Miss Piggy's Grocery Store Checkout Headlines

[wipers]

I used to work in a video store years ago. People would come in and have a ridiculous fee for not turning a a movie in. The manager would be like pay twenty five bucks and call it a day.

[Obiron]

http://www.4utah.com/story/d/story/o...40ivs5Gh9eIVXw

OREM, Utah (ABC 4 Utah) – A mother is so disgusted by a T-shirt display at a University Mall store, she purchases every one of the explicit T-shirts.



Judy Cox wasn't expecting to come home with bags of T-shirts from PacSun when she went to the university mall with her son Saturday.



Cox explained, "We were on our way to another store we passed the PacSun store and I stopped dead in my tracks."



That's because in the store window there were four T-shirts on display and each had a picture of a nearly naked woman. Some are even too provocative to show on television.



"The bottom of one woman is completely exposed, uncovered and it's a very provocative pose that she's in,” said Cox. “Clearly it was offensive and I was most concerned about the youth and the children that would be viewing this."



Judy went in and spoke with the manager about taking the display down. The manager, while she may have agreed with Judy, said the only thing she could do was email the complaint to her corporate managers.



Cox said, "As I was leaving the mall I had this thought coming to me that I can't leave it, I can't let it stay in the window for 3 or 4 days while someone makes a decision."



So she did the only thing she knew to do, she bought every single explicit t-shirt in the store.



"I told her it didn't matter what the cost was that I just wanted every single one, including the displays out of the store."



Fortunately, Judy says, they didn't have any stock in the back so she walked out spending close to $600. She plans on returning the shirts at the end of the 60-day return policy for a full refund.



We spoke to some shoppers outside the University Mall to see what they thought of the T-shirts and Cox’s actions.



"She really did?” asked Ann Kronmiller. “I would help pay for it if I knew her. I think she's great." As far as the pictures go, Kronmiller said, "It was so disgusting to me. It's pornography."



Karen Swenson had similar feelings. "Shirts like that should not be where kids could see them,” said Swenson. “If you're an adult and you want to buy that that's fine, but that's something everybody has to go by and I don't want my kids and my grandkids to have to see that."



We weren't able to film inside the mall or the store, but I did speak with the manager who told me the display went up on Wednesday and Judy was the only one to complain.



Judy’s not stopping there; she plans on meeting with the city attorney to find out if she can have the T-shirts, or any similar campaigns, banned from the store.



"I hope it sends a really strong message to PacSun that at least in this community this is not a standard for us this is not something we approve of.

I really hate my state sometimes...

[BaneTheBrawler]

edit: nevermind, missed the price and what she plans on doing with them. shes still dumb.

[hey]

edit: nevermind, missed the price and what she plans on doing with them. shes still dumb.

You say that now, until you find out a bunch of internet strangers decide to send her $600 to pay for them, not realizing she's just going to return them anyway.

[notorious bum]

Imagine witnessing some shit like that at the mall? LOL If I worked there, I wouldn't have any of that shit and I bet my manager wouldn't either. But, things obviously don't work the same way in Utah.

It's open-season on graphic sexual nude T-Shirts causing young kids to sin all over the place.

[Nephlite]

I'll be honest, I never knew that was actually an arrestable offense. I figured you'd get fined out the ass and eventually sent to collections. Must be a weird state law.

If a bill gets sent to collections, it's usually considered as a "Theft of Services" offense that is arrestable. I think that's what happened here. Unpaid parking tickets are the usual ones. Now granted you have to rack up an absurd amount of unpaid parking tickets to get arrested, but if it gets sent to collections, you can guarantee you'll get a warrant issued for uncollected fines. FTA's (failure to appear) are big ones as well for citations and a citation to appear.

I dunno why they would consider going to court as the court fees will outweigh restitution for something this low level. Never heard of a case like this of such small monetary value. Usually a non-compliance warrant like this would be a fine at the most and government prosecution can choose to garnish your wages at the very last step. But I guess if it's that big of a deal then I suppose this makes an example out of people... (yeah right).

[BaneTheBrawler]

an example of why video rental stores dont exist anymore, maybe

[Hatedregret]

I assume they want to go to court to make sure this isn't on their record.

[Sepukku]

The Pacsun shirts since they're blurred out in the few moments they're shown in the Utah article:

http://www.pacsun.com/trends/visual-.../?ICID=0009465

LOL nothing obscene, certainly not exactly PG but everything is covered and they're not extremely suggestive poses such as the chick bending over

[Kirbyprime]

"The bottom of one woman is completely exposed, uncovered and it's a very provocative pose that she's in"

Really? If that's completely exposed then what's the porn I was watching considered?

[archibaldcrane]

I hope there's not a Victoria's Secret at that mall...

[NynJa]

I fucking hate return policies in stores...seeing as how I work retail atm. There should be no return policy unless its defective, and even then it should be exchange only, or at best store credit. You bought it, fuckin keep it, this isnt a rental.

[Jaybar]

I fucking hate return policies in stores...seeing as how I work retail atm. There should be no return policy unless its defective, and even then it should be exchange only, or at best store credit. You bought it, fuckin keep it, this isnt a rental.

Gotta find the medium between a merchandiser and a service industry. Return policies make customers happy and continue shopping at your store, strict return policy makes customers angry and not want to shop at your store (certain niche industries aside). The store I used to work at would give store credit for returns so that customers still had to come back and purchase from our store.

[Acevalefor]

Gotta find the medium between a merchandiser and a service industry. Return policies make customers happy and continue shopping at your store, strict return policy makes customers angry and not want to shop at your store (certain niche industries aside). The store I used to work at would give store credit for returns so that customers still had to come back and purchase from our store.

I know I am not indicative of the majority behavior of shoppers, but I will not buy something from a store that gives only store credit for returns. The Lowe's in our area tried this several years ago and lost my business to Home Depot. They no longer do store credit except in special circumstances, so obviously that policy didn't work.

I do not want to deal with taking something back in the first place. So if I do, it is because something is wrong or it doesn't fit, etc. I want the value of the item given back to me in full with no monetary attachment. You have the merchandise back. Give me my money back.

[Jaybar]

Store credit is only given to those without a receipt (should have clarified) even though the "policy" strictly says you must have a receipt.

It's even better when they say "I only ever shop here" when clearly the item does not register in our inventory and the bag they brought it in was from a competitor.

[NynJa]

You're talking about defective or incompatibles. I'm referring to people who want to return medicine (which isnt even legal in alberta), food, clearance/final sale items...people who just buy shit for "retail therapy", then realize they dont even need it and go "I want to return this".

2 weeks ago someone came into my store, immediately started trying to butter me up, then say they wanted to return a product that was over two months old (store policy is 30 days). She goes from complimenting me to calling me a piece of shit and I'm pathetic for working where I work. She couldnt return it earlier because she was "in a coma"...like, fuck you.

[Acevalefor]

Store credit is only given to those without a receipt (should have clarified) even though the "policy" strictly says you must have a receipt.

It's even better when they say "I only ever shop here" when clearly the item does not register in our inventory and the bag they brought it in was from a competitor.

Exactly. That is why I said I am not indicative of the majority behavior. People are shitty and sneaky. I understand the need to mitigate loss from cheats and thieves. I also completely agree with store credit without receipt. I would even go as far as "unless you can prove beyond a doubt that you bought this here, you get nothing without a receipt".

As far as this stunt at PacSun, I would not have sold the shirts to her. It was a move made by an out-of-touch woman that has never seen a prime-time TV show or the lingerie section of JC Penney. The manager knew of her objections before selling the shirts to her, so he/she could have deduced that this woman was just going to bring the shirts back months later.

[Suvhater]

Corporate is going to see how well those shirts are selling and send double next shipment.

[Artemicon]

I want the light blue one now. I haven't shopped at Pacsun in like 6 years. No such thing as bad publicity!

[Silenka]

http://metro.co.uk/2014/02/28/is-thi...-ever-4348512/

Just made me laugh. Short 20-second video about a design flaw in someone's new house...