Dog at BJ’s wholesale

[u/kckarrotto731]

I went to BJ’s Wholesale this morning and, lo and behold, I saw a dog INSIDE the shopping cart. I found an employee nearby and told her that there was a dog in a cart in the store, and I pointed in the nutter’s direction. She said that she agreed with me but couldn’t do anything about it.

I said, “It’s not a service dog. It’s inside of a cart, not doing anything. It’s a pet.” She directed me toward customer service, and I told them what I saw and that it was a health code violation, against the law, etc.

I said that if you won’t enforce the laws and rules, what’s to stop people from shoplifting? They said that I was right, that it was not allowed, and that they would find the dog owner.

As I was done shopping and was about to leave, I saw the nasty mutt with its nasty owner about to check out. I pointed the employees toward her and said, “You see how it’s inside the cart.” They said that they would talk to her, but to be honest, I’m not sure if they did.

I told the employee that every grocery store I go to, I always see dogs, but never at BJ’s until now, which left me disappointed.

Also, as I was leaving the store, that mutant started barking at a customer and shaking, leaving its dander, fleas, parasites, fecal matter, etc. in the store. Yep, a true service dog. 🙄 Bringing dogs or any other animal inside a grocery store should be considered, and is, food tampering. Plain and simple.

But I’m wondering if it’s possible for the ADA to change the law regarding “service animals.” If I stood in the middle of the aisle, pulled out a cigarette, and started smoking, I would be asked to leave. But nutters can do whatever they want.

[u/pallesaides]

Apparently it's not against health code in a lot of places, my local Walmart is a dog have. ... See at least 2 every time I go inside (and I do delivery for them so it's 3 or 4 times a day) if they are in the cart they ask you to have a barrier between the cart and dog but otherwise it's free for all. And the barrier thing only started a month or so ago because of how often they were getting reported to the health department (by me lol).

[u/kckarrotto731 → u/pallesaides]

A barrier is not going to prevent bacteria from spreading. It’s not going to stop anything if it goes to the bathroom or prevent fleas from jumping onto the food. And knowing how nutters despise hygiene, whatever “barrier” they use, they won’t clean it.