Retail business without public restroom

[Anonymous]

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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.

You threw a tantrum, and nobody cared. The low paid hourly workers get paid the same whether they’re putting your plants away or not. Shrug.

[Anonymous]

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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.

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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.

Uhhhh that’s why PP said they “should” have that right.

[Anonymous]

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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.

I honestly think bathrooms are grosser now because people think about germs more and less about other people. So they hover over the toilet so their butts don’t have to touch the toilet and splatter pee everywhere. With kids they get their little boys to stand with shoes on the toilet and pee in, and little girls sit on toilet paper lined seats that get soaked with pee… which of course is too gross for mom to clean up. Nobody has the decency to clean up after themselves either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I honestly think bathrooms are grosser now because people think about germs more and less about other people. So they hover over the toilet so their butts don’t have to touch the toilet and splatter pee everywhere. With kids they get their little boys to stand with shoes on the toilet and pee in, and little girls sit on toilet paper lined seats that get soaked with pee… which of course is too gross for mom to clean up. Nobody has the decency to clean up after themselves either.

I hover and will continue to do so.

[Anonymous]

I also keep one of those "pee pots" plastic things in the car for my kids . i have used it myself several times. Comes in handy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I honestly think bathrooms are grosser now because people think about germs more and less about other people. So they hover over the toilet so their butts don’t have to touch the toilet and splatter pee everywhere. With kids they get their little boys to stand with shoes on the toilet and pee in, and little girls sit on toilet paper lined seats that get soaked with pee… which of course is too gross for mom to clean up. Nobody has the decency to clean up after themselves either.

I hover and will continue to do so.

Hovering is what creates the need to hover. BREAK THE CYCLE.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I honestly think bathrooms are grosser now because people think about germs more and less about other people. So they hover over the toilet so their butts don’t have to touch the toilet and splatter pee everywhere. With kids they get their little boys to stand with shoes on the toilet and pee in, and little girls sit on toilet paper lined seats that get soaked with pee… which of course is too gross for mom to clean up. Nobody has the decency to clean up after themselves either.

I hover and will continue to do so.

This is the reason we can't have nice things.

You are the reason that more businesses are doing away with public/customer rest rooms.

[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.

If not a little plastic knife, maybe a red washcloth?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What state?

VA

Not illegal.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think it’s legal, and stupid. I was at a niche type store making a similarly large purchase when my then-4yo said he had to go #2 NOW! I asked and they said they couldn’t accommodate. It all happened so fast and before we could get out the door to the car he let it all out all over the carpet. I had a boy covered in excrement and they still wouldn’t let me use the restroom. So not only did they lose out on the sale, they had a crappy mess to clean on the carpet.

It sounds like your son was sick. If he had so little control over his bowels, it's very likely he would have crapped all over their bathroom, too. At least in this case, he had clothes on which likely captured most of it.

Be honest: if your son had crapped on the floor of the their bathroom, how much effort would you have put into cleaning it up? Or would you have thought, "eh, I'm sure they pay someone to clean this" and left?

It's an unfortunate anecdote but actually doesn't change the equation for most businesses at all. There is little to no benefit to providing a bathroom and there are huge downsides.

THIS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I honestly think bathrooms are grosser now because people think about germs more and less about other people. So they hover over the toilet so their butts don’t have to touch the toilet and splatter pee everywhere. With kids they get their little boys to stand with shoes on the toilet and pee in, and little girls sit on toilet paper lined seats that get soaked with pee… which of course is too gross for mom to clean up. Nobody has the decency to clean up after themselves either.

I hover and will continue to do so.

Hovering is what creates the need to hover. BREAK THE CYCLE.

Sorry not sorry. I’m not touching the seat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I honestly think bathrooms are grosser now because people think about germs more and less about other people. So they hover over the toilet so their butts don’t have to touch the toilet and splatter pee everywhere. With kids they get their little boys to stand with shoes on the toilet and pee in, and little girls sit on toilet paper lined seats that get soaked with pee… which of course is too gross for mom to clean up. Nobody has the decency to clean up after themselves either.

I hover and will continue to do so.

Hovering is what creates the need to hover. BREAK THE CYCLE.

OPRAH covered this subject decades ago. Stop hovering.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I honestly think bathrooms are grosser now because people think about germs more and less about other people. So they hover over the toilet so their butts don’t have to touch the toilet and splatter pee everywhere. With kids they get their little boys to stand with shoes on the toilet and pee in, and little girls sit on toilet paper lined seats that get soaked with pee… which of course is too gross for mom to clean up. Nobody has the decency to clean up after themselves either.

I hover and will continue to do so.

Hovering is what creates the need to hover. BREAK THE CYCLE.

Sorry not sorry. I’m not touching the seat.

Put toilet paper on the seat instead of peeing all over it.

[Anonymous]

I had an emergency and had to use the bathroom they have customers bathroom but I was told I could not use it this was in Calvert dollar general in Cecil county Maryland. Is this legal?

[Anonymous]

I just got back from Europe and there, they make you PAY to use the restroom. Absurd!!!