Semantics. She was in the store parking lot, and the company's opinion is clearly that she behaved wrongly. Wrongly enough that they fired her (and as simon points out, she was lippy to her boss, after the fact). She won't get her job back; she loses. Walmart, love it or hate it, carries on unscathed by this, while the girl is now looking for work. The dog is still alive, too.