Acme Lawn & Feed page says it decides who its “family values” apply to
A business page told its own customers, unprompted, that some of them were not included.
Correction — May 23, 2026
We originally attributed the post to the store's owner
An earlier version of this receipt said the post was written by the owner of Acme Lawn & Feed. The post was published by the business page, and we have not verified who operates that page. The reference to the owner has been removed. The rest of the receipt is unchanged.
Evidence
The public page for Acme Lawn & Feed, a fictional garden supply store, posted on 20 May that it is “a FAMILY store with FAMILY values” and that it “reserve[s] the right to decide who those values apply to.”
The post is from a verified business page rather than a personal account, and remains publicly visible. Business accounts speaking in their own commercial voice are identified by default under our standards.
The post drew 191 public comments before capture.
What happened
The receipt
We are a FAMILY store with FAMILY values and we reserve the right to decide who those values apply to.Updates & corrections
We originally attributed the post to the store's owner
An earlier version of this receipt said the post was written by the owner of Acme Lawn & Feed. The post was published by the business page, and we have not verified who operates that page. The reference to the owner has been removed. The rest of the receipt is unchanged.
The business responded
Acme Lawn & Feed sent a statement describing the post as “written by someone who no longer manages the page.” We have published the statement in full and have not independently verified it.
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