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Swiss Cottage Tesco Staff Tell blind woman to 'Get Dog Out'
BBC News ^ | 10/16/2014 | BBC News

Posted on 10/16/2014 6:00:31 PM PDT by goldstategop

A blind woman was left "horrified" and "distressed" when staff at Tesco in north London shouted at her to get her guide dog out.

Maya Makri, 39, was in the Swiss Cottage shop 10 days after moving to the capital when she was told "never come back".

She said three cashiers shouted "no pets allowed" and to leave the shop.

Tesco said: "This clearly should never have happened and we will contact Ms Makri directly to apologise." 'Very upsetting'

During the incident on Monday, Ms Makri said her guide dog of six years, Jemma, was wearing a high-visibility jacket and harness which is labelled "guide dog".

"I got to the till and could sense there was an uncomfortable atmosphere then the man behind the till started shouting 'no pets allowed'," she said.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: bbcnews; customerservice; guidedog; tesco; uk
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To: goldstategop

What?! Are they freaking blind... \snicker


21 posted on 10/16/2014 7:50:02 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: CincyRichieRich
Ebola and Isis and this is worth posting? Sorry but who cares?

You better care, fifth column Muzzies.

22 posted on 10/16/2014 8:05:54 PM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (antine)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Muslims fer sure Dude.


23 posted on 10/16/2014 8:40:48 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: goldstategop

One of my dogs is a certified therapy dog and we visit a convalescent home pretty often. Last time we were there 2 black women who work there, I hesitate to call them nurses, started yelling “we hate dogs, get them out of here”. One of them announced that they were from Africa, muzzies too probably.
They said “dogs are bad”. Our dogs aren’t bad you ignorant b*tch!
We are invited to go to this place and are very well received by most of the patients and staff. I hope I don’t see these 2 again.


24 posted on 10/17/2014 1:58:06 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: 1010RD

Why do they hate man’s best friend?...They would wake up/ warn Moehamhead’s intended victims during night raids.


25 posted on 10/17/2014 2:30:50 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: goldstategop

This is a local store for me, where I do drop in for top-up purchases. The story sounds very plausible. I find the staff at this store to be surly and offer minimum civility to any of their customers. Is this Tesco corporate policy, I wonder?


26 posted on 10/17/2014 4:42:30 AM PDT by st_asaph
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To: Ditter

Hope you’ve taken that up with the management.


27 posted on 10/17/2014 8:59:01 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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To: goldstategop

“horrified”??? What a bunch of pansy a$$es society is creating...

Screw that! I’d get really PO’ed and let ‘em have it.

I’d embarrass them as best I could, turn the tables on vermin like that.

Make them grovel and belly crawl as they sputter apologies for being such jerks...

Any establishment that treats me and mine poorly and the manager is spoken to immediately...if adequate measures aren’t taken on the spot...it’s on like Donkey Kong!


28 posted on 10/17/2014 9:04:40 AM PDT by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: goldstategop
She said three soon to be unemployed cashiers shouted "no pets allowed" and to leave the shop.

Fixed...
29 posted on 10/17/2014 11:49:05 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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