April 8, 2011 - Found out that the WAL-MART in HOMESTEAD. FLORIDA is NOT the area for RVs!!! Drove into a Wal-Mart parking lot at 10:30am (the last one one the way to The Keys) The security guard drove up and said, (I QUOTE)....................."THESE TYPE vehicles have a 3hr parking limit, it's 10:30am now you have til 1:30pm then you have to leave"!!
We had just pulled up did not even get 5 secs to put my shoes on to go into the store.
WAL-MART discrimination against RVers!!! WOW....and they wonder why they are being sued for discrimination!!
I was not parked overnight! I was going in to get items for my trip to the Keys since there is NO Wal-Mart in the Keys.
So, I decided to stay for "MY" 3 hours and take some notes:
In approx. 1.5 hrs 10 RVers pulled up - out of those 10 they took up (including me) 32 parking spaces. Now the average RV/5th Wheel/etc.. has 2 or more people. (BTW...everyone got the same visit, by the same guard, either before or after shopping at Wal-Mart!). Each RVer had approx. 6-10 bags or more of groceries, etc... in that same time period 2 cars with boats pulled up - NO VISIT from the guard - and one of them did not even go into Wal-Mart - stayed for 45mins on cell phone - took up 3 parking spaces! The other boat went in and came out with what looked like 1 small bag of chips!! Then there were cars pulling into the parking lot 2 at a time hitching a ride in another car and leaving one car parked!!
Before we left we travelled around the side of Wal-Mart as we had seen BUSES going back and forth...(there have a BUS stop on the side of Wal-Mart) - these BUSES park for 15-20 mins pick up people and drop them off....some of the folks I noticed were leaving their cars and getting on the buses...I am sure going into town for work, beach, etc...
I know we take up a lot of room in our RV's but I do not appreciate anyone putting a time limit on MY visit to the store! I am young enough where I do not have health problems....I feel really bad for those RVers that are not as fortunate and take longer to get their items needed at the store...or even those of you that have small children that want walk slowly down EVERY toy isle in Wal-Mart!!
THE PARKING LOT WAS NOT FULL....NOT EVEN CLOSE....AND WAS A HUGE PARKING LOT!!
I will NOT be going to a Wal-Mart store anytime soon!!
SIDE NOTE....FYI........ The meaning for discrimination is:
Discrimination is the cognitive and sensory capacity or ability to see fine distinctions and perceive differences between objects, subjects, concepts and patterns, or possess exceptional development of the senses.
We had just pulled up did not even get 5 secs to put my shoes on to go into the store.
WAL-MART discrimination against RVers!!! WOW....and they wonder why they are being sued for discrimination!!
I was not parked overnight! I was going in to get items for my trip to the Keys since there is NO Wal-Mart in the Keys.
So, I decided to stay for "MY" 3 hours and take some notes:
In approx. 1.5 hrs 10 RVers pulled up - out of those 10 they took up (including me) 32 parking spaces. Now the average RV/5th Wheel/etc.. has 2 or more people. (BTW...everyone got the same visit, by the same guard, either before or after shopping at Wal-Mart!). Each RVer had approx. 6-10 bags or more of groceries, etc... in that same time period 2 cars with boats pulled up - NO VISIT from the guard - and one of them did not even go into Wal-Mart - stayed for 45mins on cell phone - took up 3 parking spaces! The other boat went in and came out with what looked like 1 small bag of chips!! Then there were cars pulling into the parking lot 2 at a time hitching a ride in another car and leaving one car parked!!
Before we left we travelled around the side of Wal-Mart as we had seen BUSES going back and forth...(there have a BUS stop on the side of Wal-Mart) - these BUSES park for 15-20 mins pick up people and drop them off....some of the folks I noticed were leaving their cars and getting on the buses...I am sure going into town for work, beach, etc...
I know we take up a lot of room in our RV's but I do not appreciate anyone putting a time limit on MY visit to the store! I am young enough where I do not have health problems....I feel really bad for those RVers that are not as fortunate and take longer to get their items needed at the store...or even those of you that have small children that want walk slowly down EVERY toy isle in Wal-Mart!!
THE PARKING LOT WAS NOT FULL....NOT EVEN CLOSE....AND WAS A HUGE PARKING LOT!!
I will NOT be going to a Wal-Mart store anytime soon!!
SIDE NOTE....FYI........ The meaning for discrimination is:
Discrimination is the cognitive and sensory capacity or ability to see fine distinctions and perceive differences between objects, subjects, concepts and patterns, or possess exceptional development of the senses.