eating unpurchased food.

[MadMike]

As a customer I once witnessed a woman opening tubs of butter, digging her finger through and tasting the butter, then went on to the next brand. I brought a manger over, and the little old lady defended herself saying "How could I know what brand to buy if I didn't know what it tasted like?" I would have hated haveing to work there and figure out which tubs she'd tampered with.

It also used to bug me when I'd see someone come into my aisle, and spray a little bit from one of the cans of air freshener to see what the smell like. Granted, this isn't the unsanitary issue that arises from doing this with food products, but I think that as a customer I'd be pretty pissed if I unknowingly bought one of the cans that people had been sampling, and had it run out in a day.

If I am out shopping, and I start to feel weak (non diabetic), then I will pick up something small. Or even grab bottle of soda or water and open it. But I always make sure to pay for it.

I've done the same thing too, and I felt a little guilty about it. But I figure they'd rather have me come up to the register with the empty wrapper (which I always paid for) than have to pick my ass up off the floor.

[Shamus]

As a customer I once witnessed a woman opening tubs of butter, digging her finger through and tasting the butter, then went on to the next brand. I brought a manger over, and the little old lady defended herself saying "How could I know what brand to buy if I didn't know what it tasted like?" I would have hated haveing to work there and figure out which tubs she'd tampered with.

People do that with makeup all the time. They use the same kind of excuse when you catch them doing that, too.

[powerboy]

If I am out shopping, and I start to feel weak (non diabetic), then I will pick up something small. Or even grab bottle of soda or water and open it. But I always make sure to pay for it.

[BookstoreEscapee]

Yeah, the cookie thing sounds like possibly someone with some sort of cognitive disability, or someone's idea of a practical joke.

"How could I know what brand to buy if I didn't know what it tasted like?"

How much variation in flavor is there? It's butter! All I care about is if it's salted or unsalted......!!!


Personally I don't recall ever having eaten something I hadn't paid for (other than opening a bottle of juice or something while waiting on line in the cafe at work during a break; but I just considered that using my breaktime efficiently ). I do have my moments where I need to eat something (not diabetic either, but especially on weekends I have a habit of not eating for long stretches). If absolutely necessary - meaning actually feeling dizzy or faint, not just hungry - I might open something I was buying and eat a piece.

[Nayeli_Sabia]

As a customer I once witnessed a woman opening tubs of butter, digging her finger through and tasting the butter, then went on to the next brand. I brought a manger over, and the little old lady defended herself saying "How could I know what brand to buy if I didn't know what it tasted like?" I would have hated haveing to work there and figure out which tubs she'd tampered with.

Once I brought home a container of ice cream, and when I opened it it had a scoop already missing. I returned it and got a new one no problem. That was the oddest one, because it wasn't finger marks or anything... it looked like a spoon had been used.

[Buglady]

That almost sounds like something a child, or a person with a cognitive impairment might do. If they were really focused in on "which cookies do I like", and maybe remembering a rule at home of "if you don't like something, don't make a fuss, just set it down neatly," it's entirely possible they'd forget (or be unaware of) the rules that if you open something you have to buy it. They were being careful to put the rejected cookies back very neatly, which definitely doesn't sound like the usual pattern for entitlement-minded Suckies.

[persephone]

Wow. That's insane!

I will admit that there has been one or two times that I was shopping and realized I was extremely weak and needed to eat SOMETHING (I do not have diabetes, but I do have some small problems with my blood sugar levels and there are times if I don't eat something, I'll faint or have problems). I would pick up a box of crackers and open it and eat one or two while I was walking. I would then be SURE it got on the belt and would tell the cashier what happened. They never were upset with me so I hope it was okay!

But I can't imagine the audacity of opening multiple bags of cookies and tasting them. That's insane!

[Hibble]

Today the shelves where being stocked at work when it was found that someone had opened one packet of each flavour of cookies (expensive range $11 for 20 cookies) and taken one perfect bite out of the first cookie in each pack.

Young children trying to eat food I could understand but this individual must have been an adult. So days just started and already SC's have destroyed $50 worth of stock


So who else has had SC's eating stock and what's the most unusual/extream?