05-07-2014, 08:47 AM
Quote:I saw a cashier ring up her boyfriends one time. They all were obviously high school children. The two boys had three suitcases of beer under the the basket part of the cart. In the basket they had bags of chips and other snacks. She nervously looked around for a minute as her boyfriends placed the snack food on the turntable.
She rang the snacks up, but never scanned the beer and never carded them. After they pushed away from check out and headed outside, a third high school age boy came off an aisle to the check out area along with a front end manager. The cashier's other boyfriend even went through her line. He paid for the item and the two talked about what time the party started. He then left.
As soon as my cashier was finished ringing up my stuff and I paid, I headed out the door. Across the parking lot, I could see all three boys together in what had to be the car of a parent.
I called the store out of the phonebook when I got home and put away the frozen food items and meat.
The manager seemed obnoxious and kind of spoke back in a cocky, good old boy flippant manner. He made me feel ugly for reporting what I saw to him.
A few weeks later, his picture was gone, but I was hit with irony to learn, as it turned out, the cashier and all three of her boyfriends actually worked in the store. An older cashier rang up my order and told me they were all spoiled rich kids from a private school. She said their parents leave for weekend vacations all the time. They have beach-front houses to themselves so they steal beer from their grocery store and have parties.
I asked if the manager was fired for this. She said no. He was transfered to another store because he was hiring cute little high school girls and messing around with them.
BTW, the older cashier said one time one of the rich young turks wheeled an entire stock cart out of the store stacked full with assorted cases of beer and ice bags on top..gif "Laughing")
That story happens at pretty much every Publix, and most other grocery stores. I know a couple of guys I worked with had what they felt was the perfect scam to steal beer from the store, and to their credit, it worked really well...until it didn't. They'd load up bags with beer, throw them in carts, and tuck the carts in a closed register. When things got really busy, they'd wait for someone to check out through the express lane, and simply follow them out the door with the beer.
They eventually were caught, but not before they hosted multiple parties where Publix managers would show up, drink the beer, and thank them at the end of the night.
When I was old enough to buy beer legally, we'd usually buy a six pack or 1/2 case on Saturday nights when we closed. It was really the honor system. We'd throw cash in a drawer in the office to cover the cost. I have no doubt someone else would go in behind us and pocket the cash.
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