Nearly 100 people found themselves unemployed without warning when a Lowe's home improvement store in Riverdale closed its doors for good over the weekend, Channel 2 Action News reports.
The employees said they were called to the store for a meeting at 8:45 p.m. Sunday, where they learned the store was shutting down.
"You call us and tell us at 9:01 that we are out of a job and don’t come to Lowes Monday morning. I just don’t understand,” employee Anthony Whitney told Channel 2. “People were crying all over the warehouse because it was devastating."
“After five years, this is how they treat their employees?" said another worker, Eboni Burgess. Now, she said, "we're stuck here trying to figure out how we're going to provide for our families, how we're going to put food on the table."
A Lowe’s spokesman told Channel 2 that the Clayton County store is one of seven across the country that were closed Sunday night due to low sales, eliminating nearly 700 jobs. Two stores are in Illinois, and the others are in Alaska, Connecticut, Minnesota and New York.
About the Author
