Hoax Confirmed: Cashing Out at Costco (2019)
According to the ‘Jewish Daily Forward’ in August 2019 there was a so-called ‘anti-Semitic hate crime’ at the Hazlet, New Jersey branch of wholesale retail giant ‘Costco’.
To wit:
‘A New Jersey man has accused a Costco cashier of directing anti-Semitic remarks and questions at him while he was checking out.
Irwin Levy filed a civil lawsuit on Monday in Monmouth County Superior Court about the April incident at the Costco in Hazlet. The lawsuit claims religious discrimination and negligent hiring and retention practices, and seeks an unspecified amount of damages, the Asbury Park Press reported. The lawsuit also calls for Costco to institute training against discrimination, retaliation and harassment.
Levy’s son Justin works at the Costco. While he was checking out, a cashier asked the elder Levy “how much” of his son is Jewish. He responded that his son was half Catholic from his mother and half Jewish from him.
The cashier responded that Levy’s son “has to be more Jewish than that” and that she meant it “in a bad way of course,” according to the complaint. She said that “Jews only see things in black and white with no gray area; just like Justin,” according to the complaint, which added that the cashier tried to follow him out of the store and continued to insult Levy, his son and Judaism, NJ.com reported.
The lawsuit names Costco Wholesale Corp., a manager and the clerk who allegedly made the comments. It says that in the wake of the incident, Levy has had to shop at other Costco outlets that are inconvenient and suffered “mental anguish, humiliation and sleeplessness.”
Costco would not comment to the local media, citing the ongoing legal case.’ (1)
Unsurprisingly when reading the narrative claimed by Levy it becomes readily apparent that it is simply nonsensical. How the cashier at ‘Costco’ knew that Levy was jewish and then for some reason began warbling about how Levy’s son ‘had to be more jewish’ then decided to follow Levy out of the store while ‘insulting him’ (and abandoning her register and line of customers in the process).
I mean it doesn’t even sound real let alone as ‘awful’ as Levy is claiming.
It sounds awfully like Levy made up the whole thing as a way to launch a frivolous lawsuit against ‘Costco’ in the hope of scamming money from the company in a pre-trial settlement.
Thus unsurprisingly in October 2022 a jury completely threw out Levy’s claims and ruled that the ‘Costco’s’ employee’s Georgina Percia actual statements were not ‘anti-Semitic’ and Levy was – in effect – engaging in a frivolous lawsuit by alleging non-exist ‘anti-Semitism’ while Percia was actually doing her job which Levy apparently objected to. (2)
Maybe Levy was stealing and made up the ‘anti-Semitism’ claims as a way to get himself out of having been caught we don’t know.
What we do know is that Levy wasn’t being honest.
References
(1) https://forward.com/fast-forward/430476/new-jersey-costco-anti-semitic-lawsuit/
(2) https://www.law.com/njlawjournal/2022/10/20/how-much-of-justin-is-jewish-costco-wins-suit-over-employees-alleged-antisemitic-remarks/