A Visalia woman says a routine grocery trip for her restaurant turned into a humiliating experience when she was told she could not purchase a cart full of Hot Cheetos that were on sale.<\/p>\n
Gloria Rodriguez says a manager at the Foods Co in Tulare refused to sell the items to her, despite there being no posted purchase limits.<\/p>\n
Rodriguez says she is disappointed by how the situation was handled and notes she has bought large quantities of Hot Cheetos before without any issues.<\/p>\n
She took her concerns to social media following the incident, where her video quickly went viral.<\/p>\n
Visalia business owner says grocery trip turns humiliating after Hot Cheetos dispute.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
In the video, Rodriguez says she felt embarrassed during the interaction.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m so embarrassed at this moment, how Miss Juanita treated me, like if I was some type of criminal like I was going to steal the basket and run out with the bag of Cheetos,\u201d she said. \u201cYou can do better.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rodriguez, the owner of \u201cMzGlow\u2019s Kitchen,\u201d says she began her Friday morning with a grocery run for her business, where Hot Cheetos are a key ingredient in many of her dishes.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t get into a corporate because they\u2019re going to want me to buy pallets of them, and I don\u2019t have sufficient funds for that,\u201d she said. \u201cSo, I figured, let me look at sales and stuff like that.\u201d<\/p>\n
But she says the shopping trip took a turn when a store manager approached her cart and questioned her purchase.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe said, \u2018Are you going to purchase all that?\u2019 And I said yeah,\u201d Rodriguez said. \u201cShe said there\u2019s a limit, and I told her it doesn\u2019t say that anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rodriguez says she tried to explain her situation but felt she was being interrupted and ultimately denied service.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was trying to explain I\u2019ve been here before, I\u2019ve bought your products before,\u201d she said. \u201cShe said no, I\u2019m going to refuse your service.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rodriguez says the experience left her devastated.<\/p>\n
However, she says a worker at a Foods Co location in Hanford saw her video, spoke with her team, and reached out to welcome her business.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no limit,\u201d she says the worker told her, adding that she was invited to shop at the Hanford store.<\/p>\n
When she arrived, Rodriguez says a pallet of product was ready and waiting for her.<\/p>\n
The contrasting experiences at two stores in the same chain have raised questions about the store’s policies. <\/p>\n
FOX26 News visited the Tulare Foods Co location and asked about any purchase limits. A manager on duty said, as far as they know, there is no limit.<\/p>\n
We also reached out to Foods Co headquarters for comment but have not yet received a response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Visalia woman says a routine grocery trip for her restaurant turned into a humiliating experience when she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-307389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}