Safeway groceries are horrible people.
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Have you ever dealt with their customer service?
This is why I don't post much on here, everyone takes stuff way too seriously. Have a laugh every now and then!0 -
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it is theft, but they could have charged her without going to such extremes! i don't understand how that is ok..LOL are you serious? I remember being a kid and my mom would open up something in the store and let me sit in the buggy and eat...people are a joke.
In this case, the woman ate some sandwiches while in the store and DID NOT PAY FOR THEM. That is theft.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-sandwich-arrest-20111101,0,6197311.story
Yup exactly! Sounds like it was handled way to harsh to me. I have seen teens at the mall get off way easier and do not think it is right!
Poor little girl
I seem to remember being very woolly-headed & spaced-out when pregnant.....must have done all sorts of odd things. Surely it's an easy thing to do especially if she had other things going on too. Not excuseable but surely it could have been dealt with in a kinder way.0 -
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No, I have not been pregnant ever. Well, except those couple of weeks in the 7th grade. Can pregnant women not eat BEFORE they go to the store? Will the intense hunger they feel over the course of 10-15 minutes of shopping kill them or cause them to go into premature labor?
Have you ever been pregnant?I'm always a little disgusted by people eating in the grocery store. Seriously? You can't wait 15 minutes til you pay for that *kitten*? I think it's trashy. But I'm a judgmental princess.
Let's let preggos do whatever they want. What, she robbed a Burger King with a semi-automatic weapon? Let's not judge her. Her hormones are all wackadoo from being pregnant.0 -
It's the managers call..not the whole chain. My Safeway manager is awesome and wouldn't do something that rash.
I think being that they were new to shopping there didn't help either. I think if I had something I missed in my cart, the manager would not make a big deal about it. But I've shopped there for years. They know I haven't shop lifted in all those years. (Also, the baggers are pretty good at helping to unload the cart if I'm not done unloading by my turn.)
I've never been pregnant (unfortunately), so I won't go there, but if I enter the store REALLY thirsty before shopping, I buy myself a drink before I shop for the rest of my groceries.0 -
Do you know the judgmental princess secret handshake and can you recite our pledge?
I'm totally stealing this, K?But I'm a judgmental princess.
Please raise your right hand and repeat the following:
On my honor, I will try
To serve myself and my fellow princesses,
To cast judgment on those beneath us at all times,
And to live by the Judgmental Princess Law.0 -
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I eat stuff in stores all the time, sometimes its the only way to quiet our little one. Sometimes the store says "don't worry about it".. quite often Shane eats a banana while we shop and I always hand in the peel and they rarely charge... this is definitely extreme, I'm sure she would have paid for it if some one had reminder her about it... this is redic.0
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I am sad about the lack of humanity on this topic.
I mean REALLY?
A pregnant woman, (pregnancy brain) forgets to pay for a $5 dollar sandwich and her wife and husband spend a night in jail and there toddler spends a night in protective custody!
REALLY?
She honestly forgot to pay for a $5 sandwich while paying for $50 in groceries! And some think this is deserving punishment!
REALLY?
"Shoplifting is shoplifting"
REALLY?
What about some freakin common sense? There was no criminal intent here.
Those "managers" are the biggest idiots in this whole situation, they make their company look horrible because they have no common sense and I'm sure they will be fired shortly for it.
I can't believe anyone with half a brain would side with the store on this one.0 -
I don't personally snack while shopping (except when I was pregnant), but I have no problem giving my son something that has a bar code scanner. I'll get a pound of cheese or meat from the deli counter and give him bits of it while shopping, sometimes a smaller bottle of milk from the refridgerator sections. He's 2 and doesn't understand why he can't have the bananas or grapes that I plopped down into the cart just out of his reach, but since those things need weighed I won't let him have them. If it's a preplanned shopping trip I try to have something in my bag but if it's not (happen to have time after work or I'm already out for some reason), yep I'll open a package. I also try to make sure it's not something small enough (like a candy bar) that the wrapper could get lost because I'm super paranoid of forgetting about it.
On this topic, she shop lifted. Maybe she forgot, maybe she's just saying she forgot, either way it happened. The store has can decide to press charges or not, but they don't know intent. If it were me would I want some leniency? yes. Would I expect it? no. Do I think it's extreme? yes. Do I think it's beyond their rights? no.0 -
Semi-automatic weapons always equals pregnant. Just remember that and you'll never lose.It's fun to play the "fat or pregnant" game with your friends when you see people stealing food.
Semi-automatic weapons always throw me off though.0 -
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I am sad about the lack of humanity on this topic.
I mean REALLY?
A pregnant woman, (pregnancy brain) forgets to pay for a $5 dollar sandwich and her wife and husband spend a night in jail and there toddler spends a night in protective custody!
REALLY?
She honestly forgot to pay for a $5 sandwich while paying for $50 in groceries! And some think this is deserving punishment!
REALLY?
"Shoplifting is shoplifting"
REALLY?
What about some freakin common sense? There was no criminal intent here.
Those "managers" are the biggest idiots in this whole situation, they make their company look horrible because they have no common sense and I'm sure they will be fired shortly for it.
I can't believe anyone with half a brain would side with the store on this one.
OMG BUT THEY SNACKED WHILE SHOPPING!!!
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Jesus Christ, its like the whales at the buffets. You can't WAIT until you sit down to eat? You have to lick your grubby fingers WHILE you're scooping food that we are all going to scoop too? Go HOME and be a pig, don't make me watch you. Wait 2.5 minutes to go sit at your table and eat your food.
Really? You can't WAIT until you LEAVE the store to stuff food in your face?
All people who do that should be arrested.
Humans are gross.
I really just came here to see how groceries can be horrible people.....but then I got all infuriated like.
I KNOW!! I CAN'T BELIEVE HUMANS POOP TOO!! EWWWWWW I'M GLAD WE AREN'T HUMAN!
I KNOW!! BEFORE WE KNOW IT HUMANS WILL BE POOPING AS THEY SHOP FOR ALL OF US TO SEE AND PEOPLE WILL GET MAD BECAUSE THE STORE KICKED THEM OUT!!!!
Humans ARE gross. When I walk through a store chowing down because I can't wait to stuff my face, consider me gross too.
Oh... So, you're NOT human, then? :flowerforyou:0 -
Will you buy me expensive gifts and a house on the beach in Argentina?
Semi-automatic weapons always equals pregnant. Just remember that and you'll never lose.It's fun to play the "fat or pregnant" game with your friends when you see people stealing food.
Semi-automatic weapons always throw me off though.
Marry me.0 -
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Will you buy me expensive gifts and a house on the beach in Argentina?
Semi-automatic weapons always equals pregnant. Just remember that and you'll never lose.It's fun to play the "fat or pregnant" game with your friends when you see people stealing food.
Semi-automatic weapons always throw me off though.
Marry me.
Probably not, but when I get pregnant I'll steal them for you.
JUST DON'T EVER SNACK ON ANYTHING WITH PEOPLE AROUND!! EWWWW 0 -
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Rather than being a condemnation of Safeway, I find a lot of the responses to this thread to be a poor reflection on society.
So many people thinking that just because it was only a $5 sandwich that it is acceptable to steal.
It doesn't matter whether it's $5, $500 or $5,000,000: theft is theft.0 -
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Oh... So, you're NOT human, then? :flowerforyou:
Why does everyone assume I don't include myself in this statement?
Sometimes it hurts my brain to be included in the human race though, yes.
because you said "I KNOW!! BEFORE WE KNOW IT HUMANS WILL BE POOPING AS THEY SHOP FOR ALL OF US TO SEE AND PEOPLE WILL GET MAD BECAUSE THE STORE KICKED THEM OUT!!!!
Humans ARE gross. When I walk through a store chowing down because I can't wait to stuff my face, consider me gross too."
which actually made me *lol*. I think pooping in the store would be perfectly acceptable. Its when they FLING the poo that we'll have problems. :laugh:0 -
Aside from the fact that your link is a bad link, I'm not sure that arresting someone for shoplifting/stealing makes a grocery store chain "horrible people." Are pregnant women supposed to be exempt from the law?
The woman ate a sandwich while shopping (pregnant women do get hungrier more often, who would have thought!) and forgot to pay while checking out (she saved the wrapper). They were embarrassed and offered to pay when it was brought to their attention, but were not allowed to. It was $5. They were held overnight in jail while their daughter spent the night in foster care.
All over $5.00.
This clearly is a case of the store management just being *kitten*.0 -
Rather than being a condemnation of Safeway, I find a lot of the responses to this thread to be a poor reflection on society.
So many people thinking that just because it was only a $5 sandwich that it is acceptable to steal.
It doesn't matter whether it's $5, $500 or $5,000,000: theft is theft.
Seriously dude. You really think the fact that she forgot to pay for a sandwich warrants an overnight in jail and her daughter being taken away for the night?
Grow some compassion.0 -
Rather than being a condemnation of Safeway, I find a lot of the responses to this thread to be a poor reflection on society.
So many people thinking that just because it was only a $5 sandwich that it is acceptable to steal.
It doesn't matter whether it's $5, $500 or $5,000,000: theft is theft.
Hmm i dunno. If someone stole $500 dollars out of my wallet vs $5 i think i would care more...0 -
I'm pretty sure that there is another side to this story that we're not hearing. I used to work as a case manager and had to work closely with Children's Services. They don't exactly go around taking people's children away just for the heck of it. Honestly, it was awful trying to get them to pay attention to situations where children did need to be taken away. I can't imagine that the woman's child was taken from her because of one incident in a grocery store.0
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Rather than being a condemnation of Safeway, I find a lot of the responses to this thread to be a poor reflection on society.
So many people thinking that just because it was only a $5 sandwich that it is acceptable to steal.
It doesn't matter whether it's $5, $500 or $5,000,000: theft is theft.
Seriously dude. You really think the fact that she forgot to pay for a sandwich warrants an overnight in jail and her daughter being taken away for the night?
Grow some compassion.
Look at the cold hard facts: she stole.
Everybody is getting worked up into a frenzy over the value of the item and the fact that she was pregnant.
If the report simply said "women arrested for stealing from Safeway" nobody would think twice about it.0 -
Oh... So, you're NOT human, then? :flowerforyou:
Why does everyone assume I don't include myself in this statement?
Sometimes it hurts my brain to be included in the human race though, yes.
because you said "I KNOW!! BEFORE WE KNOW IT HUMANS WILL BE POOPING AS THEY SHOP FOR ALL OF US TO SEE AND PEOPLE WILL GET MAD BECAUSE THE STORE KICKED THEM OUT!!!!
Humans ARE gross. When I walk through a store chowing down because I can't wait to stuff my face, consider me gross too."
which actually made me *lol*. I think pooping in the store would be perfectly acceptable. Its when they FLING the poo that we'll have problems. :laugh:
I didn't say I wouldn't be pooping in the aisles.
And. Poop is flung around grocery stores. Do YOU touch the handles on those carts? There is poop ALL over them thangs.
Doh! I always miss the FUN stuff. Poo flinging sounds fun, as long as you don't slip and fall in it. Yuck.0 -
* walks in and flushes this thread down the sh*tter*0
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