Very interesting. Smart manager to tell the truck to pull away. He may have overstepped store policy just a touch, but he was smart enough to know not to become a criminal himself and expose his store to civil liability.
The link brought up an interesting aspect of the checks, as they do catch mistakes to the customer’s advantage. If you refuse the check, you also refuse the chance for this last-minute oversight of the cashier. Your chances for correction are not as good once you leave the store.
I think store manager and his blue shirted mental midgets went over the line. Had Hiro taken photos or recorded any of it, he could have filed criminal and civil complaints and get the store management relieved for cause.
Its going to be really interesting to see how many geek copycats follow this recent vic’s lead on this, esp at CC. Not quite a flash mob, but I could see some college kids having fun with it.