On 5/28/2014 6:26 PM, notbob wrote:
> On 2014-05-28, jmcquown > wrote:
>> the walk-ins in the back. Reason: people who shop late at night were
>> stealing it. She further said they told her they were understaffed so
>
> I don't know if that's the real reason, but I do know poor ppl can
> steal a whole lotta stuff.

Of course they can. Anyone can.

My point was she told me this ridiculous story as if it was the truth.
So I asked the guy at Food Lion about it. He said it was ridiculous.
They don't move all the meat from the coolers to the walk-in cooler at
night, for any reason. And they aren't open past 10PM. (We don't have
24/7 grocery stores around here.)

When I got outta the service, I was living
> in a fairly "basic" tenenment. It was a duplex and a four-plex facing
> each other, all one bdrm. We all called it "the ghetto" even though
> is was basically decent. All the tenents who lived there were young
> and worked for the pool construction company next door, so all were
> gainfully employed.
>
Good for them. Probably not paid well but heck, they were working.

> Anyway, at one point 2 girls moved into one unit. They were heroin
> addicts. One was pregnant and you wouldn't believe all the stuff they
> could steal! Entire hams, beef roasts, Whole turkeys, etc. All I
> hadda do was put in an order. I never availed myself of this
> questionable service, but it was quite the education.
>
> nb
>
I wouldn't have availed myself of that "service", either, nb. But hey,
it reminds me of the Bill Burr "rolling hams out the door" routine. I
don't work here!

Jill