Reply #11: Several years ago a suburban Wal-Mart ...

[kweerwolf]

... fired an employee for being gay. The local LGBT community anounced a similar "leave your cart" action against Wal-Mart and the store fired back that it would prosecute those that participated. This was before 9/11 and the Patriot Act, so I don't recall whether they cited a specific law they could prosecutor protesters under or if it was just intimidation from Wally World's legal thugs.

The only time I used a tactic like this was at a grocery store that was selling food well past the expiration date on the package. I had talked to the store manager about this and he assured me it would be taken care of, that it was apparently an oversight, that it's hard to get good shelf stockers, yada, yada, yada.

The next time I went in the store there were STILL out-of-date products (not just a few days, but a month out of date). I filled my shopping cart with everything I could grab, then picked up several of the expired products and took it to the manager's office and informed him that because the problem still hadn't been corrected, I would no longer be shopping there ... and by the way, here's some stuff you need to put back. He told me if I didn't put them back, I could be arrested and I replied, "Fine. Tell the cops to look for me out in front of the store. I'll be the one on the cell phone calling TV stations."

Needless to say, I wasn't arrested and as I left the store I heard a call over the intercom for stockers to report to the manager's office.