Viral clip: Grocer manager entraps special needs deli worker into stealing $100 worth of chicken tenders & fruit cups

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Anonymous wrote:Stealing is stealing. How you feel if he stole $1000 from your pocket book?

You are just as disgusting as this poor excuse of a human who was his manager. A normal, decent human being would have told this kid after the first time that he is not allowed to steal. An even better human being would have bought the kid his lunch. Only an evil person waits in waiting for a month for a hungry kid to steal enough food so the charges can be higher.

Also, he didn’t steal $1000 from anyone, he stole some of the cheapest food they have. If you can’t see the difference there is zero hope for you. May yoh be hungry enough one day to confer stealing a chicken nugget and a fruit cup.

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Ok, you're being absurd.

You think the manager should be responsible for buying his employee lunch every day? Should he do that for EVERY employee? That would literally exceed his salary.

"Hungry kid?" You think this kid is chronically hungry? Or just gets hungry around lunch time the way every human does?

I agree with you. But this was handled so poorly. I don’t think the kid was stealing because he was unable to afford lunch or chronically malnourished. It seems like he just didn’t realize. Lots of jobs, especially food service like deli do allow employees some item free for lunch. He might have thought that or the line to pay at checkout is always long and he didn’t want to waste his break in line, figures NBD since a lot is wasted daily. I think of the manager talked to him, explained what the policy is around employee breaks and food (if it’s full pay, discounted, etc.), and told him clearly what he needs to do/not do, he would have listened. It truly seems like he just didn’t realize he couldn’t do that

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Anonymous wrote:The streets of suburban Ohio are much safer now that this violent criminal is in jail.

The kid looks and acts like an Boy Scout. Most of these retail theft body cams the people accused flip out.

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Anonymous wrote:What happened to employers giving free lunch to teens? My first job was on a golf course in the late 80s and we got a free hot dog or egg salad sandwich, chips, soda and candy bar every afternoon. My teen brothers bagged groceries and got a free deli sandwich with any fixings, sides, and a drink every shift.

I worked in a higher end grocery store in the late 90’s (Ukrops in Richmond) and we did not get free food and also had to pay for our required uniforms.

I think some offer it and some don't. It doesn't even matter that this business does not. The gross part is them entrapping their own employee instead of just firing him. It's extremely predatory.

Eh, this kind of thing is standard practice in various companies regardless of whether it's to employees or companies, particularly as states have started having looser/more lenient laws regarding theft (i.e. California considering theft under $950 a minor misdemeanor).

Plenty of such cases of shoplifters getting nabbed at Target and Walmart after they are allowed to rack up large enough debts to constitute a felony and only then do the stores call the police on them. This is really no different.

It is very much different. I don't view a person stealing an Xbox at Target to resell on Amazon or whether else the same as a teen stealing a chicken nugget and a fruit cup. But I guess we have a different set of morals.

Oh no, that's exactly the point. These people are committing theft in smaller amounts, not stealing x-boxes or tvs, but rather going to self checkout and deliberately not scamming small-ticket items like food. That's exactly why they have to give them time, because it takes them several visits to rack up enough of a bill worth prosecuting. It may be no big deal to you that someone wants to steal some chicken nuggets, but when lots of people engage in such behavior it absolutely does become a big issue for these businesses.

And I don't agree with that either, honestly. Catch them in the act, hire more people to check out customers if theft prevention is a thing. How this ever became the law I have no idea.

I take it you dont own a business? Letting people steal from you every day just because you feel sorry for them isnt exactly a great business practice

Who said I'm ok with anyone stealing from a business? I'm most definitely not. I'm just not ok with entrapping people. Perhaps do better to prevent theft as a business owner and don't take the lazy way out.

Not stopping someone from committing a crime is not entrapping them. Learn what words mean.

It may not pass the entrapment test but it is predatory and lazy. You are allowing people to steal from you so that they can get bigger fines and sentences. Stealing is illegal and this practice should be too. Prosecute the offenders immediately.

So you think it would be better if they prosecute everyone who say, misses one item while theyre using self checkout, no matter how small? In many ways, waiting until the amount is substantive prevents prosecution until there is a demonstrated history of repeated shoplifting, and is arguably much more moral on the part of the company.

How is this even a question? Yes, immediately firing a teen employee for “stealing” $5 in lunch items is far superior to having them treated like a street thug and entering the justice system via a trumped up baiting scheme. This sort of traumatic experience and also it permanently being on Google forever can lead to fragile boys spiraling and committing suicide.

That's what happens when cruelty is the end result and not justice.

End result? Cruelty is the motivation.

That’s why I meant.

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Anonymous wrote:Store is in a small town south of Cleveland. Appears to be a safe and nice middle class community. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Hills,_Ohio

Seven Hills is nicer than middle class but hard to contextualize if you’re not from Cleveland. It is indeed the kind of place where cops would be bored enough to get excited about this.

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If I worked in a grocery store, I'd never be hungry. It's literally huge building full of food of all kinds. Especially if I worked in the deli.

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The kid walks 40 miss to and from work. The manager is a POS!

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Anonymous wrote:The kid walks 40 miss to and from work. The manager is a POS!

What?

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Anonymous wrote:If I worked in a grocery store, I'd never be hungry. It's literally huge building full of food of all kinds. Especially if I worked in the deli.

Employees aren't allowed to just take food. That's what this whole storyline is about.

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Anonymous wrote:If I worked in a grocery store, I'd never be hungry. It's literally huge building full of food of all kinds. Especially if I worked in the deli.

Employees aren't allowed to just take food. That's what this whole storyline is about.

No, the whole storyline is that nobody mentioned that to the kid but instead entrapped him. That's the storyline.

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Anonymous wrote:If I worked in a grocery store, I'd never be hungry. It's literally huge building full of food of all kinds. Especially if I worked in the deli.

Employees aren't allowed to just take food. That's what this whole storyline is about.

No, the whole storyline is that nobody mentioned that to the kid but instead entrapped him. That's the storyline.

We actually don't know that.

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This kid needs a go fund me.

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The manager set him up and lay in wait. Petty and not the message a family owned grocery store wants to present.
SN young adult walks to work, eats a few chicken nuggets and a fruit cup. Could it get more wholesome than that. Does malintent apply to the worker or the manager.?

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Local police blotter confirms this $100+ entrapment scheme is that Seven Hills store's and presumably Meijer corporate's M.O. What a bunch of evil scum.

https://www.cleveland.com/community/2024/05/meijer-worker-caught-abusing-employee-discount-seven-hills-police-blotter.html

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No newsrooms in Ohio or Michigan will touch this because all of them take major dough for Meijer advertising.

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Anonymous wrote:Local police blotter confirms this $100+ entrapment scheme is that Seven Hills store's and presumably Meijer corporate's M.O. What a bunch of evil scum.

https://www.cleveland.com/community/2024/05/meijer-worker-caught-abusing-employee-discount-seven-hills-police-blotter.html

Someone was intentionally stealing and you call the company she was stealing from "scum?"