Wal-Mart Worker Accused Of Rolling Back Prices

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(AP) A Wal-Mart employee has been charged with embezzlement after allegedly ringing up a sale of $5.25 for more than $500 worth of merchandise. Natchez Police Chief Mike Mullins said a 20-year-old cashier was arrested Thursday along with a 22-year-old customer at the Wal-Mart in Natchez.

Mullins said the cashier charged the customer $5.25 for seven pairs of jeans, a baby crib, a pair of scrubs, a picture frame, sweat suit, laundry detergent, a bra, four pairs of pants, diapers, pizza, coffee, four 12-packs of drinks, canned goods, air freshener, nachos, noodles, frozen goods, chips and a family pack of beef.

The actual total for the merchandise was $547.50.

Mullins said the two women were being held Friday without bond pending an initial court appearance.

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Information from: The Natchez Democrat, http://www.natchezdemocrat.com

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/23/ap/strange/main4750153.shtml

[BR_Parkway]

1. No bond? They should have stolen 50 billion - then they'd be comfy

at home.

[Greyhound]

4. That's what stuck out for me as well. Held in jail with no bond for petty theft...

:wtf: have we become?

[Cirque du So-What]

5. That's the first thing I took away from this story

I hope thousands of other readers are paying attention as well. With the exception of the crème de la crème of white-collar criminals, we've become a society of miserable Jean Valjeans.

[Stevenmarc]

2. $5.25 is probably what Chinese workers made for making the crap in the first place

[onethatcares]

3. I think it was the picture frame that did them in.

:rofl:

[Jackpine Radical]

6. Goddammit. Retail theft is a CRIME!

Wholesale theft is just good business.

[underpants]

7. Employee theft is usually greater than shoplifting-that is why inventory control is stressed so much

I let some guys in on that little tidbit at a supply place I used to work at. They made a big deal out of the one-day-a-year closed shop inventory count (good food/sense of community in profit sharing environ) and I asked two of the guys why they thought this was so important--they said what they had been told it was important to get an accurate measurement of sales and profit etc.

I said "Yeah it is also a way of checking on employee theft"

Two rather jaded streetwise guys were shocked.

[madrchsod]

8. where i live they would`t be in jail because...

my country sheriff and states attorney are going to let non-violent offenders released recognizance bond or if a repeat offender really low bonds. the county decided to cut bonds and give more recog because it will save the county thousands of dollars each year. i guess there is something positive in this economy

[Occam Bandage]

9. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

If you're going to steal from your employer, why would you be so ridiculously brazen about it? If you're going to give a "discount" to friends and family, make them seldom and make them reasonable. Knock $20 off the price of a DVD player after you go through the motions arguing about its price. Forget to ring up a can or two out of eight. (Don't give them too much change. Bad idea.) Do stuff that, if caught, doesn't look like anything worse than getting an irate customer out of the way, or a simple accident.

You're a cashier. They expect you to try and steal--and they expect you to be stupid and lazy. If you feel like doing the former, make sure you look entirely like the latter.

[JNelson6563]

10. In America you are better off to kill someone

than small theft. Especially if the person you killed is poor.

Julie

[L0oniX]

11. Silly peons ...only poor people get caught and punished. Get a job on Wall Street not Wal-Mart.

[Historic NY]

12. Check this one out Walmart thieves steal more than $1 million...

http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081108/NEWS/811080324

one of the idiots got caught again this week with stuff including a flat screen stolen from Sams Club.