Trader Joes Manager Threatens Customer For Talking About COVID And Religion With Employees But He Has No Idea Customer Was Recording The Whole Conversation By Alicia Powe for The Gateway Pundit
As the Biden administration, ‘big tech, woke’ corporations, the United Nations and Drive-By Media collude to destroy the First Amendment, weak-minded, petty tyrants are abusing their positions of authority to enforce the totalitarian marching orders.
A store manager of Trader Joes in Templeton, California was caught on video threatening to ban a customer from shopping in the grocery store for conversing with employees about Covid, face masks and religion.
The customer, Allan Stevo, author of several bestselling books including Face Masks Hurt Kids, claims he was casually engaging in friendly small talk with employees in Traders Joes, where he regularly shops on Sundays after church, when the store manager asked to speak with him privately.
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“Normally when I’m checking out of a store I ask the question, ‘How’s your day going?’ ‘How’s business going?’ The employees ask me the same thing, ‘How’s your day been?’ Since it happened to be Sunday after church, I replied, ‘My pastor just gave me the best sermon and I’m so happy about it.’ The conversation is innocuous, doesn’t trigger anything — I don’t even say Jesus’ name. That was what the manager approached me about,” Stevo told The Gateway Pundit.
“When a cashier asks me how I’m doing I’ll say, “It makes me so happy to see a smiling face and it just tires me out to see masks all the time, especially from customer service people.” A third of Trader Joes’ employees are masked still and it’s by choice,” he continued. “I wrote this book, face masks hurt kids and it talks about the harms face masks have on children and everyone and their inefficacy against the transmission of any virus.”‘
The manager, Mark, became incensed while overhearing Stevo’s chit-chat with the cashier and he curb his speech. Mark then asked Stevo to step outside where he reprimanded the author for “making crew members feel uncomfortable” with discussions about religion and Covid.
“He waited for me at the door of the store with a second member of the staff as a witness,” Stevo said.
Befuddled by the speech police, he began discretely recording the confrontation.
“So, if you want to continue to shop at Trader Joes I need you to not make my crew members uncomfortable by talking about Covid stuff or religion,” Mark is heard saying in the video.
Stunned by the ultimatum, Stevo asked Mark to clarify his request and the overseer of the store tepidly doubled down.
