Emotional Support Animal Walmart

Reviewed By Julie •  Updated: 12/27/22 •  3 min read
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Emotional Support Animal Walmart

Walmart Inc. is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets and department stores across the United States. Walmart Inc is a US-based company that owns and controls a network of hypermarkets and department stores in the United States.

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Walmart was established in 1962 in Rogers, Arkansas, by the American businessman Sam Walton and was subsequently organized in Delaware in 1969. Sam’s Club is a chain of department stores in the United States.

Walmart is present in 24 countries, with more than 10,000 retail locations. It operates more than 100 distinct brands. The business stores are operated by the retail giant in North America and Canada, as well as in Mexico and Central America, and in India as Flipkart Wholesale.

Walmart owns 100% of the companies that it owns in Chile, Canada, and South Africa. Walmart also owns a small part of Grupo Big in Brazil, now called Walmart de México e Centro América in August 2019. Advent International now controls 80 percent of Grupo Big.

Walmart operates through four segments: Walmart U.S., Walmart International, Sam’s Club and Global eCommerce. Walmart operates a number of different retail units across its divisions, which include supercenters, supermarkets, hypermarkets, club stores, cash-and-carrier stores, restaurants, specialty electronics, clothing stores, drugstores, convenience stores, and online retail.

What are their regulations of customers bringing their emotional support animals to the store?

As stated in Walmart’s websites regarding their regulations of bringing animals to go shopping with their visitors, they now only accept service animals as defined by ADA in their stores. Some of the staff consider this is needed as there are some people abusing these policies that could lead to a confusion to some businesses as they have a lesser status than service animals.

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It is also recommended for the people that legitimately need an emotional support animal to ask for a permission from the Walmart’s Manager if they can bring their pets or emotional support animal to go shopping.

Should people still bring their emotional support animal when going shopping?

Emotional Support Animals (ESAs) are permitted in many states, with specific rules and regulations on how they can be handled and treated. However, there is no definite answer to what causes people to bring their ESA to the grocery store.

It has been noted that most of these cases are based on emotional reasons, as opposed to medical ones. In some cases, these individuals may be living with a disability that makes it difficult for them to shop at the grocery store. For example, they may have low mobility and might not be able to carry heavy bags of groceries.

The person may also suffer from anxiety or depression, and shopping in public might make them feel nervous or uncomfortable. An Emotional Support Animal can help them with this kind of condition by being a companion for them in public places such as grocery stores.

Some people might also bring their Emotional Support Animal because they are too proud to take medication for their condition, or because they do not want others knowing about it so that it does not affect their social life.

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Julie

Julie is a graduate of the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, where she studied Animal science. Though contrary to the opinion of her parents she was meant to study pharmacy, but she was in love with animals especially cats. Julie currently works in an animal research institute (NGO) in California and loves spending quality time with her little cat. She has the passion for making research about animals, how they survive, their way of life among others and publishes it. Julie is also happily married with two kids.

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