Showing posts with label Rite Aid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rite Aid. Show all posts

Monday, July 7, 2008

THE BATTLE AGAINST RITE AID HAS BEGUN

So earlier this morning I Posted This Blog about Rite Aid posting a "not-so-nice" letter on their window of their pharmacy. Well Queerity.com is doing what they do best; uncover the story and provide more updates:

Jeremy Hooper over at Good As You gave the store a ring-a-ding this morning and a store representative says the sign wasn’t part of their store and Tom Marquez, the alleged manager who signed the statement, is not “in anyway” an employee there.

Sounds like someone had way too much time on their hands this holiday weekend!
[A few questions remain, however: if you look at the original picture, you can see what looks like a security grate behind the flier. If it went up after the store closed, who put it there? If it went up before the store closed, why did it remain?]


Update again! The original reader just wrote in and said not only were there four signs at the Rite Aid in question, but offers this queer detail: …”When I called yesterday to complain the woman at the Rite Aid told me that Tom Marquez wasn’t the store manager but the manager for the whole area. so I don’t think it’s a phony name…I think he’s definitely a real person. In the audio link the store employee doesn’t say she doesn’t know who Tom is, she only says he doesn’t work in that store. He’s probably regional management, but maybe someone put it up and just used his name.” There’s obviously some maniac on the loose in Manhattan. Everyone stay indoors! [SOURCE]

I love it.. I called the store too.. And they said they had no idea what i was talking about and not to call back. Hmmm.. Something is fishy.. FISHY!!

NYC RITE AID SAYS NO TO GAY RIGHTS

So i found this intriguing at Queerity.com.

"Rite Aid simply ain’t right. A reader sent in this image from one of the pharmacy’s New York City locations (on Sixth Avenue at West 13th Street) and, as you can see, it’s not the most welcoming message.

This isn’t the first time Rite-Aid has found itself in a queer controversy. A DC-based manager came under fire last year after booting an “overly affectionate” gay couple.

The best part of this sign, we think, is mention of “anything that would make our customers uncomfortable is prohibited in the store.” We suppose manager Tom Marquez didn’t consider the gay customers in that one, huh? Someone else must have, because the sign, which appeared around 7am on Sunday, was soon removed…

And, just for your reference, here are Rite Aid’s corporate numbers and the number for Mr. Marquez’s location: 212-727-3720. Do with that what you will…" [SOURCE]

I am already looking to call. I mean come on.. Ewww.. People like that just disgust me.. They live in a world where discrimintation runs them. I dunno, maybe i am getting more mad over this then i should but i can't help it.