Watch your cart!
On Mon, 23 Mar 2015 17:37:30 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:
>On 2015-03-23 1:24 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
>> We went to Costco today, it was remarkably empty, no one
>> in line for gas, not too many people in the store. Cool.
>> I was in a hunt to find the steam mop I wanted and left Ron
>> with the cart.
>>
>> He stepped away look look at something and caught a woman
>> make a sneaky move and stole the only thing in the cart!
>> My coupon book!
>>
>> Why he didn't say anything, I don't know. I think he was just
>> astonished. Bad enough my name and address are on the book,
>> my written shopping list was in there, a good size list.
>> Don't worry, I didn't forget to get the bananas. Heh.
>>
>> Good thing my bag wasn't in there, we be sealing the entrance.
>> Thief on the loose.
>>
>There are lots of honest, law abiding citizens who may not be aware that
>there are a lot of thieves around. People are warned not to leave
>valuables unattended in carts.
>
>A couple years ago I was in a discount grocery store in Niagara Falls
>and I spotted a woman pulling a fast one with bundles of asparagus. It
>is the only time I have ever seen asparagus sold by the bundle rather
>than by the pound. She would grab two bundles of asparagus and then
>very deftly remove about 1/3 of the spears from one bundle and slip them
>into the other and then return the small one to the bunker. She did that
>with a number of them.
Here they sell asparagus bundled with a couple rubberbands but still
they are weighed at the check out... as I'm shopping I snap the
bottoms off, why pay for compost. I remove the damaged outer leaves
from produce too... and I shake off all that spritz water, can make a
head of leaf lettuce weigh double.
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