Western Union in Piggly Wiggly store Western Union in Piggly Wiggly bad business practices! Oneonta, Alabama

Until they bounce, give it more time.

Piggly wiggy finished your money transfer and issued you checks, which you then took somewhere else and cashed.

No ripoff here folks. Just a company doing what they said they would.

To the person who asked if I am sure this is from a family member. Yes, of course! Don't take me wrong, but was that a genuine question my friend? 
- I did not ask the question but yes it was a very legitimate question, and only one to have you make sure you are aware that it MIGHT be a scam.  Because if you checked out this site you would realize how many scammers use Western Union and MoneyGram.   But to then infer that because they asked this question they must be an employee..not only is it a silly accusation but you loose quite a bit of credibility in your report. 

The other item where you loose a lot is stating you were going to call in the FBI.  Sorry but the FBI has a lot better things to do than to get a store to cash a check for you when they don't have the funds.

so I can't recommend them anymore.
- While I wouldn't recomend them or use them.  Your issue seems to be the fact that they didn't have enough money to cash it at the time.  So wouldn't it be a better idea that if you do use them again to ask before you get the money to see if they have the funds.  This would also apply with any other Money Transfer service as well.

I am glad that you got the money.  But before you ask NO I do not now or have I ever worked for Western Union.

To reply to those of you who asked questions, some genuine while others not so much. My time is limited, so please next time re-read everything and dont' come to your own conclussions if you don't have facts.  

I will reply to those genuine intelligent questions only. I have gone to another Piggly Wiggly supermarket that has a WU store in it, and I have been able to withdraw money in excess of $1k without problems, probably because they had the money while this other Piggly Wiggly store didn't, like some of you said. So all of you telling me they are a supermarket and don't have money et cetera, it doesn't apply to every supermarket.

Next time I will probably use my bank or another service, maybe moneygram is better. But since we have had good experience with WU in the past that's why we always used it without problems until now, so I can't recommend them anymore.

To the person who asked if I am sure this is from a family member. Yes, of course! Don't take me wrong, but was that a genuine question my friend?  

Let me tell you something, if you don't have intelligent questions then please go troll elsewhere! Since your replies sounded like trolling honestly, and I am not patient with them. I am pretty sure if you were in my situation you would be quite dissastisfied as well, unless of course you work for WU.

I am not saying all of you had stupid questions, but just a couple of you, to clarify. 

To those truly interested in my case, all is good. I was able to withdraw my money from Wells Fargo, today. They cashed the check without problems. That's good business in my book.

A grocery store is not a bank. To expect them to have thousands of dollars sitting around to cash money transfers is ridiculous. They gave you your money, you have the checks. Just go to your bank and deposit them in your account. The fact that you don't want to be patient for the checks to clear leads me to believe there's some sort of scam going on here. Just go use your bank account, wait the coupld days for the check to clear and you're home free. Piggly wiggly is not ripping you off, they paid you. You just don't like the payment method.

Due to the odd amount it sounds like one of those scams to me.

So you do not really need to do business with a "different" bank...but with an "actual" bank. Piggly Wiggley is a supermarket...good place to buy meat and toilet paper but not really what I would depend on to cover a money transfer. Western Union is a money transfer service (NOT a bank) but is so bogged down with scams and fraud that it is actually safer to use a bank. Why didn't you just use a bank?