Will she blame Walmart, her child, or herself, I wonder?

[Papa Deuce]

Most people here know I am no fan of Walmart, but I will shop there on rare occasion. Tonight I stand in Walmart's corner on what I saw happen.

My family was in the toy area, and this girl was riding a bicycle - alone - around and around one aisle. Must have done it 6 or 7x that I saw. My daughter was looking at a scooter when the girl - about10 years old - comes up to my daughter and asks if she can see the scooter. My daughter doesn't say anything. but just hands the scooter over to this girl.

The girls asks, "want to see me ride this scooter"? I looked at her and said "Not really, and you shouldn't be riding a scooter in a store". The girl says nothing and takes off on the scooter.

I don't see her for a few minutes when all of the sudden I see her zipping down the end of an aisle. She goes to make a fast turn and she runs over this little plastic piece, and the scooter slides out from under her, and she falls face first into a TV in a cardboard box. She has a fairly nasty scratch on her face and forehead and is bleeding just a little.

At this moment two women come running over. One is a Walmart employee, the other is the girl's mom... The mom is comforting her daughter and asking her what happened. The girl tells her, and mentions the piece of plastic that she ran over. The mom looks at the employee and starts saying stuff like "Don't you people ever keep the aisles, clean?"

The Walmart employee actually said, I'm sorry, but your daughter should not have been riding a scooter through the store".... I totally agree.

I left before I saw or heard anything else....

I wonder who the mom was blaming 10 minutes after the "accident"?

 

[tileman]

Wow takes all kinds.

I seen a man at lest in his late 30s showing his son how to do a Wheelie on a bike right down the middle of the store were the bikes are at

And that was the last time I every went back to Walmart.

Yep no Walmart here , Ill shop diff places.

Ron.

 

[Stacerita]

I put the blame on the mom and the kid. The mom should have been watching her kid, and the kid shouldn't have been riding. But from what she said about keeping the aisles clean, I am sure she blames Walmart.

 

[AKL_Megs]

I hate... no, DESPISE... parents like this.

It's always someone else's fault, never EVER their sweet, innocent child's fault. Oh no!

My mom would have been SO MAD at me, she would have grabbed me and apologized to the store employee for my behavior, and then made ME apologize. If I was cut up, I would have gotten a, "Well, that is what you get for riding a scooter in the store. I don't want to hear it!"

 

[MM27]

Wow takes all kinds.

I seen a man at lest in his late 30s showing his son how to do a Wheelie on a bike right down the middle of the store were the bikes are at

And that was the last time I every went back to Walmart.

Yep no Walmart here , Ill shop diff places.

Ron.

Why wouldn't you go back? It's not a WalMart issue. It's the stupid customers. I worked in retail during both high school and college and I can tell you that stupid people shop in plenty of different stores.

As far as the OP, I would hope that the kid has now learned her lesson, but who knows?

 

[Papa Deuce]

I hate... no, DESPISE... parents like this.

It's always someone else's fault, never EVER their sweet, innocent child's fault. Oh no!

My mom would have been SO MAD at me, she would have grabbed me and apologized to the store employee for my behavior, and then made ME apologize. If I was cut up, I would have gotten a, "Well, that is what you get for riding a scooter in the store. I don't want to hear it!"

I agree, but I also ask, why wasn't the child with her mom, anyway? At least she wasn't when she was riding the bike. Her mom was about 50 feet away when she crashed the scooter.

 

[LindaG4458]

I hate... no, DESPISE... parents like this.

It's always someone else's fault, never EVER their sweet, innocent child's fault. Oh no!

My mom would have been SO MAD at me, she would have grabbed me and apologized to the store employee for my behavior, and then made ME apologize. If I was cut up, I would have gotten a, "Well, that is what you get for riding a scooter in the store. I don't want to hear it!"

It would have been the same at my house with a punishment added for poor behavior.

 

[tileman]

Why wouldn't you go back? It's not a WalMart issue. It's the stupid customers. I worked in retail during both high school and college and I can tell you that stupid people shop in plenty of different stores.

As far as the OP, I would hope that the kid has now learned her lesson, but who knows?

Now that's a Loaded question

Ron.

 

[AKL_Megs]

I agree, but I also ask, why wasn't the child with her mom, anyway? At least she wasn't when she was riding the bike. Her mom was about 50 feet away when she crashed the scooter.

Well, clearly, this mom thought her child had every right in the world to be riding the scooter in the store.

Just the same as she had "every right" to crash into a (probably expensive) TV without apology, and then "every right" to blame Walmart for a piece of plastic that was on the floor that she would have never in a million years known was even there if she hadn't got caught up on it doing something she had no business doing in the first place!

 

[dakcp2001]

People like that NEVER blame themselves or their children, they will always blame someone else for everything. They will probably sue and get a settlement. Eventually someone in their family will be seriously injured or killed and the mother will be totally shocked, meanwhile everyone else will not be surprised at all.

If I ever attempted to even tocuh anything in a store when I was little my mom had "the LOOK" she would give us, and that was all it took for us to behave. lol. A mean mom look. Hehe.

 

[aprilgail2]

I am the mean mom that would have had to tell my kid "well serves you right"....but there is no way in heck that she would have been doing that anyway, the second she put her foot on it I would have stoped that right there.

 

[Kim&Chris]

My favorite topic

This happens ALL THE TIME in retail. Parents come into stores with kids, and let them run wild, completely unsupervised. Of course, I don't mean all parents, but there are a lot of them.

Eventually, the children are injured, and the parent immediately lays blame on the store and runs to the nearest personal injury lawyer.

When this happens in one of our stores, we immediately pull the video to prove that the parent failed to keep her child safe, and maintained absolutely no supervision whatsoever. We fight these claims vigorously, and often win.
Hopefully this Walmart had surveillance cameras that caught this, and will do the same to vigorously fight any claim that the mother may attempt to create.

 

[sunnydoozer]

I blame you, your child gave her the scooter.

Did you find out if the TV was Okay?

 

[Papa Deuce]

My favorite topic

This happens ALL THE TIME in retail. Parents come into stores with kids, and let them run wild, completely unsupervised. Of course, I don't mean all parents, but there are a lot of them.

Eventually, the children are injured, and the parent immediately lays blame on the store and runs to the nearest personal injury lawyer.

When this happens in one of our stores, we immediately pull the video to prove that the parent failed to keep her child safe, and maintained absolutely no supervision whatsoever. We fight these claims vigorously, and often win.
Hopefully this Walmart had surveillance cameras that caught this, and will do the same to vigorously fight any claim that the mother may attempt to create.

While I am with Walmart on this one, I wonder, with so many cameras in Walmart, maybe they could have prevented this? I don't know the answer, but maybe they have people who watch these cameras "live"?

 

[disneyworldluvr349]

The mother should have been watching the child ride the scooter, or attempt to stop her from riding it in the store.

But Wal Mart should not leave the scooters in a place were children can be riding them around the store.

The mother and Wal Mart are both to blame.

 

[eyeheartgoofy]

Hello, parental responsibility anyone???

Good grief. I don't let my kids run in the store b/c I don't want them to trip and crash into anything. I'm certainly not going to give them free reign over the bicycle department.

Parent is to blame.

 

[TheDisneyGirl02]

I blame you, your child gave her the scooter.

Did you find out if the TV was Okay?

I really hope you are kidding!

I completely blame the little girl for riding the scooter through the store and the mom for not watching her. It amazes me how oblivious some parents can be.

 

[jlima]

While I am with Walmart on this one, I wonder, with so many cameras in Walmart, maybe they could have prevented this? I don't know the answer, but maybe they have people who watch these cameras "live"?

Depends. A WalMart may have 60 - 70 cameras or more in just one store. They would have to have A LOT of people monitoring EVERY camera, all the time, to respond to a child doing something unsafe like this and send store security to that department, locate the responsible adult and ask that person to take responsibility for their child. The mom should have been monitoring what her child was doing. Period.

 

[jlima]

when this happens in one of our stores, we immediately pull the video to prove that the parent failed to keep her child safe, and maintained absolutely no supervision whatsoever. We fight these claims vigorously, and often win. Hopefully this walmart had surveillance cameras that caught this, and will do the same to vigorously fight any claim that the mother may attempt to create.

amen!!

 

[MIGrandma]

I voted for mostly the mother. She should have kept her daughter with her.

But stuff like this doesn't solely happen in Wal-Mart. It happens in any dept. store.