That made me laugh out loud. Probably not a return though--probably somebody snacking throughout the store. I see this a lot in Wal-Mart with our friends from south of the border. Diapers, milk, candy--just helping themselves.
Another thing I'm seeing all the time now, is meat at Wal-Mart and Sam's in the strangest places. In the children's section, in with cleaning products. I'm always finding meat where it shouldn't be. I don't know if someone is doing this to cost Wal-Mart money, or a PETA nut perhaps, or people are just that lazy they can't put things back in the proper place.
Speaking of nuts, I did return some cinnamon flavored almonds to Sam's after Christmas--I guess it was a couple of Christmases ago. Just didn't sound like they would be good. I knew exactly where my brother probably got them and I was correct. They were unopened and the lady doing the return made sure they were unopen before she took them back.
Nothing is safe anymore, you have to constantly be a detective, open everything, hold things up to the light to see if they have stains, smell them to see if they have any kind of odor indicating the item may have been worn, turn shoes upside down to see if the soles look like they’ve been worn, sheesh, a shopping trip can be soooo time consuming and tedious due to the lack of common sense of others. I used to work for one of those BIG box hardware/contractor stores.....I did not work in the store itself, however, the company policy was that you could return anything, ANYTIME for no reason.....this was 15 years ago....contractors would buy chainsaws, etc. use them on a couple of jobs and then return the item, no questions asked and they would get their money back. The thing was it was the same contractors over and over again, upon return of the item the contractor had to leave a business card and sign a receipt...upon auditing it became very apparent that this was a scam....the company did not change the policy but they did warn the contractors in question that the company was on to them, needless to say, the contractors stopped returning things.....