Grocery Store Yarns: Oh Sure You Didn't Know..

[RavenStarr]

That you couldn't pay for hot deli item on an ebt card. This after you had already ate it while shopping. But then when I tell you that ebt won't pay for it you go and say that you have no cash. ? But yet you swear up and down that you had no idea and didn't know so therefore you shouldn't get into any trouble. After all nobody told you anything. ?

Yeah....I believe you

[Captain Trips]

I sense a....shoplifting charge coming someone's way...

[RavenStarr]

I sense a....shoplifting charge coming someone's way...

If only.... I called my supervisor over and the SC basically that she didn't know..So nothing was done.. Yes she got away with stealing by feigning ignorance

[EricKei]

Makes me wonder how often she's done this before...

[Smapti]

We had this happen at my grocery store a few months back. We called the assistant manager over and he told the guy something along the lines of "I have the right to charge you with petty theft, assess you a huge fine, and trespass you from this store for life, but I don't have time to do that much paperwork right now and I doubt you can afford to pay the fine anyway, so just get out now and don't ever come back."

Really, the guy was lucky that our actual LP team had already gone home for the night - they're not as forgiving.

[eltf177]

If only.... I called my supervisor over and the SC basically that she didn't know..So nothing was done.. Yes she got away with stealing by feigning ignorance

That is crap! She should have been charged or banned! And isn't eating in a store before you've paid for it a big no-no anyway?

Makes me wonder how often she's done this before...

I gotta go with this, she's learned the 'crying game' and 'I didn't know' works!

[Silent-Hunter]

My mom will sometimes open the Pringles she's taken of the shelf, but that's because if she gets hungry and doesn't eat, she can pass out. AND she always pays for the partially consumed tube!

This woman on the other hand...

[Monterey Jack]

It's one thing to have a few potato chips or cookies or whatever while you're shopping...IF you fully intend to pay at the end. For deli/prepared food items, you should have to pay first.

[RavenStarr]

Oh I do believe it was bullshit that she got by with it.. When I was on EBT if I didn't know or wasn't sure if a certain item was covered. I waited until I got up to the register to check instead of just eating the damn thing..

Plus 9 times out of 10 people that are sincere about paying will hand you the empty pkg first saying they already ate it and make sure it rings up.. This lady never said one word and her empty pkg was on the bottom of all her other groceries... That's why I call bullshit on her little story.. Just too bad I couldn't actually say it to her

[eltf177]

Any chance a permanban will come her way? She sure as hell deserves one!

[RavenStarr]

Any chance a permanban will come her way? She sure as hell deserves one!

I wish I knew. I hadn't seen her since that. Plus I'm no longer working there. One thing for sure she can't do her bullshit again

[ADeMartino]

They know they're not allowed to buy hot food with an EBT card (I am told, however, that there are exceptions to this rule, which IN SOME CASES actually allows the use of EBT cards in places like Wendy's or McDonald's!). It's part of the shit you have to sign when you apply for welfare assistance. But, as is too often the case, there are people who don't concern themselves with rules. As a younger man, I delivered pizza for a living, and I've had guys offer me food stamps (the actual old-school paper vouchers) as payment - only to get seriously pissed off when I told them no. One guy actually tried to bribe me with a whole booklet of those food stamps, which amounted to something like $47 - for a $13 pizza. Told him he could pony up $13 cash or I'd blacklist his ass AND report him for welfare fraud. He paid cash, but I ended up blacklisting him anyway. I felt no guilt over it, either.

[Ironclad Alibi]

And isn't eating in a store before you've paid for it a big no-no anyway?

What difference does that make to an SC?

[Android Kaeli]

You'd be surprised at how often people believe they can get hot items on EBT. Whenever I help the food place in the Warehouse out, there are a bunch of people that try to use EBT on their lunch. Yea, sure, there's a few items that qualifies for EBT but they aren't the 'hot' variety. Cue a bunch of fussing over it and they hand the food back, of which I have to, sadly, tell them to throw the food away because I can't take it back over the counter to sell it. Health reasons and all that.

[mathnerd]

They know they're not allowed to buy hot food with an EBT card (I am told, however, that there are exceptions to this rule, which IN SOME CASES actually allows the use of EBT cards in places like Wendy's or McDonald's!). It's part of the shit you have to sign when you apply for welfare assistance. But, as is too often the case, there are people who don't concern themselves with rules. As a younger man, I delivered pizza for a living, and I've had guys offer me food stamps (the actual old-school paper vouchers) as payment - only to get seriously pissed off when I told them no. One guy actually tried to bribe me with a whole booklet of those food stamps, which amounted to something like $47 - for a $13 pizza. Told him he could pony up $13 cash or I'd blacklist his ass AND report him for welfare fraud. He paid cash, but I ended up blacklisting him anyway. I felt no guilt over it, either.

There's at least one state that allows restaurants to take only certain people's EBT cards. The EBT card owner has to be pre-approved for use in such places, and can only use them at places that take them. This is intended for people who are disabled enough that they can't prepare food on their own. I know that several pizza delivery places take EBT in that state, but I'm not sure who else.