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A Supermarket Accidentally Opened When No Employees Were Working
« on: April 28, 2011, 11:43:49 AM »
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The Straight Story  (1000+ posts)        Wed Apr-27-11 05:31 PM
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A Supermarket Accidentally Opened When No Employees Were Working
 A Supermarket Accidentally Opened When No Employees Were Working

Casey Chan — What would you do if you walked into a supermarket with no employees inside? Dump everything into 5 carts and run? Steal all the alcohol you can? Grab store displays? Get a lifetime supply of cereal? Fruit? Or would you pay?

Well, Pak 'n Save, a supermarket in New Zealand, opened when no employees were working, and surprisingly, the store wasn't ransacked or stripped or even burned down because few shoppers even noticed the employees were missing. It happened on 8AM last Friday (Good Friday), when a computer glitch accidentally triggered the doors open with no workers inside.

Seriously! Around two dozen customers trickled in, cruised the aisles, shopped and when they were done, used the self-checkout machines to pay for their goods. Business as usual! Of course, some of them skirted past everything and walked straight out but when the owner of the supermarket reviewed the videotape, he said:

http://gizmodo.com/#!5795538/a-supermarket-accidentally...
 

I'm actually shocked at most of the responses to this so far but a couple do not disappoint.

It actually starts out like you would think;

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ZombieHorde  (1000+ posts)      Wed Apr-27-11 05:38 PM
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1. A friend and I once walked out of a grocery store without paying when we couldn't find any
 
employees. It was funny.  

Yeah, I expected as much but wait!


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GKirk (708 posts)      Wed Apr-27-11 05:40 PM
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3. Funny and theft all at the same time...
 
...unless you meant you left with out the groceries too. 


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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts)        Wed Apr-27-11 06:30 PM
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15. I view both, equally, as unfunny theft. I work for a mom and pop store.
 
It is hard enough to keep their store running, without the "funniness" of thieves who will walk out with whatever they can get their mitts on. 

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Lucian (1000+ posts)      Wed Apr-27-11 05:53 PM
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8. I did that once.
 
Edited on Wed Apr-27-11 05:54 PM by Lucian

I walked out with a few things without paying. I figured that it was the store's fault that no one was around. Not mine.
 

Doremus  (1000+ posts)      Wed Apr-27-11 06:43 PM
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19. You need other people to tell you what's right and wrong?
 
Or you knew it was wrong but did it anyway because you weren't going to get caught?


Lucian (1000+ posts)      Wed Apr-27-11 06:58 PM
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22. I didn't consider it stealing.
 
Especially since I was broke and hungry
Don't judge me.


BoWanZi (294 posts)      Thu Apr-28-11 11:30 AM
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48. WTF? You don't consider it stealing, what is it then? Theft? Larceny? Robbery? Thievery?
 
In the eyes of the law, you are guilty, plain and simple. You can say "don't judge me" but no matter what, you admitted that you are a criminal. If you said something to the effect of "yes, what I did was ethically morally wrong and against the law, but I was hungry so I needed to steal", I would have more respect but since you flat out said "I don't consider it stealing", you lose any iota of respect.
 
 
lumberjack_jeff  (1000+ posts)      Thu Apr-28-11 11:56 AM
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52. Your moral compass needs adjusting.
 
It's stealing. Whether it was out of necessity is a different question.
 

Codeine  (1000+ posts)      Wed Apr-27-11 06:54 PM
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21. What the hell?
 
Can you just drive off with a Ferrari if a salesman isn't visible?

I work grocery retail. Thieves suck, and make running a difficult business even harder.
 

Lucian (1000+ posts)      Wed Apr-27-11 06:58 PM
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23. I work at Walmart and I see people stealing shit all the time.
 
Edited on Wed Apr-27-11 06:59 PM by Lucian

Do I care? Hell no.

Why do you?

Edit: See my post above.
 

Anybody know where that loser works?  Wanna pull a walldud on him?   :-)

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Codeine  (1000+ posts)      Wed Apr-27-11 07:31 PM
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26. Because I work at a small retail business
 
and I really hate thieves, regardless of how they justify their theft.

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Lucian (1000+ posts)      Wed Apr-27-11 09:32 PM
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30. I don't see it that way.
 
Edited on Wed Apr-27-11 09:33 PM by Lucian

But I won't change your mind and you won't change mine.

It bothers me you use the word "hate" when you talk about thieves. I can think of a million other things worse than theft.

But I'm glad you're perfect.

She didn't say she was perfect .... just not a thief!

One last post from our hero .... this is a messed up dude;

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Lucian (1000+ posts)      Thu Apr-28-11 12:34 PM
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55. I see theft from large corporations more of a gray area.
 
Edited on Thu Apr-28-11 12:36 PM by Lucian

They steal from us all the time, so why the **** should I care someone steals from them?

Look, if I stop a theft from happening, what do I get out of it? My pay doesn't go up, nor does it go down. The only thing that happens when I stop a theft is Walmart gets to pocket a little more money. There's nothing in it for me. So, I don't care.

Likewise, if I was hungry and had no money, you bet your ass I'm going to take something from a store, even though you see it as "wrong."

You need to move out of your binary way of thinking (good vs evil) and see the world in the shade of gray that it is.

But I'm glad there are a few of you perfect people here.

Glad this shit stain doesn't work for me.  Oh and Lucian .... thanks for helping to keep pricing up for everyone!

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Re: A Supermarket Accidentally Opened When No Employees Were Working
« Reply #1 on: April 28, 2011, 11:53:41 AM »
Lucian sounds like a dream employee.  With his integrity and work ethic, I'm surprised his management potential has gone unrecognized.

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Re: A Supermarket Accidentally Opened When No Employees Were Working
« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2011, 11:56:20 AM »
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Lucian (1000+ posts)      Wed Apr-27-11 06:58 PM
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22. I didn't consider it stealing.
 
Especially since I was broke and hungry
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Re: A Supermarket Accidentally Opened When No Employees Were Working
« Reply #3 on: April 28, 2011, 11:57:40 AM »
You know something, maybe if the thieves weren't walking off with a large percentage of the profits, maybe the workers could get a raise.
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Re: A Supermarket Accidentally Opened When No Employees Were Working
« Reply #4 on: April 28, 2011, 11:58:08 AM »
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lumberjack_jeff  (1000+ posts)      Thu Apr-28-11 11:56 AM
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52. Your moral compass needs adjusting.
 
It's stealing. Whether it was out of necessity is a different question.

Don't let $kinner catch you with a moral compass on The Island.  Them things are verbotten, and it's a tombstone-worthy offense to be in possession of one among the DUmors.
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Re: A Supermarket Accidentally Opened When No Employees Were Working
« Reply #5 on: April 28, 2011, 12:00:52 PM »
Must have been in a nice neighborhood.  If that had happened here, it would be empty and the metal shelves sold for scrap.

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Re: A Supermarket Accidentally Opened When No Employees Were Working
« Reply #6 on: April 28, 2011, 12:02:31 PM »
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ZombieHorde  (1000+ posts)      Wed Apr-27-11 05:38 PM
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1. A friend and I once walked out of a grocery store without paying when we couldn't find any
 
employees. It was funny.

No, it's not funny and if you were a decent person you would be ashamed to post something like that.
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Re: A Supermarket Accidentally Opened When No Employees Were Working
« Reply #7 on: April 28, 2011, 12:04:52 PM »
To the decent people who feel it's wrong to steal and stood up to those in the thread who thought it was funny, these people vote with you, and the old saying goes "show me your friends and I'll tell you who you are".
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Re: A Supermarket Accidentally Opened When No Employees Were Working
« Reply #8 on: April 28, 2011, 12:05:21 PM »
Quote from: Ballygrl on April 28, 2011, 12:02:31 PM
No, it's not funny and if you were a decent person you would be ashamed to post something like that.

Or a teenager.  But then again, that's pretty much the mentality of the DUmp - teenagers.
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Re: A Supermarket Accidentally Opened When No Employees Were Working
« Reply #9 on: April 28, 2011, 12:15:34 PM »
His line of thinking is why there are closed and empty stores and closed malls (Regency-Augusta, Metrocenter-Jackson) in the "bad areas" of town. They opened, thrived, and then people with his attitude decided they'd just take what they wanted. How many jobs were lost when they closed, Lucian, you DUmbass?
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Re: A Supermarket Accidentally Opened When No Employees Were Working
« Reply #10 on: April 28, 2011, 12:17:41 PM »
And can one of you DUmbasses PLEASE f'n explain to me how in the HELL a big corporation "steals" from you? The more they make does not make one damn difference to you. Money and wealth is created; it's NOT a finite amount of money or a zero sum market.
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Re: A Supermarket Accidentally Opened When No Employees Were Working
« Reply #11 on: April 28, 2011, 12:27:32 PM »
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IrishEyes (152 posts)        Wed Apr-27-11 06:32 PM
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17. I left without paying once
 I had stopped off in another town to make some copies at Kinkos and I totally forgot to pay. I had a lot on my mind at the time. I didn't realize until I was home that I did it. It was to far to go back and pay the dollar. I felt guilty so I gave a dollar to a homeless person. 

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Admiral Loinpresser  (931 posts)        Thu Apr-28-11 08:25 AM
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34. The scarier question.
 Given Obama's non-policy on international climate change, what will you do when the stores don't have any food?
::)

followed by several long posts, as is customary, including a plug for Al Gore's movie. 

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lumberjack_jeff  (1000+ posts)      Thu Apr-28-11 11:49 AM
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51. My personal theory is that theft is the urban expression of a hunting instinct. It's demeaning if the highest and best use of your hunting prowess is stealing the Jerry's kids change box off the counter.

The only exception is fundie rightwingers. If you work with one, don't keep your lunch in the lunchroom fridge. Stealing your cookies really is the highest and best use of their intellectual prowess.
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Re: A Supermarket Accidentally Opened When No Employees Were Working
« Reply #12 on: April 28, 2011, 12:58:14 PM »
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Well, Pak 'n Save, a supermarket in New Zealand, opened when no employees were working, and surprisingly, the store wasn't ransacked or stripped or even burned down because few shoppers even noticed the employees were missing.
not surprising at all when you consider the store was not in some poverty pimp and welfare queen infested ghetto where the general population feels that everyone owes them something.  Too bad for you that your 'hood makes you feel that the store should have been reduced to an empty shell by the local vermin.
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Re: A Supermarket Accidentally Opened When No Employees Were Working
« Reply #13 on: April 28, 2011, 12:59:34 PM »
This may deserve it's own thread, but it reminds me of the DUmmy topic:

Man Dressed as Cow Steals 26 Gallons of Milk



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How about 26 gallons of it? One man did, at least for a little while. And that man was dressed in a cow costume.

In the category of You Can't Make This Stuff Up If You Tried, the 18-year-old crawled into a Stafford, Va., Walmart on all fours, reported PotomacLocal.com.

After standing, he loaded about $92 worth of milk into a shopping cart and simply rolled the cart out of the without paying, police have confirmed to NBC Washington.

He then attempted to give the milk away outside the store, and tried to flee the scene by skipping away, police said.

Jonathan Payton, 18, of North Stafford, Va., was given a summons and released at the scene.
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Re: A Supermarket Accidentally Opened When No Employees Were Working
« Reply #14 on: April 28, 2011, 01:00:38 PM »
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progressiveinaction (42 posts)           Thu Apr-28-11 01:30 PM
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59. Me thinks
   
you are a troll trying to make us look bad. Did you crawl out of a cave to get here?

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Lucian (1000+ posts)           Thu Apr-28-11 01:39 PM
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62. ...says the person with 42 posts.
   
Edited on Thu Apr-28-11 01:40 PM by Lucian
I've been here since 2005 (under a different username). How long have you been here?

Learn to think critically and then respond to me.

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Re: A Supermarket Accidentally Opened When No Employees Were Working
« Reply #15 on: April 28, 2011, 01:06:59 PM »
Quote from: Ballygrl on April 28, 2011, 01:00:38 PM

:lmao: :lmao: :lmao:


Heh.  I just saw that.  We got a shout out!  Woot!!

LOL

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Re: A Supermarket Accidentally Opened When No Employees Were Working
« Reply #16 on: April 28, 2011, 01:09:22 PM »
 :lmao:  PIA!

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Re: A Supermarket Accidentally Opened When No Employees Were Working
« Reply #17 on: April 28, 2011, 01:19:17 PM »
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Lucian (1000+ posts)           Thu Apr-28-11 05:39 PM
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62. ...says the person with 42 posts.
   
Edited on Thu Apr-28-11 05:40 PM by Lucian
I've been here since 2005 (under a different username). How long have you been here?

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65. Well, let me use my critical thinking skills then...
   
How much shit have you stolen since 2005? I won't judge you this time.

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« Reply #18 on: April 28, 2011, 01:25:12 PM »
Who's PIA?

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Re: A Supermarket Accidentally Opened When No Employees Were Working
« Reply #19 on: April 28, 2011, 01:28:22 PM »
Quote from: Texacon on April 28, 2011, 01:25:12 PM
Who's PIA?

KC

We think he's a mole, because he's so adorable, and he brought up the cost of gas for an 86 Buick, and now this post, and his name can be a play on words, either PIA=Pain In the Ass, or PIA=Progressive INACTION. :-)
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Re: A Supermarket Accidentally Opened When No Employees Were Working
« Reply #20 on: April 28, 2011, 01:31:46 PM »
Quote from: Ballygrl on April 28, 2011, 01:28:22 PM
We think he's a mole, because he's so adorable, and he brought up the cost of gas for an 86 Buick, and now this post, and his name can be a play on words, either PIA=Pain In the Ass, or PIA=Progressive INACTION. :-)

PIA=Palin Is Awesome?

LOL

Well, I guess I'll watch to see where that thread goes.

Thanks!
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Re: A Supermarket Accidentally Opened When No Employees Were Working
« Reply #21 on: April 28, 2011, 01:32:15 PM »
I'm thinking that Lucian contributes to "shrinkage losses" at the Walmart where he works.
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Re: A Supermarket Accidentally Opened When No Employees Were Working
« Reply #22 on: April 28, 2011, 01:35:12 PM »
Oh yeah, I don't care if people steal either.  It's not like high theft causes higher prices or anything.... ::)
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Re: A Supermarket Accidentally Opened When No Employees Were Working
« Reply #23 on: April 28, 2011, 01:59:01 PM »
Quote from: Texacon on April 28, 2011, 01:31:46 PM
PIA=Palin Is Awesome?

LOL

Well, I guess I'll watch to see where that thread goes.

Thanks!
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I didn't think of that 1! :lmao:
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Re: A Supermarket Accidentally Opened When No Employees Were Working
« Reply #24 on: April 28, 2011, 02:19:27 PM »
Quote from: Rebel on April 28, 2011, 12:17:41 PM
And can one of you DUmbasses PLEASE f'n explain to me how in the HELL a big corporation "steals" from you? The more they make does not make one damn difference to you. Money and wealth is created; it's NOT a finite amount of money or a zero sum market.

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