Those fish probably arrive at the store in pretty good shape. If you buy them, they'll just order more, rinse repeat. I'd say taking those pictures and sending letters to management would be a good thing. I bet those stores just need a few employees that know what they're doing to make a fish section viable, but they probably can't keep steady, good employees. The sad thing is that the fish they end up selling probably most often end up in similar states in peoples' homes because it isn't like an uninformed store makes for an informed customer base.
I had a contractor fixing something at my house and he saw my tank. "Oh I used to keep an Oscar, a Bala Shark, and <insert some other buy small grow huge petco fish>, in a 29G tank. It was fine because they won't grow too large for whatever tank they're in. But, I was working a lot and didn't take the best care of them so they died over a period of months because I didn't feed them enough. I sold the tank. Your tank looks great!"
I couldn't believe this crap. These silver dollars had no tails whatsoever. I almist lost it. And the poor Oscars..... I almost took everybody home but I dont have a qt big enough. Now I think I know what in gonna do with my 125... Wal-Mart is the most evil corporation in the world.
