I met a mom at the park today, I noticed she had a Regent in her van so we were chatting about car seats. 
She was telling me that she bought it after her MA was inspected that they said it was too small for her 3y old DD (Her DD is far smaller then my DD1 who still could fit in a MA for years to come). I started questioning her about who told her that.
Turns out she was shopping in Wal-Mart this summer and was approached by a "tech" (the mom said she introduced herself as a social worker) and a police officer and they asked to look at her car seat. So she takes them outside where the MA was declared too small. They told her follow them back inside to a station they had set up in the car seat section and they would help her pick out a BOOSTER for her DD. The mom thought the MA wasn't too small, and these people kept telling her it was unsafe, she was old enough to be in a booster, blah, blah. The mom said she was not putting her 3y old in a booster, and if she was buying another car seat then it would not be one at Wal-Mart. She ended up just leaving because it turned nasty with them really pestering her to buy a seat right then from Wal-Mart. She went later and bought a Regent.
Has anyone heard of this before? Do they set up car seat checks like this? It wasn't outside, but in the store, they came up to her while she was getting groceries. I was livid at the info they had given her, and felt like it was ploy to sell seats from Wal-Mart, thoughts? And they were pushing a booster, I'm CO, where the law is 40 or 4y, but the DD wasn't either.
She was telling me that she bought it after her MA was inspected that they said it was too small for her 3y old DD (Her DD is far smaller then my DD1 who still could fit in a MA for years to come). I started questioning her about who told her that.Turns out she was shopping in Wal-Mart this summer and was approached by a "tech" (the mom said she introduced herself as a social worker) and a police officer and they asked to look at her car seat. So she takes them outside where the MA was declared too small. They told her follow them back inside to a station they had set up in the car seat section and they would help her pick out a BOOSTER for her DD.
The mom thought the MA wasn't too small, and these people kept telling her it was unsafe, she was old enough to be in a booster, blah, blah. The mom said she was not putting her 3y old in a booster, and if she was buying another car seat then it would not be one at Wal-Mart. She ended up just leaving because it turned nasty with them really pestering her to buy a seat right then from Wal-Mart. She went later and bought a Regent. Has anyone heard of this before? Do they set up car seat checks like this? It wasn't outside, but in the store, they came up to her while she was getting groceries. I was livid at the info they had given her, and felt like it was ploy to sell seats from Wal-Mart, thoughts? And they were pushing a booster, I'm CO, where the law is 40 or 4y, but the DD wasn't either.
