You have got to be kidding me!!

[greeneggsandham]

Well I think maybe grocery stores should change the way they offer food.
Two of the local supermarkets here in Putnam, CT both have HOT READY TO EAT foods just before or right next to the deli department. One even has an area where you can go to sit down to eat. That one gives you the option of paying for it right there or paying for it when you are finished grocery shopping and checkout. Supermarkets should stop making things "easy" to eat in the store.

I still couldn't find where her husband had eaten a sandwich and he needed to be arrested also.

 

[Carols Clucks]

Try and eat your meal at a restaurant, order a cup of coffee to go and leave a couple of bucks for the coffee as you walk out the door.



Oddly they call the cops too.



FYI Here the Safeway stores also have cash registers in the deli with the sandwiches, makes it really easy to pay if you want too.


What if you had a stranger come to your coop and wander around. They start filling their pockets with your eggs. You see them and offer that you sell a dozen eggs for $5 and hand them a carton. They proceed to fill that carton with more eggs from your nest boxes and hand you $5. Would you be okay with the other dozen they stole in their pockets? After all, it did not cost you anything right? And your hens will lay again. And it is not their fault they forgot about a dozen extra eggs in their pockets. And besides, they were hungry and new to the area so it is okay.

 

[Beekissed]

If they were hungry and new to the area, I'd just give them the eggs....

 

[SarahBeth9394]

While I don't agree with eating until it's paid for apparently the store doesn't have a policy against it. The policy was the shopper can't pay once they've crossed the threshold. If the store had a problem with the shopper eating while shopping then they should have approached the shopper then and asked them to please not eat while shopping as it was against store policy. All stores don't have the same policies. There are many stores that allow you to choose where to pay for the item. It's the stores policy that set the whole scenario up so that policy should give them the discretion to use common sense during the 4 hours they held the family and waited for the cops to arrive. I also wonder whether if the groceries they did purchase spoiled during that wait or before they got the groceries home. There's more to this than what we know but the store is admitting that they were in the wrong by the apology offered and no charges filed.

 

[cassie]

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It will be when I pay for it. I have never eaten anything in a grocery store before paying for it, but I have consumed a soda on a hot day before doing so. If that endangers my immortal soul, so be it. If I pay for the soda before drinking it then I just mosey on out of the store without buying anything else. I have done that, too. I'm grumpy, my feet hurt, I hate shopping, and I am NOT standing in that check out line twice. Once per shopping trip is enough. So many of the posts on this thread, not necessarily this one, are self righteous, judgemental, and confusing apples with oranges. The woman made a mistake. That is hardly a capital offense. Life is full of couldas, wouldas, and shouldas. The store reacted with the equivalent of going after a mouse with an elephant gun. Last I heard, Safeway was doing what it could to make things right. Nobody wins in these cases.

 

[chefchick]

So... since it's okay to eat at the store now... I am going to take my can opener-NO WAIT..I can just use one from the shelf!- and open me up some sketti-o's to eat while I shop after work! Mmmm... and maybe a couple of beers and some raw clams from the sea food counter I will be hungry, and tired after running my kids around and cleaning up after the family and working all day......???

 

[MamaPeg]

I'm a grown person. If I'm going to be out running around in public I am expected to have some impulse control. If I choose to go into a place of business, I follow the rules of that establishment out of respect. If I'm too grumpy, tired, distracted, etc... to do that, then I stay home. To do otherwise is self-centered and childish. To expect an establishment to accommodate my mood, would be shamefully self-indulgent. These people broke the law. They are to blame for what happened. It started with them. The store didn't seek them out for persecution. Neither did the cops or Children's Services. Now we can't even expect adults to manage their own behavior unless they are in the right mood?

 

[Orchid]

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Heeeeey! Now you're onto something! I could walk around the grocery store with a six-pack from the 3.2 cooler and drink while I shopped.

You totally just made shopping into an enjoyable experience for me. Thanks!

 

[Beekissed]

I'm wondering why the father was arrested if the mother consumed the food and consequently moved it out of the store inside her body? Why not just send Dad and child home and take the mother in alone? Was he arrested as an accessory to theft?

 

[grawg]

Mercy.