"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
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> 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. I dropped a dime on her on the way out, telling the
> cashier what I had seen and leaving a description of the woman... the only
> Phillippino in the store.

I can't tell you how many times I have seen women leave their purse in the
shopping cart and walk off. Or their coupon stash. The other stupid thing
they will do is to leave their purse or wallet in the car in plain sight or
put it in the trunk and enter the store. They're always shocked when the
thing gets stolen. How could it have happened? It was in the trunk! Quite
often they don't even bother to lock the vehicle and you can almost always
open the trunk from inside the vehicle. Or the crook will just smash a
window. They don't care what damage they do!