The store I work at was one of the last to honor senior discount day on Wednesdays.
I want to first say that I love the elderly and I always go out of my way to help them out with anything they need. I have helped shop for them and helped fill a grocery list for others and I enjoy that sort of thing.
However, I think getting rid of senior day was a good idea for a few reasons. I think that if there was to be a discount day it should be all the time as are prices now. Wednesdays usually were filled with elderly and many that it was most likely not safe for them to be there. We would have minor fender benders at least twice a month and my friend that worked the morning U-Scan her car had been hit 3 times over a period of 6 months and all on a Wednesday. Our store uses the short buggies and it was almost impossible to keep them in the lobby and the mart carts were constantly run down and could not recharge without someone running off with it and then a courtesy clerk (usually me at that time) would have to drag it back to the outlet.
I thought senior day to be unsafe as I had mentioned there were many with severe health problems and ailments where they shouldn't be out and it was not uncommon for us to have to call an ambulance.
The parking situation was always the worst as people who weren't handicapped would take those spots and the handicapped who were understandably upset would end up parking somewhere illegally like on the side walk or in the yellow lines. And we had the occasional fist fight to break out over the parking spaces.
We had it for a short time in California, but many years ago the courts ruled it illegal because they said it was age discrimination.
That sounds like something California would do. Do they also call it age discrimination when restaurants allow children 5 years of age or younger to eat free?
