Retail business without public restroom

[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.

Yeah, that’s Karma at work. They shoulda just let the kid use the bathroom. Now they can clean the carpet instead. Sounds like justice was administered.

+1, full stop

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Yeah, that’s Karma at work. They shoulda just let the kid use the bathroom. Now they can clean the carpet instead. Sounds like justice was administered.

+1, full stop

The 19 year old working the register isn’t allowed to let you use the employee bathroom to change your kid, dipshit. Plan better.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I absolutely would have cleaned it! I’m not a heathen. My point was that I’m sure cleaning the carpet at the front of the store of feces was exponentially more of a time suck. At least, I hope they thoroughly cleaned it afterwards.

Sure you would. Your son crapped on the carpet and you walked away from it and left a cart full of merchandise. So if your son had made it to the bathroom and crapped all over the bathroom, you would have done the exact opposite of what you actually did and stopped to clean the mess.

I can't believe you could actually type what you did. You're such a hypocrite. You say one thing but your anecdote shows you would and did do the exact opposite.

Is this a new type of Karen? A ShitKaren?

a Sharon!

[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?

They’d rather have customers that can control themselves.

At some point in your life you’re going to sh!t yourself because you can’t have access to a bathroom for whatever reason.

And when that happens, I want you to remember making this post and you feel the warm diarrhea making it’s way down your thighs.

It’s going to be awesome. So appreciate it when it happens.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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?

I think they’re ok loosing their shitkaren. Thank PP for my new favorite word.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

I think they’re ok loosing their shitkaren. Thank PP for my new favorite word.

I see it’s very difficult for you to understand that retail businesses exist thanks to customers, especially to he good ones.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

I think they’re ok loosing their shitkaren. Thank PP for my new favorite word.

I see it’s very difficult for you to understand that retail businesses exist thanks to customers, especially to he good ones.

I can't imagine the ones who would stop shopping somewhere because they can't use the restroom are "the good ones".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

They’d rather have customers that can control themselves.

At some point in your life you’re going to sh!t yourself because you can’t have access to a bathroom for whatever reason.

And when that happens, I want you to remember making this post and you feel the warm diarrhea making it’s way down your thighs.

It’s going to be awesome. So appreciate it when it happens.

To support this, I offer that many years ago on DCUM, I mocked a poster's perfectly serviceable new boots (she had posted a photo with pride) as boring and not-chic. I was younger, stupider, and yes, a lot more fashionable than I am now in middle age. The poster responded that she hoped I got bunions. Serves me right: I sure did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Yeah, that’s Karma at work. They shoulda just let the kid use the bathroom. Now they can clean the carpet instead. Sounds like justice was administered.

+1, full stop

The 19 year old working the register isn’t allowed to let you use the employee bathroom to change your kid, dipshit. Plan better.

Oh please. What will happen? Other than the shopper with a bathroom emergency will poop in the middle of the shopping aisle?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

I think they’re ok loosing their shitkaren. Thank PP for my new favorite word.

I see it’s very difficult for you to understand that retail businesses exist thanks to customers, especially to he good ones.

The loss of a few customers is offset by not having the expense of maintaining a bathroom that customers trash.

I note you seem to think “good” customers are somehow more … entitled? … to a bathroom?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

I mean, I can't imagine this happens that often where a store loses a noticeable amount of money because they don't have a public bathroom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went to a medium size garden center/ nursery. As I was filling my shopping cart with beautiful plants, I went inside the building to look for a restroom. I had an urgency and found out there was no restroom for customers. Is this ilegal?

Of course it’s not “illegal.” Garden centers don’t serve food.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some states have Ally's law for certain medical conditions. But generally no restrooms in public establishments unless they serve food. Even then they can say customers only.

I do wonder how you got this far in life without knowing this.

I don’t know where you live, but here in the DMV I shop at garden centers and other businesses where customers have access to restrooms. This GC/nursery in Alexandria sells plants at high prices and can afford maintaining one or two restrooms. Maybe the employees are not flushing the toilets and don’t want customers to complain.

No one cares about “high prices” or people “buying hundreds of dollars’ worth of plants.” Get so very much over yourself. You are owed no public restroom unless it’s a restaurant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why don’t we demand public restrooms be available across the city? Isn’t plumbing and sanitation one of the main benefits of civilization?

“Demand” to whom? Are you the CEO?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:In some downtown areas of cities, there are basically no public bathrooms in businesses, and where there are, you must show that you bought something AND request a key or passcode for the bathroom door.

I asked an employee where the restroom was and she told me they had no public restroom, not even for customers spending hundreds on plants. Not even a restroom with passcode.
This was in Alexandria, VA.

PLEASE tell me you didn't give that nursery and I think I know which one you are talking about your money. If you did return everything. I do not support places which do not allow public use of restrooms. Plenty of people have IDB, crohn's disease, IBS, bladder issues, incontinence, menstrual issues, flooding, and life is hard enough to live without this bs. Do not support these businesses. PLEASE.

PLEASE tell me if you are always this absurdly melodramatic, or only on DCUM. PLEASE.