My Vent ahead...

[MillauFr]

Crackheads will try to sell you anything. They will sell you the bag of refill soap they stole out of the gas station bathroom or the weed eater they took from your neighbor's shed.

But who buys it? I just can't believe anyone would give someone cash for that.

 

[Mysterian]

This inflation has been brutal but I lucked out recently. Yesterday, I got a great deal on some protein powder. Then today, soap and a weed eater!

 

[georgina]

At the beginning of the summer, a young man working at a local Safeway tried to stop a liquor thief and was shot and killed. I don't care if the store is concerned w/ liability. No employer should expect an employee to risk their life for stuff.

Just happened again in DC area. 15 and 12 year olds arrested for killing a gas station employee who tried to stop them from stealing.

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/...tation-employee-to-death-in-maryland/3131986/

 

[MrsCobraBubbles]

But who buys it? I just can't believe anyone would give someone cash for that.

Somebody who just wants the crackhead to go away and quit harassing them.

 

[mrodgers]

lol that's the Boards filtering, but I get what you were feeling

Yeah, I'm glad the Board filter caught it. I frequent another forum which is, ah, I'll say guy based. Tools, garages, construction, remodeling... And there's no filter on the board nor on the people nor in the rules, LOL. "Locker room talk" in both language and specific things people say, we'll call it. I think I had just been there before coming here and posting that, LOL.

 

[mrodgers]

But who buys it? I just can't believe anyone would give someone cash for that.

Sold among other things at the flea market. You really don't think the lady with cases and cases and cases of baby formula for pennies on a dollar acquired said formula legally, do you?

I knew a couple guys who had a nice operation at a grocery store. One worked in produce. The other shopped and left his full cart by the back stockroom door. Then the guy in produce would pull the cart in the back and pack all the empty produce boxes, call the manager to open the back door for him to toss his garbage, which most of the produce boxes were waxed so couldn't be bailed with the regular cardboard. Then he'd go on break, walk out to his car which he parked on purpose before his shift, and unload the dumpster.

This was back in the days before cameras everywhere.

They were making $800/week on selling at the flea market. Not bad for working a $3.35/hour job. That's 6 times what he made a week in his paycheck before taxes working part time.

 

[RedAngie]

I knew a couple guys who had a nice operation at a grocery store. One worked in produce. The other shopped and left his full cart by the back stockroom door. Then the guy in produce would pull the cart in the back and pack all the empty produce boxes, call the manager to open the back door for him to toss his garbage, which most of the produce boxes were waxed so couldn't be bailed with the regular cardboard. Then he'd go on break, walk out to his car which he parked on purpose before his shift, and unload the dumpster.

This was back in the days before cameras everywhere.

They were making $800/week on selling at the flea market. Not bad for working a $3.35/hour job. That's 6 times what he made a week in his paycheck before taxes working part time.

Yes, employee theft is and has always been a bigger issue than shoplifting for many retailers.