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Not The Onion.
By Jonathan Costen and Will Armbruster
Published: November 23, 2016, 8:49 pm Updated: November 24, 2016, 9:53 pm

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — What began as a spontaneous trip to the store ended up being one of the most bizarre experiences of Ricky Berry’s life. He and his roommate went to purchase a grocery item and ended up having the police called on them.
Berry and his roomate told 8News they walked into the CVS in Carytown and asked an employee if they sold sliced cheese. The worker kindly replied that they did not.
A few minutes later, the employee — all of the store employees, in fact — were nowhere to be found. Berry and his roommate, Philip Blackwell, said they were in the store with another customer for more than 30 minutes alone before an officer with the Richmond Police Department showed up.
“We looked around for probably 30, 45 minutes and we couldn’t find anybody,” Blackwell said.
As for the third customer who was as confused as the two roommates, Berry said, “he was in the store before we were actually. He had a bad tooth, all he wanted was some Orajel. That’s all he needed.”
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Moostache
(10,362 posts)It only gets worse from here....exponentially worse.
redwitch
(15,125 posts)WTF is wrong with people?
madaboutharry
(41,738 posts)Well, I do actually. This is exhibit A in how racism has destroyed us as a nation.
MADem
(135,425 posts)neeksgeek
(1,218 posts)Congratulations CVS, it's a heady group of people and companies that I've added you to.
I emailed the company and told them this. Speak with your wallets! Money is speech, and it's a free market. Don't support racists!
Crunchy Frog
(27,446 posts)Two black people were refused service and forcibly removed from the premises of a public business, for no other reason as that they were black. I thought that was definitely unacceptable in contemporary times, and Trump isn't taking over as dictator for another couple of months.
I'll certainly never go into a CVS again.
I bet that back room smelled like a latrine after all this was over.
philosslayer
(3,076 posts)Good for you. I'm in.
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)Possibly retrained .... at some point you have to admit that the employees are far to stupid to have any interaction with the public.
It begs the questions: Have they never had a black customer? Do they hide every time they see a PoC?
I am actually quite surprised that this happened in the Richmond Virginia area ....
dumbcat
(2,139 posts)Being we have only heard one side, I suspect that we are missing something. I wonder what?
MrScorpio
(73,759 posts)AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)If true, they might be either mentally ill or really paranoid after smoking pot.
LAS14
(15,057 posts)WillowTree
(5,344 posts)I can't quite figure what it could be, but something just doesn't add up to the conclusion that a fella asking about cheese freaked the entire staff of the store out to the point of them all hiding.
Très strange.
Crunchy Frog
(27,446 posts)
JI7
(91,504 posts)SCRUBDASHRUB
(7,258 posts)Wtf.
I am glad I switched from CVS to Walgreens years ago for my prescriptions.
Initech
(104,058 posts)
Vinca
(51,722 posts)American cheese and loot the place. WTF is happening to this country????????????????????
pepperbear
(5,691 posts)I see it in drug stores every time I go into them, and that's including CVS.
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)This is beyond ridiculous. CVS needs to get rid of people like that.
ck4829
(36,739 posts)“We were walking around trying to find an employee, and the cop himself ended up opening up the emergency door, which set the alarm off,” Berry explained. “A couple of minutes later, he got the call from the alarm company asking what was going on.”
Weird.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)
when those gangbangers ask for sliced cheese, they really mean cheese that comes in a package pre-sliced.