Discrimination? Fat shaming? As a Walmart employee, how would you have handled this?

Plus-Size Vlogger Barred from Trying on Sweater at Walmart Because She Would 'Stretch It'


Plus-size vlogger Shiann Friesen is fighting back after a Walmart employee urged her not to try on a sweater because she would "stretch it" too much.

Friesen, 19, captured the incident in a video, which she posted to her YouTube channel, ShiCurves, on Jan. 26. In it, the Canadian vlogger attempts to try on a sweater and other clothing in the dressing room, but the female Walmart employee takes the clothes away from Friesen.

"Sorry, I'm really confused, what were you asking me not to do?" Friesen says.

"Just don't try to push it," the woman tells her.


"I don't understand," Friesen responds.

"Just don't try to put on something that's obviously not going to fit. That's all I'm asking," the employee says. "Just don't stretch it. That's all I asking. I'm not trying to impertinent or anything."

Friesen then turned off her camera out of fear that she would be asked to delete the footage, but says that she informed the employee that this was a form of discrimination, and told the store manager about the incident.

"I was so shocked I had to ask her to repeat what she had said, because maybe I would hear it differently," Friesen tells PEOPLE. "And of course, I didn't. But I quickly recognized that I was being discriminated against, and I was hurt. I felt anger, and vulnerability; something I never would have expected to happen to me. It brought out flashes of stories I've heard on the news, now only it wasn't some stranger being discriminated, it was me."

Friesen says in the video that she's since reached out to Walmart, and they've been very apologetic. She plans on sending her video footage and a statement to the company.

"Every single person from the Walmart team I talked to has been extremely sorry and extremely shocked that this even happened at one of their stores," Friesen says.


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The people working there are responsible for the clothes and many people try to fit into cuts that are simply not made for them, rip it and then just walk away.

I don't see the problem.

Mess.

'delete it fat' teas.

The employee sounds like an ATRL member tbh

Deal with it, fat. The woman asked you nicely, it's part of her job to keep people from damaging the clothes.

Well obviously it's rude Not people acting like she has no room to be offended.
But yeah, the employees don't wanna deal with damaged merchandise, so I understand from that side too.

Discrimination what's her tumblr

she's still young. only 19?

Yeah it's kinda a rude thing to do, but really it would've been more embarrassing for this chick had she tried on the shirt and it had stretched. I'm sure the employer didn't want to deliberately seem like a bitch, but sometimes ya just gotta do things like this.

Banned

If the shirt's ruined then charge her for it, but at least let her try it on.

Walmart is the last place I expected this considering their customer base.

Lol honestly the employee didn't lie. RIP it or ship it HENNY

let her stretch it

i would have gone one step further and simply told her if this rips or stretches you have to purchase it.

That's NOT plus sized. That's obese. Plus the employer is right.

I would have let her try and fit into it. I couldn't care less tbh.