Posted on 04/17/2022 2:10:40 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A few years ago, a relative experienced a short period of unemployment. Since she was broke and had children to feed, she applied for food stamps. The food stamps took a while to process, so I helped her out with some groceries. She found another job in short order and ended the food stamps. When the food stamps from her month of employment arrived, she no longer needed them, so she gave me her card.
To my surprise and disappointment, nobody even lifted an eyebrow when I paid for all those steaks and seafood with a EBT card.
On my last trip to Target, I found a box of ice cream bars in the cereal aisle. I gave them to one of the workers. To me it’s shameful that people would do that — it would only have been a few steps to return it to the right place in the freezer!
Good grief. You need to get out more.
A overpriced mix of Epsom salts, baking soda, citric acid and artificial fragrance.
Yes, they are lazy, and it makes me mad when people just drop stuff. Just like it makes me mad when they leave their shopping carts in the parking lot so you can’t get into the space, rather than take the carts to the cart drop-off area. Things like that are annoying.
But they’re not stealing. The stores really need to have employees keep things tidy and also perhaps start a campaign telling people what to do with items if they change their minds, etc. They also need to have enough people on the registers or enough self-checkout stations that people don’t get frustrated waiting to buy something and just dump it and walk out (which I have seen often). I think creating a good atmosphere (clean, neat, etc.) helps a lot in making people behave better, and that’s something that can only be done by the stores and the managers themselves.
You really believe what you posted??? Or did you forget the sarcastic at the end????
Ruining items not purchased is stealing to me, just someone else has to trash it.
That’s happening more frequently. I’ve used that mismatch twice to my advantage at a certain Big Box store.
For example, the price on a fancy light bulb was $8.98 if you believed the shelf, and $29.xx if you believed the bar code scanner. I used my cell phone to snap a picture of the publicly stated price. Then talked to management. Showed them the photo. And said, “This is what I saw with my own two eyeballs. Therefore, this is the price you advertised. The price you must honor. I don’t read bar code.”
I know, I know, they SAY that the bar code price is the real price. But since when did THEIR incompetence become MY problem?
In my case the product had a sale price tag on the shelf that had expired but someone neglected to remove the tag. So the cashier gave it to me for the sale price anyway. No argument from her, she was very polite and apologetic.
The first time that I was in a ‘Super’ Wal Mart was near Clearwater.
There were baby clothes right next to the Oscar Meyer Baloney. Somehow that struck me as so very strange that I decided to purchase nothing. I hated the entire notion of these ‘Super Stores.’ I left.
Customers who leave stuff in aisles should be forced to have lazy stamped on forehead the next time in the store.
Great points...they're big stores and I think most people do assume that there is someone assigned to that department that is over there frequently.
Also it can be confusing because most clothing fitting rooms say "don't put it back, leave it here."
Lay off the coffee and take your Metamucil, you’ll feel better by tomorrow.
I did the opposite at the dollar store book bin with a book by John Kerry and pulled out every one I could find and placed them on the top.
I dont like going to Barnes and Noble but when my GF was shopping at a girl store, I go to those book stores beside them and place the obama books at the humor or fictional section.
As bad as stealing?
Other than taking a perishable item and leaving it somewhere unrefrigerated I am hard pressed to equate this as stealing.
Hours required to return items left in other places back, probably adds a person or two to the payroll... so maybe if you want to be indirect could argue it.. but I have no doubt lots more time is wasted on far more things in those large stores than this.
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