"Nancy Young" > wrote in message
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> On 3/23/2015 5:37 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2015-03-23 1:24 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
>
>>> 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!
>
>> 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.
>
> That would bug the hell out of me. And it's obvious she's been
> getting away with it for who knows how long since she had the
> process down pat.
>

I saw all sorts of things when I worked at K Mart. They would put things in
purses, coolers, luggage... They would put tiny things like a necklace
inside of a sock or the pocket of a pair of pants. Small flat things like
greeting cards could be tucked into the pages of a book or magazine. We
learned to squeeze, shake it out or open it up.

But the most blatant thing I have seen is at salad and food bars. Daughter
and I were shocked to see a guy pick up a hard boiled egg at Whole Foods,
apply salt and pepper then eat it while shopping. However, there is
something on their website that says they do allow sampling. You are
supposed to ask first and I didn't see him ask. Apparently they will even
give you a full sized product if you ask. They did give us something once.
Some sort of frozen treat. I didn't ask but the cashier asked me if it was
good. And when I told her that we hadn't tried it, she said we could try it
for free and report back to her. Then I never saw her again.

At Central Market, I am constantly seeing people take the little plastic
containers intended for salad dressing, nuts, seeds, etc., then filling them
with stuff from the salad and cold food bars and sampling. I don't think
they're supposed to be doing that.