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<\/p>\nIn Spring, Texas, a woman ran into her local Kroger grocery store to grab a few things and get on with her list of other errands to run.<\/p>\n
However, things didn\u2019t go as simply as she had hoped when she was refused service because she disgusted a particular employee who took one look at the shopper and said that she was sick of people like her.<\/p>\n
Meredith, who didn\u2019t feel comfortable releasing her last name, had checked everything off of her shopping list and headed to the register at the front of the store. As she put her items on the conveyor belt, she soon found out that the cashier at Kroger had no intentions of ringing her up.<\/p>\n
The employee then said that Meredith\u2019s shirt was a slap in the face, and the clerk \u201cwas doing everything she could not to cry.\u201d So, what was so offensive about Meredith\u2019s top? It had a message that read, \u201cPolice Lives Matter,\u201d with the words \u201cAll Lives Matter\u201d underneath.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe made me feel ashamed to have the shirt on and I don\u2019t appreciate that,\u201d Meredith said.<\/p>\n
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Meredith said a teenage cashier stepped away from the checkout line after seeing her shirt. She said she then overheard the girl speaking with a coworker.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was stating that the shirt I had on was basically a slap in the face to her and she was doing everything she could not to cry,\u201d she said. [Source: ABC13]<\/p>\n
This wasn\u2019t the first time Kroger has been accused of turning away a paying customer for the same reason as Meredith was denied service, and like the others before her, she wasn\u2019t going to let it slide because Meredith was wearing her blue t-shirt that simply said, \u201cPolice Lives Matter, All Lives Matter,\u201d for a reason.<\/p>\n
Meredith happens to be a police officer\u2019s wife, and she was showing support for her hero husband who puts his life on the line daily, serving and protecting the \u201coffended\u201d clerk and the other citizens of Spring, Texas. Sadly, the cashier didn\u2019t like what she was advertising and refused to ring her up, regardless of the fact that the employee is not in charge of anything other than running her cash register.<\/p>\n
Right after Meredith left the store, she let others know what happened to her there, including Kimberly Colley who is the executive director of the Blue Bow Foundation, which supports police officers and their families. Colley was disgusted by this employee\u2019s actions, but more so by the complete lack of response on the matter from Kroger.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur husbands risk their lives every single time they put on those uniforms, they\u2019re walking targets and this is the least we can do to show there is support out there,\u201d Colley said, according to KMOV. She added that her non-profit group, which used to support the store has cut off all ties with the retailer.<\/p>\n
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ABC13 reported that \u201cMeredith said she complained to Kroger about the conversation multiple times but hasn\u2019t received a response despite promises her concerns would be addressed.\u201d That mirrors Kroger\u2019s response to the police officer who was refused service. They spoke with her and then never responded.<\/p>\n
Meredith doesn\u2019t want the cashier to be fired, but she doesn\u2019t think that the store should refuse service to somebody over their shirts. [Source: Blue Lives Matter]<\/p>\n
Meredith said, \u201cIt\u2019s important that people in the service industry know that no matter what, if someone walked in with a Black Lives Matter shirt on they needed to still be serviced.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is now at least the second time a Kroger employee is accused of disrespecting either a police officer or their family. A worker at a Louisiana location reportedly refused to serve a female cop, and the store didn\u2019t seem to care when it was brought to their attention.<\/p>\n
Any business that doesn\u2019t support police, especially when they go as far as to kick them or those who support them out of their establishment, doesn\u2019t deserve the protection they rely on from law enforcement when called upon.<\/p>\n
These companies should be blacklisted by police and forced to sort out tense situations for themselves. Maybe after a few weeks of this, as well as a loss of customers who don\u2019t feel safe shopping there, they will learn that the can\u2019t rely on their disgruntled employees or Black Lives Matter to save them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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