Looks like it's time to boycott Walmart and Dollar Tree like Kroger

Six months ago, when the coronavirus first hit the fan, I went to my local Walmart in Gainesville, Texas, for my advertising salesperson for a need of hers at home — lubricating oil for a treadmill.

Wally didn't have any, I eventually determined. Well before that, I determined there was nobody working the store floor aisles to the right of cosmetics. As in, nobody in HBA, nobody in home and garden, and nobody in automotive as well as sporting goods.

I Tweeted Wally corporate. With 48 hours or so, they tweeted back, or maybe messaged. Asked for my phone, and got it. 

Within another 48 hours, somebody from the Gainesville store called.

Well, last week's weekend, I was in there again.

And met COVIDIOTS. The gent on the right as well as on the left was maskless, and both had been walking through the store that way.

Here's a better pic of the gent on the left.

I Tweeted Wally again. And posted on the Gainesville store's Facebook.

As I said, it wasn't just the masks, it was that an apparent managerial person walking the floor saw them and did nothing, and the clerk managing the self-check kiosks did nothing.

No response to me on social media.

So, time for action.

Unlike my Kroger boycott, this isn't over a distant store's actions, it's local. But, like with Kroger, it involves PR.

And, Wally, you threw out the guy in Alaska, so local staff do this stuff elsewhere.

Update, Sept. 26: For various reasons ...  I went back to Wally today. Even more maskless people. And I refuse to accept they all have medical exemptions. Plus, per the ADA and my Kroger story, Wally can require delivery or pickup first. I don't know if any delivery or rideshare folks service it, but I do know it has pickup.

Dollar Tree had a maskless guy, too. No response to my tweet there. 

Update, Oct. 17: Maskless couple just entered Dollar Truee. My boycott was going to end after 5 weeks. Not now.