Pregnant Mom and family arrested over sandwiches.

• MareneCorp wrote on 2011-11-01 22:10

  Quote from RicochetOrange;645090:

  My mom wants me to get a job at Slaveway.
  
  :B

  
  
  Good luck getting out of it.
  :lol:
• Navy wrote on 2011-11-01 22:16
  good luck getting a job at all
• Ithiliel wrote on 2011-11-01 23:04

  Quote from Paul;645007:

  I find this hilarious, why? Cause I work at a Safeway part time.
  
  Personally, I don't find what happened overall to be that wrong. The biggest thing that this person did was that he chose to eat the sandwich before paying while shopping. That right there is more than enough to get the security guards on you. You think because you worked in the Air Force you'll get some special treatment? A smart person would go pay for the sandwich and then chose to eat it while having the receipt.
  
  Need another example? Do you think it's fair if someone walks into a game store, takes out their PSP and takes one of the PSP games off the shelf, opens the package and start playing it on their PSP while still in the store? Eventually to the point where he/she walks out without paying for it regardless of leaving the game behind or not.

  
  
  Your example doesn't match up with what the family did at all. They had gone through line and paid for their groceries, the just forgot about the two empty sandwich wrappers. They were going to pay for them, as obvious by the fact they paid for $50 dollars worth of groceries. I hardly doubt the family thought they deserved special treatment because he was in the Air Force, and it's rather ridiculous that you would automatically assume that. They made a mistake and were willing to PAY for the sandwiches, the manager in this case was being beyond ridiculous and refusing to let them pay.
  
  

  Quote from Tarvos;645069:

  Since when are people just allowed to open wrappers in super markets and eat food before paying?

  
  
  This happens all the time. A lot of mothers with toddlers used to do this all the time and come through the line with a wrapper to be paid for. Really, the cashier probably should have been paying attention to the situation. When I was a cashier, whenever I saw an empty wrapper in the front of whatnot I would just kindly ask them if it was there's and they'd almost always go, "Oh! I completely forgot! Thank you!".
  
  I hardly feel like the couple is at fault here. Safeway is, especially since they got a child taken away from a mother over the manager's bull****ery over not wanting their money because the wrappers left the store. I would be ABSOLUTELY livid if someone got my child taken away over something so asinine.
• Bride wrote on 2011-11-01 23:11

  Since when are people just allowed to open wrappers in super markets and eat food before paying?

  
  i guess it depends on the store? i dunno. i've never done that while at the store, even as a kid
  my brother did it once and my mom got after him, but the employees didn't say anything and we just paid for the bag of chips along with the rest of our groceries when we were checking out
• Tarvos wrote on 2011-11-02 00:03

  Quote from Lilith;645151:

  This happens all the time. A lot of mothers with toddlers used to do this all the time and come through the line with a wrapper to be paid for. Really, the cashier probably should have been paying attention to the situation. When I was a cashier, whenever I saw an empty wrapper in the front of whatnot I would just kindly ask them if it was there's and they'd almost always go, "Oh! I completely forgot! Thank you!".
  
  I hardly feel like the couple is at fault here. Safeway is, especially since they got a child taken away from a mother over the manager's bull****ery over not wanting their money because the wrappers left the store. I would be ABSOLUTELY livid if someone got my child taken away over something so asinine.

  
  Just because it happens all the time and people let it slide doesn't mean it's a totally accepted behavior everywhere, or a part of the rules of a specific vendor. Why would you put yourself in a situation when you could just buy it first, carry around your receipt, and shop again?
  
  And since you say it's this chain's fault for the manager's following of protocol, are the police also at fault for following their protocol and calling child protective services then? Like I said, it's not always like a manager can bend the rules especially when it comes to something that *could* constitute theft. They may run one store, but, they have bosses a top of them, and those bosses have bosses on top of them. Do I think the couple should have gotten a slap on the wrist? Yeah, I do, if someone with the power to was around. It's a huge mix up and you've avoided bad PR from a business standpoint. They quite obviously weren't stealing and just forgot as evidenced by the 50 bucks worth of groceries. But the way things are perceived from a higher up's position who has *nothing* to do with you... Does anyone really want to take that chance? No matter how small when it comes to your job in this economy?
  
  And this again makes me ask why would anyone put themselves in a position like this, especially when you've got a kid with you.
• Zid wrote on 2011-11-02 03:54
  $50 bail fee and a misdemeanor slapped onto records because $5 worth of food was forgotten to be scanned.
  
  Such is the way of money.
• Kazuni wrote on 2011-11-02 04:53
  I just refuse to eat or open anything before I pay for it ._. if you did that here, they would most likely give you a scolding whether you pay for it or not. It's just better to avoid confusion in the first place. Sure, the incident was blown way out of proportion, but honestly, eating something before you pay for it? It's technically theft until the receipt is in your hand. There are lots of people who say, "Oh, everybody else does it, it's okay," but in the end, if they had paid for the damn sandwiches before sinking their teeth into it, the whole thing wouldn't have happened.
  The fact that people care about it at all means that it's not completely "okay" and normal.
• Cucurbita wrote on 2011-11-02 05:09

  Quote from Kazuni;645615:

  eating something before you pay for it? It's technically theft until the receipt is in your hand.

  
  
  Restaurants :D
• Kazuni wrote on 2011-11-02 05:17

  Quote from Cucurbita;645627:

  Restaurants :D

  
  
  They only do that if they know it's near impossible to walk out without paying :U
  
  And a lot of restaurants make you pay first. The ones that have fixed meal prices anyway.
• Cucurbita wrote on 2011-11-02 05:24

  Quote from Kazuni;645638:

  They only do that if they know it's near impossible to walk out without paying :U

  
  
  Dine and dashing was so popular in the previous generation.
• Kazuni wrote on 2011-11-02 05:40

  Quote from Cucurbita;645656:

  Dine and dashing was so popular in the previous generation.

  
  
  Shoplifting was easier before too :(
• TA wrote on 2011-11-02 06:11
  This type of thing is actually really common and allowed pretty much everywhere here... I don't know why the employee decided to be such an asshole about their mistake. It's not like they meant to do it. And to have to wait 4 hours before a cop shows up only to have your 2 year old daughter taken away from you and put in a strange place for over 18 hours... this is horrifying.
  
  It was $5 ffs!
• Ninjam wrote on 2011-11-16 08:19
  For everyone saying its all about the sandwiches being opened first, its just as easy to forget you have something else that hasnt been paid for or it somehow slipped through the line. For instance, when i was 5, i picked up a single stick of gum at walmart and asked my mom and dad if i could get it. They said yes, so what did 5 year old me do? He stuck it in his pocket and forgot about it. Sure enough, we were stopped at the scanner and the cart was checked, after finding nothing wrong they let us go. After i got home i felt so bad after finding the quarter gum in my pocket.
  
  Most adults wont do this, but imagine the same situation, except a small sandwich that somehow got left in the cart after you put everything up. With small children its very easy to get distracted, your worrying about where they are, and if there a bit older than small, there probably throwing stuff in the cart constantly because they want to help too. Its not too hard for a kid to throw lets say a candy bar into the cart after everything been paid for while the parents are trying to keep hold of another child.
  
  Either way, the store overreacted and the customer should have either left the sandwich in the cart, or remembered. Blaming one person is pointless, everyone has a little of the fault.