Posted on 09/05/2019 12:34:28 PM PDT by GIdget2004
After Walmart and Kroger earlier this week urged customers not to openly carry firearms in their stores, drug store giants Walgreens and CVS, along with the Wegmans Food Markets announced Thursday that they were joining in making the same request, continuing a movement among major stores concerning gun violence.
"We are joining other retailers in asking our customers to no longer openly carry firearms into our stores other than authorized law enforcement officials," Walgreens stated.
"We join a growing chorus of businesses in requesting that our customers, other than authorized law enforcement personnel, do not bring firearms into our stores," CVS added.
"The sight of someone with a gun can be alarming, and we don’t want anyone to feel that way at Wegmans," the food store said in a statement, saying they 'prefer that customers not openly carry firearms.'
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It is legal. What do you expect with an epidemic of mass killings? What do you expect private businesses to do? Their shoppers want to feel safe and this is their answer, right or wrong. The voters will not put up with doing nothing about the mass killings. Politicians who do nothing will go down in defeat. It’s the new reality.
America is not coming back.
Then We must take it back.
Fortunately his wife or girlfriend caught up with him and talked him out of there.
So I can conceal carry? I don’t openly carry, but I am armed. Wegman’s please, don’t will on us...next to Publix, you are the best supermarket.
I saw a very odd man who was open carrying in Walmart. He was Mexican-carrying a big, cheap copy of a 1911 and bent over like Groucho Marx. ...overbite, ears low on his head (well below eye level), long, messy hair. He was walking up toward people while staring at them, one after another, like a stray dog. Saw a couple of others who looked like run-of-the-mill tweakers.
Wegman’s is a Supermarket...the second best ranked supermarket, only Publix is higher...
“We are joining other retailers in asking our customers to no longer openly carry firearms into our stores..”
Oh thanks for asking but I will still do it unless you post the sign.
Well all we know from our experiences is that nothing is “universal”.
Eventually the insurance companies will determine that “gun free” policies are unsustainable.
They will make them unaffordable and then uninsurable.
"But my sexual preference is for Mr. Smith and Mr. Wesson!"
Very true and well said.
what broght al this on ?
Ok concealed carry then !
Stupidity on display. “There is one helluva difference between an “open carry” (legal where I live) and a “licensed concealed carry” gun.
These idiots don’t seem to know the difference. Law suits coming up.
My local drugstores are so afraid of crime that they do not stock heavy duty narcotics on-site. They have to be gotten from a central depot or another pharmacy by request.
My pharmacists are great and do their best to take care of me so I only wish them the best. However, store owners (companies/managers) seem to be screwing up all over the place.
You should have heard the phone conversation my pharmacist was having with some kind of supervisor about getting more badly needed help at his very overworked/understaffed( by about 50%), store.
Time for customers to start bombarding these stores and headquarters and letting them know that they will find other places to shop. I’m already cutting down on WalMart to only one item I like, but don’t really need.
Interesting reporting in the last 24 hours.
Media outlets big and small, local to national, can’t agree on whether it’s open carry being disallowed or all guns.
Wow.
No Walmarts in the South have been asking me to be unarmed....Coming from Rochester, NY many moons ago, I know Wegmans is a North East entity....
This is the problem...SEEING the gun. If you cc correctly it is not printed or flashed. Nobody knows but you.
My experience with doctors is that they tend to be glorified pharmacists and tend jump to the drugs solution vs trying to get to the root cause of a problem. Drugs should not be the end-all solution. However, drugs do work but may be required for the rest of the life of a patient. Not a good solution, IMO. Disclaimer: I am not a doctor nor do I play one on TV.
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