Supermarket employee fired for recording 3 men stealing $500 in laundry detergent

Quote:A Colorado supermarket employee was fired after he recorded three men stealing approximately $500 worth of laundry detergent from the store on Father’s Day.

Santino Burrola, the King Soopers employee, was alerted to a theft in progress at the store and the first thing he thought to do was pull out his phone and record it.

“When I looked there was already a guy halfway headed out with a food cart full of laundry detergents and scent boosters and what have you,” Burrola told CBS Colorado. “My first instinct, record.”

As Burrola, a former military police officer, walked out of the store, the three thieves hurried to load up a black Chevy Trax, one opening the doors, another throwing a basket full of items into the back seat, and another struggling to unload the full shopping cart.

https://www.tiktok.com/@thagodfather01/v...3506280747

We all pay for stupid Democratic policies

King Sooper is Kroger, for those keeping score.

Quote:The supermarket chain around the Rocky Mountains is a subsidy of the Kroger Company, which Burrola said has a policy against employees chasing thieves or intervening in a theft.

I guess the above is the basis for the termination. My guess is that's there for liability purposes.

Its going to get to a point where these stores will require you to lock yourselves in a closet or else be fired

The same thing happened last week at a Dollar General store down the road. I think it was two guys had two shopping carts loaded down with Tide. No one got fired but someone did record them putting the Tide into their car.

(07-06-2023 03:09 PM)solohawks Wrote:  Its going to get to a point where these stores will require you to lock yourselves in a closet or else be fired

My guess is some time in the past an employee of some company tried to stop a shoplifter, got injured, and then sued the employer. This is the reason so many employers now have the "don't interfere" policy. It's to protect the employer, financially, wrapped up in a nice little bow of protecting the employee, imo.

(07-06-2023 03:07 PM)VA49er Wrote:  

Quote:The supermarket chain around the Rocky Mountains is a subsidy of the Kroger Company, which Burrola said has a policy against employees chasing thieves or intervening in a theft.

I guess the above is the basis for the termination. My guess is that's there for liability purposes.

He didn’t chase them or intervene — he recorded the scene. Plus, these ‘no intervene’ retail policies eventually backfires and have diminishing returns as it only encourages more theft as word spreads and eventually the theft is so bad that the store closes down because the losses becomes too great. It also breeds crime around the store where employees don’t feel safe….see SF and Chicago

How long before lib boards require their employees to pack the thieves bags for them?

Then the libs will complain about corporate greed making prices so high rather than you paying twice as much to cover for the amount getting stolen.

My neighborhood Big Lots took another tact. They installed devices on every shopping cart that allows store employees to point at the cart and the device locks up the front wheels.

I was talking to the manager and he said they had shoplifters who tried to run out the door with a cart loaded down with merchandise. He said he waited until they got a good running start then locked up the front wheels. The manager said they just about launched the thief over the cart.

I would love to see that happen in person.

(07-06-2023 05:12 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  My neighborhood Big Lots took another tact. They installed devices on every shopping cart that allows store employees to point at the cart and the device locks up the front wheels.

I was talking to the manager and he said they had shoplifters who tried to run out the door with a cart loaded down with merchandise. He said he waited until they got a good running start then locked up the front wheels. The manager said they just about launched the thief over the cart.

I would love to see that happen in person.

there's a lawsuit waiting to happen in some blue balled legislative 'domain'..

regardless, kudos and to Newton's 3rd law or sig line 4 ("for every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction" --- OR --- "if you act like a dipshite, you deserve to be treated like a dipshite!")

(07-06-2023 05:19 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(07-06-2023 05:12 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  My neighborhood Big Lots took another tact. They installed devices on every shopping cart that allows store employees to point at the cart and the device locks up the front wheels.

I was talking to the manager and he said they had shoplifters who tried to run out the door with a cart loaded down with merchandise. He said he waited until they got a good running start then locked up the front wheels. The manager said they just about launched the thief over the cart.

I would love to see that happen in person.

there's a lawsuit waiting to happen in some blue balled legislative 'domain'..

regardless, kudos and to Newton's 3rd law or sig line 4 ("for every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction" --- OR --- "if you act like a dipshite, you deserve to be treated like a dipshite!")

He told me one big lady just about lost her weave

(07-06-2023 05:20 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  

(07-06-2023 05:19 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(07-06-2023 05:12 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  My neighborhood Big Lots took another tact. They installed devices on every shopping cart that allows store employees to point at the cart and the device locks up the front wheels.

I was talking to the manager and he said they had shoplifters who tried to run out the door with a cart loaded down with merchandise. He said he waited until they got a good running start then locked up the front wheels. The manager said they just about launched the thief over the cart.

I would love to see that happen in person.

there's a lawsuit waiting to happen in some blue balled legislative 'domain'..

regardless, kudos and to Newton's 3rd law or sig line 4 ("for every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction" --- OR --- "if you act like a dipshite, you deserve to be treated like a dipshite!")

He told me one big lady just about lost her weave

I shite you the fk, not ... before I scoot to #costa, I'mma gonna snatch one of the fkr's off their head just for shites and gigs ... call it, "me 'parting' shot!"

yeah, I ain' right at times ... but I'm laughing my arse off at too many in the field....

CJ

@looseCannon

(07-06-2023 05:12 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  My neighborhood Big Lots took another tact. They installed devices on every shopping cart that allows store employees to point at the cart and the device locks up the front wheels.

I was talking to the manager and he said they had shoplifters who tried to run out the door with a cart loaded down with merchandise. He said he waited until they got a good running start then locked up the front wheels. The manager said they just about launched the thief over the cart.

I would love to see that happen in person.

I’m waiting for the YouTube clips. It’ll be better than Bait Bike or Bait Phone.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D-gV8ICIca...FpdCBiaWtl

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f4iRJg2ld3...9uZQ%3D%3D

Oh no, I can't believe it. Danes?!

Why detergent? Do they use it to make drugs? I don't do drugs so I don't know, unless blood pressure pills count.

(07-06-2023 05:27 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(07-06-2023 05:20 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  

(07-06-2023 05:19 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(07-06-2023 05:12 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  My neighborhood Big Lots took another tact. They installed devices on every shopping cart that allows store employees to point at the cart and the device locks up the front wheels.

I was talking to the manager and he said they had shoplifters who tried to run out the door with a cart loaded down with merchandise. He said he waited until they got a good running start then locked up the front wheels. The manager said they just about launched the thief over the cart.

I would love to see that happen in person.

there's a lawsuit waiting to happen in some blue balled legislative 'domain'..

regardless, kudos and to Newton's 3rd law or sig line 4 ("for every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction" --- OR --- "if you act like a dipshite, you deserve to be treated like a dipshite!")

He told me one big lady just about lost her weave

I shite you the fk, not ... before I scoot to #costa, I'mma gonna snatch one of the fkr's off their head just for shites and gigs ... call it, "me 'parting' shot!"

yeah, I ain' right at times ... but I'm laughing my arse off at too many in the field....

CJ

@looseCannon

Something like this?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BcQvsPZ2RV...VuIHdlYXZl

(07-06-2023 05:42 PM)Todor Wrote:  

(07-06-2023 05:27 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(07-06-2023 05:20 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  

(07-06-2023 05:19 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(07-06-2023 05:12 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  My neighborhood Big Lots took another tact. They installed devices on every shopping cart that allows store employees to point at the cart and the device locks up the front wheels.

I was talking to the manager and he said they had shoplifters who tried to run out the door with a cart loaded down with merchandise. He said he waited until they got a good running start then locked up the front wheels. The manager said they just about launched the thief over the cart.

I would love to see that happen in person.

there's a lawsuit waiting to happen in some blue balled legislative 'domain'..

regardless, kudos and to Newton's 3rd law or sig line 4 ("for every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction" --- OR --- "if you act like a dipshite, you deserve to be treated like a dipshite!")

He told me one big lady just about lost her weave

I shite you the fk, not ... before I scoot to #costa, I'mma gonna snatch one of the fkr's off their head just for shites and gigs ... call it, "me 'parting' shot!"

yeah, I ain' right at times ... but I'm laughing my arse off at too many in the field....

CJ

@looseCannon

Something like this?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BcQvsPZ2RV...VuIHdlYXZl

irony: some 2023 sinister squidward popped up before I could click "skip ads"

#keepAway

grazie, Todor!