Do you eat before paying at the supermarket

Some companies have policies in place that say the suspected shoplifter must pass the point of sale before being stopped and some don't. Its kind of a judgement call. If a little old lady sets a greeting card on top of her open purse then no you wouldn't stop her. Same lady puts the card in her purse and zips it up then she could be stopped. If a person takes a sandwich from the deli container and consumes it but still has the container in the cart when they get to checkout, you would watch to see if it is delcared with the order. Same person eats the sandwich and throws the container on the shelf then yes that person could be stopped. I work in a store that has a very bad problem with shoplifting. In the past 5 years we have had over 300 arrests. We have called the police many times and had the person stopped in the store before they ever reach the front of the store and have never had an issue. The laws are different in every state.

Umm, . . . exactly how does one pay for munched grapes within one's stomach?
Perhaps RoadTrip has the store personnel weigh him upon entering and then again at check out, so that he can pay for the added weight due to the munched grapes.

At "my" publix, those grapes are prepackaged, weighed, and priced in zip lock style bags in the produce section. So although they are grapes, they've already been weighed and priced, just need to be scanned at the checkout.

I only graze on items that are prepackaged and priced.

I think that people who do stuff like that just have bad manners. If they were that damn hungry why didnt they eat before they went to the grocery store?

It's almost as gross as watching someone scratch their ass and then smell their finger.

Never. I have seen half consumed products discarded on shelves before and the practice disgusts me.

These people deserve the achilles tendon shopping cart whoopsie imho.

Never! :<;

I dont find the "forgot to pay" story so difficult to believe. I once went into a WalMart to buy some batteries. I got caught up in a conversation with my friend and walked right passed the register and out to the car. When I went to open the door to the car I saw the pack of batteries in my hand. Duh! I went back in and paid for them of course....but I might have ended up in jail had the greeter caught me. Lucky for me she was 100 years old and did not see very well.

As far as eating while shopping...yes, its rude - but not half as rude as the people who talk on the phone while checking out...or decide to remincese with their old time friend, the cashier, for 10 minutes while everyone else waits in line behind.

What music video best depicts supermarket stealing?


"Been Caught Stealing" by Jane's Addiction

I've had to do that a few times myself. I usually buy a six pack of small bottles so there's still some left in the cart so I won't forget. It's better than keeling over in the store.

When I read the story something didn't seem right. Why wouldn't you just put the wrapper right on top of all your stuff so you won't forget? I think they were trying to get away with it and their back up plan was to say they forgot.

I am also amazed that they were able to buy a sandwich for only $2.50 AND it was in Hawaii. Safeway around here (Seattle area) doesn't have them that cheap. Have prices really gone that low in Hawaii? Maybe it's time for another visit.

I also noticed people commenting on the store saying they were going to boycott Safeway for their treatment of the couple. They were stealing! They deserved to be treated like criminals.

People forget stuff all the time. It happened to me. While I am not one to eat in a grocery store, I have driven off without paying for gas because I forgot. I went in, picked up a drink, started talking to the clerk, forgot to pay for the gas and just paid for the drink. Since they know me they call me at the house and asked if I forgot to pay? I looked at my receipt and sure enough I did. They just told me to come in before close and settle up no big deal.

I find it odd we (collectively)are demanding that someone prove their innocence with exacting proof over a $2.50 sandwich, when you consider banks, mortgage companies and foreclosure mills all over the country have been caught red handed signing false affidavits (committing perjury) and the proof is sitting right there. We just shrug or collective shoulders and say well we can't punish the bankers that just wouldn’t be right. It is not like they forgot a $2.50 sandwich or something really important they just intentionally committed perjury 1000's of times over so we need to give them a break.

But dammit that lady that forgot to pay for her $2.50 sandwich by god that enrages me. That bitch better prove to me in exacting detail how that is even possible to forget something as important as a sandwich. By god if she can't prove she is innocent we are gonna to throw the book at her and take her kid from her that will teach her she ought to know better.

Why do we take the most privileged, and most educated segment of our society and hold them to a much lower standard than we do the least educated and lest privileged among us? It certainly makes no sense to me. I was taught growing up that to whom much is given much is required. Of course a fellow LVA member here told me not long ago the great thing about America is we get to practice only the morals we agree with and are free to disregard the rest as it suits us.

As a final point I am confused about DD saying he pays for all of his food before he eats it. It makes me wonder if DD has been to one of those fancy sit down restaurants where they hand you a menu and you don't pay until after your waiter or waitress brings you your check?