Second call: NY: Plague: eliminate county benches used by homeless and worse at White Plains train station.

from: Ken
to: George Latimer <ce@westchestergov.com>
cc: digital@lohud.com,
letters@lohud.com,
"Thomas M. Roach" <troach@whiteplainsny.gov>
date: Apr 19, 2020, 8:56 AM
subject: White Plains, NY: Plague: eliminate county benches used by homeless and worse at White Plains train station.

To: County Executive Latimer​​

​CC: Mayor Roach​, ​LoHud​

https://white-plains-ny.blogspot.com/2020/03/plague-eliminate-county-benches-used-by.html

​Come on, do it! Take one day off reading three day old stats about the plague.

They have been infested and infected for years. They serve no purpose, right beside the train station. No normal person will sit on them. The wood should be burned and blasted into outer space. There is debris and abandoned clothing. It looks like the Bronx.

I have not seen a county police officer on the county path next to the White Plains train station this year. I walk there almost every day.

Clean it up. There's no excuse for the filth and health hazard.​

Kenneth Matinale

White Plains, NY

Plague: Shop Rite on Main Street "hides" red hand baskets.

from: Ken
to: ShopRiteCustomerCare@wakefern.com
date: Apr 19, 2020, 8:37 AM
subject: Re: Ref # 1234567 - Reply from ShopRite

Judy B.,

Here's the latest. I arrived at 7:15 AM today for old folks hour. However, the entrance I used last week was closed. I knocked and was directed to the entrance that was closed last week.

I looked for the red hand baskets that were usually just outside this entrance but there were none. I entered and no shoppers were using them. I searched and finally asked and was directed to the entrance. Nope, I hadn't overlooked them. I don't know why but I walked down the hall opposite from the one I used to get to the entrance. There was a long line of non old folks waiting to get in. About half way down towards the elevators there were red hand baskets ... behind the people waiting. I had to violate social distancing to get past non old folks waiting to get in to get a red hand basket.

What the heck? That store always, ALWAYS, has at least one stupid thing like that. ALWAYS. Who decided to put the red hand baskets down the hall behind the non old folks waiting to get in? How much common sense would it take to make a better decision?

There were other problems, of course, but that wasted the most of my time today at Shop Rite in White Plains, NY.

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Plague: ShopRite on Main Street ignores health suggestions about coronavirus COVID-19.

It's not like ShopRite was not aware of the plague (coronavirus COVID-19). ShopRite recently established a policy of no returns ... to protect everyone. Like other stores, it set early shopping only for customers older than 60 but it doesn't enforce, not even letting oldies cut to the head of the checkout lines during that time.

ShopRite on Main Street worst run store in Westchester County, NY. Saturday, March 21, 2020

Sent 3/21/20 to ShopRite Customer Care Team:

ShopRite
13 City Place
White Plains, NY, 10601
Phone Number: (914) 539-4500

Worst run store in Westchester County, NY. Two fundamental suggestions that pretty much every other store has had for decades:

1. Express checkout. You have self checkout but no limit on items as in "ten or fewer".
2. Credit card only combined with number one above.

Your self checkout is ALWAYS a crowded mess with people with shopping carts loaded and then weighing and finally paying with cash. Of course, you have the worst point of sales contraptions, too.

I'll post this on my blog.

ShopRite downtown up to its old tricks. Tuesday, October 15, 2019
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Plague: simple practical suggestion to local officials about long checkout lines at food store. Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Obviously, this ShopRite has not done anything to improve and it's especially bad considering the dumb and lazy policy of not expediting checkout exacerbates spread of the current plague through unnecessary and easily preventable social contact.

Local elected officials are copied in case they want to exert some practical influence.
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I'm older than 60. I went into ShopRite on Main Street in White Plains, NY this morning about 7:00 AM when only old people are supposed to shop. At checkout I went to the self checkout area.

Two of the four point of sale contraptions were not working. This is not unusual. Three people were ahead of me, only one over 60. One younger customer left while checking out to get another item. The two store employees there didn't notice because they were trying to fix a broken contraption but to no avail.

All three people had problems with their contraptions that required interrupting the two fixing employees. When I finally started the process I had to get assistance three times, all because the contraptions suck and should have upgraded long ago.

Also slowing things as usual was that ShopRite on Main Street, despite multiple suggestions and against common business practices in its industry, still has not implemented two very simple things:
1. "ten or fewer" items to be checked out.
2. Credit card only.

I'll send the link for this post to ShopRiteCustomerCare@wakefern.com

But I won't bother with city and county elected people, who have no interest in this either, probably because none of them shop there. It's downtown. But note that ShopRite is owned by something called Wakefern:

https://www2.wakefern.com/

CONTACT
5000 Riverside Dr.
Keasbey, NJ 08832
(908) 527-3300
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No email or anything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakefern_Food_Corporation

Type	Retailers' cooperative. Private
Founded	1946 (74 years ago) in Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
Headquarters	Keasbey, New Jersey ,  U.S.
Key people	Joseph S. Colalillo (Chairman & CEO) Joseph Sheridan (President & COO) Douglas Wille (CFO)
Services	computer services insurance advertising marketing merchandising procurement
Revenue	US$16.6 billion (FY2019)[1]
Members	51[2]
Number of employees	70,000+
Divisions	ShopRite Price Rite Marketplace The Fresh Grocer Dearborn Market Gourmet Garage
Website	www2.wakefern.com

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-colalillo-24575214/

Joe Colalillo
president at shop rite

Experience
Company NameWakefern Food Corp.
Dates Employed 1983 – Present
Employment Duration 37 yrs

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