Re: Why I will never shop at Wal Mart again

On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 20:17:11 -0600, "Jerry" <Jerry@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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>"Lawrence Glickman" <Lawrence_Glickman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:83c9r1d9lh6rgk419hqt7065f20a47tg9m@xxxxxxxxxx
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>> How about a lawsuit against a store that sold me a broken camera, and
>> then refused to either refund the money or replace the camera because
>> the WRONG camera was in the box ( evidently taken back and *recycled*
>> in the Wal Mart fashion ).
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>> I'm out $210 cash because of these bastards, and yah, I already went
>> to Corporate, the store manager, customer service, the Police, the
>> entire schmere.
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>> When you steal from them, you go to jail.
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>> When they steal from you, they laugh all the way to the bank.
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>> Lg
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>http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=1450350
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>iPod Replaced With Meat
>Unsuspecting Mom Gives Son iPod for Christmas -- Discovers Mystery Meat
>Inside
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>HAWAII, Dec. 29, 2005 - Rachel Cambra couldn't wait to see the look on her
>14-year-old son's face when he opened a very special present on Christmas
>morning.
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>The Mililani, Hawaii, woman had saved up to surprise her son with what he
>wanted most for the holiday, a new Apple iPod with video.
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>Surprised he was, and so was Cambra. When her son opened the box for the
>high-tech toy, he discovered the iPod that should have been there wasn't. It
>had apparently been replaced with some kind of mystery meat.
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>The New Apple iMeat?
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>"He went from joy, really happy joyful," she said, "then to discover this,
>just angry and hurt."
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>Cambra says the box was sealed and that it didn't appear to have been
>tampered with when she brought it home from the Honolulu Wal-Mart where she
>works.
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>She says she had put the iPod on layaway so that she could afford the
>device's hefty $300 price tag.
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>"I know what I went through to get this for him," said an incensed Cambra.
>"To open up and find this? I don't know what to say."
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>"This" appeared to be some kind of sealed fish or meat product, certainly
>not a state-of-the-art MP3 player.
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>Dan Fogleman, a spokesman for Wal-Mart, said it did appear that the package
>was sealed and has contacted Apple about the matter.
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>He says Cambra will be given a new iPod for her son from the very next
>shipment the store receives.
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>No one from Apple was available for comment.
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>KHON2 reporter Tannya Joaquin contributed to this report.
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This *report* is only indicative of a disgruntled employee somewhere
in the supply chain, not Store Policy. My complaint is with Store
Policy, not any individual in particular.

Lg

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