Is this stealing?

[LYSE]

Well grocery stores around here have free fruit for kids....but the described scenario is just over the top

 

[bcla]

Not certain why you are curious about speeding when the subject is stealing. Let me simplify:

"Sampling" 1 grape = stealing
Driving 1 mile per hour over the speed limit = speeding

Both are technical violations of the law but are relatively harmless and almost certainly would not be prosecuted. And yes, I speed every single time I drive. Sometimes I drive 80+ in a 70 zone.

I am an admitted violator of the law! And if I did sample fruit that I did not pay for I would also admit that I steal. I am not making any moral judgments but am simply pointing out how many justify theft.

Do you DIS while at work while on the clock? Do you take supplies from work? Do you fudge your taxes? Are some, all or none of these theft?

Stealing implies that it's not OK with the management. If the management is OK with someone sampling a single cherry, it's not stealing.

 

[dish rag]

Well grocery stores around here have free fruit for kids....but the described scenario is just over the top

That's good of the store. Publix will give a child a free cookie, they do it so the child will try to get the parent to buy them and they aren't cheap. Always bothered me to see a toddler or child chewing on a big cookie full of sugar.

 

[manning]

My aunt told me this. While at a buffet she noticed a woman sneak food into her large purse. The manager also saw it and waited until she got to the dessert.
He went up to her and told her she forgot dessert while pouring the chocolate pudding into the purse. He told her taking out food is an extra charge but he will be nice and waive it

 

[bcla]

My father-in-law used to do this all the time. It was embarrassing to go with him. He'd take a gristly steak, put it between bread, and wrap it with a napkin. Once he even took half the canister of dried crushed red pepper flakes. When DW said something, he snort "Mind your own business." He'd often get coupons to eat for free or really cheap, but the casino still "owed" him because he played so much.

I once saw an older woman load up at least a dozen tupperware containers and put them in her shopping bag. The servers don't say anything, nor do I think they even care.

I was at a National Ice Cream Day event where we were making ice cream with milk, cream, sugar, and vanilla in Ziploc bags. It was a quart bag on the inside and an outside gallon bag with ice and rock salt. The idea was to shake it for five minutes. However, there was also a table with extra supplies. I saw a guy literally look it over, grab one box of Ziploc bags, and put it in his own bag. Now that was stealing. I found out that he was asked to return it later. He was also obvious because it was an open bag.

I do know of at least one buffet where they had ice cream cones available. The servers all said that it was OK to leave with one.

 

[perditax]

Hmm. Maybe I'm too paranoid about stomach bugs and other food-borne illness, but no way would I "sample" unwashed produce at the grocery store that other people may have already touched.

 

[Sabeking]

I saw this a few months ago.....Two teenagers riding around the grocery store on the motorized carts with the basket attached in front for handicapped people. They were eating produce they did not pay for and moving items like...ex. tampons to the bread isle. They ere running the carts into walls and laughing. An employee started to walk toward them and was cut off by a large black woman...think Madea. She told them if they did not return all of the items to their proper place , return the carts and pay for the produce she was going kick their sorry asses!! It was truly one of the greatest moments of my life!!