It's also UN BUDDHIST and Steve Jobs, in life, was a Buddhist ~ think he attended a dojo where I know some folks.
I suspect the problem isn't one of having stock on hand for 'murican customers ~ more like trying to enforce the sale to foreigners restriction ~ which is just a guideline ~ nothing you would be tazering a customer over.
We've had the top selling Apple store near here for years and they've never tazered anyone.
Good grief. The store didn’t taser anyone. The police tasered her outside of the store. And not because she “bought too many iPhones”, she resisted arrest.
The folks in the store, in every case I’ve seen, are extremely professional with the horde of sometimes obnoxious jerks who hound them nearly every morning. As I said, I don’t know if this woman was part of the usual crowd. But I’ve seen the crowd in action and I have little sympathy for them.
Well, your suspicion is wrong in this case. The store sells tons of stuff every day to foreigners. The daily quota policy is well known and seems to be enforced fairly. They DON’T ask people to leave if they look foreign, they DON’T refuse to sell to foreigners, and they DON’T reserve stock for any particular group. If you reserve ahead of time online, you can pick up what you’ve reserved when it arrives. If you walk in off the street, they have a daily limit.
I don’t know what this woman did to get removed, but I guess it was well beyond typical angry customer stuff. I’ve seen the staff handle upset customers a time or two, without incident.
Do you think a store should allow a disruptive customer to remain in the premises indefinitely, making the staff and the other customers miserable? Should a store be prohibited from asking someone to leave? When the staff asked her to leave, she should have gone. When the police told her to leave, she really should have gone.