Comments on: Is Fred Meyer Breaking The Law?

By: dog

dog — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:47:20 +0000

I agree with ADR. I bet most of the posers on this blog shop at Wal (insert red commie star here) Mart anyway.

Thanks for enabling a giant flock of regular whiners Guardian.

By: Glen Tarmack

Glen Tarmack — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:26:20 +0000

FYI, I was there yesterday. They’re using the sidewalk and a few parking spaces. Nothing in any fire lanes or disabled parking spots.

By: ADR

ADR — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:28:36 +0000

Let’s see – the economy sucks, we have 46 million people without health insurance, an incompetent mayor and governor, and the fact the Freddies is having a sidewalk sale for a few days is such a big deal you have to turn it into an article? It’s TEMPORARY – get over it.

As for ‘those merchants trying to make a buck’ – hell yes, let them make a buck. Freddies employs hundreds of people in the Treasure Valley, and pays untold tens of thousands in taxes here. You don’t see them laying off people like Micron or Albertsons.

I would like to see some of the whiners on here try to go create jobs. It’s not as easy as it sounds, give it a go and see how you do.

Oh, and if you don’t like what they are doing, man up and file a complaint about it. Don’t hide behind the Internet and whine about it.

By: Mr. Watcher

Mr. Watcher — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:45:35 +0000

Gordon, if you want so much government doing everything. My question to you is do you kick in some extra on top of what you pay in taxes?
Frankly, its not a question of seeing the signs its a question of not thinking into any depth.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:17:28 +0000

Mr. Watcher said: ” I’m sure this was an oversight …”
Yeah, I suppose so, if the stuff was actually set up out there by someone who didn’t see all the signs and the paint on the pavement, etc.
If so, I’m glad to know the store hires the handicapped, even if it doesn’t save parking spaces for them.

By: sam the sham

sam the sham — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:01:13 +0000

Personally, I go to yard sales if I want to stand around outside pawing through things I may want to buy. I do not agree with stores putting their overpriced “sale” items outside on racks and tables in the first place.

By: Mr. Watcher

Mr. Watcher — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:45:28 +0000

Gordon, the correct thing to do is contact the store and tell them that they are blocking spots that disabled customers need to shop there. I’m sure this was an oversight and could be taking care of in a jiffy.
Us folks of Idaho can work together and not go running to government for all our problems. All it would have taking is for someone to go to the customer service desk and politely inform the store of this and let them know its not scoring any points with customers that see this disregard for disabled folks. I’m willing to bet the manager would have gone out there at once and started moving stuff to hurry up and clear the parking spots.
People make stupid mistakes this is without question a stupid mistake.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:48:55 +0000

Mr. Watcher: I would agree with you on wanting government to butt out, but, in this case, the question is should laws be enforced fairly or only when they apply to us as individuals and not to the store?
Personally, I think they should apply to the business even more than to individuals, if we must have an unbalanced system. Make the big guys comply with the same laws as the little guys, for a change!

By: paul

paul — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:13:19 +0000

When has anyone ever seen someone get a ticket in Idaho for violating handicaped parking regs? The able bodies who have a card to hang for someone in their family who needs handicaped parking will used the @#$$## card and park in handicaped parking.

Forget about a ticket… having the car towed will take care of the problem. Check out the Idaho Center signage. Not one violator was noted at the Buckaroo breakfast this morning.

There are people out there that really do need handicaped parking and the idiots who think it is ok to park or otherwise use the space and not be in need of it need a big fat “L” tattooed on their foreheads.

By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:06:32 +0000

I would love to see a fire truck roll up and smash all of Fred Meyer’s crap set up out front.