Consumers Revolt

                            CONSUMERS TAKE BACK THE NIGHT
I'm getting sick of the way in which I get treated in stores these days. I'm 59 years old and I can remember when a retail outlet would bend over backwards to see a satisfied customer leave the store. The Bay would issue refunds on a product you bought ten years prior if it was unused and accompanied with a sales receipt.  Now a days you go into a store if you want to be ignored. As far as getting a refund for a crummy product.....fogedaboutit. You might as well throw the useless product through the store window. at least that way you can get some satisfaction. Just look at the week in jail as free room and board. No I've had enough. And you? Well I'm sure you don't want to swallow any more garbage either. You may say to yourself. Why bother? It's the same everywhere you go. Yes it is Customer service is nonexistent in the modern world. the reason is the consuming public has become complacent in accepting bad service and even worse follow-up by the retailer after sales. Don't let them bully you. Waste some of your valuable time and let them know how pissed off you are. email, phone, go to the store and rant where other customers can hear,  post your concerns on social networking sites and BOYCOTT. The only way corporate Poobahs will get the message is if it hits their profit margin. I'm currently running campaigns slamming BEST BUY,  KOODO, and AVENIR retirement communities.

Best Buy: because they sold me a koodo plan that was not what I asked for and refused to refund my money
Koodo: because the plan I got was not as advertised and not what I asked for.
Avenir: because my 90 year old mother is a resident in one of their retirement communities. It is quite costly $3600/mon. The staff are cold and disrespectful, the food is appalling and the level of care is very poor. My mother got really sick and called for my help. When I arrived at her suite there were 3 days worth of suppers on the counter, hardly touched. She was in terrible distress and could hardly move. What happened to the cleaning service? Where was the care giver? What's going on here? I ate some of the diners the staff had brought up from the dining room, cleaned up the mess, put Mother to bed and stayed the night. In the morning she was in severe distress so I called the paramedics and had her taken to the hospital.where she still is some three days later. The funny thing is I got really sick 36hours afterI ate the food she had only nibbled at. The same symptoms that she had complained about. Nausea, Weakness and an inability to even think about nourishment without wanting to vomit. Too much of a coincidence for me. I believe that both of us got food poisoning from the Kitchen. with my strong constitution I recovered quickly. I've suffered food poisoning on many occasions in my 59 years on this planet and it's not a pretty picture. For a 90 year old it must be like death. I emailed the manager and he didn't get it, Thick as a brick. No reassurance that they won't try to poison Mother again. Only a justification for the pending rate increase. I'm MAD. I'm trying to get through to corporate HQ For Avenir Retirement communities and can't find an email address. The phone number has an automated answering system, don't get me started on automated answering systems. that keeps the execs well shielded from answering for their own irresponsibility and negligence. I'm mad. I'm concerned  and I'm out for blood. Heaven help those who stand in my way.

Edward Petruik