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Forced to share a bathroom with male employee

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Updated by user Feb 19, 2024

I go to Trader Joes and Lassens more often now and decreased my trips to Sprouts. Btw, the way I let them know there was an issue was by a yelp review which they removed several times. No one reached out to me following the yelp review.

Original review Feb 18, 2024
Sprouts of Ventura, CA let me and my friends down when they forced the female customers to share a bathroom with a young trans employee who had a deep voice, beard and blue eye shadow. He was barely out of high school.

You should have gotten him his own bathroom. His mental comfort should have been equal to, not more important than that of the many women forced to hear his deep voice asking how they were doing while they were in a stall and had no clue that he'd be in there too. You didn't care about us and many of my female friends were very upset. To this day, even though he's long gone, I still go to Sprouts only when necessary.

The whole experience was So uncaring of the many. You believe in him and in trans lifestyles? Great, but honor your customers too and hire him when you have a bathroom for him. Btw, when some of my friends expressed their discomfort, they were treated like hate mongering lepers by your staff.

None of us hated him, we resented You for not caring about our comfort level and taking necessary steps when hiring him. And yes, I am referring to him as a him. I identify him as a man .

He has a total right to identify himself as he likes but that doesn't mean I have to agree. Again, my beliefs and comfort level need to be equally respected as are his.
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Cons:
  • More caring of wokeness than of customer base

Preferred solution: Apology for horrible attitude when I asked if the employee still worked there, (I wouldn't use the bathroom again if he did) and assurance that future trans employees will be using a unisex or family style bathroom, not the multi stalled ladies room.

User's recommendation: Be aware that you may have a young confused male employee who feels he is female despite all signs proving otherwise, share your women's bathroom and ask how you're doing while you're doing it. They don't have a unisex bathroom for him and if you dare to say you felt uncomfortable you will be treated as a hate filled leper.

John Osm

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| map-marker Spring Hill, Florida

Horrible Produce and overpriced products

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Shopping at the Port Richey Florida store was a huge disappointment. They are supposed to be opening a new store in Brooksville, but after my experience at this store, I will not be shopping at their new location.

All of the produce we purchased started smelling horribly the very night we bought it, and was inedible the next day.

Walmart has better and they are near the bottom of the barrel. Find another place to get your produce.

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| map-marker Santa Fe, New Mexico

VERY poor and unfriendly customer service

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Review for Sprouts in Santa Fe, NM: I have been shopping at both stores in town for a long time and have hesitated to post reviews until now. My main observation is the constant poor and rude customer service I receive at both locations (except for the manager at the downtown location and 2-two clerks I could name directly, at both stores).

Most cashiers, particularly at self-checkout, are unfriendly at ALL times, they stand there completely unhelpful, looking like they REALLY would like to be somewhere else, and are annoyed if help is requested, they never greet the customers, say hello or thank you, leaving customers with the sensation the customer is not welcome there. Maybe they aren't, and Sprouts does not care for their business. This might be a matter of bad or absent training overall.

I decided to post this today after yet another such experience and after overhearing another customer expressing similar feelings to her partner after checkout.

I will limit my shopping at both locations if not outright stopping to take my business to these stores. There are MUCH better grocery stores here in town, and most of them provide MUCH better customer experiences.

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Pros:
  • Some good organic choices
Cons:
  • Rude customer service and unhelpful or annoyed clerks

Preferred solution: Better and professional customer service.

User's recommendation: Shop here if you don't mind all the above, otherwise look for a better place to shop.

Keyra Lac
map-marker San Marcos, California

I was given special help.

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Exceptional help from Jamie at the Poway Sprouts store. Jamie went out of the way to help me with my shopping experience.

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User's recommendation: Great store to shop at.

Sylvia P Jql

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| map-marker Chandler, Arizona

Produce for sale; moldy

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On Friday I went into your store. Time 4:00 pm.

09/01/2023. Sprouts. Ray and Dobson. Chandler Arizona

My intention to purchase vegetables, water and eggs.

I got my water noticed shelf empty.

My gallon jugs out front in front window $5.75 a gallon Hp. Ive been picking it up in the Aisle 2 for $7.00. Hmmm. Response oh weve been having a difficult time getting that water in.

Not all summer you have not.

My main concern was I wanted corn on the cob, I approached the Produce associate standing next to the watermelons and asked him where the corn was as it wasnt over by produce area. He pointed to the shelf across from the Bananas, which never change their home. He goes on to say there are some cleaned and wrapped over in the salad greens. I declined.

I headed to corn. What I saw was not fit for human consumption and I remarked out loud, this was ready for the hogs. It was not arranged nicely, leafs mildew looking, me picking out two and checking the corn slightly. I really didnt want to buy this but I took two.

As I finished up the remainder of my shopping in the bread section and pastries, I saw a very large container with ice and filled with fresh corn on the cob.

right next to checkout. I commenced to growl, you know like a dog being attacked. I returned to that same team member and said, I have something to say, why would you direct me to corn that was unfit when in fact a container not 10 feet away full of fresh corn on Ice.? I said, Im going to contact corporate and let them know how I feel and what you did not do.

Now he says, oh right I was just going to take that into the back and he commenced after our encounter to take that fresh corn into the back. Your Mgr is Telling Your Associates to do this and you know it and I know it. So I want you to know that go ahead hire the handicapped to do your dirty deeds.. and make fun of it.

This is not the first time Ive dealt with this. This store needs attention. Your Corp officers need to address this.

I have cut back going shopping. I elected to shop at your store and one other.

Im going to shop less, eat less, be more careful with whom I give my money too. Im going to try very hard not to visit YOU again. Im embarrassed for YOU who sit around the board and scoff and laugh at what you know we need as you raise the prices to feed your Golden Parachutes. Yes I know Business talk and Im savvy..

I know the business world.

There is a beautiful dissertation 100 pages written by a student about Kroeger and Sprouts..

I was very impressed with what he had to say. And he shared your future earnings and sales..

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User's recommendation: I’m trying very hard to understand the reasoning of a Team member acting on the part of the store. Sending the wrong message. I care enough about myself, the pride I feel when I purchase my groceries. I want my grocer to show the same pride. I will no longer pay homage to this store or any Sprouts.

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Guest

Let me get this straight: you growled like a dog in a grocery store and claim to be savvy and know business? What a joke!

Have seen the state of your writing here? A fifth grader could have written a better complaint! You sound like a nightmare and shame on your for hassling another human being. Yes, that right.

A human being. Oh, but entitled people like you think you are better than service workers. You know where you could have found corn? Up your backside.

A big ol' corn on the cob. Please do that store, its customers and employees a big favor and never return.

No one wants to deal with someone like you. And in case no one has told you: normal people do not growl like a dog in the grocery store.

Guest

What a horrible person you are going back up to that employee. I’m sure he didn’t know about the corn by checkout. You need to check your nasty self and realize you don’t matter to anyone.

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Customer Service

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Spent over $100 at checkout with multiple items at Wheatridge Co Sprouts. Checker did not even attempt to help bag but took next customer.

I am a senior citizen so it took me some time. Finally this nice young man, a customer, asked if he could help.

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User's recommendation: None. Customer service is a thing of the past

Ikenna Xvi
map-marker San Diego, California

Poor quality vegetables

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I miss the old Henrys Farmers Market

Prices up every week for mediocre vegetables. Bins for fruit, grains etc are poorly maintained or empty.

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User's recommendation: Vons has better produce

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| map-marker Tucson, Arizona

I wanted to express how very helpful & friendly Lorie has been.

Lorie is always friendly & helpful & she went the extra mile when I was soaked from the rain one Saturday.

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Bill R Uuy

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| map-marker Longmont, Colorado

Overcharging

Sprouts is constantly charging more at checkout than what the posted prices are at on shelves, etc. I often have to go back and ask for refunds.

The store manager and cashiers acknowledge that this is a common occurrence. For example yesterday I was charged $1.49 a piece for green peppers which were labeled $.99 a piece at the bin.

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User's recommendation: Be vigilant about what the posted prices are and pay attention at checkout. Or maybe shop elsewhere?

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this is a constant problem at every sprouts location i've visited. they have the hand held computers, they are checking all the time, but still overcharge. MUST be on purpose, huge profits.

Anonymous
map-marker Valley Village, California

Clueless workerd

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Sprouts in Ventura:

Customer service is horrible. If you ask one employee To help you find a certain item, they always tell you they dont know, and thats it They never bother to find someone or ask someone who does know.

You get the old pass the buck routine and can never get any resolution to anything at this store. Very few employees actually care about the job and make an effort Horrible!

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User's recommendation: Don’t even bother with this store.

Anonymous
map-marker Las Vegas, Nevada

Suggestion for pricing

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I was in store today and was looking to price some frozen breakfast sausages. They were in freezer bin near deli, but the tiny price stickers were mounted on BACK of the case ((at least 30inches from closest I could get to them, even bending and twisting).

No one around to help. I gave up and went to checkout. Cashier and two other employees were at register. I told them if my problem, but I was half way thru checking out.

they said to call "corporate". They did not have number. I saw an asst manager as I was leaving. She also said call corporate and I asked for number.

She went back to office to find it but could not?!?

Suggested I check internet. I think your internal communication could be better and please make it easier to read the prices.

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NOT a Quality Supermarket, Despite the High Prices

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I'm very unhappy with Sprouts because:

- Prices are WAY to high for what one gets

- Advertised sale Gluten Free items weren't available, or not discounted. This is a Bait-and-Switch - Illegal.

- Staff isn't visible, and when you grab someone, such as the Deli Attendant (i.e., black, young, female) who was already walking through the store, she told me she didn't know, &walked off.

- I asked Nick (store Manager) what his company's cooperate office phone # is to complain, & he just searched Google.

He told me he wouldn't provide me with the # he had. Very rude with blue finger nails - very unhappy & unprofessional looking.

- BIGGEST COMPLAINT: Plastic and Paper Bags are normally included in the cost of shopping at the store. You have now put this burden (without lowering your already high prices) on the customer. Sprouts started Charging Customers $0.10/plastic Bag.

You are doing this for the environment, yet you are STILL offering them? Even if they are stronger then normal, if the store truly cared about it, they would stop providing plastic. Also, paper bags are biodegradable. Why not offer them?

It's because it's more expensive.

Offer free Plastic or paper bags or I'm not returning. Unbelievable!

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Cons:
  • Did not offer free plastic bags nor paper which are biodegradable
  • Have to buy plastic bags yet they still offer them for sale

Preferred solution: call me to tell me how they changed their policy

User's recommendation: Shop somewhere else

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Guest

First off, why do you care about an adult woman's choice of nail polish? Most women enjoy wearing nail polish in a a variety of colors and shades.

Have you not ever been around a woman? Second, the store's contact information can be found by going to their corporate webpage and clicking on Contact Us, located at the bottom.

Finally, please do not ever go to Europe because you will have to purchase bags. Do you not realize the point of charging is to hopefully steer customers into either reusing plastic bags OR purchasing a resusable canvas bag(s) or some material of that nature.

Gerald G Qpw

Why I'm being subpoenaed

I need information of while being subpoenaed for an incident that happened three years ago, or some at the sprouts store on Lake Mead and Buffalo in Las Vegas Nevada

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Preferred solution: I need it I need information

Bill J Dxo

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| map-marker Grand Junction, Colorado

Meat Department, band saws

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Hello,

First let me give you a little background that may help you understand why I am writing today.

I live in Fruita CO, about 19 miles from the Spouts market that I or my wife shop at weekly.

I was shopping at my local Sprouts market two weeks ago Saturday, and as I have always done in the past, I requested two 14 oz Tuna steaks cut from frozen, so I could use them later in the week. If I purchase from the counter, they usually go bad before I can eat them.

I had to purchase an enormous chunk of tuna that I then had to thaw and slice into three pieces. Most people know, you can't refreeze Tuna once it has been thawed. What a waste of food...

I also ask for special cuts of beef or even pork that requires the workers behind the counter to cut them to my satisfaction. I was disappointed with this as well.

So, I was informed that they cannot provide the excellent customer service I have come to expect any longer, as the Band Saws have been taken away.

Also...

Spouts no longer provides grocery bags any longer. Yes, I get the plastic thing, but the paper bags decompose with no issue. I use my grocery bags as trash bags. So, let's think about that for a minute.

Now that I have no paper bags to use as trash bags, I now purchase thicker, less environmentally friendly plastic trash bags. Instead of using bags that can totally decompose in a landfill. Thanks to sprouts, I am now contributing to the plastic waste that is so damaging to our environment. So in essence, the lack of paper bags has had a devastating impact on both the environment and my carbon footprint.

After submitting this to Pissed Consumer, I was contacted by customer relations and the short answer I received was less then palatable.

The answer consisted of only two sentences that obviously came from a person not interested in providing solutions.

So bottom line, Spouts does not care that their decision to no-longer carry paper bags has become an environmental catastrophe. In two months time, we used 2lbs of plastic trash bags instead of the biodegradable paper bags we have used for years.

Also, the Customer relations person forwarded my complaint about removing their band-saws back to the meat department of my local store, who, can do nothing about the issue.

Severe lack of forethought and just another case of a corporation telling us what they think we want to hear.

Thank you,

Bill Jackson

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User's recommendation: Not sure if you want to shop here if you care about the environment

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Janis S Lki
map-marker Glendale, Arizona

Discrimination! NO STARS

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I was told I couldn't shop without wearing a mask, even though I cannot wear one due to a medical condition and the local proclamation says I should be exempt. They called the police and threatened to arrest me for trespassing if I didn't leave, even though I was practicing social distancing and have no symptoms. Their website says they follow local laws, but they currently are not.

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Pros:
  • Most things before i was discriminated against
Cons:
  • Do not allow city exemptions for mask wearing
  • Discriminate and break the local accessibility laws
  • Refused my money for my produce because i could not wear a mask

Preferred solution: Allow those with medical conditions that cannot wear a mask to shop as long as they are properly distancing. Or institute mask-free shopping hours.

User's recommendation: Don't shop here until they start caring about not discriminating!

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Guest

I had a similar problem. The Attorney General is prosecuting on my behalf, in Arizona. Ongoing case.

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If you must know plenty of front end staff our belittled by this so called patriots or trump supporters. They believe it’s a hoax and play victim any chance they can.

Meanwhile your lovely staff are battling loved ones passing away from COVID-19. I don’t mind the rhetoric but please stop acting like you’re all little saints when calls us communists or Biden lovers

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you cant wear a mask don't shop. you cant wear a mask order curbside.

you cant wear a mask have your groceries delivered. do jeopardies the safety of the employees and other customers because you are ignorant and don't want to wear a mask.

Medical condition or not. THEN STAY HOME!

Janis S Lki
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Many of the items I want to buy are not offered online. Why should I be forced to pay a delivery fee for a store that legally should allow me to shop in person?

I also don't want someone else picking out my produce. The pandemic is OVER. Healthy people don't put anyone in jeopardy.

Masks have never & will never work to stop a virus as tiny as SARS Co-V2. (see Fauci's e-mails for proof) I pity you if you can't see the larger agenda with violating our freedoms and the rule of law.

Au A Afk
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Agreed. Also, the ones who should stay home and order deliveries are the sick, not the healthy, and most certainly not someone who does not wish to wear a mask, and to force someone to do so as a condition of entry is not only highly irrational, discriminatory, immoral, unethical, but also unlawful and potentially substantially harmful, as wearing masks can deprive you of oxygen, increase your carbon load, and make you more susceptible to illness and sickness by lowering the strength of your immunity, among other reasons.

Furthermore, it is a scientific fact backed by countless peer reviewed studies and authoritative sources, not to mention the very label on the box, that masks do not, cannot, and will not slow, stop, or prevent viral spreads, so wearing them for this purpose is utterly pointless, useless and completely ineffective, and any positive effect perceived by the wearer is wholly imaginary, And, again, wearing them causes far more harm, if not nothing but harm, especially for children.

Their use should be banned, particularly for children. Being forced to wear one is a crime, as it is an act of discrimination, based on fraud, as well as practicing medicine without a license and without informed consent.

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Your dumb many communities you’ve never heard of like the neighboring indigenous communities around you seemingly forget or refuse to acknowledge beg to differ. Small minded trumpers with their privilege still intact leave no stone unturned when comes to vicious rhetoric spewing out that hole called their face.

Cashiers at my store lost dads and family on the reservation.

You people clearly are sheep if listen to Fox News and klansman tucker Carlson. Only hate fills your heart if don’t think for a second we don’t try to care for your safety even if you’re clearly stupid Republican

Au A Afk
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Demagoguery, which is what you are engaging in, is defined as emotionally manipulative, spurious, specious, or sophistic rhetoric meant to appeal solely to emotion in an attempt to bypass reason and logic and divert or distract the audience from facts, truth, or anything based in reality. Your entire comment is full of logical fallacies, opinion, bias, prejudice and, ironically, and hypocritically, the very "hate" and "viciousness" you are accusing others of, along with various presumptions and presuppositions, which in fact is in act I believe is "dumb".

What I also believe is "dumb", hateful and vicious, is when a person, either because they don't know better, i.e. dumb, or because they are intentionally attempting to obfuscate the subject, resorts to childish, infantile, immature, and petulant name calling, ad hominems, slander, or blatant mischaracterizations, particularly without referring to one single iota or piece of evidence, fact, proof, to support their claim. Furthermore, name calling, insults, sanctimonious outrage, sincere or feigned, empty and baseless slander, accusations, derogatory comments or disparaging remarks, the repetition of popular, cliched beliefs, statements, or claims, no matter how vitriolic, false, or misleading, is not a rational argument. I would also like to add that one should not engage in such acts of emotional manipulation, emotional blackmail, or emotional bullying, i.e.

sophistic demagoguery, as it only serves to further discredit your position, as well as strengthen that of your opponent. You say all those things as if they were absolute fact, beyond dispute, as if God himself wrote it in stone, but someone who is not a sheep would understand, realize, and appreciate that no one is perfect and we all make mistakes. Therefore, someone who is truly not a sheep, as I presume you believe are not, does not simply follow or obey without question, nor do they accept every claim without challenge or dispute. As I am not a sheep, as you have presumed we all are, those against medical tyranny and unlawful, criminal, unConstitutional acts, in violation of individual rights and freedoms, as well as what is truly truth, fact, right, and just, then I must ask, what evidence do you have that we are wrong and you are right?

Evidence, proof, empirical scientific support based on reason and logic, not just emotion, opinion, or demagogic sophistic rhetoric, or do you truly believe that I should just believe you based solely on what you say? If I did that, would that not make me the very thing you presume to accuse me of, i.e. a sheep, as well as "dumb"? Indeed, it would be dumb to simply believe what you are told simply and merely because you are told to do so.

So, then, who is truly "dumb"? Again, if you provide the relevant evidence, facts, proofs, based in science, not scientism, logically and rationally, then I will consider your findings and conclusions, and then provide refutation, but I will not, as you have done, resort to insults, emotional manipulations or logically fallacious arguments, presumptions, demonization, vilification, generalizations, or trite, cliched politically motivated prejudicial and biased stereotypes, which are in fact merely red herrings from the actual issue. I believe, from what I have read, those who engage in such demagoguery do so because they know they have already lost the debate, as well as the fact that their intellectual position on the issue is non-existent. In other words, people resort to name calling, slander, and arguments appealing to emotion because the point or claim they are trying to make, support, defend, or justify, is essentially false, baseless, irrational and cannot be supported or justified by any other means.

Truth can be easily supported, defended, and proven with facts, evidence, proofs, logical and rational argument, but it is the lie that needs to be forced on people and can only be defended with arguments that appeal solely to emotion, such as fear, shame, anger, etc., which describes your argument, and it is this kind of argument that only the dumb, either truly dumb or playing dumb, resort to. To reiterate, it seems you are projecting, in the psychological sense. You claim that "trumpers" are small minded and spew vicious rhetoriic, and that those who listen to fox news are sheep and tucker carlson is a klansman, but you fail to see the irony in that it is you who are spewing hateful rhetoric, by making insults and false accusations, that it is you who are full of hate, as well as dumb and sheeplike as you present zero evidence in support of your claims and accusations, but rather simply repeat what you have heard from others or are told to say.. Secondly, you say you care about the safety of "stupid" republicans, ok, but in what way?

I have already shown how masks are not conducive to safety, as countless scientific studies have shown and proven, during decades of research, going back to the spanish flu. In actuality, wearing masks, as well as complying with arbitrary dictates, like lockdowns and social distancing, not only is unlawful, but unsafe and harmful as well, as a great deal of evidence has shown and proven. So then, you say you care, but do you care enough, like me and those like me, to delve into the mountains of scientific evidence and research in support or in opposition of the subject, in order to find out the real and actual truth, and not just believe what we are told by questionable actors at face value which, again, is what a dumb sheep would do. You say you care, but perhaps I, and those like me, care much more.

If you truly care, then provide for me the scientifically backed proof and evidence that I am wrong and you are right, and if you cannot, or if you come across the actual truth during your research that aligns to or agrees with what I have stated and asserted, then perhaps you will have the humility to admit you were wrong, as well as take the necessary steps to correct your mistakes. For as of now, your insults, logical fallacies, appeals to emotion, and hateful vicious rhetoric, have done little to nothing to sway or convince me otherwise. Finally, my health and safety is not your responsibility, nor anyone else's, and to presume so is the height of arrogance and the beginning of tyranny. Only prisons prioritize security above all else.

Do you actually believe I am incapable of discerning truth for myself? Why is it that you think so little of your fellow humans, particularly "trumpers" and "republicans"? Why assume it is only they who question and challenge presumptive information or assumptions? Any rational, logical, reasonable human being who is at least moderately intelligent is fully capable of thinking for themselves and coming to their own sound and valid conclusions.

It is only dumb sheep who blindly and unquestioningly follow and obey, and conform to the group without challenge or dissent, while being incapable of learning from past mistakes, or history.

If this is your accusation of me then provide the evidence that proves it, otherwise I believe it is more so the case that the label is more fitting or more applicable upon those whom assert the opposite of my point but provide zero evidence in support of it. I hope and pray that someday the hate in your own heart, blinding you to the truth, subsides and vanishes, and in its place you find the love, wisdom, and courage necessary to discern and accept true truth, not just the popular truth propagandized by those in power, which is not truth at all, and which only dumb sheep believe.

Au A Afk
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The ones who should stay home and order deliveries are the sick, not healthy, and most certainly not someone who does not wish to wear a mask, and to force someone to do so as a condition of entry is not only highly irrational, discriminatory, immoral, unethical, but also unlawful and potentially substantially harmful, as wearing masks can deprive you of oxygen, increase your carbon load, and make you more susceptible to illness and sickness by lowering the strength of your immunity, among other reasons. Furthermore, it is a scientific fact backed by countless peer reviewed studies and authoritative sources, not to mention the very label on the box itself, that masks do not, cannot, and will not slow, stop, or prevent viral spreads, so wearing them for this purpose is utterly pointless, useless and completely ineffective, and any positive effect perceived by the wearer is wholly imaginary, And, again, wearing them causes far more harm, if not nothing but harm, especially for children.

Their use should be banned, particularly for children. Being forced to wear one should be a crime, and I'm pretty sure it is, as it is an act of discrimination, based on fraud, as well as practicing medicine without a license and without informed consent.

Guest
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listen to your govenors not random complaints

Au A Afk
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How very authoritarian of you to say. Governors are not kings nor are they gods, they are not infallible nor perfect, they are public servants who have sworn an oath to uphold the Constitution, execute the laws of the Republic, and serve the people.

Governors are not authorities, nor is any government office holder, or any one person, the only authority is truth, so listen to truth, facts, real and actual data, science, and objective information. There is also common sense, which holds a great deal of authority in and of itself, so long as, and to the degree that, it conforms and adheres to truth, and the truth is, absolutely, categorically, irrefutably, indisputably, and beyond all doubt, masks do not work to slow, stop, or prevent viral spreads, as countless past and present peer reviewed randomly controlled studies from various prestigious academic, medical, and scientific institutions have shown, demonstrated, and proven. Just with common sense alone one can deduce that viral particles are infinitesimally, or by multiple magnitudes, smaller than the pores of the mask, and so hence is utterly and completely useless and ineffective for slowing, stopping, preventing viral spreads, or blocking out viral particles, and no person, be they governor or whatever, can make this fact untrue simply by saying it, mandating it, or dictating it. If you wish to be a mindless, unquestioning, uncritical, obedient follower, that is your choice, but it is best, and conducive to truth, justice, freedom, independence, and strength, to be able to critically analyze and think for oneself, question, protest, and challenge false information in order to correct and amend so that truth and justice prevails.

Only slaves do what they are told without protest, question, or challenge, no matter how absurd, false, or unreasonable the demand, order, dictate, command, etc.. Free people must be able to think for themselves, question and challenge so called authorities, lest you abdicate your right to speak, think, or choose, and surrender your freedom and independence to those whom you believe to be a so called "authority", rather than realizing that the only authority is truth itself, and the only way to find truth is to expend and devote countless hours, time and energy, to self-study, research, examination, and critical analyzes and thought, until you become knowledgeable enough to speak, share, express, defend, protect, and support truth, or at least the closest approximation an individual can achieve. However, in order to get to a closer approximation, healthy and strong open debate, protest, and challenge is necessary and essential, without which falsehoods, lies, incorrect and inaccurate information becomes the so called "truth" people believe, but it is a false truth, in essence a lie, and one way to find out if something is a lie is to see what kind of information is being forced upon people and made to believe. In contrast, one way to know what is truth is to see what information is being forcefully suppressed and censored, removed from even debate, challenge, or protest by force.

Truth does not need to be forced on anybody, unless the underlying assumption is that people are incapable of reason, understanding, logical deduction, or critical thought, and the kind of people who believe this believe people are less intelligent than children, for even children understand truth, and are capable of reasonable critical thought. Are you saying we should all be like children, and simply obey our presumptive betters, or so called "authorities" without question? Even children ask questions, protest, and challenge when confronted with unreasonable demands or arbitrary dictates. Are you saying we should be less than children, like a slave?

Well I do not wish to be a slave, neither should anyone, but if you wish, well that is your choice, but you cannot and should not force anyone to be as you wish them to be. Again, those who do simply what they are told without question, challenge, or protest, not matter how absurd, arbitrary, unreasonable, harmful, or fraudulent, is a slave. Those who are able to think for themselves, see truth as authority and not authority as truth, and questions, challenges, and protests that which is unreasonable, false, baseless, arbitrary, and lawless, are free, strong, and independent, with a strong desire to seek justice.

Doing something simply because you are told, by a perceived paternalistic so called "authority", without question, challenge, or protest, and without critical analysis or thought, is either a child or slave. Which are you?

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Chris N Aec

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Chicken bone in sandwich

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Purchased a deli croissant chicken salad sandwich and while eating it something poked the inside of my mouth and I found a good size chicken bone which had I swallowed it would have caused a serious injury, choking, and or worse. Attempted to call the store but got no answer.

Finally emailed the Corp.

office and a manager, Eric, from the local store called and left a message on my phone. Although he said he would talk to the deli depart and offered a token sandwich and bag of chips, his demeanor over the phone suggested that he belied the severity and potential outcome for myself and the store

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Preferred solution: Apology

User's recommendation: Not take the preparation of your food by others for granted, check it before consumption.

Justine D Ztp

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Concerned for the treatment of their employees

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I was visiting the location in Southern Ca Riverside location earlier this week; when i was stopped in my tracks from what i had originally thought was just typical conversation between employees and what i heard and saw was unsettling causing me to stop in my tracks in disbelief. The tone of the conversation seemed be that of several managers giving direction to one employee; which is normal, but what isnt normal is what followed.

The employee receiving the orders of tasks, and critiques of their competence was visibly upset and seemed physically defeated by the managers approach. To paint the picture for you, that poor employee reminded me of one of those neglected and abused dogs in one of Susan Sarandons ASPCA. Commercials Terrible right?! Poor thing looked like she was just done with it all; like she was defeated, exhausted and starting to believe the not so positive words of encouragement from these 3 jokers!!

I wanted to hug her so bad Im a stranger how do you know Covid I kept my distance the poor thing look like she was just getting beat up by them verbally all day. My heart broke and I even started to get watery eyed and choked up because no living being deserves to be treated like that and being a survivor of abuse myself, i can completely sympathized and empathized with her. I unloaded my grocery cart what typically would has been a grocery purchase over andI unloaded my grocery cart what typically would has been a grocery purchase of over $200, and sat in my car for over an hour contemplating on what to do and how to protect this employee and stop these evil, far less qualified, sorry excuse of management, poor representation of this corporate health food store chain dont ever treat an employee like this again . Like where is the love?

Can someone please tell me what happened to common decency, human compassion, kindness in the world and the work place! If a Company that promotes a healthy lifestyle allows their managers of all levels to treat their other employees in a very abusive and unhealthy way, I believe they should have to change their mission statement as a company and what they value as important. Because what I witnessed that day was Im speakable they were coming up to this employee and what appeared to be shifts like taking turns on beating a pin yada and telling this employee she cant take a break she needs to work faster she needs to be better she has to get all of her tasks done meanwhile theyre not giving her any chance to finish a task and theyre not communicating with each other it look like you were setting this poor girl up to get fired it was completely unprofessional and then when I walked back in to see if I could catch this employee and talk to her to see if she was OK because I couldnt leave without making sure this girl did not need anything I overheard one of the same managers that were hounding this girl tell a different employee that she was already upset totally blame shifting, being passive about the severity of it and how wrong they were, not validating the employees feelings and not taking accountability for the poor behavior by these terrorizers creating a hostile work environment. I wasnt able to locate the employee and Ill give her my condolences and offer any type of help offered to take her to go get ice cream or something after her shift or if theres anything I can do to brighten her day because no one needs to feel that way.

And as I was leaving the store for the last and final time for as long as I live I remembered I had witnessed other types of immoral and abusive behaviors from other store employees, and even though they have a yes policy that they pried themselves on I remember one time I had asked what was a store manager for help and he was completely rude and condescending. I chalked those incidents to them having a bad day or something; but now i realize they are just terrible humans and shouldnt be in their position of authority.

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Preferred solution: Id like to see these people removed from their positions and for corporate to conduct a full investigation of these Reginald and reg managers

User's recommendation: Dont shop sprouts or work for them!!!!

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Sprouts Farmers Market, LLC is a large chain of grocery stores. The first Sprouts store was opened in Chandler, Arizona in 2002. Today company’s headquarters is based in Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America. Sprouts Farmers Market offers fresh baked goods, ready-to-eat meals, sensibly-priced vitamins, gluten-free groceries, and fresh vegetables. The company also provides local and organic dairy items, and more than 200 bins of bulk items. Sprouts Farmers Market has more than 200 stores across the United States of America. The company provides recipes with nutrition information regarding certain food products on its official website. Customer service is provided Monday-Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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