Damien Gad
Google
HEB has unfortunately become as bad as Walmart when it comes to their absolute lack of concern for their disabled customers who utilize task trained service dogs. I cannot believe the amount of times i have seen untrained pets roaming the isles, sitting in grocery carts, and relieving themselves all over the store. Worse than this, my medical alert service dog and I have been chased, barked at, snapped at, and even blamed for the barking and accidents of these animals that are legally not allowed within HEB stores due to health codes. Not only this, it is illegal to try to pass your pets off as service animals, and there are questions in place to help a business weed out fraudulent teams, but HEB employees have told me they are not permitted to ask the questions, or even ask a customer with a disruptive dog to leave, because HEB is afraid of bad PR and a lawsuit. The lawsuit that HEB SHOULD fear is the one from service dog handlers who are needing to have this issue taken more seriously to help protect our medically necessary animal partners from being harassed and mauled while we are simply trying to do our groceries.
Please do better, HEB. The disabled community is begging.