I am a couponer who shops at Walmart 4 nights a week. After shopping 2 hours the manager told me that I can not buy anything. If I wanted to use coupons, I should come back during daytime hours. Can I sue for discrimination?

Sure you can sue, but will you win.
Shops are perfectly within their rights to REFUSE service to anyone.

Bear in mind how much extra time it takes to process coupons at the till, so the manager was actually making a good suggestion.
During the day they will have more experienced staff available to be delayed by your use of coupons.

It was not a suggestion. It was a decision. I shopped for hours passing by the same manager several times. Just to be told I was not allowed to purchase anything, hours later when I got ready to check out

I should not have to explain my schedule on why I come to shop at a certain time. I shop when its convienant for me

... Can I sue for discrimination?

Discrimination on the basis of what? Whether you like to shop at night or not?

Discrimination means treating people differently on the basis of a suspect classification, such as race, religiion, sex, etc.

Is far as you have indicated, the store manager is not letting others use coupons at night either. Thus there is no discrimination.

It is discrimination in that certain shoppers are allowed and others are not. It isn't discrimination within the group of shoppers with tons of coupons. Either way, it's allowed discrimination. It has nothing to do with Civil Rights based on race, religion, gender, nationality, age, or disability.
Governments, businesses, schools, individuals discriminate all day long. Drivers under 25 pay higher insurance, smokers have to smoke outside, bare feet and dogs are not allowed in restaurants, and yes, stores are actually allowed to tell anyone they want to leave the building - as long as it isn't for a civil rights reason. It might be the big loose overcoat or the enormous bag potentially used for shoplifting, or it might be the way a creepy man seems to be following women around the store.
So yes, the manager can tell you not to use coupons at night. He can even tell you that you can't enter the store at all.

They may legally discriminate against a person who coupons, many stores will not even allow it for large purchases.

They may not discriminate against you because of race, religion, so if they allow white couponers but not you because you are black.

Perhaps they would not let you because you are jewish or muslim ?

To sue for discrimination, it has to be a protected class.

A store can discriminate because of the way you dress, or just because they don't like you.

Most likely the store does not have enough staff on during the night, or the manager did not want to count the coupons ( they have to sort and count them)

Did you talk to the general manager about it yet ?

Hello c:

It's NOT discrimination.. But it IS bad customer service... I'd complain to the manager, and if that didn't do any good, I'd complain to HIS manager... If that didn't do any good, I'd go to your local TV Station... They LOVE Walmart stories...

I'd complain in WRITING sent certified, return receipt requested...

excon

I have posted a copy of the Walmart Coupon Policy for Canada. I would contact their head office asking for clarification. When I coupon I carry the stores coupon policy on me as sadly most employees are not trained in couponing (how to read them, how to redeem them, what they allow etc).

Sorry it is a invald file type. I have no clue how to fix it. If a mod can pm me I can send it to them and maybe they can change it and post it.

Hello again,

This is a simple matter... If coupons ARE an acceptable means of payment, then they ARE, and they should be accepted just like dollar bills.

excon

Sadly Excon the extreme couponors who break the law (yes there is such a thing as coupon fraud) wreck it for the honest ones. Coupons are considered a form of payment and that is how charges can be laid. The worse thing ever was that TV show about extreme couponing they do so many things that are against store policies and are illegal. I coupon to save money so we can eat. I do it honestly, ethically and legally.

Hello again, m:

I thought I knew every way somebody could steal... I didn't know they did it with coupons. I learn something every day from this website..

excon