I said in yesterday’s comments that all the Saturday night protests were in downtown Madison, well away from my Walmart. Well, when I got to work on Sunday morning, I found out we had been hit and looted too. Not on a grand scale – just enough to make my faith in my safety in the store a little bit shaky. It happened at around 1:00 Sunday morning (right about the time I was typing here that our Walmart had not been affected). A group of about 10 people smashed the glass in our cart door and entered the building. There are no associates in the store at the that hour. The criminals got away with a TV and some clothing – nothing major. By the time I got to work at 9:00 in the morning, there was no evidence of a break-in, except the big stacks of pallets in front of the cart door and the surrounding windows. There were also stacks of pallets of water near the exit doors, which I assume they have blocking those doors now that the store is closed for the night. With continued riots in Madison tonight (despite the curfew imposed by the mayor) I’m very afraid they’ll hit our store again tonight if there is any way for them to get inside. And I’m worried there could be more damage tonight. There is a police station just a few minutes down the road from our store, but with so many cops downtown handling that riot, I don’t know how many are available to the west side of town. It really isn’t about George Floyd’s needless death with these rioters. They’re just using that as an excuse to vandalize and loot stores. This is no way to honor anyone. We did not kill that man, so why are they doing things like this to us? I’m a little shaky and scared now. I’m trying not to be. I hope this ends soon, but I bet if that cop gets what is considered too light a sentence, we’ll be in for more riots in the future
I said in yesterday’s comments that all the Saturday night protests were in downtown Madison, well away from my Walmart. Well, when I got to work on Sunday morning, I found out we had been hit and looted too. Not on a grand scale – just enough to make my faith in my safety in the store a little bit shaky. It happened at around 1:00 Sunday morning (right about the time I was typing here that our Walmart had not been affected). A group of about 10 people smashed the glass in our cart door and entered the building. There are no associates in the store at the that hour. The criminals got away with a TV and some clothing – nothing major. By the time I got to work at 9:00 in the morning, there was no evidence of a break-in, except the big stacks of pallets in front of the cart door and the surrounding windows. There were also stacks of pallets of water near the exit doors, which I assume they have blocking those doors now that the store is closed for the night. With continued riots in Madison tonight (despite the curfew imposed by the mayor) I’m very afraid they’ll hit our store again tonight if there is any way for them to get inside. And I’m worried there could be more damage tonight. There is a police station just a few minutes down the road from our store, but with so many cops downtown handling that riot, I don’t know how many are available to the west side of town. It really isn’t about George Floyd’s needless death with these rioters. They’re just using that as an excuse to vandalize and loot stores. This is no way to honor anyone. We did not kill that man, so why are they doing things like this to us? I’m a little shaky and scared now. I’m trying not to be. I hope this ends soon, but I bet if that cop gets what is considered too light a sentence, we’ll be in for more riots in the future