"Nellie" > wrote in message
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> On Monday, March 23, 2015 at 3:56:15 PM UTC-7, Nancy Young wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> > 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 hope they found a way to put a stop to that. They probably
>> couldn't do much unless they had her on surveillance. I'm glad
>> you clued them in.
>>
>> nancy
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>
> Yeah, me too. Once I watched a woman peeling tangerines and feeding them
> to her kids right there in produce. She must have seen me staring and put
> out her hand with a few slices in them and offered them to me. Whoa, no
> sense of wrong-doing at all.

Some stores here allow that. Whole Foods has a bin of fruit that kids can
have for free. But PCC goes a step further. Kids ages 12 and under get a
free serving of fruit or vegetables of their choice. If they want a serving
from a larger item like a pineapple or melon, all they have to do is ask the
person working in that department and it will be cut for them. Angela
usually chose an apple but sometimes she would get vegetables.

I have seen people stripping things off of fruits and vegetables though when
they were paying by the pound. Such as the peel from oranges. I haven't
seen that happen often but a few times.