(It costs about $1500 a year to own a large dog about $780/year for a small one, cats about $640/year)
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My 14-month Akita (100 pounds) costs about $1.50/day to feed with excellent dog food + people food cooked for him and maybe another $100/year in mandated shots (will be less now that he is no longer a puppy and shots are every 3 years), checkups, nail clipping, plus $10/month tick repellent. His neuter was $200. The 15-year-old cat (12 pounds) will only eat Meow Mix, gets shots every few years. I doubt she costs me over $.50/day. She also hunts every day and is a great mouser.
I’m sure Walmart weighed a destructive riot and Federal discrimination charges over some lost inventory and took the less expensive route.
Click on the link in 94. The Walmarts in the posted story probably decided that ‘orderly checkout’ even if they were essentially still ‘robbing the joint’ was less dangerous to their other customers and employees than the free for all in the Philadelphia store might have become.
I wonder just how many other stores had similar problems.