On 5/28/2014 9:15 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
> On Wed, 28 May 2014 18:12:52 -0400, jmcquown wrote:
>
>> Uh, what? I found this tale to be so unbelievable I actually asked at
>> Food Lion. I spoke with a man in the meat department. The first thing
>> he did was start laughing. He said no, we do not haul all the meat back
>> to the walk-in cooler at night. And if we're so understaffed, who is
>> hauling all that meat? BTW, we're only open until 10PM. LOLOL
>
> The H-E-B grocery/drug chain here in Austin gates off and closes the
> makeup aisle at 8:00pm due to theft. Lots of little, somewhat
> expensive items that are very susceptible to slight of hand that the
> cameras may not catch. A lot easier than sticking a brisket down your
> pants. Plus women LOVE to open packages of makeup and try it out,
> smell it, taste it, look at the color - whatever, and then not buy it.
> Which is basically the same as theft. Not sure if the store goes
> after the rampant package openers or not.
>
They should go after them. If they can catch them. One thing I'll say
about Publix (supermarket), there are *always* plenty of employees
around stocking shelves or whatever. If the cameras don't catch them,
an employee probably would.

> They close that aisle at all the stores - even in the upper class
> sections of town so as not to discriminate against any certain area.
> I'd bet that makeup theft doesn't have any demographic boundaries.
>
> -sw
>
I'm sure it doesn't have demographic boundaries. I don't know why I
think of 'All in the Family' yet again, but do you remember when Edith
thought she was a "klepper"? She ran outside the store to correct
something she'd told an old lady that was wrong and was arrested for
shoplifting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iov35LE2WkM

Jill