Re: What Do You Think?

On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 22:10:42 +0200, Bjørn Steensrud
<bjornst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Cheri wrote:

"outsider" <outsider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:9d1e3gFhniU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Organizations like Walgreens have strict policies regarding anything
that looks like theft. The article doesn't mention if she was called
out for taking the chips before she paid for them.

I never had occasion, but if I were feeling that way the few seconds
it takes to talk to another employee, or a supervisor, is the right
thing to do. And she is working at a pharmacy where they sell the
"accepted" solution. Being a diabetic, why didn't she have that
product,
and a receipt for it, in her pocket every time she showed up for
work?

There are two places I would expect this sort of problem to occur.
San
Francisco is one, and the the old Greenwich Village is the other.

That's kind of what I was thinking too. Why potato chips, and not
glucose
tabs? There has to be more to the story that we haven't heard, but
you're
right...in SF anything is possible.

Cheri

Once I was standing in a cashier line, I was beginning to feel a hypo
coming. As I was starting to shake I grabbed a small chocolate bar,
tore off the cover and ate it. Saved the cover and showed it to the
cashier who scanned the bar code with no comment ...



Customers do that all the time and cannot be charged with theft until
they attempt to leave the store without paying. If they walk through
the isles for two hours while eating food off the shelf and then pay
for it and leave they have not done anything wrong.

"Employees" are another matter. They are given breaks, break rooms
and the time to be out of site when snacking. If she was having a
problem with a hypo she should have let one of her coworkers know and
asked to step off the floor and take care of it.

No one knows based on the article if she paid for it without being
confronted first. If she paid for it before she was confronted by
management then it is not theft. If she paid for it afterwards then
it is reasonable on management's part to assume theft. At which
point, especially as a cashier, it would not matter how many years of
perfect employment she had.

Damian
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