Reply #5: Something is seriously amiss when businesses can just throw out paying customers

[TahitiNut]

... for things as trivial as this. What ever happened to "the customer is always right, even when he's wrong"? Have we gotten to the point that business is so in bed with government at all levels that business - particularly a national chain (i.e. corporation) - "aims to please" politicians on the take and not the customer?

We seem to have taken the 'agricultural' model (stake out the territory) and applied it at all levels. Wal*Mart dominates many regions to the point of exclusivity. Cable companies have been doing this for years now - don't like 'em? Do without. Telecomm is that way - but doesn't need to be. Monopoly government in cahoots with monopoly business - 'choice' is becoming obsolete ... a 20th century anachronism.