Retail horror stories

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Originally Posted by jsteinhauer

It was the same place that if you saw someone stealing and called security (loss prevention as they called it), they would ignore you and let them get away, if you were a minimum wage peon. Perhaps they've changed since the 1980's.

I used to live in Ohio, which has its fair share of Meijer stores. It's funny you mention the apathy of their LP's. In the early 90's, there was a guy who walked into a Meijer store with a battery in his pocket, as he needed to buy a new battery and brought the dead one for comparison. As the man left the store with his new batteries, the LP's tackled him because they thought he stole a battery out of a package, which turned out to be the one he brought with him. They broke his neck and paralyzed him.

Things definitely changed since the 80's