not enough room to stroll in the stores!

Hi, I have noticed lately that I am not able to take the sroller inside some of the stores, there is simply NO room for me to move it around... The stores are so packed with clothes that there is no way around them, the wheels get cought, or the boys grab everything and drags things around.. I am certain that a wheelchair can't even fit through the stores.. Isn't there a law for that? I am so fusterated, and the lack of help too, I mean here i am with 3 children and people give me a look as if I need to be the one to get out of the way!!! Any advice? has anyone have this problem?

Olivia

 

Hi, I have noticed lately that I am not able to take the sroller inside some of the stores, there is simply NO room for me to move it around... The stores are so packed with clothes that there is no way around them, the wheels get cought, or the boys grab everything and drags things around.. I am certain that a wheelchair can't even fit through the stores.. Isn't there a law for that? I am so fusterated, and the lack of help too, I mean here i am with 3 children and people give me a look as if I need to be the one to get out of the way!!! Any advice? has anyone have this problem?

Olivia

 

I thought I was doing pretty good, I have a Duoglider and I push that and pull a cart. But at Walmart this week, going around something I broke a shelf off and that sent 4 small, $40 Christmas trees flying and they all broke. Crud. I felt like an idiot, and my 4 year old kept saying over and over that it was my fault, not hers. Thanks babe.

 

I have noticed this too. The worse place I've been with a stroller is Gymboree of all places! Don't they want people who have little kids to shop at their store?! I don't go there anymore with the babies because there is absolutely no room between displays for the stroller.

 

exactly this is the ONE store that is the most troublesome, childrens place second and so on...

 

ok, i had a small fit (actually a huge fit) on the woman in Hallmark. it was a wed. afternoon, who the **** else whould be shooping other than mothers with small children. we as usual i couldn't manover around so i started to move things out of my way ( i would have put them back) until....godzilla woman came out and said " i hope you are planning to put that back" can you imagine? so i flipped... i started yelling about wheelchair access and bias against small children. it was a mess.

 

I have noticed this also at Gymboree and Childrens Place. I am pretty sure these are the rules... between soft fixtures, clothes racks and such is 32" and between hard places tables etc it is 36", the law is called ADA I think it stands for the American Disability Association, it has been a few years since I have worked but this is what I recall when I was working in a store that had to adapt to the ADA ruling.

 

GRRRRRRRRR YES!!!! I had that problem both with my tandem and my side by side. It doesn't matter which stroller I use, the stores are so darn packed that I constantly crash into things or I have clothes slaming into their faces as we walk through. The thing that really gets me is when I have this problem in baby clothing stores. I mean...HELLO!??! Who comes to shop in these stores?? Mommies, that's who. And many of these mommies have babies in strollers. They just don't get it and yes, it's very very frustrating!

 

Olivia, that is one of my biggest pet peeves!!! I will always say out loud in the presence of an employee "WE Won't SHOP here, because the stroller doesn't fit!"

I have had employees at Dillards (I spoke to a manager and made a stink - it had been building inside me for 19 mos. - got a 15% discount that day!) move the displays for me and I started to walk in to the Gap (where I REGULARLY visit!) and I couldn't get through, so I told my DH (who was in front of me) "C'mon, let's go! I'm not shopping here anymore, the stroller doesn't fit" and the lady SWIFTLY said "no need for that, let me move this for you. Please let us know, we'll be happy to move stuff for you!"

 

It's ridiculous and very discrimitory. Maybe we should all right our state representatives or something!

 

I totally hear you and am very frustrated. We went to the mall this weekend, took about three steps into Gymboree, ran into four racks of clothes and walked backwards out of the store. Don't they know that the majority of people shop with their children and strollers. Even a single stroller would of had a hard time in our Gymboree. Our Children's place is good, but I have a hrad time in JC Penneys aisles aswell. I was trying to buy some decorative pillows for our living room. I ended up parking the stroller at the end of the aisle and running down to grab the pillow while keeping that corner of an eye on the baabes. It is so hard to browse, which I ove to do. Hurray for Target though-- we will spend hours in there looking at things.

 

That is why we don't shop at Gymboree. Thank goodness for Target and Old Navy. I don't know WHAT I would do if they packed the aisles there!

 

I know, you can actually SHOP at Target! What a concept. I always wonder if those other places that crowd their aisles know how much buisness they lose??

 

ADA actually stands for Americans with Disabilities Act.

I know what you all mean though. I think it may have something to do with the holiday season being upon us. There is no room in the aisles because of too much product as well as TOO MANY PEOPLE!

 

That's one reason why I couldn't stand my side-by-side. Even though it was supposed to be only as wide as a wheelchair, there are so many places that a wheelchair would have trouble fitting. It's ridiculous! I never had much trouble with my tandem so I always took it shopping instead.

 

Can you just imagine what people in wheel chairs go through? I really hate place that leave their boxes of unpacked merchandise in the aisles too. I get that it is Christmas and the stores need extra stuff, but it is ridiculous.