To Whom It May Concern:
I am a 55 year old African American women going into a Dollar General store in San Antonio, Texas to purchase a pack of Clari tan allergy medication. It was cold that particular day and I wore a red sweat jacket and continued towards the medication aisle. I felt someone follow me and notice the store assistant manager whisper to the cashier to follow me. When I bent down to find the medication I needed the cashier appeared before me and ask me if I needed help. The cashier startled me and I began to step backwards from the shelf and then appeared the assistant manager. There was no other person in the store at the time and the cashier continue to ask me questions as if I was shoplifting while the both of them watch me shop. When I finally figured out what they were doing I was going to leave the medication and go to my neighborhood Walgreen's, but needed the medication and took it to the register and right behind me was the cashier and manager. Meanwhile I was shopping three Anglo guys went into the store and no one followed them and they proceeded behind me to pay for their purchases.
I felt embarrassed, disapointed especially since I have been living in the neighborhood of $200,000-400,000 homes, I drive a Chrysler 300, money in the bank, married, children and grandchildren and living a good life. I do not need to steal a $5.00 medication from the Dollar General store. I have lived in the neighborhood for 26 years while the Dollar General store moved in our neighborhood no more than three months ago. I have been in the store on several occasion and I have never been treated unfairly and unlawfully.
I called the store manager a couple of days later and she said she would talk to her employees and that she would take me to lunch, but she do not do lunch. I do not want her lunch these people should not ever treat another person the way that they treated me. What can I do?
I am a 55 year old African American women going into a Dollar General store in San Antonio, Texas to purchase a pack of Clari tan allergy medication. It was cold that particular day and I wore a red sweat jacket and continued towards the medication aisle. I felt someone follow me and notice the store assistant manager whisper to the cashier to follow me. When I bent down to find the medication I needed the cashier appeared before me and ask me if I needed help. The cashier startled me and I began to step backwards from the shelf and then appeared the assistant manager. There was no other person in the store at the time and the cashier continue to ask me questions as if I was shoplifting while the both of them watch me shop. When I finally figured out what they were doing I was going to leave the medication and go to my neighborhood Walgreen's, but needed the medication and took it to the register and right behind me was the cashier and manager. Meanwhile I was shopping three Anglo guys went into the store and no one followed them and they proceeded behind me to pay for their purchases.
I felt embarrassed, disapointed especially since I have been living in the neighborhood of $200,000-400,000 homes, I drive a Chrysler 300, money in the bank, married, children and grandchildren and living a good life. I do not need to steal a $5.00 medication from the Dollar General store. I have lived in the neighborhood for 26 years while the Dollar General store moved in our neighborhood no more than three months ago. I have been in the store on several occasion and I have never been treated unfairly and unlawfully.
I called the store manager a couple of days later and she said she would talk to her employees and that she would take me to lunch, but she do not do lunch. I do not want her lunch these people should not ever treat another person the way that they treated me. What can I do?
