Posted on 07/17/2017 12:20:10 AM PDT by grundle
I’ve been wasting time in a silly checkout line paying for stuff I bought at Home Depot. I wasn’t aware Home Depot had an express checkout lane. No cash, no credit, no problem. Just take the merchandise and go! Good to know.
They would charge you for the use of your money if could get away with it.
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Actually they do. It’s called “The float”. Example: I recently sold a property f9or something over $400,000 and took bank check to my bank immediately after the closing.The bank made $10,000 available to me immediately and said it would take 4 days for the rest to become available. This even though checks are electronically cleared thru the Fed in less then 24 hours. Thus the bank has the use of yours and my cash for 3 days and you will get nothing for this.
When is the last time you heard about a bank robbery?
In Oklahoma City, we average about 2 a week. And have for years.......red
Looks as if I am wrong in claiming almost no bank robberies. I guess since I cannot even remember the last time I heard about one I assumed people have discovered it almost never works out and the thieves get caught fairly quickly.
Every week, practically.
Two a a week? WOW!! I guess it has become just a local story since I really cannot remember the last time I heard of a bank robbery and I live in NJ.
While it sucks that the good people are the ones paying for what the bad people get (hmmmm... sounds an awful lot like welfare to me... but that’s another story) it sounds like the alternative is to deal with lawsuits. Which the good, paying customers are once again going to be footing the bill for.
Both choices suck.
There were a string of them around here (central Florida) a couple months ago.
FWIW, a banker recently told me that banks get robbed much more often than people know about. It’s kept quiet.
it’s never a major heist; a couple of thousand dollars at the most.
Of course, since it’s supposedly ‘kept quiet’, there’s no way to verify whether this is true or not.
Just that I was told by someone who is in a position to know and has no reason to lie.
I hate Home Depot. They have the worst stock replacement. I always say the trip to another large retail store 25 miles away is worth my time.
A string of bank robberies in Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana this past year. 15 I think. They are in prison now.
To be fair, it’s hard to run for speed or distance with a laptop in your pants, lol.
In the early 80s I worked the graveyard shift in a Loma Linda, California Circle K. The job opened up because the guy who worked there before me chased a shoplifter outside. A struggle ensued, and the employee beat the snot out of the guy. He was fired and had charges brought against him.
Banks get robbed all the time
Funny you mentioned “line cutting” as that is exactly what some illegals are doing here in TN, also. I have actually seen a mother teaching her young son to slide by another shopper already in line, the kid appears like he is getting candy, a coke, etc. He makes it so you feel you should back your cart up, and the woman/mother immediately cuts in front of you from the side. On several occasions I have asked-”Is this how you teach your kid manners?”
I try to buy from Lowes rather than Home Depot.
About 5 or 6 years back, I asked for the vetersn’s discount which I’d been getting for several years,and showed by veteran’s ID. The clerk told me that Home Depot stopped giving veterans discounts. I now go to Lowes first and only use Home Depot when Lowes doesn’t have the item I want.
> “In the Army, they train you to do things like that,” Tinney said. <
Well, the Army also teaches you to follow orders. If Home Depot has a policy not to confront shoplifters, then their employees ought not to confront shoplifters.
That being said, firing seems to be rather extreme here, as the employee did nothing illegal. Ii’s not like he was the shoplifter, or anything like that. And he really was trying to do the right thing.
Suspend him for a week without pay. Then put him back to work as usual.
No, he would have been fired for that, too. Any employee who removes store property of any kind without paying for it, or having permission otherwise granted ahead of time is subject to firing.
When is the last time you heard about a bank robbery?
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Pretty recently to be honest.....
http://www.fox19.com/story/35850682/cincinnati-bank-robbery-suspect-arrested-in-georgia
“I really cannot remember the last time I heard of a bank robbery and I live in NJ.”
That might because the state has stolen all the money within its borders already! BTW, there were 119 bank robberies in 2011 in NJ according to stats I saw.
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