Retail business without public restroom

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Anonymous wrote:On this business’ website, these geniuses state
“The DMV community is #1 for us”
“We are helpful people”
“Inspire yourself”

People browsing get too inspired, relaxed, and the GI tract makes the call. It’s stupid not to allow customers to use the restroom and to complete the pleasant experience.
These geniuses are the same to complain about the economy when sales drop during the peak season. People don’t return to a store where the #1 need is ignored.
There are other garden centers in NoVA where you can have a pleasant experience. Avoid this store in Southern Alexandria.

I will definitely avoid the unnamed store. Unnamed stores are the worst.

NP. I just googled helpful people, inspire yourself, and plants Alexandria. Came right up.

That's a small, employee-owned nursery. So go ahead, send your business to the big box store, and wonder where small businesses went.

I will also mention there is a supermercado behind it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On this business’ website, these geniuses state
“The DMV community is #1 for us”
“We are helpful people”
“Inspire yourself”

People browsing get too inspired, relaxed, and the GI tract makes the call. It’s stupid not to allow customers to use the restroom and to complete the pleasant experience.
These geniuses are the same to complain about the economy when sales drop during the peak season. People don’t return to a store where the #1 need is ignored.
There are other garden centers in NoVA where you can have a pleasant experience. Avoid this store in Southern Alexandria.

JFC. Maybe if you are 2.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On this business’ website, these geniuses state
“The DMV community is #1 for us”
“We are helpful people”
“Inspire yourself”

People browsing get too inspired, relaxed, and the GI tract makes the call. It’s stupid not to allow customers to use the restroom and to complete the pleasant experience.
These geniuses are the same to complain about the economy when sales drop during the peak season. People don’t return to a store where the #1 need is ignored.
There are other garden centers in NoVA where you can have a pleasant experience. Avoid this store in Southern Alexandria.

Lady, now you've cemented the fact that you're in fact bat $hit crazy. Your #1 need in a plant store is . . . plants. Your bodily functions are not their concern. How have you made it this far in life?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On this business’ website, these geniuses state
“The DMV community is #1 for us”
“We are helpful people”
“Inspire yourself”

People browsing get too inspired, relaxed, and the GI tract makes the call. It’s stupid not to allow customers to use the restroom and to complete the pleasant experience.
These geniuses are the same to complain about the economy when sales drop during the peak season. People don’t return to a store where the #1 need is ignored.
There are other garden centers in NoVA where you can have a pleasant experience. Avoid this store in Southern Alexandria.

If your #1 need is to poop, I’m pretty sure they’re happy to do without your business.

[Anonymous]

I keep a small plastic tub (like for washing dishes) in my car because I have to go frequently and urgently. No waiting around! I use it surprisingly often. I just clean it when I get home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I work in a pretty fancy office building. There are frequently visitors in the building. Anyways, we had this one male employee who kept bombing the bathroom twice a day. I mean literal liquid poop splashed up and down the stall bathrooms. The complaints were out of control from employees and visitors. We have a full time cleaning staff but they only clean bathrooms once a day (and it had never been a problem previously- our bathrooms were pristine). He loved to use the single unisex bathroom and then women complained even louder. Facilities put up signs asking people to clean up after themselves. Nope, nothing worked. They started having to close bathrooms so they could make sure that the bathrooms that were open were cleaned multiple times a day. The other guys started stalking the bathrooms to figure out who it was. Tons of emails to employees about it. The solution was that we had a visitors only bathroom with a key that only visitors could get since they couldn't ensure employee bathrooms wouldn't be hazmat scenes.

I'm sure this guy did have a medical problem, but how the hell does poop get splattered everywhere?! emptying a colostomy bag? Instead of sitting was he just aiming at the walls?

Anyways, I can imagine the issue for small retail businesses who don't have cleaning staff. Plus, if it's not cleaned correctly infectious disease does spread from diarrhea and vomit. How do you know if someone has IBS or norovirus?

I don’t believe this at all. S

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I was young, bathrooms were much less common in public.

Made it VERY hard for families with young children.

Now I think they do it (often, but not required) to keep customers shopping longer.

As a young child I remember the ladies lounges in the nicer department stores. Woodies etc., they all had elaborately decorated sitting rooms. And they didn’t smell.

Now you go into a Macy’s and the stench is lawful. I’d rated pee myself a little than he assaulted by the smell of b.o., feces, and sewer gas.

People are so gross.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I keep a small plastic tub (like for washing dishes) in my car because I have to go frequently and urgently. No waiting around! I use it surprisingly often. I just clean it when I get home.

This thread just keeps getting better and better.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:On this business’ website, these geniuses state
“The DMV community is #1 for us”
“We are helpful people”
“Inspire yourself”

People browsing get too inspired, relaxed, and the GI tract makes the call. It’s stupid not to allow customers to use the restroom and to complete the pleasant experience.
These geniuses are the same to complain about the economy when sales drop during the peak season. People don’t return to a store where the #1 need is ignored.
There are other garden centers in NoVA where you can have a pleasant experience. Avoid this store in Southern Alexandria.

JFC. Maybe if you are 2.

I think PP is f-ing with everybody. If not, let us pray for her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I keep a small plastic tub (like for washing dishes) in my car because I have to go frequently and urgently. No waiting around! I use it surprisingly often. I just clean it when I get home.

What do you with pee and poo?

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Anonymous wrote:If a place of business can't provide a rest room for it's customers I can't be a customer of that place. Principle alone.

Ok. Go buy your plants elsewhere. No one cares.

If I have a cart full of plants ready to check out and find out the store doesn’t have a restroom for customers (and I have an urgency to pee), then I leave the cart in front of the register and never go back.
Don’t they realize they lose good customers and sales?

Most adults don’t throw tantrums and abandon their carts when they aren’t provided a public bathroom to buy plants, so don’t you worry. Their bottom line (yes, I see what I did there) is safe.

I didn’t throw a tantrum. Instead, I send a clear message without saying a word.

If you don't say a word, how do they know you're leaving because you need to use the bathroom? Not such a clear message if you ask me.

I had kindly asked an employee where the restroom was. She saw my cart full of plants and said there was no restroom. I then asked “Not even for customers?” As she said no and suggested a DonJohn across the street where was a construction site, I left everything there in shock.

I'm sure that the business was just as glad not to have yet another Karen for a customer.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I keep a small plastic tub (like for washing dishes) in my car because I have to go frequently and urgently. No waiting around! I use it surprisingly often. I just clean it when I get home.

This thread just keeps getting better and better.

ROFL no kidding. Next she’ll be talking about her little plastic knife. Although it sounds like this “urgent” need probably wouldn’t need to be cut up to flush.

[Anonymous]

Honestly, I wouldn’t have a public bathroom in that area either.

[Anonymous]

OP- just wear a diaper the next time you go to a garden center. Then you can relax even when your GI tract comes calling.

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Anonymous wrote:I hear you. I have family members with IBS and have been part of many family dramas when people who needed bathrooms urgently couldn't get them in a timely manner while running errands.

Also, state of Maryland, people driving on rural roads to your Civil War battlefields might need bathrooms if theyre little kids, elderly, or have IBS!!! Thanks for nothing for an especially traumatic road trip years ago when we discovered MD gas stations don't usually keep bathrooms public and have absolutely no mercy.

IBS and explosive poop is exactly the type of thing that all business owners and employees want to keep out of their bathrooms.

+1
I hate to pile on but nobody should have to clean this and it's harder and harder to keep and attract service staff. People leaving messes ruin it for everyone.

Well customers should also have the right to access a bathroom in a store and not poop all over the plants/floor.

Nope. No such “right” exists.