All your pallets are belong to us!

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Around here I guess people will steal anything that isn't nailed down to supplement their meager incomes...

Over the weekend some person or persons manager to steal all the pallets we had stacked up outside the store. Every. Last. One. Supposedly people will steal pallets and then take them to truck stops and rest areas and sell them to truckers.

I am guessing we had at least 300 pallets out there. They were stacked close to 30 high out there.

It was fairly awe-inspiring look outside by the fence and see no more pallets there. And mad props to whoever pulled it off, they managed to get away before being seen.

However, we do have a camera outside and it got their license plate number. Zig for great justice!

[Ringtail Z28]

Dang, someone's planning one heck of a bonfire.

[digilight]

I was gonna say bonfire as well. I know around here folks will steal pallets for bonfires at the beach or if they are heading up to the pismo dunes for bonfires their as well.

[Banrion]

When I was in drama club in HS, we needed to shingle a stage set. Since my school was poor, and we had a planer, we went around to local businesses offering to take any old pallets off their hands. After 3 weeks at the plane, I had enough shingles for my set. Maybe someone in town needed a new roof?

[El Barto]

2 questions.

1. Who the hell has so much free time that they steal 300 pallets?

2. How do you end up with 300 pallets? Are you truck drivers lazy? Our empty pallets go back every week (we also only get 1 delivery a week and we rarely have more than 10 pallets, I love working in a small store)

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

2 questions.

1. Who the hell has so much free time that they steal 300 pallets?

2. How do you end up with 300 pallets? Are you truck drivers lazy? Our empty pallets go back every week (we also only get 1 delivery a week and we rarely have more than 10 pallets, I love working in a small store)

1. Dunno

2. We don't send any pallets back, except for the blue ones that we have to send back. We accumulate pallets in the backroom until there are too many and then we take a stack of them outside.

Bet that changes now.

[Geek King]

As to why the were stolen, well--I have seen signs around my town looking to buy pallets from $10-$25 each. Not sure about any other stipulations (load allowance, # of slats, ect.) Probably someone looking to cash in on a deal like that.

[Becks]

Keep an eye out for any new Shantytowns springing up.

[protege]

2. We don't send any pallets back, except for the blue ones that we have to send back. We accumulate pallets in the backroom until there are too many and then we take a stack of them outside.

Hechinger's always had a buttload of pallets sitting by the dock door. Usually, they were stacked and bound with metal strapping to prevent people stealing them. Eventually they were shipped back to the vendors, or turned into mulch.

[Hon'ya-chan]

Or they could've stolen them to build a shed.

http://summerville-novascotia.com/PalletShed/

[drunkenwildmage]

When I worked for Office Max, we had a guy that would come around and pick them up. We didn't sell them or anything we just gave them to him. About once a month he would bring doughnuts or something for the store as a "thank you".

Around here, you either reuse them with other shippers, or there are some places that will strip them, and and turn them into mulch. In fact, last month, I helped my Brother put about 5 cubic yards of pallets in his front yard.

[Nakajo]

Dude, we use our pallets til they break. And then when they do, they splinter everywhere, and it's nuts.

I hated doing steel walk/safety checks for that reason (work at Costco), because a bad broken pallet=oh &@^$ alarm