My most recent excursion to Petco was purely to take pictures of dying/dead leopard geckos as a reminder to myself why I will NEVER purchase something from them again. I go in there occasionally to look and laugh sadly at everything. A "handfed", year old, no longer friendly jenday conure for $600? Laughable, very sad.. Correcting the employee telling a customer that the "loach" they are about to bag is a clown knife and NOT going to do well in a 20g communtiy tank, FUNNY at times during the argument, incredibly sad..
However. Telling 3 different employees WHY their leopard geckos are dying by the dozen (and yet they're ON SALE?!) and getting a near identicle response to the effect of; "oh, I guess I should go tell a manager" when I point out the ones too weak to lift their leg are clearly beyond help. Just plain sickening.
I watched them (the geckos) for ten minutes while some 20ish guy explained the "care" of the reptiles to some girl he was hitting on and he told her they eat the ginormous crickets and mealworms that clearly were not being eaten by a single one of those poor little hatchlings.

When I pointed out that they need foods no wider than their head or they may not eat them, a vitamin supplement dusted on feeders, and that they don't appreciate the UV lights being nocurnal, oh, and that they should be bright eyed and colorful not pasty white skeletons.. I was basically asked to leave since I scared off the girl he was hitting on.
I guess dying baby lizards aren't sexy and Petco isn't cool with you pointing that out.