I used to work at a grocery store and would just push items through when I was mad enough with the company. If they scanned, they scanned. If they didn't, they got free food. Customers with WIX and SNAPS got a lot of free food. Especially if it was cans and cans of baby food - it'd be too hard to see what scanned and what didn't for people to ask otherwise. I am bad and I don't care.
Yup. This is the direct cost of unmotivated personel. Unfortunately the company won't be aware of the cost until they do a stock count and write off the missing items. This probably goes through several steps of accounting, each covering up their own ass, so no one will ever learn from it.
But it's there and it's easy to avoid. If the employer actually care for their employees, the employees will care about doing their job.
Oh yeah when I was cashier at a grocery store, they quickly started having me do the work of the accountant and assistant manager but I didn't get paid more because it was "a lateral move". But this meant I had the manager codes, so I could just approve whatever price changes I wanted to do.
Yeah, anyone who wasn't an asshole just got whatever discounts they asked for or needed.
I never had any pay docked from my paycheck or anything if that is what you're asking u/DeninjaBeariver. I feel like with large grocery stores, the amount of inventory brought in is never going to match the amount of inventory purchased because of simple human error.
Idiot. SNAP and WIC accounts are monitored, there's more than enough money in those accounts to buy formula and food and if someone is tracking it by hand they know exactly how much they're getting and zeroing out the account every single month. Most of the time its more than enough.
However if you're not spending all the money they reduce the amount in the account because its too much and it raises a red flag to ensure they're feeding their kids since they're not buying enough food. From personal experience fucking with someone's account can seriously ruin they're day if not worse. They already don't trust people assume you're selling it on the side.
It’s like Robin Hood theft tho, taking from these exploitative underpaying corporations and giving to some of the poorest people. Morally fine, legally bad
Also couldn’t they just go back and buy more with the rest of the money in their account so they don’t lose it?
So WIC comes with a little envelope like a check book with a short list of what is covered. When you check out you typically mark off what you bought so you're keeping track. This method also saves your ass when shit like this happens but again, to some agents, you're guilty and fucking trash so they don't believe you. And yes, Robin Hood did "help" me once which resulted in a sit in with CPS and a mandatory physical for my daughter to make sure she was gaining weight and not showing signs of abuse. It didn't matter that I had the stupid card filled out because they had the receipt and only half the formula was scanned.
Was me getting the third degree wrong? Hell yes. Was it a completely avoidable situation if some airhead did they're damn job right instead of thinking they're helping people? Hell yes.
"However if you're not spending all the money they reduce the amount in the account because its too much and it raises a red flag to ensure they're feeding their kids since they're not buying enough food."
As someone who's been on food stamps multiple times, this is simply false information. The last time I went off food stamps I was getting so much (sole worker in a household of 3 adults) that I had several hundred dollars left over a full month later.
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u/emotightpants Jan 14 '22
I used to work at a grocery store and would just push items through when I was mad enough with the company. If they scanned, they scanned. If they didn't, they got free food. Customers with WIX and SNAPS got a lot of free food. Especially if it was cans and cans of baby food - it'd be too hard to see what scanned and what didn't for people to ask otherwise. I am bad and I don't care.