Amazing! I love stories like this!

Next story: all day-time staff at local safeway fired following decision by upper management

/No day-time staffing required? Fabulous

Welcome to Obama's America, libs.

did they think they were being watched?

No warning about it being a video, subby?

37 dicks

/in a row?

I worked at a Subway in college and the manager forgot to lock the doors one night. The next morning the place was trashed. All of the bread was pulled out of the freezer to thaw and the vegetable bags were cut open and dumped on the floor.

Manager was a biatch anyway, so I just laughed when the insurance wouldn't cover it because the store wasn't locked.

Planned it all along:

They may have paid for it, but they sure screwed up inventory.

KWPLunchbox: 37 dicks

/in a row?

Dang and blast your speed.

tl;dr

Am I an A-hole or Capt. Obvious to suggest this is staged?

Here's an actual article instead of some guy's blog:

http://cbs13.com/local/store.safeway.after.2.1392070.html (new window)

Yay for random fark post mangling.

Depends on what kind of place you live in, really. Out here there are several stands that open just that way. People leave their stuff out (such as local honey) in a cart by the side of the road with prices marked and an explanation, you leave money and take the stuff. There's also a pasta place that does this, they make pasta but there's also a freezer they sell stuff out of, only you just leave your money in a jar on the counter.

I'm sure there must be some people who abuse this occasionally, but apparently not enough that it pays to have someone out there watching over them.

I'm stunned stoned so this appears to be a great thing here.

evil saltine: Here's an actual article instead of some guy's blog:

http://cbs13.com/local/store.safeway.after.2.1392070.html (new window)

Last sentence of that article:
Safeway is looking into how its locks apparently malfunctioned so they can prevent something like this from happening in the future.
Hell no! Can't have people helping themselves, paying voluntarily.
Whatever you do, don't evaluate the behavior, and design a more efficient supermarket. FSM know research in this area has never proved useful.

/should i tag the sarcasm, or just risk someone calling me a troll, or worse, someone responding.

Architecture Of Aggression: did they think they were being watched?

If you plan to shoplift, let us know.


/not even supposed to be here today

Cold1s: Am I an A-hole or Capt. Obvious to suggest this is staged?

It did occur to me too, but it's a risky venture; what if obvious looting DID break out? And you'll probably have low-level employees having to be "in" on it, which is far more risky.

But the benefit was quite high. When's the last time Safeway was IN the news? Much less a heartfelt story? That would beat out any expensive ad campaign many times over.

Cold1s: Whatever you do, don't evaluate the behavior, and design a more efficient supermarket. FSM know research in this area has never proved useful.

This just seems like a really backwards attitude. Market research has immeasurably improved your life, often in ways you'd never have thought. Did you know market research created snuggies, the shamWOW, brittany spears, emo, and reality t.v.?

//ok, admit it, you thought I was serious for a second.

All I can think is "Wonder if that place had a pharmacy, and was it unlocked too?" I could use a years worth of opiods :)

untaken_name: Cold1s: Whatever you do, don't evaluate the behavior, and design a more efficient supermarket. FSM know research in this area has never proved useful.

This just seems like a really backwards attitude. Market research has immeasurably improved your life, often in ways you'd never have thought. Did you know market research created snuggies, the shamWOW, brittany spears, emo, and reality t.v.?

//ok, admit it, you thought I was serious for a second.

I read your name first, so I didn't :)

Notice who the customers are, then compare them to the ones looting after Katrina.
Do you see anything that Americans are not allowed to say?

Like a Safeway cart rolling down the street
Like a sandal mark on the Savior's feet
Just keep rolling on it's a ghetto dawn

Vala0128: I read your name first, so I didn't :)

Whoa, wtf is wrong with my name? At least it doesn't have any poopiehead numbers in it.

/sniff
//sob

Boring thread. Not worthy of Fark. Lets see what happens when I...

HEY DID YOU NOTICE THAT EVERYONE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD AROUND THE STORE WAS WHITE?

I work at a Safeway, so I'm getting a kick...

No, seriously, I do work at a Safeway, and if this happened here, well, there wouldn't be a Safeway to work at anymore.

Why is it supposed to be sweet and noble that these people entered a store that was, although unlocked, obviously not open for business? Just because they supposedly left cash for the items they pillaged?

Wouldn't the correct, less "self-serving" move have been to use one's cell to contact someone who could come lock up the store? Or does that kind of benevolent-yet-reasonable action not make for the desired down-home, feel-good "news" filler?

untaken_name: Vala0128: I read your name first, so I didn't :)

Whoa, wtf is wrong with my name? At least it doesn't have any poopiehead numbers in it.

/sniff
//sob

Nothing is wrong with your name. I just recognized it, and based on previous statements that you have made... I knew you weren't serious.
(be nice about my poopiehead numbers, you meanie... I like numbers they are just as important as words if not more so)

"Oh shiat! There's a cop. Quick, put some money at the register, so it looks like we intended to pay all along. And don't tell him about all the other folks who just walked out without paying before he showed up."

Vala0128: untaken_name: Vala0128: I read your name first, so I didn't :)

Whoa, wtf is wrong with my name? At least it doesn't have any poopiehead numbers in it.

/sniff
//sob

Nothing is wrong with your name. I just recognized it, and based on previous statements that you have made... I knew you weren't serious.
(be nice about my poopiehead numbers, you meanie... I like numbers they are just as important as words if not more so)

Yeah sorry I was just lashing out at the perceived slight upon my moniker. My bad. I get this reaction a lot. Some day I'll figure out why. But just for the record, unless otherwise noted in the post, I mean everything I ever say. Well, obvious sarcasm excepted. And snark. And when I'm just kidding. But every other time, it's completely denotation, no connotation.

/4 realz, yo

I would've shoplifted some items.

/then feel guilty and leave cash on the counter

Was the store in the suburbs?

Wow, Not committing a crime = Christmas Spirit. Yay Jesus.

/Oblig.

bgarrett:
Notice who the customers are, then compare them to the ones looting after Katrina.
Do you see anything that Americans are not allowed to say?

Were you referring to the ones "looting" or the ones that were "finding"? Because apparently there was some sort of difference...I can't remember what that was either.

DWT Samus: Saw this on the local news the other night, I'm in Sacramento and Roseville is one of our suburbs

It's also one of the rich areas of town, so I'm not surprised there was no theft. If this had happened in the southern parts of town, there'd be nothing left of the store

But there would have been a great block party.

If they had those automated cashier machines that allow you to pay yourself that would have been great

this is why we can have nice things

Farkulus: bgarrett:
Notice who the customers are, then compare them to the ones looting after Katrina.
Do you see anything that Americans are not allowed to say?

Were you referring to the ones "looting" or the ones that were "finding"? Because apparently there was some sort of difference...I can't remember what that was either.

Well, from what I saw, people were "finding" food and water, and "looting" clothes, shoes, and electronics.

Maybe it's a connotation/denotation thing. Like, I'd say that guy above "found" some beer. The cops in uniform loading up shopping carts with goods from Wal-Mart were "looting". It's like that.

A lot of what happens in a situation like this can depend on how it starts. If the first people who go in are honest about it, it puts pressure on others. After all, if there are a number of people shopping and you start stealing, well those shoppers may well call the cops on you or go vigilante. However if the first person takes shiat, well then you don't feel so bad about taking shiat. It's "ok" since they did it and so on.

I've seen the same thing at traffic lights. Came across one that had gone out (no power outage, just a problem with that one light) and traffic was proceeding as normal. People go go for a bit, then that direct would stop, turns would happen, people in the other direction would go and so on. All working very nicely, everyone being polite about it.

It really is amazing how a tone can get set and social pressure will have people sticking with it.

bgarrett: Notice who the customers are, then compare them to the ones looting after Katrina.
Do you see anything that Americans are not allowed to say?

Roseville is rich while Nawlins is pretty poor. The people of Roseville weren't in a dire situation? Roseville is a suburb? Racist jackass.

It was actually two separate stores. I hope none of my brothers/sisters lose their jobs over this...infraction. I checked the doors on my store about 79 times before I left the place unguarded. Talk about nerve racking.

/Perhaps we should stay open on Christmas?
//OOOhhh the sacrilegious burns.

Safeway thinks enough people pushed and pulled at the front doors, not realizing the stores were closed, eventually breaking the locks. (new window)

BEWW
Breaking and Entering While White

untaken_name: Vala0128: untaken_name: Vala0128: I read your name first, so I didn't :)

Whoa, wtf is wrong with my name? At least it doesn't have any poopiehead numbers in it.

/sniff
//sob

Nothing is wrong with your name. I just recognized it, and based on previous statements that you have made... I knew you weren't serious.
(be nice about my poopiehead numbers, you meanie... I like numbers they are just as important as words if not more so)

Yeah sorry I was just lashing out at the perceived slight upon my moniker. My bad. I get this reaction a lot. Some day I'll figure out why. But just for the record, unless otherwise noted in the post, I mean everything I ever say. Well, obvious sarcasm excepted. And snark. And when I'm just kidding. But every other time, it's completely denotation, no connotation.

/4 realz, yo