucking BULLSHIT!”, at which time he made the managerial decision to insist that I leave.
(If you don’t believe any of this, there’s a camera right above the entrance door for just such situations when we ‘troublemakers’ want to spend cash at Pet Club.)
So what does a person do here, except to say, “No.” That was the point at which he said he’ll call the police and have me ejected. Now, I don’t know if he did actually call them, but he appeared to be talking to somebody who was asking him questions about the situation and about me. (I helped him with my correct age when he estimated too low.)
After some verbal badinage between me and 3 employees, I simply ran out of time in order to get to my appointment on time, and decided to leave, with the manager calling me a coward several times for not engaging him in a fight. (REALLY- this is all on their video!) He even followed me outside, calling me a coward again and recording me and my license plate.
Good for him. Businesses are entitled to set rules and if you want to refuse to comply they are within their rights to refuse you service. And that type of language has no place in society. Had you been reasonable they could have explained the benefits afforded you through their computerized history software.
No, a cash paying customer should not have to give their name. If I owned that business, those 3 would be fired.
They should’ve explained that you cannot get the free bag if you do not participate, accepted the cash payment, sold you the food and moved on. If you wanted to not participate the only consequence should’ve been losing out on the free bag. The fact that you have done it one way in the past does not preclude the business from changing the way they operate, especially when it comes to free bags of food, which they probably have had issues with people gaming them on.
I suspect your role in this escalation was probably more than what you write, cameras usually do not capture audio so the cameras won’t prove anything in any way. In the end it is 3 employees word against yours. Comport yourself better in the future and recognize that if you do not agree with their business strategy ask kindly for a manager to explain the changes to you or you can take your business elsewhere. Fighting with low wage employees makes you the ass.