Wal-Mart customer harassed, arrested, and fined for using Wal-Mart money orders
We all just feel bad about this one. There’s not really much more we need to say here - Wal-Mart’s actions pretty much speak for themselves. We can only offer our condolences to the poor recipient of Wal-Mart’s customer service.
Nitra Gipson sold her car to pay for her last two semesters at Texas Southern University, where she is studying criminal justice (of all things), and was paid with Wal-Mart Money Orders. When she tried to cash these money orders at her local Wal-Mart she was arrested and charged with felony forgery — even though the money orders were real.
“Humiliating is not the word for it,” Gipson told KHOU news. “I was horrified. I think they singled me out because of the amount of money that it was and (thought) I was trying to get over on them.”
Nothing she did convinced the Wal-Mart manager to drop the charges. Finally, after 48 hours behind bars, the District Attorney’s office released her after she provided the purchase receipts. You might think that was the end of Ms. Gipson’s ordeal. Nope.
From KHOU:
Gipson said Wal-Mart then added insult to injury when she got a letter in the mail.
“I started to read it and thought, ‘Oh my God.’ They are asking me to pay them when it was clearly their mistake,” said Gipson.
The letter demanded Gipson pay Wal-Mart $200 to settle a shoplifting charge. It is a charge that never existed, though.
KHOU says that they contacted Wal-Mart and were told that the decision to press charges was up to the law enforcement officer at the scene. KHOU also notes that the copy of criminal complaint they obtained shows that the store manager is the one who pressed charges.
Posted by Alex Goldschmidt on Thursday, June 12, 2008
COMMENTS
This was another case involving blacks. This is a young black woman with an amount from selling a car. Anybody remember the case of the black corporate official trying to buy gift cards at a Walmart with a company check. Totally valid but they called the cops on him anyway. Sizable money in the hands of black people is something white bigoted Walmart types won’t have. Walmart is known southern racism with the envy twist against successful blacks walking through their doors. Maybe not everywhere, but often enough.
David Duke in Walmart culture & plantation fashions
Friday, June 13 at 02:28 AM
Can you smell it- another settlement or lawsuit coming down the Walmart pipes!
Marxist in
Friday, June 13 at 10:29 AM
big deal shit like this happens everywhere else you wm haters shop and we never any bitching from you on that so shut up.costco and k-mart are a hell of a lot more racist than wm is.
m att hew vantress in gresham,oregon
Friday, June 13 at 01:50 PM
costco and k-mart are a hell of a lot more racist than wm is.
Prove it.
Reality 101 in your face
Sunday, June 15 at 12:12 AM
The letter demanded Gipson pay Wal-Mart $200 to settle a shoplifting charge.
You can call it ‘Loss Prevention’ (LP) or ‘Asset Protection’ (AP) but this is an old Bentonville ploy. Some refer to it as extortion.
By Wal-Mart (cough) standards $200 is cheap. So-called “administrative costs” sometimes reach $2,500 in cases like this.
Ken V in Texas
Sunday, June 15 at 09:36 AM
reality 101 i worked at k-mart.have you ever worked at k-mart? and observed things up close like me like discrimination people forced to work off the clock and etc?i know people who have worked at costco in the past and its not as great and rosy there as sdv tells you.
m att hew vantress in gresham,oregon
Thursday, June 19 at 09:46 PM
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