\n Samantha Clark, 29, from Long Melford, was visiting a retail park in Ipswich for the first time since becoming pregnant other than to go to hospital appointments and had gone into a Salvation Army charity shop to browse for more comfortable clothing when she suddenly needed to use the toilet.\n<\/p>\n
\n Samantha Clark was refused entry into the Salvation Army toilets (Image: Samantha Clark)\n<\/p>\n
\n Despite explaining her situation, her request was denied by staff both downstairs and on the first floor.\n<\/p>\n
\n Ms Clark said: “I’m 20 weeks pregnant – I don\u2019t like trying to find somewhere to go to the toilet anyway since being pregnant so it was the first time I\u2019ve been out in a while.\n<\/p>\n
\n The outfit Ms Clark was wearing at the time of the incident. (Image: Samantha Clark)\n<\/p>\n
\n “In the moment I thought there\u2019s a stigma around shops letting you use toilets when you\u2019re pregnant and it\u2019s now put me off going out again.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It really disheartened me.”\n<\/p>\n
\n The new flagship store replaces Next in Suffolk Retail Park. (Image: Dan Laughlan)\n<\/p>\n
\n She later went to The Range, where staff allowed her to use their staff toilet.\n<\/p>\n
\n Ms Clark said: “I ended up going in the Range, they didn\u2019t have any problem whatsoever letting me use the staff toilet, they responded with a simple of course you can.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Considering charities are here to help people. I know business have policies but they had not one thought about helping me.\n<\/p>\n
\n “I even asked the female staff I thought they would be more sympathetic they still just said no.”\n<\/p>\n
\n (Image: Dan Laughlan)\n<\/p>\n
\n A spokesperson for the Salvation Army said: “We aim to do the best for our customers and visitors to our stores but sadly this customer’s experience didn’t reflect this, and for this we are very sorry.\n<\/p>\n
\n “We have spoken with the local team to make sure this doesn’t happen again.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samantha Clark, 29, from Long Melford, was visiting a retail park in Ipswich for the first time since…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-772265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}