Shopping cart food theft

[shootingstar]

2 days ago I was locking my bike in front of a grocery store.

Store employees saw but unable to apprehend someone who tried to steal a whole mini shoppping cart of ...primarily meat and frozen foods.

This would have been a larger heist, not just a few trays of meat or a bag of veggies. Most interestingly, it wasn't fruits, veggies at all. I guess they aren't worth enough "value" or maybe protein and frozen carb, is just worth more effort to steal.

[Eden]

I live about a block away from a grocery store and the same thing happens there sometimes too. Mostly people shoplift small stuff, because if the value is under a certain amount the store considers it not worth it to prosecute...... the "smarter" thieves take advantage of this, but indeed yes they have caught people trying to walk out with a cart full of meat before. Those are the kind of shoplifters looking for things to re-sell. They take high price stuff like meat, laundry detergent, good chocolate.

I know all this from a little chat with the manager after someone tried to use our recycle bin as a temporary hiding place for their pilfered goods.... it disappeared one night, my husband found it a block or two away in the morning (we have our address written on it). He dragged it back here and when he went to put the other cans inside it (we have a really small yard waste and garbage can) he found that it was full of stuff.... mostly bottles of wine and snack cakes. We didn't really know what to do.....First I tried the police non-emergency line, but it was too early in the morning and they weren't answering their phones yet, so I just went down to the store and told the manager that we figured it all came from there. He walked down to our house and took everything back to the store, but didn't figure they'd call the police, not worth it to them. He told me all about shoplifters. He said the store loses about a million dollars in merchandise every year.

[shootingstar]

million $$ is alot of loss annually.

But then, there could be inside jobs, theft by employees here and there also.

(There is in bike stores, so no doubt food which is even of a basic need... I was in a large bike store recently and overheard a bunch of employees talking about strange things with their backroom inventory.)