Retail store forced to make front entrance of 231 stores wheelchair accessible

[amy31416]

Mt. Kilimanjaro needs to be made wheelchair accessible too.

 

[Danke]

Mt. Kilimanjaro needs to be made wheelchair accessible too.

http://www.9news.com/sports/article/200321/295/Woman-ascends-Mount-Kilimanjaro-in-her-wheelchair

 

[Dr.3D]

Mt. Kilimanjaro needs to be made wheelchair accessible too.

They can access it if they have the right equipment.

 

[angelatc]

Shut 'em down and reopen under another LLC.

Force the whiners to pay litigation again...........and again....

This.

 

[Acala]

Shut 'em down and reopen under another LLC.

Force the whiners to pay litigation again...........and again....

At last a good use for the corporate business form.

 

[Scrapmo]

You don't have to shop there nor do you have a right to shop there.

“I’m philosophically opposed to that,”

I philosophically opposed to your philosophical approval of your use of government force and public sympathy to cater to your every whim and fancy.

 

[Victor Grey]

I wish somebody would just invent a better darned wheelchair which is affordable that can climb stairs already, do society can get over all of this nonsense.

Mt. Kilimanjaro needs to be made wheelchair accessible too.

Heh. Reality truly doesn't seem to care much for some of society's notions, does it?

 

[BlackTerrel]

I'm probably a minority here but I do see the value of these laws. It's easy to say "the free market will fix it" but it doesn't always work that way. It didn't work in the 60's and if you want a society where people have equal rights sometimes you need laws to enforce that.

That said....

That store, like others, had a wheelchair-accessible side entrance disguised as a shuttered window. Farrar, who has used a wheelchair since age 12, doesn’t do side entrances.

“I’m philosophically opposed to that,” she told the Independent.

What an entitled bitch. What are you fucking queen of England?

 

[amy31416]

I'm probably a minority here but I do see the value of these laws. It's easy to say "the free market will fix it" but it doesn't always work that way. It didn't work in the 60's and if you want a society where people have equal rights sometimes you need laws to enforce that.

My dad always said that life ain't fair, and he was right. If the laws were reasonably carried out, that'd be one thing--but things just go wayyy too far.

I wonder if people like her just feel so powerless that they have to do things like this in order to feel some kind of power. I have never in my life seen a handicapped person who was having trouble getting in or out somewhere not be offered help promptly, either by strangers or staff of the shop.

 

[Philhelm]

I wonder how she gets up into the Lincoln Memorial?

I wonder if she uses the special head of the line privileges at amusement parks?

I wonder how she dresses herself in the clothes that she would purchase from a company she aggresses with government force. I guess that's how she...rolls.

 

[QueenB4Liberty]

I don't know why anyone would want to shop at Abercrombie and Fitch, but whatever. It's pretty difficult being in a wheelchair, I've taken care of someone in a wheelchair and anything that made it easier to get in and out of places was welcomed.

 

[QueenB4Liberty]

And they don't like fat people or "ugly" people buying their clothes so it doesn't surprise me they are like this with the disabled as well.

 

[Deborah K]

Colorado is the new California.

 

[MelissaWV]

And they don't like fat people or "ugly" people buying their clothes so it doesn't surprise me they are like this with the disabled as well.

Which is why they have wheelchair-accessible entrances, right?

My dad always said that life ain't fair, and he was right. If the laws were reasonably carried out, that'd be one thing--but things just go wayyy too far.

I wonder if people like her just feel so powerless that they have to do things like this in order to feel some kind of power. I have never in my life seen a handicapped person who was having trouble getting in or out somewhere not be offered help promptly, either by strangers or staff of the shop.

Parking spots are generally part of the plan, and determined based on the square footage of the store from what I can tell. This presents a problem with big box hardware stores. They're huge. So. How often do two dozen vehicles full of people in wheelchairs pull up to Home Depot and swarm the place?

 

[jdmyprez_deo_vindice]

And they don't like fat people or "ugly" people buying their clothes so it doesn't surprise me they are like this with the disabled as well.

I am both fat and ugly and their preference does not bother me - I simply just don't shop there. They are obviously not bothered by my lack of business but in the future should they be I am sure you will see a change of heart on their part.

 

[QueenB4Liberty]

Which is why they have wheelchair-accessible entrances, right?



Parking spots are generally part of the plan, and determined based on the square footage of the store from what I can tell. This presents a problem with big box hardware stores. They're huge. So. How often do two dozen vehicles full of people in wheelchairs pull up to Home Depot and swarm the place?

You're acting as if the doors are right next to the regular ones. A lot of times there are "other" entrances to stores in malls at least but those are the doors you get to by walking on the outside of the mall. So you have to exit the mall in order to get into a store. Like I said, it may exist, but it's a matter of convenience. Most other stores disabled can get into without having to use a special door.

 

[MelissaWV]

You're acting as if the doors are right next to the regular ones. A lot of times there are "other" entrances to stores in malls at least but those are the doors you get to by walking on the outside of the mall. So you have to exit the mall in order to get into a store. Like I said, it may exist, but it's a matter of convenience. Most other stores disabled can get into without having to use a special door.

Yes, yes, and elevators are always at the back corner of a store and really inconvenient, too.

I wonder if the clothing will actually be placed in such a way that you can wheel down the aisles as well, considering in most stores it's hard enough to walk between the racks? Moreover, I wonder what the fitting rooms are like, and if they'll have to change that, too.

"I demand this store provide a BETTER entrance for me, at great cost, so I can shop there."

*store loses money and closes some stores to make up for it, and also raises prices*

"OMG that store is sooooooo overpriced I mean wtf."

'Merika.

 

[Danan]

You're acting as if the doors are right next to the regular ones. A lot of times there are "other" entrances to stores in malls at least but those are the doors you get to by walking on the outside of the mall. So you have to exit the mall in order to get into a store. Like I said, it may exist, but it's a matter of convenience. Most other stores disabled can get into without having to use a special door.

Build your own store for disabled people if there is a market for that. You have absolutely no right to force anyone else to rebuild their stores just because some people can not enter it.

 

[mad cow]

I think a couple of Dudes should load her up on a surfboard and carry her up the step while the rest of the Dudes and Bettys serenade her with Surfer Girl like the wait staff at Appleby's on your birthday.