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Julie Bove[_2_] Julie Bove[_2_] is offline
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"Nancy Young" > wrote in message
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> On 3/23/2015 7:16 PM, Nellie wrote:
>> On Monday, March 23, 2015 at 3:56:15 PM UTC-7, Nancy Young wrote:

>
>>> 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.

>
>> 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.
>>

>
> Geez. I saw a woman feed her toddler a cup of soup from the shelf.
> Maybe in styrofoam type of packaging. Then she put the empty back
> on the shelf with the other ones so you wouldn't notice until you
> picked it up. I actually went back and checked because I didn't
> trust my eyes. Yup, empty soup container on the shelf.
>
> She had a cart full of stuff so I don't think it was the act of
> a desperate mom or anything. She just didn't feel the need to
> pay for in-store dining.


I saw that sort of stuff all the time when I worked for the Inventory
company. I guess the moms always thought that I wouldn't do anything about
it because I didn't work for the store. I did try to report a woman once
but the manager didn't care. That was at a Safeway.