Linda Hause says a recent shopping trip to her local Walmart in Edmonton was a painful experience.
Hause, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, says sometimes her Walmart has no cashier lanes open, requiring her to get assistance at self-checkout. But she says that on this occasion, the self-checkout attendant declined to help.
“They didn’t seem to understand that I had a disability,” said Hause, who was driving a mobility scooter at the time. “I felt that maybe they thought that I was just being lazy.”
Determined to finish her shop, Hause says she climbed out of her scooter to scan her 40 items — and
