Attention customers stop opening the packages and using what's in them without paying

[Pagan]

People don't think where the money comes from or goes to in a store. I guess they see a big store like Wal-Mart, for example, and think that if they break things, use stuff, or steal that it comes out of the big CEO's paychecks; however, in reality they're screwing over the people in that store.

Also part of the reason why prices go up. So, in effect, they're screwing themselves over.

[AccountingDrone]

And people that just chow down in stores? Ugh, hate them. (I know, some circumstances a person needs to eat *NOW*, but pay for it, and carry the trash out.) Even as a customer, I get pissed finding opened food even if it's something I would never eat.

IMHO hypoglycemia [diabetic or otherwise] is the only cause to need to eat IMMEDIATELY ... and if you happen to know you tend towards hypoglycemia, it is up to YOU to carry glucose tablets, or some other form of snacky stuff [I carry glucose tabs, they are not tasty, no matter how they tweak the flavoring =(]

Whenever I take my younger goddaughters out with me shopping, I carry snacks with me, and we try to graze something before we actually go. Small kids can get really whingy if they are hungry and tired ... so you need to think ahead and prepare.

[bubblelittlepally]

People don't think where the money comes from or goes to in a store. I guess they see a big store like Wal-Mart, for example, and think that if they break things, use stuff, or steal that it comes out of the big CEO's paychecks; however, in reality they're screwing over the people in that store.

.. wtf is with hiding things? I saw that too! So what, you don't want that bag of frozen strawberries afterall, why do you have to hide it under the chips on the next isle.

I should be able to go into a store and use a cattle prod on people I see doing this.

[Nohbody]

At the chain I work at, one of the stocker tasks is to straighten up the shelves to make things pretty for customers, so invariably I and the other stockers invariably get stuck with picking up the stuff people dropped elsewhere.

Of the various things I find around the store, I think what makes me go the most is when I find the plastic wrap from meat packages, but not the styrofoam tray or what's supposed to be on it. What, are they sticking the raw meat straight into their purse (or their pocket! ), sans wrapping?

[NateTheChops]

We lose so much money in pilferage (what you're describing) everyday.

One time last year I found an empty box of Preperation H and the cap for it, but not the tube. That guy's hemmaroids were really getting to him.

[siead_lietrathua]

The ones that annoy me are when they open one package to see if it is what they want and if it is, they drop that one and grab an unopened one to buy.

saw some guy try to pull this in a walmart, and told him (in not so nice terms) that is he was opening the box, he should take that box, and not leave it for the store to have to deal with. he cat-but faced and walked off. since it was something i needed i picked the opened one.

this one drives me nuts though, and i have to constantly tell my own mum not to open boxes, that the contents and colours and everythin are on the box, and you can always return it if its the wrong thing.

[dianek93]

I have opened packages in the store, but only if it wasn't something that could get germy if I didn't want it (idk how to describe it, stuff I would never want strangers to open if I were buying it), and *especially* if I can open and close the package without doing damage to it - like unsealed boxes. But I do it so rarely, I can't remember what type of product I've done it with. Oh! One is bedding, but most of those have zippers on the stuff I need to feel, and that's all I need to do is touch it.

And people that just chow down in stores? Ugh, hate them. (I know, some circumstances a person needs to eat *NOW*, but pay for it, and carry the trash out.) Even as a customer, I get pissed finding opened food even if it's something I would never eat.

[Spoke Jones]

Imagine if you will......

A frozen pizza, in the cooler, with child-size bite marks on the edge....

A tube of toothpaste, hidden behind cans of refried beans, minus the cap and half the contents, the other half nowhere to be found(not squirted anywhere).

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Fireheart, what is the name of the anime your avatar is from? I have seen it, but cannot remember what it is.

[Food Lady]

We get that with socks and underwear all the time. They want to look at it-fine. But they rip open the package when there's a flap at the bottom for that purpose.

[Dark Psion]

The ones that annoy me are when they open one package to see if it is what they want and if it is, they drop that one and grab an unopened one to buy.

[Darkwish]

I once found a package of meat behind some canned goods, four days past the expire date and the plastic wrap had actually expanded...

You have just made me glad that I've never worked in a supermarket or any other food service type job.

[Difdi]

I once found a package of meat behind some canned goods, four days past the expire date and the plastic wrap had actually expanded...

[Null Requiem]

I have two for this section.

I work nights in a grocery store. General Merchandise section (my own department is Bed and Bath, but I get loaned out a lot to others) of the store. I've gotten sick of having to refold towels, repackage bedding sets (some of which end up missing a pillow case, wtf??), and on one occasion, I found an open package of condoms... with just one missing.

... and I don't want to talk about the food stashed in my section of the store... gah.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

A package of Immodium, with some of the contents missing.

I guess when you have that problem, you just want it to go away. <.<

[fireheart]

I get this all the time with food. (I work in a supermarket)
My philosophy on the ruling is that as long as you hand the wrapper to the cashier at the checkout so that he or she can scan it, you can eat it. Not doing that though, and I'll bring out the frozen salmon
Diapers (nappies for Aussies like me ) though....ewww that's disgusting!

On top of that though, one of the weirdest things I've encountered that has been stolen was a toothbrush from a whitening kit. Just the toothbrush. The whitening gel and all that was still there, but someone had made off with the toothbrush from the kit. A few of us just had looks at that point. We have heaps of good-quality toothbrushes, some even better than the whitening kit ones and you go and steal a toothbrush from that?!