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.

Different poster than the one you are quoting here.
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?

God forbid you buy a meal for a hungry person!!!!! RIGHT.

No one is making the manager responsible. I said a better human being would feed a hungry kid. Clearly, that went right over your head. Just don't worry about it.

I fault corporate, the greedy Republican Meijer family, all the store management involved, and the cop. Cops should refuse to respond to such bullshit calls. If anything, the kid should just be driven home by the cop. Arresting him and booking him for chicken tenders and fruit cups? Insane. Making it more tear-jerking, the boy remained polite and cordial the entire time. ;(

Are you insane? The police don’t just get to subjectively pick and choose which calls they want to deem “bullshit”. Do you really want to go there? If so, which scenario in which you were victimized would you be willing to sacrifice justice?

They most certainly do. You know nothing about how cops operate. Also, what justice? Who was victimized? GTFOH

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is beyond cruel and evil. The planning and setting up a hungry kid is disgusting. I hope that managers gets everything he deserves in life.

It honestly makes me assume the managers get bonuses for this? A six-figure salary manager stalking cameras all day, for weeks (?), waiting for a poor special needs deli kid to take another chicken tender and 99¢ fruit cup. This comes from the top. This is how evil these austere Republicans are. These companies also get massive tax incentives to hire SN and disabled persons and donate millions in food for more tax write offs.

Don't be lame. This isn't a "Republican" thing be real. This is an a hole who instead of doing his job as a manager, firing at the first theft or warning him on theft since he maybe special needs he trapped him. It's just wrong. The manager here is at fault for not doing his job at the jump. Don't turn this into a "Republican" thing. SMH. You all will use anything for your narrative. It's sad and pathetic.

[Anonymous]

America is so done. It's completely lost its soul. Being casually cruel is just accepted and defended every day, all around us. Anybody who doesn't think we're well on our way to Nazi Germany is kidding themselves. Read a history book and you'll see that everything happening now is straight out of that playbook.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The kid tried to pay for the food but the line to pay was so long he would get in trouble for taking too long. He probably also saw how much food was thrown away every day.

I don't get where it alludes to him being special needs. He just doesn't seem like the sharpest tool.

How do you know this? Source?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. Meijer corporate procedure for management to behave like this and entrap working poor employees:

I used to work for Meijer as a manager. One of the metrics that the loss prevention team is measured on for their reviews is Team Member apprehensions. It’s also standard for them to let people repeat offending till they get to a $ amount to be able to press charges.

My DH is in LE. Every big box store you know and shop at does this. Every single one.

Name and shame. I doubt these stores have the time of man power to record every theft, chart it out on an excel spreadsheet and lie in wait until they hit some magical amount. They don't have the manpower when there are this many thieves out there.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Different poster than the one you are quoting here.
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?

God forbid you buy a meal for a hungry person!!!!! RIGHT.

No one is making the manager responsible. I said a better human being would feed a hungry kid. Clearly, that went right over your head. Just don't worry about it.

I fault corporate, the greedy Republican Meijer family, all the store management involved, and the cop. Cops should refuse to respond to such bullshit calls. If anything, the kid should just be driven home by the cop. Arresting him and booking him for chicken tenders and fruit cups? Insane. Making it more tear-jerking, the boy remained polite and cordial the entire time. ;(

Are you insane? The police don’t just get to subjectively pick and choose which calls they want to deem “bullshit”. Do you really want to go there? If so, which scenario in which you were victimized would you be willing to sacrifice justice?

Police and sheriffs have discretion to enforce or not enforce anything they want. You’ve never gotten a warning for speeding, expired plates, not having your insurance paperwork on you? Never had a party busted and the cops just make underage kids dump the booze out but don’t arrest and book anyone for underage intoxication and possession? You’re one of those bootlickers who thinks the police are just doing their jobs. No. This cop and his sergeant are paid $100,000+ each and this is a bullshit waste of time and taxpayer dollars.

Speeding tickets are civil infractions. Finding a kid drinking underage and letting them go with a warning is different than someone calling the police to press charges because a teen came into their home and stole their alcohol. The difference is another person is involved—the victim. If the person tells the police they want to press charges, the police officer’s hands are tied. If a retail business calls the police and says they want to press charges, the police have to take the report and follow the procedure.

I can tell you firsthand that we do try to dissuade people from doing this because it is a lot of paperwork and hassle, and because most people don’t actually want justice, especially in situations like a teen stealing alcohol from a residence, they just want to make that person’s life difficult while not having it affect them, but it doesn’t work that way. We explain that they WILL have to show up to subsequent court proceedings if they choose to go forward with pressing charges. Sometimes they back down, sometimes they don’t. But retail conglomerates have lawyers of their own and the time and money to proceed, and it is their right.

With that said, I think these managers are complete jerks and deserve to be called out. But as far as whether or not the police officer in this situation could have just walked away? No, he couldn’t, and you shouldn’t want him to. The third party victim changes everything, and the officer’s hands are tied.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:America is so done. It's completely lost its soul. Being casually cruel is just accepted and defended every day, all around us. Anybody who doesn't think we're well on our way to Nazi Germany is kidding themselves. Read a history book and you'll see that everything happening now is straight out of that playbook.

This grocery store is probably one of the largest taxpayers in this backwater town, so the town in return acts like a private Gestapo force and makes all their petty calls top priority. City or township manager and/or mayor orders their police force to go along with this. In a major city, police wouldn’t even respond to such a call and/or a judge and prosecutor would toss the charge.

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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.

Hold on to your hat, because a lot of restaurants don't even give their workers free meals anymore.

My teen has worked at 2 restaurants and did not receive a free shift meal at either. He currently busses tables at Texas Roadhouse and only gets 15% off menu price.

I worked at several fine dining restaurants while in college and we always had family meal an hour or so before the dinner seatings began and that was free for us. We were also clocked in for the meal. I was shocked to learn that several fine dining places no longer do family meals for the employees, and others that do still do it make it optional and don't allow the employees to clock in and eat.

I remember getting uniforms for free years ago, but not anymore these days. Most places give 1 free shirt and make the kids buy any additional they want. My DD is a lifeguard and she only gets 2 items for free. She has a big list she can pick from, but if she wants a tee & shorts coverup, that's 2 items not 1. A bikini is 1 item, but a bikini and a one-piece suit are 2 items. Want a hat? That's an item. She's also not allowed to wear any other red or red lifeguard swim gear not bought through their supplier.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:America is so done. It's completely lost its soul. Being casually cruel is just accepted and defended every day, all around us. Anybody who doesn't think we're well on our way to Nazi Germany is kidding themselves. Read a history book and you'll see that everything happening now is straight out of that playbook.

This grocery store is probably one of the largest taxpayers in this backwater town, so the town in return acts like a private Gestapo force and makes all their petty calls top priority. City or township manager and/or mayor orders their police force to go along with this. In a major city, police wouldn’t even respond to such a call and/or a judge and prosecutor would toss the charge.

I work in a major city and we absolutely respond to these calls entirely too often, unfortunately. It’s a hassle, but we have to respond.

[Anonymous]

I wish that compassionate Texas judge who goes viral — David Fleischer in Harris County — would see this and react to it. If this was before him I bet anything he’d dismiss the charge, try to help the kid, and viciously condemn all involved on the record.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:America is so done. It's completely lost its soul. Being casually cruel is just accepted and defended every day, all around us. Anybody who doesn't think we're well on our way to Nazi Germany is kidding themselves. Read a history book and you'll see that everything happening now is straight out of that playbook.

This grocery store is probably one of the largest taxpayers in this backwater town, so the town in return acts like a private Gestapo force and makes all their petty calls top priority. City or township manager and/or mayor orders their police force to go along with this. In a major city, police wouldn’t even respond to such a call and/or a judge and prosecutor would toss the charge.

Been like this for 100 plus years. Whenever blue collar labor wanted to organize, the fat cat bosses would get to weaponize the local police force to crack heads and arrest agitators.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Hold on to your hat, because a lot of restaurants don't even give their workers free meals anymore.

My teen has worked at 2 restaurants and did not receive a free shift meal at either. He currently busses tables at Texas Roadhouse and only gets 15% off menu price.

I worked at several fine dining restaurants while in college and we always had family meal an hour or so before the dinner seatings began and that was free for us. We were also clocked in for the meal. I was shocked to learn that several fine dining places no longer do family meals for the employees, and others that do still do it make it optional and don't allow the employees to clock in and eat.

I remember getting uniforms for free years ago, but not anymore these days. Most places give 1 free shirt and make the kids buy any additional they want. My DD is a lifeguard and she only gets 2 items for free. She has a big list she can pick from, but if she wants a tee & shorts coverup, that's 2 items not 1. A bikini is 1 item, but a bikini and a one-piece suit are 2 items. Want a hat? That's an item. She's also not allowed to wear any other red or red lifeguard swim gear not bought through their supplier.

How many years ago?
I'm a pp who worked in a grocery store in the early 90s and we had to buy our uniforms.

[Anonymous]

Full body camera footage.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Different poster than the one you are quoting here.
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?

God forbid you buy a meal for a hungry person!!!!! RIGHT.

No one is making the manager responsible. I said a better human being would feed a hungry kid. Clearly, that went right over your head. Just don't worry about it.

I fault corporate, the greedy Republican Meijer family, all the store management involved, and the cop. Cops should refuse to respond to such bullshit calls. If anything, the kid should just be driven home by the cop. Arresting him and booking him for chicken tenders and fruit cups? Insane. Making it more tear-jerking, the boy remained polite and cordial the entire time. ;(

Are you insane? The police don’t just get to subjectively pick and choose which calls they want to deem “bullshit”. Do you really want to go there? If so, which scenario in which you were victimized would you be willing to sacrifice justice?

They most certainly do. You know nothing about how cops operate. Also, what justice? Who was victimized? GTFOH

I’m a LEO, so actually, I do. I don’t agree at all with what this manager did, essentially allowing this man to steal just long enough that could charge him. I think it’ll get dismissed, but that’s neither here nor there. But from a legal standpoint, and for a judge/jury to now determine (the next step of the legal system we have set up), the “victim” is the store, since this man stole the jurisdictionally deemed appropriate value of chicken and fruit to be charged and arrested.

Again, I don’t agree with it at all, but that’s not the question. I fail to see how you can’t comprehend how this isn’t any different from you having proof and evidence that a particular person stole from you, and you want them to be held accountable. It’s not for you or me to determine whether or not your request is reasonable, it’s the police’s job to follow the law, and the law says you’re allowed to press charges against someone who wronged you, and take it as far as the court allows, and it’s the police’s job to initiate this request.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Different poster than the one you are quoting here.
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?

God forbid you buy a meal for a hungry person!!!!! RIGHT.

No one is making the manager responsible. I said a better human being would feed a hungry kid. Clearly, that went right over your head. Just don't worry about it.

I fault corporate, the greedy Republican Meijer family, all the store management involved, and the cop. Cops should refuse to respond to such bullshit calls. If anything, the kid should just be driven home by the cop. Arresting him and booking him for chicken tenders and fruit cups? Insane. Making it more tear-jerking, the boy remained polite and cordial the entire time. ;(

Are you insane? The police don’t just get to subjectively pick and choose which calls they want to deem “bullshit”. Do you really want to go there? If so, which scenario in which you were victimized would you be willing to sacrifice justice?

Police and sheriffs have discretion to enforce or not enforce anything they want. You’ve never gotten a warning for speeding, expired plates, not having your insurance paperwork on you? Never had a party busted and the cops just make underage kids dump the booze out but don’t arrest and book anyone for underage intoxication and possession? You’re one of those bootlickers who thinks the police are just doing their jobs. No. This cop and his sergeant are paid $100,000+ each and this is a bullshit waste of time and taxpayer dollars.

Speeding tickets are civil infractions. Finding a kid drinking underage and letting them go with a warning is different than someone calling the police to press charges because a teen came into their home and stole their alcohol. The difference is another person is involved—the victim. If the person tells the police they want to press charges, the police officer’s hands are tied. If a retail business calls the police and says they want to press charges, the police have to take the report and follow the procedure.

I can tell you firsthand that we do try to dissuade people from doing this because it is a lot of paperwork and hassle, and because most people don’t actually want justice, especially in situations like a teen stealing alcohol from a residence, they just want to make that person’s life difficult while not having it affect them, but it doesn’t work that way. We explain that they WILL have to show up to subsequent court proceedings if they choose to go forward with pressing charges. Sometimes they back down, sometimes they don’t. But retail conglomerates have lawyers of their own and the time and money to proceed, and it is their right.

With that said, I think these managers are complete jerks and deserve to be called out. But as far as whether or not the police officer in this situation could have just walked away? No, he couldn’t, and you shouldn’t want him to. The third party victim changes everything, and the officer’s hands are tied.

There is absolutely zero procedural need for an officer to place cuffs on and book a non-violent subject for ALLEGEDLY $100 worth of chicken tenders and fruit cups over two months time. For such a petty larceny the officer can issue him a paper misdemeanor civil infraction or summons and offer to drive him home. The cop was complicit in this evil and demoralizing scheme.