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John Osborn
Nov 29, 2025
November 29, 2025.
I am a 63- year-old honorably retired US Army First Sergeant, former 82ND ABN, Special Forces (SFQC 3-83), Delta Force (OTC-18) combat veteran Operator / Sniper and 100 percent disabled (service-connected) veteran, THAT WAS REFUSED SERVICE on Thanksgiving 2025, at my local local Food Lion store# 2607 located at exit 73 adjacent to Interstate 95 in Dunn, NC. After completing my shopping, it was 1420 hours or 2:20 PM as I approached Lane #2, where a long time cashier, being a black female of approximately forty years of age with shoulder length hair dyed a dark shade of red, was standing. After the prior customer in Lane #2 walked away with their shopping cart, the cashier looked at me, then suddenly walked over to a short, white female, with shoulder length or longer dirty blonde hair ( I assume was the acting manager) and whispered something into her ear. The black cashier from Lane#2 then walked around and into the self-checkout area, approached another Food Lion employee, this one being a white male, in his early twenties, and whispered something into his ear, while pointing in my general direction. I was left standing at or near the checkout counter and NO ONE approached to ring up my groceries. The cashiers working there at the time simply ignored me, so I pushed my shopping cart over and into the self-checkout area, scanned and paid for my groceries and pushed my cart to my truck, parked nearby, outside. After loading my groceries into my truck, I pushed the cart back to the store entrance, pushing it back into line with other carts and walked back into the store. I walked back into the store, wanting to speak with the short, white, female acting manager. The short, white female had already walked to the rear of the store and into the area for employees only. I then walked toward the front of the store and stopped approximately ten-feet from Lane#2 where the black female cashier with hair dyed a dark shade of red was now having a cheerful conversation with and ringing up the groceries of a white female customer, being approximately 75 years of age, 65 inches tall and 190 pounds, dressed in bright-green stretch pants and a short-sleeve white top with a plunging neckline. After the 75 year-old white female walked away, I stood there about seven feet from the (store exit end) of the Lane#2 checkout counter, waiting for the black female cashier with hair dyed a dark shade of red, to make eye contact with me, but she wouldn't. I then walked out of the store to my truck and drove to my house, being located approximately two and a half miles west of the store, where I have lived without incident and paid property taxes for thirty-nine years.
Lastly, I do not suffer from PTSD or any other mental condition, I have never been arrested in my entire life, possess excellent credit etc. I have not even received a speeding ticket in 20 or 25 years. I have two grown sons, that I have raised myself after being awarded sole custody by a female judge in 2012. Both of my sons have good jobs, bought their own homes, one being married and the other single. I have literally risked my life for the citizens of this country, more times than I can remember, to include the disrespectful black female cashier, the short white female acting manager, and the young white male cashier that refused to provide me with the customer service that I earned, not deserve, earned. I am now demanding that the three Food Lion employees that disrespected me be permanently fired, with their transgressions against me being thoroughly documented and maintained on file, indefinitely within the Food Lion legal department at Food Lion corporate headquarters.
1SG(R) John H. Osborn II
SFQC 3-83 / OTC-18