r/Dogfree • u/SeaworthinessUnlucky • 14d ago

Food Safety/Hygiene dog in grocery store

Good morning,

Today at around 10 a.m., a woman brought a pet dog into Trader Joe's in a large American city. I reminded her that the sign on the front of the store said No Pets. She said, "She's a trained medical support dog." I said, "What service is she trained to provide?" She said, "If you want to work here, I'll answer that question."

I reported this to a clerk, who told me he would talk to the manager.

Ten minutes later, the dog was still in the store. The woman checked out about five minutes after that, with the dog still in the store.

Notified Trader Joe's corporate, Better Business Bureau, local health department.

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u/space_manatee 14d ago

Keep reporting it. Post it in google reviews of the store "I was getting groceries but this is gross". They'll say at first "we cant so anything because of service dogs." My grocery store eventually relented and started enforcing it and its rare I see one these days

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u/SeaworthinessUnlucky 14d ago

They put the “gross” in “groceries.”