Safeway Pharmacy Staff Fail
The Safeway Pharmacy staff at the location at 5616 176th St E, in Fredrickson, WA, engages in the kind of fashionable bigotry and overt antisemitism which has given The Woke Left such a bad name. I've been having issues with them ever since I moved to Frederickson from Federal Way last month. The Safeway pharmacy staffers in Federal Way were content to do their job in a professional manner. By contrast, their counterparts in Frederickson are the pharmaceutical industry equivalent of online trolls, who abuse their positions of trust and their labor union protections to displace Safeway's corporate views with their own entitled bigotry. The staffer who requested my last name Saturday apparently did not care for my answer. Me: "Epstein." Her: "How very unfortunate." That’s what we call “editorializing” in the news industry, where I've spent 30 years as a staff writer for The Associated Press, Gannett and Bloomberg News. I'm neither helpless nor particularly tolerant of this kind of entitled bigotry. Being that Epstein is the most common Jewish surname in The U.S., those of you who find group bias distasteful may want to take your business elsewhere. As I have. It's either that or stop carrying the last name I inherited from my war hero dad. He earned two bronze stars for valor and was repeatedly wounded as his company of combat engineers fought their way across Europe during WWII as part of Gen. George Patton's Third Army. Only 23 of the company's original members finished the war. Daddy Epstein was one of them, despite permanent partial hearing and sight loss, a full head of gray hair at 21, and a bad case of what is now known as PTSD. It's my honor to carry the name of this fine American combat veteran (see pic), who had a recurring nightmare until the day he died, at age 85, about the death of his best friend "Whitey" during The Battle of The Elbe River. No doubt, Whitey and my dad would face similar bigotry from the "empowered" Pharmacy techs at this poorly led operation if they were alive today and would have to hope their meds were not tampered with. Eff billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, who has tarnished this good name, and eff the Safeway pharmacy trolls in Fredrickson, Wash. I can do better, just by voting with my wallet. I just did that, by changing my pharmacy from Safeway to Amazon Pharmacy Home Delivery.