A Missouri man was
shocked to find a racial slur on his Journeys receipt after returning a pair of shoes this weekend.
Keith Slater, 22, bought an $80 pair of shoes at the store, but later returned them after finding a better bargain at another store. Slater got his money back, but was later shocked to see that the receipt identified him as "Dumb N-----"
Like, really? Did anyone there think that someone
somewhere might
possibly notice the N-word printed on their receipt? My God, that's stupidity!
By the time the college student returned to
Journeys that night, the store was closed. When he came back on Saturday, employees said that a generic code had been entered with the return and that's what appeared.
But, Slater's father said, there were six or seven choices that came up when that code was entered and the one the employee had chosen was at the bottom of the list. Probably not a coincidence then, eh?
The employee who rang up Slater was fired, according to a statement issued by Genesco Inc, the company that owns Journeys.
"While we are continuing to investigate this incident, it appears an employee in one of our stores entered highly inappropriate statements in a form used to process a merchandise return...Needless to say, such an act was not authorized by Journeys, and will not be tolerated." --Genesco, Inc.
The Slaters received an apology call today from Genesco's corporate office, and have also been contacted by the Justice Department. The department will reportedly refer the case to the FBI to investigate whether a civil rights violation has occurred.
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