I am now working at a store called pet supermarket, their supposed policy is "pets first."
and store duties, caring for the animals first.
I really have to say, Bullpucky!!
While they do care for the small animals, and birds, the displays for them are horrid, and too small.
They are slowly killing the reptiles, such as the collar'd lizards, and tortoises.
Even worse, is the drawer type pull out displays, and the entire unit is right next to the doors... and here in Wisconsin, our winters are long, and very cold.
They won't/can't move it.
Also the owners want the minimum amount of bedding used. And because reptiles only bring in about 3% of the total sales they don't care too much.
I and a manager have talked to them about using local breeders for snakes, beardies, and geckos. But they feel they must use the Florida based corporate dealers.
A zigzag corn snake for 84 dollars, when they can buy a local albino or normal for 20-15 dollars. Even with a 100% mark up that is 15-40 dollars...
The new manager cares, but they have no sick room and she thinks that "corporate" or the dealers they deal with, quarantine the animals before they come to our store.
We have a sick lion head baby bunny in the back room, which is cold, and can only keep is seperate, and give it some oral meds through water. So its a death watch.
It came in with some other baby bunnies, and the other lion head that came in with it, died within a day or so of coming into the store.
They put new birds in with the ones already on display, and the same with the small animals.

And spending your own money to buy a hide for the snakes, won't help either, when you are not there, some dork will come along and say that the hide isn't part of the authorized set up for the tanks, OR that customers can't see the snakes and will remove it. And then you are out the money for the hide, and you can't find it, cause they put it some where and then it got moved. OR some one straightened the area up and poof its gone.

just to let you know, even the small box stores are bad.

MP