On Wednesday, May 28, 2014 6:22:40 PM UTC-4, Oregonian Haruspex wrote:
> On 2014-05-28 22:12:52 +0000, jmcquown said:
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> > I was at the dollar store the other day picking up some household
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> > items. I cruised past the freezer/cooler cases on my way to pick up
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> > some milk.
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> > It occurred to me they no longer carry some of the frozen items they
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> > used to. Like cryovac'd packages of raw frozen fish fillets, etc.
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> > (No, I've never bought fish from the dollar store but I do notice what
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> > they have in the freezer and cold cases.) At any rate, I mentioned to
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> > the woman at the checkout stand they seem to not stock some types of
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> > frozen foods anymore. She said that's because people were stealing it.
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> > Okay, I know people steal. The dollar store not stocking some items
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> > sort of made sense. But then she told me this bizarre story:
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> > She said she went to the Food Lion (a grocery store in town) one night
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> > around 11PM. She said they had absolutely no meat in the cold cases.
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> > (We're talking fresh meat; pork chops and roasts, steaks, chicken,
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> > etc., not frozen stuff.) She further claimed when she asked about it
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> > she was told at night they take ALL the meat out of the coolers and put
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> > it in the walk-ins in the back. Reason: people who shop late at night
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> > were stealing it. She further said they told her they were
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> > understaffed so no one could watch the customers.
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> > Uh, what? I found this tale to be so unbelievable I actually asked at
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> > Food Lion. I spoke with a man in the meat department. The first thing
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> > he did was start laughing. He said no, we do not haul all the meat
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> > back to the walk-in cooler at night. And if we're so understaffed, who
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> > is hauling all that meat? BTW, we're only open until 10PM. LOLOL
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> > Jill
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> While this lady may have been full of it, meat theft is a huge issue at
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> many stores. It depends on the particular neighborhood of course.

People steal meat and then re sell it at a price. Pro boosters have a fence. It's perishable so it must go pretty fast. I had a fellow try and sell me meat on our Main Street once. No thanks.