Tesco Supermarket Accused of Discriminating Against Jedis

[Majic Walrus]

Wearing a hood indoors makes you look suspicious. I would always watch anyone who looks and/or dresses suspiciously.

Would you approach them and ask them to remove their hood or leave?

 

[Ghostvirus]

Well I learned something. If I am going to rob a place. I won't wear a hood, & then just kill all the witnesses.

 

[SuperFerret]

Would you approach them and ask them to remove their hood or leave?

I'd ask them to remove their hood. If they refuse, I'd watch them like a hawk watching a mouse.

 

[Majic Walrus]

I'd ask them to remove their hood. If they refuse, I'd watch them like a hawk watching a mouse.

Why not just watch them from the beginning?

 

[C. Lee]

The best use of Jedi powers....boycotting a store.....sheesh.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

Seriously, why are you making such a big deal out of this? Walrus, you are usually pretty smart, but this isn't being very smart right now. How can you NOT see that a store would think someone coming in during any time with a hood on might be up to something? A hood indoors is just suspicious. There's no reason to wear one indoors whatsoever.

 

[SuperFerret]

Why not just watch them from the beginning?

I would, but I'm also nice enough to ask them to remove their hood. If they do, I won't have to watch them so obviously.

 

[katie_girl09]

Seriously, why are you making such a big deal out of this? Walrus, you are usually pretty smart, but this isn't being very smart right now. How can you NOT see that a store would think someone coming in during any time with a hood on might be up to something? A hood indoors is just suspicious. There's no reason to wear one indoors whatsoever.

Oh c'mon now. That isn't very nice. Even if his opinion is AMAZINGLY, UNCANNILY, UNABASHEDLY WRONG he is entitled to it.
See, Walrus? Don't ever say that I don't do anything to help you out.

 

[Majic Walrus]

Seriously, why are you making such a big deal out of this? Walrus, you are usually pretty smart, but this isn't being very smart right now. How can you NOT see that a store would think someone coming in during any time with a hood on might be up to something? A hood indoors is just suspicious. There's no reason to wear one indoors whatsoever.

I'm not saying that they wouldn't think it was suspicious. Again I don't even think that asking him to remove the hood is a bad thing. The point I'm trying to make is that when you constantly act on your suspicions you turn into an *******.

Suspicion alone should not cause you to interfere in someone else clothing options no matter how completely ridiculous or suspicious they might be.

 

[Majic Walrus]

I would, but I'm also nice enough to ask them to remove their hood. If they do, I won't have to watch them so obviously.

I just don't think that it's very nice to ask me to change the way I dress because you think I'm stealing stuff.

I think it'd be a lot nicer to watch him (like you should be with all of your customers) and if he takes something then confront him.

 

[SuperFerret]

I just don't think that it's very nice to ask me to change the way I dress because you think I'm stealing stuff.

I think it'd be a lot nicer to watch him (like you should be with all of your customers) and if he takes something then confront him.

I'm not asking you to change what you wear, just to push the hood down off of your head as is customary.

And honestly, making life difficult for customers is the ONLY reason I would ever work in retail again.

 

[Majic Walrus]

I'm not asking you to change what you wear, just to push the hood down off of your head as is customary.

And honestly, making life difficult for customers is the ONLY reason I would ever work in retail again.

 

[SuperFerret]

Seriously. The BEST moment working in retail is when a would be shoplifter got in my face and yelled at me for watching him too closely and then he stormed out while I laughed my ass off.

 

[Majic Walrus]

That would be pretty awesome.

 

[Ring Deacon]

Now as funny as this is, I do have to side with the store here. I have worked in retail my whole life, and in the stores defence they only asked him to do so because of security reasons. Anytime someone comes in either hooded or in a over sized coat ( a jedi robe would be that ) you watch them more closely then you would someone in jeans and a t-shirt. And to me the fact that he got so pissed about this would mean he may have been up to something. He was not singled out because of his religon, but for a store rule that everyone has to follow. I have watched many shoplifters and they all get upset over being asked anything. They get defencive if you just ask if you can help them find something and made if you ask to look in a bag they are buying ( I can't tell you how many DVD's and CD's I have found in back packs and purses. ). So yeah he may have did nothing wrong, but neither did the store.

Oh and yes, he was no Jedi. He was Sith all the way. A Jedi wouldn't have got so mad over this. A true Jedi would have let it slide.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Yea refusing to take the hood off and making a scene about it would make me even more suspicious.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

Working in retail you just see how low or desperate people can be. I've seen people steal everything from movies to food to condoms.

The tops is the time a woman tried to steal a turkey during Christmas time by hiding it between her legs as she was heading out the door just about to get away with it out plopped the turkey. I couldn't help but laugh.

 

[Majic Walrus]

Yea refusing to take the hood off and making a scene about it would make me even more suspicious.

Really? Because at that point in time you've almost assuredly seen his face clearly.

 

[BlackLantern]

I only get followed if I walk into certain stores, and that's because Im usually following my sister into some evil store like American Apparel and they aren't used to black folk in there

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Really? Because at that point in time you've almost assuredly seen his face clearly.

Yea because most people would assume that someone going over the top and causing a scene simply because they were asked to take their hood or hat off has a reason for going over the top and making a scene simply because someone has asked them to take their hood or hat off.

 

[Bim]

he shouldve just used a jedi mind trick.

I thought the same thing

 

[katie_girl09]

I only get followed if I walk into certain stores, and that's because Im usually following my sister into some evil store like American Apparel and they aren't used to black folk in there

No offense, but I don't quite understand why ANYONE shops there. The clothes are so plain and the prices are so... not... if you know what I mean.

 

[Raiden]

The fact that this guy gets so defensive and angry so quickly shows that he's no Jedi, but a Sith.

 

[BlackLantern]

No offense, but I don't quite understand why ANYONE shops there. The clothes are so plain and the prices are so... not... if you know what I mean.

she's 20 and she likes it there

 

[Majic Walrus]

Yea because most people would assume that someone going over the top and causing a scene simply because they were asked to take their hood or hat off has a reason for going over the top and making a scene simply because someone has asked them to take their hood or hat off.

What does making a scene give him? It would be ******ed. He's already been discovered if he was up to anything he would probably just leave.