Now petco does it too!

[wilomn]

I agree completely with you and have actually pointed this out to higher ranking managers and was given a look of shock and disbelief and then they changed the subject without so much as even trying rebuttle my point. I sell any mouse/rat to any customer that wants to come in and buy them. If they say the word "feeder". I inform them of the policy and have them just ask for mice/rats from then on.

Which is all well and good for the snake and customer but not so good for you.

Businesses run for profit. Don't you think if there was more profit in selling feeders than the negative press it could bring that they would still be selling feeders.

You guys are making it too personal. It's not about any one person or store, it's a nationwide image.

If someone can't follow policy, no matter how good the reasons, well, this isn't about that now, is it? Or is it? No, not really though the two are rather tightly intertwined.

Why must they change their policy to suit any of us, or anyone else for that matter? Do you go into stores that only sell fish or only birds and complain at them about not selling the feeders you need? They could. Easily. But there's either not enough profit in it, they don't want do sell feeders or they don't want to deal with the buttdarts like peta and hsus and the puckered targets, er members, that make them up.

I'm pretty sure that no one posting in this thread has ever owned a store and had to make these decisions from an owners point of view. Without the impetus of making money, paying the rent and power and all the other bills that go with staying open, profitable, you guys are missing some really important motivation, information, and real life dos and don'ts.