Woman works to clear record after being acquitted of stealing from Wegman’s self-checkout
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2022
- A Louisa County mother is working to clear her record after being charged and found not guilty of stealing from a grocery store self-checkout.
Amber Groome was once a long-time customer of the Short Pump Wegman’s and says she simply forgot to scan a few items in 2021. Groome says she did not realize until she was later served a warrant for larceny.
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For argument sake. I get home delivery from my local Kroger, and they deliver the groceries, but there is an entire bag missing. Can I issue the same charge against the store manger and have that person arrested in the middle of the night?
She simply forgot…
You should NEVER put items in a bag before you check out, that is just asking for trouble.
She was using her own bags, paying for the items, and then putting the items back into her own bags. This is how things got confused. I do the same thing for items I want to stay cold while I'm walking around the store. It could happen to anyone, but since there are now so many purposeful thieves, the people making honest mistakes are taking the punishment for it.
@@RK-xz4oy There aren't more thieves. Most of the theft at these grocery stores are from the employees. While evidence suggests self-checkout may have increased losses, it's relatively small, depending on where you are. Besides, why are customers being held responsible for corporate decision making? People should be charged with theft when there's clear evidence of intent. This means, they need to show video evidence of someone doing this over and over again, and involving large sums.
$250 in merch is not a mistake.
I agree ☝️
If i was this woman every time i go to that store id demand the store to check me out and if i HAD to use the self check out, id demand a worker do it for me. id tell them, "Hey you think i am a thief, so YOU do it for me." and yeah id be rude about it ; "Snap snap. get to it WORKER. DO your job. I am the customer. without us YOU'D be out of work. you work for me. "
Instead of being angry how about you go to a wegmans and realize that there are always multiple registers open lmao. Self checkout is an option, not the only way.
As well as that, saying stuff like that is an easy way to get kicked out of the store. We don’t put up with that, we are not paid to put up with that, and we do not work for you. Snap at me like that and I shut my register down, lol.
You absolutely do work for the customers. I’ll refuse to use self checkout too. Act like a child and I’ll spend my money at a different store. When you annoy enough customers, you’ll go out of business
I forgot to pay 250 dollar in merchandise, my bad 🤣🤣🤣
This is NOT the first time. You must be patient and wait for that receipt!
I don’t believe her at all.
100% with you KLeigh
I don’t like self check out
I am a bit confused how they get away with these self check outs. They are receiving a service of value without compensation to the customer. Are they paying the tax on that financial gain? If we even receive an item not cash an item of value over a certain dollar amount we have to report this and pay additional tax on it.
This woman's story makes no sense.
She claims she "simply forgot to scan a few items." $250 worth? What did she buy, AirPods? No, because she claims "it wasn't like high dollar stuff like there was vitamins and stuff in there, yes but then there was also like Pringles, pretzel sticks that are a dollar, two dollars." How does this add up to the $250 worth of items Wegmans claims she stole? She is lying.
Then she claims she puts her groceries in bags in the cart while shopping, when she gets to self-checkout she takes the items out to scan and puts them back in the bag, in the cart. She claims she forgot to scan a bag. Who even puts their groceries directly into bags while shopping? I've never seen anyone do this. I suspect she did this so she could steal.
If money is as tight as she claims, why is she even shopping at Wegmans to begin with? They are expensive. There are plenty of Walmarts and Aldis in that area that are much cheaper.
That's terrifying.
250 in one walmart bag? We dont have choice. There is no regular cashier to go to in my walmart. But it took her 2 days to realize she didnt pay for 250 worth?
If it was discovered by reviewing video they might not have seen it until hours or days later. That's why they didn't stop her at the store to ask about it. If they had seen it wen it happened, store security would have definitely stopped her.
They would have tackled her to the ground if she was black
@@K.Spade7902good
not in California-here shoplifter is always right@@K.Spade7902
She spends $1,000 a week at that store but money is so tight she can't afford $1,000 in total for an attorney? Did her statement here just prove she's dishonest and probably intended to steal? Invoke the 5th, get an attorney and always remain quite.
always remain quite what? 😂
She said she spends $1000 a week at the store...on groceries. She spends it on food for her large family. She didn't say that she didnt have $1000 at all. She said she didn't have that much money left over after groceries and bills to pay to expunge her record. Either you just can't do math and don't know how budgeting works or you are so lucky and privileged that you can afford to not be able to do math and not know how to budget. Or you're just a troll.
There was a lot of intent by her to steal. 1) She uses her own bags which she fills up while she shops. Everyone normally folds their bags closed and fill up their actual carts with the merchandise . Then after they scan the item they open the bag. 2) She had an excuse by saying she worked a 14 hour shift the day before. 3) if she was so tired why didn’t she let the cashier ring her up. 4) She lied and said it was just little stuff like $1 pretzel sticks when it was actually $250 of merchandise. 5) She admitted that money was tight in her house. This is not the first time Klepto Karen has done this. She is actually a professional con artist grocery thief.
Well how dare you proclaim somebody else's intent or lack thereof for them.
Who do you think you are? 😠
Wonder how it would have turned out if she had more melanin.
Probably solved quicker because they would be afriad Al Sharpton and CNN would show up.
@@roninthesecond3600 Yeah, Blacks get all the breaks and good luck when it comes to police and the legal system, don't they.
@@datmeme8967 they become pawns and heroes to the white liberals and saviors that only care about every four years.
@@roninthesecond3600 Of course... Blacks have no personal agency or power over their own destiny, right? They just have to do what ever white liberals tell them. You make it so clear. You're definitely plugged into what's happening.
@@datmeme8967 they been doing that since LBJ
It wasn't a mistake, she did it on purpose.
Everybody spends a lot of money at the grocery store and are often going to patron a particular store out of convenience. She just happens to forget that she didn’t scan the most expensive items and doesn’t realize that her receipt was $100s cheaper? Also, who bags their groceries before checking out? That seems like something I would do if I were planning to steal something, so that it would look more plausible that I just “forgot” to scan stuff.
250 in one bag? Lol ok
Every person should steal everything until they shut down these lanes.
i heard of one story that the employee scanned all the groceries for a handicapped person and they missed one item and police where sent after them to there home .
Has she lost her nursing license for the $250?
That's exactly why she's denying intent. She would loose her nursing license for that. There is no way you forgot about $250 of groceries. The 1st clue would be the amount owed. She claims visiting Wegmans bi-weekly and spending $500 each visit. That tells me she would second guess her huge discount when it came time to pay. You see the amount owed on the screen. NOT BUYING IT.
why are you working for the store for free? Why are you not suing the store for slander
Thanks for the heads up. I find Wegman's to be too snooty, anyways. These one items slip ups are being dealt with horribly at Walmart and others as well. It really affects the way I feel about a store chain.
one item?! the white thief clearly said she stole an entire bag of items!!! 🤦🏿♂🤦🏿♂
this criminal should be imprisoned like all those who run afoul of the law...
That's fine and Dandy they can take that approach but if they do that approach with me and I paid for the items I'm going to say well take it up with my lawyer approach because now you're getting sued. This is not acceptable. There's no reason why innocent customers should fear at all. The customers that are being wrongfully accused should unify and create a widespread lawsuit!
I work at West Cary Wegmans and love working there for the past 4 years
How do u “forget” to scan something. Smh. I hate those check out lines. I go thru with the buggy one item at a time and out what I’ve scanned into a new cart I’ve brought over. I look under, Over and thru before I hit pay. If u realize u didn’t scan something, u go back inside and fix it. Period.
Or you get the store employees to do their ducking job
Ducking job!
So I'm not being paid by the store to do my own check-out, so why do I have to do their job and do it perfectly 100% when even they can't do that themselves sometimes? I don't care how easy it seems to you, given you sound like you have Asperger's. Besides, 10-20% of the population has ADD/ADHD, and their brains are not computers. What's more 8-10% of the population has a IQ less than 80, which is the cut off for the Army. Grocery stores should worry about the real thieves, typically their own employees.
"If they had just told me I would have paid for it" is what all shoplifters say after they're caught.
Either way you slice it they should have ways of knowing if someone paid whether a shoplifter says the same thing. Innocent people getting caught up in this like this because they don't have any way of distinguishing looks bad on the store, not the customer. It's inexcusable whether or not shoplifters say the same thing. There should be protocols that they could follow to know if the customer really stole something or not. It's not my fault that Billy Joel down the road stole. There's no reason they should think of that I stole because someone else did that before. In my opinion, all the wrongful arrested customers need to turn around and rally and unify together to make a wide spread class action lawsuit.
Gee, forgot to scan a few items! She would probably do it again.
How does one "forget" to scan items? c'mon
"C'mon" what???
What? Is she automatically guilty or something and your word is the final word on the matter???
Our injustice system doesn't do enough to make innocent accused people whole again....they just go onto the next thing smh
Plead not guilty.
Subpoena all records, photos relating to.the transaction and incident. It is virtually impossible for the store to.ptove beyond a reasonable doubt that the shopper INTENDED to steal.
Once acquitted, sue the store for false imprisonment, defamaton and malicious prosecution.
Be prepared for an ugly.but winable lawsuit.
She's pretty ass hell, I doubt she has to steal.
Don't simp
@@AutismusPrime69 not being a Simp, just saying.
lol 😂 I agree she is very pretty and definitely has pretty privilege
I think self check out should be used for purchasing small number of items.
How police found her ? Like How they got the address
She frequents it so they probably caught her from old times when she did pay then for her information that way
Credit card info from the register
Lisence plate
She probably used her Shopper's Club card for the merchandise she actually scanned, which contains her address on file
@@bigcahuna42366 they don't have that.
I personally would never ever use self checkout, far too mny problems stem from the mear concept of it. Being jailed is just one of them.
Lol yeah, sorry we couldn't ruin your life for a simple mistake that never would have happened if you had cashiers doing their job.
Self checkout items should be discounted ! Imagine leaving your job as a bus driver only to haven’t go do the job of a cashier , many stores have no personal just machines !
She intentionally tried to steal , it’s obvious !
But they can’t prove it ! So let her go !
All I ever do is sample the grapes …
I don’t believe it was accidental, but it could have been handled in the store
I use to put headphones under water packs, so I would accidentally forget to pay for them. Its awful, and I regret it. Huge mishap that landed me some free stuff. 😔
I don't think you're that sorry about it. Posting it on YT!
I hope you get caught one day for your intentional actions
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Scan an item, hear the beep, see the item on the screen, put it in the bag to the left. If anyone can’t handle that simple process, go through the normal line and let a more stable person handle this for you.
The stores are the incompetent ones. Last time I went to the store, I went through a busy self checkout with 3 small milks. The barcodes on that item take a while to scan because they printed it in a place that’s difficult for the scanner to read. I scanned the 1st one, I tried to scan the 2nd one for a while. Eventually I heard a beep, put it down, and started to scan the last milk. This is when the screen immediately started showing a video feed of me from above. It was a pop up window that covers the list of scanned items, so I was super confused and it’s the stores fault. Eventually, the camera window closed, and I saw that only 1 milk was scanned. The beep must have been from someone else’s self checkout station. This is another example of how the stores create their own problem. If they didn’t waste all that time with the pop up camera window, acting like I’m a thief, I would have immediately seen that something was not scanned, and scanned it.
The white said innocent, but the tattoos say guilty .
"Just came off, the day before , from working a 14 hour shift at the hospital in the COVID units"... AHAHAHAHAHA... If you get caught , take your lumps ... ppl always using COVID as an angle
Don’t use self checkout either.