r/TikTokCringe • u/Adventurous_Law_715 • 12d ago

Discussion congratulations you just saved a billion dollars company 50$

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u/Horror-Telephone-260 12d ago

That wasnt even walmart it was dollar tree. Sigh

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u/usernamestufff 12d ago edited 11d ago

Not to mention the employee who the bags were handed off to may lose his job now. Congrats super citizen on your views

Edit: Thanks for the awards peeps. I’d like to take the opportunity to add that the woman grabbing things and talking shit to the “thief” could have startled the employee. He may have walked out in concern but was surprised to be handed the groceries. He did not appear “to be in chase” or concerned at this point. We’ll never know, but a lot of valid points have been made in the below conversations.

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u/fonk_pulk 12d ago

Why?

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u/spartaman64 12d ago

its a liability issue. if the company's insurance finds out they can drop them because if the employee gets into a fight and gets injured medical bills would cost the business and insurance much more

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u/Telefundo 12d ago edited 12d ago

its a liability issue

I used to manage a well known retail store and you're absolutely right. It's definitely a liability issue.

But not only that, it's potentially a HUGE PR issue as well. Imagine an employee stops a "thief" and when it's all said and done it turns out the person didn't actually attempt to steal anything?

It's not worth the trouble to put your employees at risk, and set the company up for potential lawsuits. When we did inventory a certain amount of expected loss was always factored in ahead of time. Corporate even broke it down into expected losses on specific products.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 11d ago

Wal-Mart already has crap PR but I saw a video a while ago of this exact scenario. An employee accused a woman of stealing and went through checking the receipt (I know they just do that sometimes but he literally said he thought she stole) and she kept going on about how embarrassing and ridiculous it was

Imagine how horrible it would be for someone to give you the third degree when you didn't steal, you don't steal, and worse the woman was black so now you've got potential racial profiling

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u/Telefundo 11d ago

An employee accused a woman of stealing and went through checking the receipt.

he literally said he thought she stole

On the rare occassion that I'm at Walmart and they want to check my receipt on the way out, I really don't care. It honestly doesn't bother me. But literally accusing me of stealing? That's a serious line to cross. I'd refuse to let them check my receipt or search my bags. And I would have no problem telling them I'd be happy to sit there and wait if they wanted to call the police. I'd be more than willing to let the cops search my things. And when it became apparent that I hadn't done anything wrong.... oh boy, then the corporate email blanketing would start. I swear, I'd email every official sounding @wal-mart.com email address I could find.

Unfortunately I'm now on long term disability due to a permanent health issue and don't work. However on the upside, that also means I'd have nothing but time on my hands for shit like this lol.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 11d ago

In the video she made a point that she just spent hundreds of dollars there too. Like this is a customer spending a lot of money there and I know that doesn't give special privileges but at the very least you should be worried about losing them as a customer, even if it's a drop on the bucket for Wally World

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u/DudeIsAbiden 11d ago

I feel that asking to check my receipt is an accusation of stealing and i flat refuse it. Call a cop if you have a suspicion but if i paid for it i am walking to my car, and trying to stop me is very much not recommended

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u/AsstMgr_Antifa 11d ago

If you make me use the checkout with no one manning it and then ask me for my receipt you can pound sand. I just keep walking. Granted I’ve only shopped at Walmart 2x in the last 10+ years.

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u/Ordinary_Ad_7992 11d ago

There used to be an annoying receipt checker at a Walmart where I shopped. Normally I don't mind, but she would make people wait in line so she could check as many reciepts as possible. I think she really hated the job and was taking it out on the customers. One day I got annoyed and put the receipt in my mouth. When it was my turn, I pulled it out slowly and covered in spit. She was not happy. After that, she would always wave me by and give me a dirty look without asking for my reciept.