Re: Breaking Stuff at the Grocery Store
 

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Re: Breaking Stuff at the Grocery Store
 

I think the store is really helping itself by not forcing people to pay because many people would be put off and not come back.

But really they are forcing people to get their own things as opposed to having runners get everything. So even with the breakage costs, they are still ahead cost-wise.

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Re: Breaking Stuff at the Grocery Store
 

As long as you didn't do it on purpose, breakage is just a part of their business cost. Don't worry about it.

Re: You have already paid for it.
 

You have already paid for the broken package. The price of the product is set to cover a percentage for breakage, the product going out of date, and theft that occurs.

Re: Breaking Stuff at the Grocery Store
 

I worked in a grocery store as a kid. I'm not sure if all places have a setup like this, but any defective products that we received, the warehouse would eat the cost and it was kind of a "take your word for it" thing. Most products that employees or customers broke fell into this category.

Whether this is wrong or not I don't know, but I'm sure other places do the same.

Re: Breaking Stuff at the Grocery Store
 

As someone who once worked in a grocery store, i can tell you that it would be against store policy if they accepted payment

Re: Breaking Stuff at the Grocery Store
 

actually tonight i was going to buy some english muffins and broke a glass car of jam. i didnt even think about paying for it, i just picked it up and went and paid. this was at a chain grocery store. not ambiguous at all. if it were a mom and pop joint deli or somethign similar i would consider it under some circumstances.

Re: Breaking Stuff at the Grocery Store
 

A couple years ago, I had been planning on moving to Florida and to make extra money, I got a job overnight stocking shelves at Shop-Rite. So anyway, my first night and I have to put papertowels away. I am stacking them up on the top shelf and I only need to put up like 3 more rolls. I force them in and all of a sudden I hear this loud crashing sound that goes on for like 10 seconds. I walk around to the other side of the aisle, and I had knocked over about 50 jars of salsa and hot sauce. My boss tells me to grab broom and clean it up. So I start cleaning it up and the smell from the salsa causes me to gag. I'm thinking, "[censored] this, it's not worth the money and aggrevation.". So I go and punch out and just leave w/o telling anyone. As soon as I open the doors, the alarm goes off and my boss comes running up. After he turns the alarm off, I tell him I left something in the car. Never saw him again.