Boycott Safeway Supermarket

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[quote]Christine wrote:

[quote]gregron wrote:

[quote]Christine wrote:

[quote]jehovasfitness wrote:

[quote]Christine wrote:
Loads of people eat while shopping. If the stores don’t like it, they should do something to prevent it.[/quote]

they are trying to, but all these people in the thread are bitching that they aren’t allowed, LOL
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Most grocery stores I go to have free samples all over the place. They encourage people to eat while shopping. [/quote]

Grocery stores encourage people to eat “the FREE SAMPLES” not the items that are “For Sale”… Big difference.[/quote]

But they do nothing to prevent it.

They really can’t because it is mostly parents with children who are doing the eating. If they were to try and stop it, parents would shop elsewhere.

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LOL…you just had someone who works as loss prevention state that he follows those types around to see if they pay.

That means it matters.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]Christine wrote:

[quote]gregron wrote:

[quote]Christine wrote:

[quote]jehovasfitness wrote:

[quote]Christine wrote:
Loads of people eat while shopping. If the stores don’t like it, they should do something to prevent it.[/quote]

they are trying to, but all these people in the thread are bitching that they aren’t allowed, LOL
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Most grocery stores I go to have free samples all over the place. They encourage people to eat while shopping. [/quote]

Grocery stores encourage people to eat “the FREE SAMPLES” not the items that are “For Sale”… Big difference.[/quote]

But they do nothing to prevent it.

They really can’t because it is mostly parents with children who are doing the eating. If they were to try and stop it, parents would shop elsewhere.

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LOL…you just had someone who works as loss prevention state that he follows those types around to see if they pay.

That means it matters.[/quote]

That means it only matters if they don’t pay.

Logic is like an apparition to you.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]Christine wrote:

[quote]gregron wrote:

[quote]Christine wrote:

[quote]jehovasfitness wrote:

[quote]Christine wrote:
Loads of people eat while shopping. If the stores don’t like it, they should do something to prevent it.[/quote]

they are trying to, but all these people in the thread are bitching that they aren’t allowed, LOL
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Most grocery stores I go to have free samples all over the place. They encourage people to eat while shopping. [/quote]

Grocery stores encourage people to eat “the FREE SAMPLES” not the items that are “For Sale”… Big difference.[/quote]

But they do nothing to prevent it.

They really can’t because it is mostly parents with children who are doing the eating. If they were to try and stop it, parents would shop elsewhere.

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LOL…you just had someone who works as loss prevention state that he follows those types around to see if they pay.

That means it matters.[/quote]

I had the impression that he follows the ones who appear to be concealing what they are doing. Not the ones who do it openly.

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How do return policies factor in to this?

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[quote]Christine wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]Christine wrote:

[quote]gregron wrote:

[quote]Christine wrote:

[quote]jehovasfitness wrote:

[quote]Christine wrote:
Loads of people eat while shopping. If the stores don’t like it, they should do something to prevent it.[/quote]

they are trying to, but all these people in the thread are bitching that they aren’t allowed, LOL
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Most grocery stores I go to have free samples all over the place. They encourage people to eat while shopping. [/quote]

Grocery stores encourage people to eat “the FREE SAMPLES” not the items that are “For Sale”… Big difference.[/quote]

But they do nothing to prevent it.

They really can’t because it is mostly parents with children who are doing the eating. If they were to try and stop it, parents would shop elsewhere.

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LOL…you just had someone who works as loss prevention state that he follows those types around to see if they pay.

That means it matters.[/quote]

I had the impression that he follows the ones who appear to be concealing what they are doing. Not the ones who do it openly.

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No, he said he foollows them around and if they linger too long he would get annoyed. I used to work at a store like that so I know how they act with customers like this. Most people with kids who eat in stores probably also pay for it.

They would be idiots, however, to completely ignore potential loss due to it.

So, no, regardless of how ok many of us are with that practice, unless they are serving free food like at Sams, most stores would NOT like it if you went and opened up a box of Goldfish crackers to feed your kids without paying for it. They just wouldn’t say anything until you walked out without paying for it.

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[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:
How do return policies factor in to this?[/quote]

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Most return policies require a RECEIPT. They didn’t pay for it.

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[quote]Derek542 wrote:

[quote]Yo Momma wrote:
Go to a supermarket in a predominantly black or hispanic part of the city. It’s not uncommon to see people sampling the fruit or opening a box of something and eating as they shop. The deli and produce clerk actually encourage you to taste it, as long as you don’t chow down a shit ton of food.

I used to give my kids apples while I shopped, sometimes I opened a box of dried fruit snacks for them to keep everybody happy. When I got to the cashier, I tell her to scan my bag of apples twice, because my kids ate half of them. Sometimes she did it, sometimes she just let it go.

That supermarket has been there for over 30 years without the customers eating them out of business. Maybe it’s just a cultural thang, but I don’t see what that poor woman did constitutes a crime of stealing. But then again, I ain’t no lawyer and fuck the police.[/quote]

Most of the big chains here in Houston, HEB, Kroger etc you cant go 10 feet without them giving you samples of shit to eat. I mean literally I see fat people going in there for their 3rd breakfast.

The rest of this thread is serious LOL.

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I fucking love the brisket meal deal.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:
regardless of how ok many of us are with that practice, unless they are serving free food like at Sams, most stores would NOT like it if you went and opened up a box of Goldfish crackers to feed your kids without paying for it. They just wouldn’t say anything until you walked out without paying for it.[/quote]

I agree with this.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:
How do return policies factor in to this?[/quote]

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Most return policies require a RECEIPT. They didn’t pay for it.[/quote]
Well that settles the whole argument for me.

Intent isn’t good enough. Stores are not credit cards.

It’s common practice to pay before “owning groceries” for the common practice arguments.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]Christine wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]Christine wrote:

[quote]gregron wrote:

[quote]Christine wrote:

[quote]jehovasfitness wrote:

[quote]Christine wrote:
Loads of people eat while shopping. If the stores don’t like it, they should do something to prevent it.[/quote]

they are trying to, but all these people in the thread are bitching that they aren’t allowed, LOL
[/quote]

Most grocery stores I go to have free samples all over the place. They encourage people to eat while shopping. [/quote]

Grocery stores encourage people to eat “the FREE SAMPLES” not the items that are “For Sale”… Big difference.[/quote]

But they do nothing to prevent it.

They really can’t because it is mostly parents with children who are doing the eating. If they were to try and stop it, parents would shop elsewhere.

[/quote]

LOL…you just had someone who works as loss prevention state that he follows those types around to see if they pay.

That means it matters.[/quote]

I had the impression that he follows the ones who appear to be concealing what they are doing. Not the ones who do it openly.

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No, he said he foollows them around and if they linger too long he would get annoyed. I used to work at a store like that so I know how they act with customers like this. Most people with kids who eat in stores probably also pay for it.

They would be idiots, however, to completely ignore potential loss due to it.

So, no, regardless of how ok many of us are with that practice, unless they are serving free food like at Sams, most stores would NOT like it if you went and opened up a box of Goldfish crackers to feed your kids without paying for it. They just wouldn’t say anything until you walked out without paying for it.[/quote]

Well, there are two other options.

Tell parents no to feed their children and have a bunch of whining, crying brats in the store.

or

Tell parents to bring their own snacks for the kids. But, then the stores have the problem of discerning pre-purchased food items from the other food items.

I guess the third option would be to ban the little sociopathic, narcissistic monsters from the grocery stores.

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[quote]TheBodyGuard wrote:
they don’t discourage it either.
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i would argue that putting food items out FOR SALE (not the free sambles obviously) and in sealed containers is an attempt to discourage one from eating the food in the store without paying for it.

I wouldn’t say that it’s “common practice” but it definitely does happen, no argument here. I’ve seen it a handful of times in my life… Not enough to qualify as a common practice in my book but I know what you’re saying.

I think the need to post a sign for that is dumb but so are a lot of people in the world so maybe you’re right. They don’t post signs in bathrooms that say “please don’t pee on the floor” cause it’s just a known thing, but maybe they should lol

We had to make laws in this country to get people to wear seat belts for their own safety and people still get upset about that so maybe a sign that says “Please don’t take something that doesn’t belong to you and eat it before you have purchased it” is actually nesecary for some people in the world to understand lol.

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[quote]Christine wrote:
Well, there are two other options.

Tell parents no to feed their children and have a bunch of whining, crying brats in the store.

or

Tell parents to bring their own snacks for the kids. But, then the stores have the problem of discerning pre-purchased food items from the other food items.
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Or option number 3… Feed your kid before you go to the store??? A trip for grocerys takes 30-40 minutes? You can’t feed the kid a snack before hand/in the car and have them not be a “whinny crying brat”? Do kids have to have snacks shoved in their face at all times to keep them happy?

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I guess the third option would be to ban the little sociopathic, narcissistic monsters from the grocery stores.[/quote]

They’re already starting to do this for some restaurants.

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^LOL. This is why they have “do not eat” on toilet bowl deodorizers. If people really need a sign to know opening up a closed package in a store is not ideal, there is something wrong.

No one made you have kids. Yeah, you probably should bring a snack along if they NEED a snack. My mom did. We ate Cheerios as little toddlers when out. I don’t remember her ever opening up a box in a store for us to eat before she bought it.

For one, I think culturally some people would EXPECT a negative result from doing that.

Some here seem to think it is just fine and dandy…but also seem to miss how important that PAYING FOR IT step is.

They are likely following some of you around the store as you do this but you just couldn’t pick out the undercover.

Trust me, there are few stores that allow you to open a package without following you if they have any reason at all to think you won’t pay.

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[quote]Ulty wrote :
Safeway dropped the charge

http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/...plifting-charge[/quote]

obviously they dropped the charge. If they didn’t, they would lose it. And they know it.

Actually they knew they would dropped the charge from the beginning, well before they even called the police.

And this is exactly why i say they did abuse the system.
They basically use the police, justice and child care service to establish their reputation and frighten potential thieves (that’s the main point of this “systematic prosecution policy”, according to yourself) but, obviously, only as long as it’s free (for them, not for us) to do so.

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The bottom line is that supermarkets can afford to lose whatever is eaten on the premises (and just as a customer I’ve lost count of the times I’ve seen empty wrappers, soda cans etc. left on shelves - casual “theft” of food and drink is far more common than most people think, when all you have do to get rid of the evidence is to consume it and dump the wrapper ), just as they can afford to throw out vast amounts of expired, but perfectly good food on a daily basis.

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[quote]gregron wrote:

[quote]Christine wrote:
Well, there are two other options.

Tell parents no to feed their children and have a bunch of whining, crying brats in the store.

or

Tell parents to bring their own snacks for the kids. But, then the stores have the problem of discerning pre-purchased food items from the other food items.
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Or option number 3… Feed your kid before you go to the store???

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I guess the third option would be to ban the little sociopathic, narcissistic monsters from the grocery stores.[/quote]

They’re already starting to do this for some restaurants.[/quote]

I’m guessing you have never shopped with a small child before if you think it is that easy.

I support restaurants that ban kids. I would probably shop at a grocery store that banned kids as well, but this is just not realistic.

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[quote]roybot wrote:

The bottom line is that supermarkets can afford to lose whatever is eaten on the premises (and just as a customer I’ve lost count of the times I’ve seen empty wrappers, soda cans etc. left on shelves - casual “theft” of food and drink is far more common than most people think, when all you have do to get rid of the evidence is to consume it and dump the wrapper ), just as they can afford to throw out vast amounts of expired, but perfectly good food on a daily basis.

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OK, then I can assume the guy driving a new Corvette has the money and insurance to buy a new stereo system if I take his.

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[quote]roybot wrote:

The bottom line is that supermarkets can afford to lose whatever is eaten on the premises (and just as a customer I’ve lost count of the times I’ve seen empty wrappers, soda cans etc. left on shelves - casual “theft” of food and drink is far more common than most people think, when all you have do to get rid of the evidence is to consume it and dump the wrapper ), just as they can afford to throw out vast amounts of expired, but perfectly good food on a daily basis.

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I can afford a new TV but if I ever see someone trying to steal mine I will shoot them. Even if clean up costs more than a new tv.

Lets not make this thread “Occupy T-Nation”.

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[quote]Christine wrote:

[quote]gregron wrote:

[quote]Christine wrote:
Well, there are two other options.

Tell parents no to feed their children and have a bunch of whining, crying brats in the store.

or

Tell parents to bring their own snacks for the kids. But, then the stores have the problem of discerning pre-purchased food items from the other food items.
[/quote]

Or option number 3… Feed your kid before you go to the store???

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I guess the third option would be to ban the little sociopathic, narcissistic monsters from the grocery stores.[/quote]

They’re already starting to do this for some restaurants.[/quote]

I’m guessing you have never shopped with a small child before if you think it is that easy.

I support restaurants that ban kids. I would probably shop at a grocery store that banned kids as well, but this is just not realistic.[/quote]

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No one cares how easy it is. They aren’t my kids.

They aren;t the store’s kids.

YOU had kids so YOU need to feed them YOUR OWN FOOD that YOU PAID FOR.

LOL at parents thinking having kids makes it ok to open and manipulate items they didn’t pay for in stores.

Is this only ok for parents?

What if I am babysitting? We all get to eat in the store? Open up some Cinnamon Toast Crunch and eat the whole box in the aisle and expect no one to say anything?

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[quote]Professor X wrote:
^LOL. This is why they have “do not eat” on toilet bowl deodorizers. If people really need a sign to know opening up a closed package in a store is not ideal, there is something wrong.

No one made you have kids. Yeah, you probably should bring a snack along if they NEED a snack. My mom did. We ate Cheerios as little toddlers when out. I don’t remember her ever opening up a box in a store for us to eat before she bought it.

For one, I think culturally some people would EXPECT a negative result from doing that.

Some here seem to think it is just fine and dandy…but also seem to miss how important that PAYING FOR IT step is.

They are likely following some of you around the store as you do this but you just couldn’t pick out the undercover.

Trust me, there are few stores that allow you to open a package without following you if they have any reason at all to think you won’t pay.[/quote]

No one is arguing that paying for food items is important. We are arguing about the timing of that payment.

Some of us have empathy and can see shades of grey, others are cold-hearted, facist bastards. :slight_smile: