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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.?

This isn't a little mom and pop corner market. Meijer is very similar to Walmart.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.?

This isn't a little mom and pop corner market. Meijer is very similar to Walmart.

That doesn’t matter. Stealing isn’t ok because it’s a bigger corporation. Stealing is never ok. BUT, the kid was special needs no probably didn’t understand. The manager should have explained this to him when he first became aware of it. I don’t even think a formal warning was in order, rather just some education and guidance after the first time it happened.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.?

This isn't a little mom and pop corner market. Meijer is very similar to Walmart.

That doesn’t matter. Stealing isn’t ok because it’s a bigger corporation. Stealing is never ok. BUT, the kid was special needs no probably didn’t understand. The manager should have explained this to him when he first became aware of it. I don’t even think a formal warning was in order, rather just some education and guidance after the first time it happened.

How do you know he didn't?

[Anonymous]

We live in a world where murderers are gifted a million dollars, a gated mansion, and a brand new Escalade, while a special needs teenager gets arrested for stealing a $5 lunch. No mercy for the vulnerable. All rewards for the violent. This system is broken beyond words.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We live in a world where murderers are gifted a million dollars, a gated mansion, and a brand new Escalade, while a special needs teenager gets arrested for stealing a $5 lunch. No mercy for the vulnerable. All rewards for the violent. This system is broken beyond words.

+1
This is disgraceful. Just merciless, cruel, and disgraceful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.?

This isn't a little mom and pop corner market. Meijer is very similar to Walmart.

That doesn’t matter. Stealing isn’t ok because it’s a bigger corporation. Stealing is never ok. BUT, the kid was special needs no probably didn’t understand. The manager should have explained this to him when he first became aware of it. I don’t even think a formal warning was in order, rather just some education and guidance after the first time it happened.

How do you know he didn't?

The full body cam footage on YouTube details the teen boy got in trouble for taking too long of a lunch break when he did wait in a long line to pay for the items. That’s how he first got on management’s radar and it makes this whole thing that much more evil. Presumably they saw he was no longer going to the checkout line during lunch, so they stalked him on video to pop him for stealing the cheap items. Then started keeping a dossier of how many times he’d take this cheap lunch to total $100+. Evil SOBs.

[Anonymous]

Can anyone find the police report or a court record? What’s his name and what was the outcome? I don’t want to believe a prosecutor and judge pursued charges against this sweet boy.

James ____
Seven Hills is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Incident date March 7th, 2024

[Anonymous]

This Grocery Chain Had an Employee Arrested for Stealing $110 Worth of Food. The Meijer supermarket chain made some missteps and achieved viral infamy.

https://www.inc.com/suzanne-lucas/meijer-had-an-employee-arrested-for-stealing-110-worth-of-food-they-handled-it-wrong/91177911

[Anonymous]

Heh, I'd say the Meijer chain had it coming (arrest of kid went viral on the internet). That was really petty of the manager, and he/she deserves all the internet condemnation they get.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.?

This isn't a little mom and pop corner market. Meijer is very similar to Walmart.

That doesn’t matter. Stealing isn’t ok because it’s a bigger corporation. Stealing is never ok. BUT, the kid was special needs no probably didn’t understand. The manager should have explained this to him when he first became aware of it. I don’t even think a formal warning was in order, rather just some education and guidance after the first time it happened.

Exactly. There is a borderline hysterical poster on here who cannot deal with the fact that stealing is illegal, even if it's being done by a "poor little teenage boy". So absurd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is really awful. Why not have his manager sit him down and give him a warning. If it happens again a write up. Third time a firing. He's obviously hungry.

If I were his manager I would have sat him down for a talk. Im sure I would have learned the he didn't have enough money to buy food and that he wa²s waiting for his paycheck to arrive. I would have added up how much it cost to buy the chicken and fruit cup each day until his paycheck and gave him the money to pay for it.

Bastards! May they rot in Hell! When he was hired he should have been told the store did not provide a free lunch.

[Anonymous]

Notice how the woman manger in the video couldn’t even look at the boy or even look up from shame - she knew it was wrong

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is really awful. Why not have his manager sit him down and give him a warning. If it happens again a write up. Third time a firing. He's obviously hungry.

If I were his manager I would have sat him down for a talk. Im sure I would have learned the he didn't have enough money to buy food and that he wa²s waiting for his paycheck to arrive. I would have added up how much it cost to buy the chicken and fruit cup each day until his paycheck and gave him the money to pay for it.

Bastards! May they rot in Hell! When he was hired he should have been told the store did not provide a free lunch.

Why would someone expect free lunch?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Notice how the woman manger in the video couldn’t even look at the boy or even look up from shame - she knew it was wrong

She had it out for him and probably any special needs employee.

[Anonymous]

I hope they fire her.