This afternoon at 1:23 p.m., my mother, an elderly woman with heart problems, and I was…read moreaccompanying her to this store. My mother purchased $4 worth of dish brushes with her EBT cash card; she had a $5 balance on her card.
The cashier, a young Asian man named "Angel," swiped her card several times, took it back, saying he wasn't working, and started swiping and looking at the card numbers.
My mother was indignant, saying there was cash on hand and it was impossible for the card to not go through. He asked for other cards to pay, even though the money had already been withdrawn. Another cashier came over and tried to help, but to no avail. They withdrew the money from her card and confiscated the merchandise.
My mom called the store manager, and some inept young woman, dark-skinned but not African, younger than me, approached. She started being rude and insulting, hiding her badge so we wouldn't know who she was, turning the staff against us, discriminating against us because we were white and Jewish, and my mom had a Star of David on her chest.
This pseudo-manager was brazen and arrogant, refusing to talk, yelling at the entire store, waving her arms, calling me a fraud, and trying to shut me up. We called the police, and she and her other cronies laughed, saying they weren't afraid of the police. We waited 40 minutes for the police, but they didn't show up to document the robbery, and they ordered the security guards to delete the CCTV footage and throw us out of the store. The "valiant police," as always, didn't want to do anything, even though several police cars were parked across the street. As a result, we'll have to file a complaint with the prosecutor's office regarding the criminal actions of the store employees and the police's inaction; the prosecutor's office oversees the police.
We tried to let her listen to the transaction, but she brushed us off, refusing to listen and telling the staff not to talk to us. She also started hiding and changing security guards and staff so they'd leave in case the police arrived. But we filmed some of it and have the transaction on our phone. They stole public funds. If these low-intelligence scammers, con artists, and thieves think they'll get away with it, they're mistaken. We'll file a police report against them and provide all the evidence.
They have a whole gang of thieves, some committing the robbery, others covering it up and making excuses. They committed robbery twice - outright theft, stealing money from a card and taking the goods. We hope to meet with the store's management and demand an apology and tough action against the lawbreakers. Criminals should be in prison.
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The next morning, December 10th, we returned to the store, spoke to the manager, and he refunded the money.
The people who had behaved so brazenly and robbed us didn't apologize, but the manager personally returned the money.
There are still honest and decent people out there.