And Out to the Squad Car You Go, Asshole!

[Mike Taylor]

Today at the Big Yellow Price Tag, we finally bagged a thief who had hit us multiple times as a shoplifter. The grand total of what he stole from us over the last two months was at least $3000 dollars (possibly more).

Gotcha, asshole!

[Sapphire Silk]

Congrats! Of course, he's probably already bonded out, but hopefully he'll do some jail time.

[Mike Taylor]

I vas thinking mebbe I vould giff him to my friendz dat vearz zee "nifty hetts".

[Jay 2K Winger]

I vas thinking mebbe I vould giff him to my friendz dat vearz zee "nifty hetts".

Dey soundz like schmott guyz!

[ADeMartino]

Dey soundz like schmott guyz!

As long as dey neffer lose der hat! Any plan vhere hyu lose hyur hat is a BAD PLAN.

[Gilhelmi]

Dey soundz like schmott guyz!

Yez, dey Sparks vill do ze schmott dings to zem. Pehapz a head tranzplate.

(pz, forgive my Jagger, it is horribly rusty)

[Smapti]

Our grocery store is located in the same shopping center as a place I'll call "Competitive Athletic Activities Government". We got a call from them earlier tonight asking to be connected to our LP office.

Turned out they had busted a guy trying to shoplift gloves and things from them, and when they patted him down they found a bunch of purloined red meat and razor cartridges as well. So in the end, he got hit with multiple charges of petty theft and was trespassed from both stores for life.

Surprisingly, this isn't the first time that's happened, either. There are a surprising number of people who'll hit up our store or theirs, manage to get away somehow, and then decide to try their luck unsuccessfully at the other.

[earl colby pottinger]

Meat?

What gets me is if you steal meat why are you hanging around instead of getting it home?

One: You run the risk with your warm body and now warming weather to have something that can kill you or at-least make you sick. Do they keep the meat on top of their cold hearts?

Two: Leaks, red meat drippings is not what I want on my clothes.

[smileyeagle1021]

There are a surprising number of people who'll hit up our store or theirs, manage to get away somehow, and then decide to try their luck unsuccessfully at the other.

It's the same logic that a gambler uses when they gamble away a jackpot... I won once, I can win again (something the house counts on, because they know that they are getting that jackpot back... of course after you've taken that nice picture to put on the winners' wall to let everyone know how generous the casino is).

What gets me is if you steal meat why are you hanging around instead of getting it home?

One: You run the risk with your warm body and now warming weather to have something that can kill you or at-least make you sick. Do they keep the meat on top of their cold hearts?

Two: Leaks, red meat drippings is not what I want on my clothes.

Three: I know meat isn't cheap, but wouldn't it be smarter to steal something that is both high value and small, sell it, buy the meat and keep the difference as extra profit?

[Ironclad Alibi]

What gets me is if you steal meat why are you hanging around instead of getting it home?

Becaz dey iz not schmott guyz!

[DGoddessChardonnay]

What gets me is if you steal meat why are you hanging around instead of getting it home?


Two: Leaks, red meat drippings is not what I want on my clothes.

That's where you sneak over to the aisle where the freezer bags are and help yourself to a few.

Not only did we have a huge issue with theft in the meat department back at the Phillips Avenue store, but we also had to damage out quite a few boxes of freezer and/or storage baggies over the years just b/c of the theft.

Just waltz in with a purse large enough to conceal a third world country, help yourself to some steaks and freezer bags to put them in, stash the empty meat trays behind the baggies on the shelf and out the door you go.

Lost count of how many women got busted for that over the 9 years I worked there. I'd have to say our managers busted at least one a week - if not more.

[MoonCat]

And yet corporate still buys the story that employees are responsible for most of their theft.

[Argus]

(pz, forgive my Jagger, it is horribly rusty)

Santiago's Jagerizer might be handy.

[Sapphire Silk]

What gets me is if you steal meat why are you hanging around instead of getting it home?

One: You run the risk with your warm body and now warming weather to have something that can kill you or at-least make you sick. Do they keep the meat on top of their cold hearts?

Two: Leaks, red meat drippings is not what I want on my clothes.

Yes, but we're sensible people. We are talking about SCs here.

And yet corporate still buys the story that employees are responsible for most of their theft.

Sure. Makes a great excuse to keep wages down, and to not have to do anything real about the problem.

Santiago's Jagerizer might be handy.

Avezum! De greatest tink since Heterodyne schliced bread: it schlices! It dices! It makes Julian into fries!

[fireheart]

And yet corporate still buys the story that employees are responsible for most of their theft.

Probably not most, but internal theft DOES happen.

I wound up seeing 2 employees fired for theft (both had been working at the company for a LONG time) and every so often, corporate would send down a bulletin with some theft stories that occurred in each region. There was one section for the employee thefts and one section for the customer thefts.

One of my personal favourite "idiot" stories was of a nightfiller who tried to smuggle hot chickens out of the building at 3am.