Say Anything Blog

My neice is a young mother of 2 and who’s husband is career military. In about two weeks her husband and his unit will be returning to their California base from a 15 month deployment to Iraq. This is his third deployment to Iraq. As on many bases the wifes of soldiers are involved in groups to aid and assist families while their soldiers are away.
When these troops return it can take several days before they get there personnel items out of storage so one of the pojects the wifes do is to buy sheets,blankets,food,etc for the single soldiers in the unit.
This past Saturday my neice went to Victorville, Ca to purchase the blankets. The store she went to had a policy that 6 blankets were allowed per customer. She had no problem with that but did explain to management what they were for but they didn’t seem to care. She told them she would just ask customers in the parking lot if they would buy the blankets for her. Management said they would not sell to them because they knew they would be going to her project. She,my neice, went ahead anyway and asked people to help her out. The people she asked had no problem doing this and she had about 60 blankets purchased this way when the manager told the clerks to shut down the tills and then kicked my neice out of the store.
According to my neice the clerks were understanding,it was management that had the heartburn.
I understand that most stores at times will have policy on the number of items that can be purchased because it’s on sale or for other reasons, but this seems to be overboard on the stores part to me.