This was not a wise manager and he will cost the company the profit on tens of thousands of chicken salad sandwiches.
Again, your store puts products out on shelves for customer selection to cut costs AND increase opportunities for profitability. In electing to use that method they also risk some degree of loss.
That's their choice.
If they control the transactions completely ~ using clerks who wait at counters and go in the back to find the product to sell, and then accept the cash, etc. the risk of loss is substantially reduced. Their costs will increase obviously, but it's their choice.
When the merchant uses modern methods and understands there are risks ~ that customers may make mistakes, or thieves may easily steal from the open shelves ~ then the question of punishment for both mistakes and theft takes a different focus.
We should not expect a hanging in these cases, nor should children be taken from their families.
Quite possibly the smart manager using the latest sales methods will, when he catches the occasional stray, accept payment when it is offered.
At the same time EVERYBODY knows there's more loss on the back dock as that stuff comes out of the truck than there is loss in the front end ~ and it's the manager and his most trusted employees who are probably looting the business.
Thank you for the summarized list of excuses. I’m off to the grocery store to grab a sandwich.
Safeway has an attorney on a retainer whether they need to use his services or not. I’ve had it UP TO HERE with freeloaders, and I hope Safeway has the backbone to not cave to these leeches.