Racial Slur On Receipt Prompts Call For Boycott

By Rhonda Swan Monday, November 17, 2008, 02:58 PM
A young black man who returned a pair of sneakers to a Journey’s shoe store in Kansas got a receipt with the words “Dumb Nigger” imprinted in the section that asks for the name of the Customer.
The college student was at home visiting parents and had left by the time KMBC Channel 9 reported the story.
His parents, however, are pretty upset. When they went back to the store, they were told that the employee entered a generic code that automatically imprints those words on the receipt.
The father of the young man wants that employee fired.
And now there’s an email campaign calling for a boycott of the store.
The real question is why would a store have those words in their computer system? The employee chose to press the button. The owners created the system. They should be held accountable.
Journey’s has 60 stores in Florida including five in Palm Beach County and one in the Treasure Coast. Those are at the Gardens Mall in Palm Beach Gardens, Boynton Beach Mall in Boynton Beach, Palm Beach Mall in West Palm Beach, The Mall at Wellington Green in Wellingtonl, Town Center Mall in Boca Raton, and the Treasure Coast Square Mall in Jensen Beach.

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