Customers complain about wet floors @ RiteWay Food Market in Pasea
Customers have called our newsroom to say they have seen the hazardous conditions sometimes for weeks.
It is also our understanding that customers have fallen and sustained injuries due to the wet floors, even though the supermarket giant would have placed plywood in the area to cover the water, and has placed the appropriate wet floor signs.
On site today
During a visit to the RiteWay Food Market in Pasea today, Friday, January 21, 2022, our roving reporter saw the condition for herself.
The area close to many of the refrigerators was covered by pieces of plywood and some areas had signage and tape warning about wet floors.
Customers have taken RiteWay to court
It is also our understanding that some of the customers who have fallen over the years had sustained injuries and some have taken the business entity to court while others were settled with financial compensation.
A check of the High Court Registry shows that a current case is still ongoing.
It is unclear if reports have been made to the Environmental Health Division or the Trade Department about the wet floor conditions at RiteWay in Pasea or any other supermarket in the Territory.
Efforts to get a comment from the General Manager of Roadtown Wholesale Trading Limited, Neil Hayes, proved futile up to the time of publication.
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26 Responses to “Customers complain about wet floors @ RiteWay Food Market in Pasea”
THINK AND ACT RESPONSIBLY FOLKS!!!
Quality of life matters, at least to the people who get injured in those stores. There should be a solution to this ongoing problem as it reduces the quality of the affected person’s life in many instances. .
Who in de kitchen feel de heat.
As a result, Riteway like Onemart and Bobbys was viewed and felt as a community-spirited company that people wanted to spend their money with.
The BVI had the policy to keep out large corporations and franchises fearing the cold impersonal style of management and money taking out of the community and not giving back. Unfortunately, people felt that times had changed and that letting this company in would prove beneficial for the community, as Haycraft's legacy of community building and staff would continue.
The issue of the water, the forcing out of employees allegedly and the cold attitudes of certain members of staff managers that was brought in, which you feel when you go into the store and you are told that's who they are. No longer is it a store organization of warmth and great humanity one would say. But it seems that the staff and community are mere commodities to make money that is taken out of the society allegedly.
This is not the legacy of those who started this company. The water has posed a serious problem in the store causing injury to a number of persons, where a great effort is needed to solve the problem that questions lack of respect and regard for safety for staff and community who spend their hard-earned money.