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Customer: Westminster Walmart Trying To Double
Charge After Good Samaritan Paid Layaway Bill
By Keagan Harsha
WESTMINSTER, Colo. -- A Westminster woman is upset with her neighbor- hood Walmart, accusing the store of being a neigh- borhood Grinch.
Desiree Gonzalez said the store is trying to charge her for a layaway item that's already been paid for.
Gonzalez walked into the store at West 72nd Avenue and Sheridan Boulevard on Tuesday, and was told a good Samaritan had picked up the tab, paying for the 55- inch television she had on layaway.
Gonzalez was planning to pur- chase the TV as a Christmas gift for her mother.
However, store employees could not find the televi- sion.
Gonzalez said a store employee eventually told her someone must have picked it up and that she need- ed to pay for a TV if she wanted to take one home.
"She all but called me a liar is how I take it. She was extremely rude,"
Gonzalez said. "I was like, 'I didn't pick it up,' and they were saying that I did and I said show me video. Show me some- thing. I did not pick it up.
"Show me where I presented you my ID. That didn't hap- pen."
Frustrated and angry, Gonzalez left the store.
"That's when I said, you know what, I'm not going to let this go," she said.
She got home and started venting online.
The FOX31 Problem
Solvers were promised the com- pany will investi- gate the complaint.
As of Wednesday evening, Gonzalez said she still does- n't have her televi- sion.
"It's the point of it now because the way I see it is they not only ripped off a good Samaritan, but they're ripping everybody off because how many other people are they doing this to?" she said.
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