Portland St Superstore, Saturday July 5, I have a full cart of groceries worth $150 +/- ready to go to the checkout… I check my shopping list and realize I forgot to get coffee cream… So back I go to the back of the store.. There are a bunch of pallets full of new stock to be shelved, so the pathway in front of the refridgerators is too narrow to navigate with a cart… I leave my cart at the end of the row, 15 feet away from the milk, I am gone 15 seconds tops. I come back and my cart is gone. Another full cart of somebody elses groceries are left behind…
So I hunt you row by row up and down; the store is busy and I can’t find you or my cart.
So I have to start at scratch again.
My question to you: How do you not notice that you have someone elses groceries, or did you just pay for them and take e’m all home.
This article appears in Jul 10-16, 2008.
this is hilarious. i hope the other person did end up paying for the wrong cart.
This is a good idea. Next time I am adventurous and lazy I am stealing someone else’s cart of groceries. It’ll be luck one of those surprise bags from when I was a kid!
You know this raises a good point for some of our legal types… What recourse would you have against the Bad Guy or some another grocery cart thief…? Cause technically its not stealing if the groceries haven’t been paid for yet… Or is it..??? Hmm.
Ha! This would really bug me. I would obsess about the where my cart went. Did the person take it in error? On purpose? Did they start to unload it at the checkout before realizing what had happened? Did they ditch the cart elsewhere in the store? Was it perhaps a staff member who thought the cart was abandoned? I WOULD NEED TO KNOW
It must have been an error if they left another full cart behind… Why would anyone other than the Bad Guy do this on purpose..?? I’m with grindcore.. I hope that stupid fuck was so absent minded that they even paid for the stuff and got home before they realized…