@@antivenom56 i worked in a Kroger store and a large department store so I'd hear how much each one would make in a week which I won't say here but all I was doing was having a little fun with the guy who was able to steal money from them,not the price of meats or anything in the store.Krogers is a really great place to shop as far as I concerened.i go there when I do my shopping.i give it 2 thumbs up.
Wow. So, someone in management or loss prevention didn't notice a MAJOR increase in returns?!?! This happened at a store I once managed. A cashier, who I trusted dearly, was watching managers do refunds and writing down our pass codes. When I went on vacation for a week, I got a call from our home office. They told me my store was having an unusual high amount of refunds all of a sudden. Once I got back to work, I reviewed our security taped and watched her, she would ring up a customer, make 2 copies of their receipt and keep one, them once they left, she would return the entire cash purchase and pocket the money. Well, I had to keep it to myself that I had caught her, and I was told when to schedule her to work again, and that the police would be coming to talk to her. Sure enough. The police pulled up, and she called me to the front, she said " look, the police are walking in here ! I wonder what's going on?!?!?" I just looked at her and said " I guess we are about to find out ". After the police reviewed the tapes with her she burst out crying begging them not to arrest her. I had to walk away.
Oh I see, so that is how that this guy could have done it perhaps. 2 copies of receipts, and issue a refund to the "wrong", e.g. the cashier's own credit card etc., as opposed to actually refunding it to customer's card etc., and customer wouldn't know because they weren't out of any money, only store was out of proceeds/revenue from sale. That is interesting. Thanks for explaining that possible scenario, was wondering how this story was "possible" in a sense. Thanks.
Me in line at Kroger: “Sir, I need a manager to return this item because it’s over $40.” At the same Kroger: “I’d like to return this customer order for $87,000.”
I know they are gonna give him a grand theft charge for this which is felony which will be on his record forever. When he gets out that felony is gonna screw him over. It wasnt worth it.
@First Last go sit in prison for a few years then say its worth it. Then come out and lucky you will get a $10hr job for the rest of your life because of your record then say it was worth it. $1 is NOT alot of money and will not go far. No doubt you are a kid. Im guessing 14.
How was he even able to return an item that Kroger didn't even own or exist in any of their stores or inventory etc???? This is just nuts and my mind can't even fathom or compute what I have just seen and heard.
@@corygifford2908 💯🗣️💬 agree, when I worked there we had a front end manager and 4 supervisors. believe a manager will be exposed once he finds out how much time he's getting.
I don’t believe it , I bet it was like 30k and Kroger put a year worth of losses on that dummy. One million and he gets a used camaro this is atlanta that would have been a hell cat or Lamborghini lol
If a 19 year old kid was able to take 2 million dollars from Kroger in under 2 weeks then just imagine what everybody else is getting and has been getting away with for years because he's definitely not the only one everybody else is guilty too they just won't be punished for it It almost sounds too good to be true. You don't even see that kind of theft in movies😳
The vigilent employee will be rewarded with a "Good Employee" pin on their nametag and will still be expected to come in at 7am after leaving at 11PM the night before.
It's a chain and the video said that some of the 'funds were returned to multiple outlets'. I bet he went into stores he wasn't employed at when they weren't busy and used the computers to do it.
Being 19, he also flashed his stolen money brazenly. In cases like these, the crime is much bigger than you think because a lot of people rely on this establishment for employment, the expenses of their children and the families, mortgage payments. This would have affected not only the establishment, but also the town in general.
It has no effect on the town. These Corporations are so huge, billions of dollars, the loss is just another tax right off and literally earned back from a few minutes of doing business.
"Yes Id like to return this building and everything in it" Kroger: "Sure! Super easy, bearly an inconvenience. Would you like to return the south store too?"
@@mathgasm8484 oh most definitely. There's absolutely no way an employee wouldn't get the transaction approved by a manager for those amounts. It would be a lot of money to be responsible for losing. Unless of course the entire chain of them up to a certain level were in on it. Eventually the highest returns are going to stand out by corporate accounting so it's game over from there as soon as they notice how many there were in that amount time to the same card. It used to take weeks for stuff like that to even be reviewed but now its all run by software. Smart software that can probably flag those three issues at once. By the end of the week or even day if the refunds were for that much. But never in my life would I have ever do thought that walmart sold anything that costed over 10 k. Definitely not no 87k.or wait maybe they just rung up a blank serial code and entered the amount manually. Then had a diff guy that in on do the refund. That's hella bold. Too bold. Bet that guy gets out a very dangerous man.
@@CC-si3cr When I worked for a grocery store I required an override from a manager. I cant just refund stuff for more than $5 without an override back in the day.
No he couldn't. I don't know why they didn't fucking mention it- but the dude who handles all the money was on vacation for two weeks. If you have vacation days- you only have a certain amount of time you can take then until they reset. So he took as much as he could and then got caught when he came back
i work at a kroger owned grocery store, and i have been there for years, i can't even imagine HOW this would even happen, management stays on top of the money and i don't care how busy your grocery store is, even 50k is a HUGE amount of money. something just isn't right with this picture. EDIT: hell, if the grocery store i work at had even 2k in returns in 1 week we are talking a full on audit.
There had to have been more people involved in this theft. Why any store would allow more than a few hundred dollars in returns within a few weeks would be suspicious. Names of cashiers, clerks, customer service employees are on the reciepts and return documents. Someone dropped the ball.
My thoughts exactly!!! Total lies!!! And if his 19 year-old self was doing this.....HOW MANY MORE EMPLOYEE'S WERE??? SOUNDS LIKE A LIE TO ME.... LIKE...."WE'LL JUST PUT IT ALL ON HIM" KNOWING FULL WELL....THEY DID IT TOO!!!
Yeah - at a food store no less? Not even a furniture store gets that many returns in 2 wks. Plus our supermarkets around here won't even let us return anything b/c of covid. That sounds like a heist by the top dogs who found a patsy.
I am retired from Ralph's/Kroger. A whole punch of heads are about to roll. I was working when 24 Store Directors were arrested for stealing. But this dude had help and they are going down with him. I did 38 years and would never think to steal from these billionaires. You are sick. I watch one of our stores fire 18 employees because of a similar situation. They are going down.
A return scam is not a new thing. I know of retail employees doing this back in the 90's but getting straight cash as opposed to running it through credit cards. I'm sure that wasn't new even in the 90's. What is amazing is that he was so embolden to do larger ticketed items at a grocery store. Seriously who wouldn't notice a 5 figure return to a grocery store. When most returns are 2-3 figures at most.
And to think, strong, totally independent black women have spent the last 50 plus years vehemently claiming that they can raise children better all by themselves without a man!
As the male customer said: "If He knew how to do it, someone else knew too".Whoever else knew dimed him out because he got greedy and didn't want to split the money.
i am on the fence here cos on one hand maybe he got too greedy but if someone in there was in the know and they fell out cos he wanted to keep the bag for himself then i can see why a workmate snitched.
again this is assumptions based on customers who don't work there. maybe he had help or maybe he didn't? the take away is that he knew how the system worked, to me that is a sign he either worked in returns or someone told him how to do it.
The young man must have studied accelerated course in theft. Almost one million dollars - and he's 19 years old. I am in my late 60s and may have made a million dollars by now - by working.
@V.P.N..... He probably got away with this for as long as he did because he was Black. Had an early arrest or early investigation taken place, he would have pulled the "race card".
Your damn right he had help!! There’s no way he’s smart enough to pull off something of this magnitude. Subpoena his phone records n that will tell u who’s the mastermind behind it. Thinking he’ll get a slap on the wrist because he’s a juvenile. Guess again, juveniles are now being held and charged as adults.
When he splurges on a Camaro, then totals it prior to his arrest. I bet he woke up after that, and found the money he was throwing in the air was just grass...
I work in retail and for him to get a return credited to a credit card, he would have purchased the item of that same amount in the first place. A manager has to authorize above a certain amount of returns as well. There’s something not right with the chain of authorization.
Not a Kroger, I worked there, you can just enter a blank item into the computer and the price, it’s really ridiculously stupid, and you can add the money to any card, just need a supervisor approval, not manager
@@muddywisconsin Ok supervisor/Mgr/Shift leader as we know these titles are used interchangably to keep people thinking they have power and to pay them less. His point is that someone else has to be involved either directly or indirectly in deriliction of duty. Somebody was doin somethin' to somebody🙃🙃😂😂
I work for Kroger and could totally see this happening without anyone noticing. Managers deal with complaining customers, complaining corporate, complaining employees all day. Supervisors also tend to be focused on serving the customer. One of our employees just recently got fired for stealing gas (yes, gasoline. We had a gas station) for over a year. Kroger just don't give a fuck because they make money regardless. Nobody really cares about anything but their own jobs around here.
@@benjaminfarias9169 Soooo...let me see if I got this right. You work for Kroger...currently? You used your real name on RUclips to complain about your job. PLUS provided the public with internal company information about gasoline theft. Okay.
I used to work for Kroger, and anyone who worked in customer service got override tags. That means they could literally override anything that called for one, including multi-thousand dollar returns.
@@iPLAYtheSTATION But that's why they have those tags. To put on record who is doing what and how many times. If the overide is used too many times, then the cheese should find out.
@BxxDxx Hoodoo In my opinion you are quite misinformed and that’s sad bcuz I was like you and being shown the light is not an easy process. Everything happens for us to learn and grow from it. Everything. God instills justice with karma. That doesn’t mean someone who is a great person doesn’t have bad things bestowed. It just means they won’t have as much because they don’t need to learn as much. You don’t have to believe me, one day you will see it for yourself. Remember me.
@@mattheww239 that’s the ignorant shit I’ve ever heard. You literally have ppl on earth worth billions and they made it on the backs of ppl and they seem to be doing just fine guess karma never finds its way to the rich just only the poor. And give that no steal lecture to a hungry kid in India 🇮🇳 or Yemen 🇾🇪 you clueless man.
@@danielpreseley2921 If all you needed was backs to make money, anyone could be a billionaire. Doesn’t work like that. Regardless, ever heard the expression “money doesn’t make you happy” or “only God can judge”: because things are not always as they seem. God understands his plans better than you or I. But something I know is when you’re kind and work hard God will reward you. And vice versa. Don’t believe me, try it for yourself.
you'd be amazed, used to work in retail, I knew alot, I knew where the exits were, where they kept the tvs, I know how to use the forklift, I knew when trucks came in, and came out. When you work in retail you know alot more then the average person does, sometimes your job is to help other workers, and you get to see what they do. I personally have never once stolen from my work, but I could see someone like this pulling this off, especially if they worked as a cashier, or worked with returns, its easy to take advantage of, but unlike this guy you don't do that cause the realization is they know every single thing that goes on in that store.
I had to have two managers and a head cashier to return an unopened box of cat food today at Walmart...Like how tf. I can’t even wrap my mind around the stupidity of all parties involved. Did he think he would get away with that? And it took two weeks for Kroger to catch on to this, only after another employe ratted him out?
40+ years of retail. Worked in stores doing 100 million a year. I cannot conceive of $1 million in refunds going unnoticed for three weeks. There’s more going on here than it has been revealed.
There's definitely more to this. He was doing large returns daily and it took them two weeks to stop it? How many retail locations do this amount of daily returns? Literally less than 5% of sales come back so they should've been questioning him after day one. This isn't how 19 year old's normally move. Some one else with more experience than him had to train him on it.
I agree, I work at Costco and we process at the most about 20k to 30k refunds daily. A Sales auditor or Manager should have noticed this, and who was the supervisor that keyed all these refunds/voids?
@Dillon McCluskey i hope he goes to prison and kroger Sue's and when he gets out he can never work retail only construction jobs! But the fucked up part is he is out on bond!! Can you believe they let that dirt bag out and he probably payed the bond with the stolen money!! Makes no sense!!!
@@t.r.s8138 yes, he would buy items around the store, but he would process the refund as a customer return. when he bought the car, that's how he was caught. believe a manager knew and let it slide, read on my Google news feed the employees reported him in.
there's a thing going at Kroger where if the younger guys hooks up with a female floor manager aka A Cougar. She gifts him the keys to the front door meat department and all the codes to the customer service refund deapetment.
@@nme.00104 you're not a cashier so you don't know how he could do it you're dumb. He doesn't even have to buy anything he can just go around collecting items and then scanning them as returns. You get multiple Big Ticket items that cost a lot and just multiply the same item. They said one of the returns was $87,000 he's not going to go buy $87,000 worth of stuff and then return it. And buying a car is not how he got caught he got caught when the other employee snitched him out.
This guy was not thinking. Not condoning his actions, but if you are gonna still, why would you make big purchases like that and start spending instead of waiting for time😂😂
Please tell me what kind of merchandise is in that store that adds up to almost a million dollars in two weeks...he's been doing this much longer than that!
Honestly not even mad just amazed. Kroger must have the dumbest fraud department ever. What can you even buy worth 87 grand there?
My thoughts exactly in two weeks!!
Lol. Kroger didn't notice the extra 0. On a 100m handsanatiser order!
Have you seen the price of meat lately
You don't really know how retail really works and how much a store can make in a day, weeks, or months in sales sooo
@@antivenom56 i worked in a Kroger store and a large department store so I'd hear how much each one would make in a week which I won't say here but all I was doing was having a little fun with the guy who was able to steal money from them,not the price of meats or anything in the store.Krogers is a really great place to shop as far as I concerened.i go there when I do my shopping.i give it 2 thumbs up.
If he worked in DC or Wall Street, it would be just another day at the office
Lol
He would’ve gotten a bonus, if he did that for Wall Street 😆
This is so true! Especially considering how they are acting after losing out on that GameStop stock lol
@@brucebruce7065 Right
He learned it all from Trump University! He’s practicing to be a Republican.
1 million in 2 weeks?!?! How does that go unnoticed by management or loss prevention? That’s crazy af.
L😂L ie Lots Of Loot
How does ONE STORE even HAVE $1 million of RETURNS in TWO WEEKS?????????
it's digital funds. Loss prevention or management was in on it most likly but teh brother was to blame.
All black employees
More people in higher up positions are probably involved in this scam.
Wow. So, someone in management or loss prevention didn't notice a MAJOR increase in returns?!?!
This happened at a store I once managed. A cashier, who I trusted dearly, was watching managers do refunds and writing down our pass codes.
When I went on vacation for a week, I got a call from our home office. They told me my store was having an unusual high amount of refunds all of a sudden. Once I got back to work, I reviewed our security taped and watched her, she would ring up a customer, make 2 copies of their receipt and keep one, them once they left, she would return the entire cash purchase and pocket the money.
Well, I had to keep it to myself that I had caught her, and I was told when to schedule her to work again, and that the police would be coming to talk to her.
Sure enough. The police pulled up, and she called me to the front, she said " look, the police are walking in here ! I wonder what's going on?!?!?"
I just looked at her and said " I guess we are about to find out ".
After the police reviewed the tapes with her she burst out crying begging them not to arrest her. I had to walk away.
Oh I see, so that is how that this guy could have done it perhaps. 2 copies of receipts, and issue a refund to the "wrong", e.g. the cashier's own credit card etc., as opposed to actually refunding it to customer's card etc., and customer wouldn't know because they weren't out of any money, only store was out of proceeds/revenue from sale. That is interesting. Thanks for explaining that possible scenario, was wondering how this story was "possible" in a sense. Thanks.
He got Greedy, when you get Greedy that's when you get caught
Exactly. His ass should rot in jail.
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@@laryanryan9170 chill
@@laryanryan9170 you do the crime you do the time
@@laryanryan9170 but he is a good kid
IRS Should hire him immediately.
Lol!!
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Not now but niiiiiow!
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I swear, I was JUST about to leave a comment like this. Turn those master scamming skills into something more useful!
Me in line at Kroger: “Sir, I need a manager to return this item because it’s over $40.”
At the same Kroger: “I’d like to return this customer order for $87,000.”
His parents are really super proud of their fine, outstanding son.
I know theft is illegal and $1M is alot... but I'm kinda impressed.
I know they are gonna give him a grand theft charge for this which is felony which will be on his record forever. When he gets out that felony is gonna screw him over. It wasnt worth it.
Not getting caught would've been more impressive
@@sweetonyxakararegem692 HES GOING TO PRISION. AND FOR A LONG TIME.
@First Last Its worth it to go to prison? Wow you all sound like 12 year olds.
@First Last go sit in prison for a few years then say its worth it. Then come out and lucky you will get a $10hr job for the rest of your life because of your record then say it was worth it. $1 is NOT alot of money and will not go far. No doubt you are a kid. Im guessing 14.
How the fuck does the store or manager not realize there was 900k dollars of returns in a week
They were all eating from the pie, hellllo...
The one got too flashy and they had to cut loose ends
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@@astralfluxaf he was framed. Cash registers won’t even let you refund an amount that large without a manager. Prolly unable refund an amount of $87k.
There is more to this story.
@@ast-og-losta ABSOLUTELY!
How was he even able to return an item that Kroger didn't even own or exist in any of their stores or inventory etc???? This is just nuts and my mind can't even fathom or compute what I have just seen and heard.
Well, he has probably learned for the many fine examples of greed in this country, from politicians to corporations.
1 million in 2 weeks WTF
it said the manager was on vacation,
@@nme.00104 there’s more than one front end manager. There should be between 4-6
@@corygifford2908 💯🗣️💬 agree, when I worked there we had a front end manager and 4 supervisors. believe a manager will be exposed once he finds out how much time he's getting.
Dudes a genius
I don’t believe it , I bet it was like 30k and Kroger put a year worth of losses on that dummy. One million and he gets a used camaro this is atlanta that would have been a hell cat or Lamborghini lol
The “vigilant” employee snitched because bro wouldn’t let him in on the action 😂
Or was in on it, found out that something was about to go down and decided to report his coworker.
@@onlyu7308 Rondy King said, can we all just get along, nope we didn't get all the million dollars!! ✌️
@@d.t.3538
Who is Rondy King???
I'm trying to think of many alternate realities/possible outcomes and in every scenario the poor bastard gets caught. The poor thing is braindead.
@@brucebruce7065 Rodney Kong’s half brother 😂
If a 19 year old kid was able to take 2 million dollars from Kroger in under 2 weeks then just imagine what everybody else is getting and has been getting away with for years because he's definitely not the only one everybody else is guilty too they just won't be punished for it It almost sounds too good to be true. You don't even see that kind of theft in movies😳
Hate when ppl call 18 and 19 year olds "teens." They're adults at that point.
That's just an excuse men use to sleep with 18 year old girls
You're telling me there was no system to alert anyone if someone tried to return $86,000 worth of items in one return?
That would have been hard to miss unless Kroger sells teslas
@@michaelmerck7576 he was manipulating the inventory/ ordering system
they have very bad accounting system that doesn't set red flag for a certain amount!
Right!!!
Maybe the store manager was in
on it and he is black . Lol
The vigilent employee will be rewarded with a "Good Employee" pin on their nametag and will still be expected to come in at 7am after leaving at 11PM the night before.
No for me itsleaving at 10 (more like1030) amd back in at 6
That part.....
💯 …I’m sure you’re being generous thinking they will give the “good employee” pin
That's why I say.....screw their loss. Take care of your employees and they would be more loyal.
Yes exactly
So if you're stealing around a million from a big box store, the police will finally take it seriously.
Government should hire this person. They love scamming.
Nearly a million in a week? Should have skipped town when the getting was good.
skipped country be better or live off grid.
Sometimes they wait on purpose to charge you.
Forreal
@@ceesan5605 bring that shit to Asia you'll live like a king.
He is young.He didn't realize or understand how massive of a scam this was.He should have quit after 100 k.
A grocery store has a million dollars in returns in two weeks that's doesn't seem right
Sounds like they threw shrink from inventory in there
They don't even have $500k of inventory or the sales to support it. They'd be running negatives.
Fake news. He's the fall guy for management.
People can’t even return food. What are they returning?
Cash register wouldn’t even allow a return of that amount. Someone cooked books and blamed him
It's a chain and the video said that some of the 'funds were returned to multiple outlets'. I bet he went into stores he wasn't employed at when they weren't busy and used the computers to do it.
Being 19, he also flashed his stolen money brazenly. In cases like these, the crime is much bigger than you think because a lot of people rely on this establishment for employment, the expenses of their children and the families, mortgage payments. This would have affected not only the establishment, but also the town in general.
Thieves are stupid.
It has no effect on the town. These Corporations are so huge, billions of dollars, the loss is just another tax right off and literally earned back from a few minutes of doing business.
He essentially helped screw over his own people in his community as well. Kinda like those Walgreens, CVSs and Targets in certain communities….
The irony here is Xfinity has stolen billions of dollars from consumers and will never face any consequences.
"Yes Id like to return this building and everything in it"
Kroger: "Sure! Super easy, bearly an inconvenience. Would you like to return the south store too?"
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That's pretty good
Sure why not the entire district ,just put it on my debit card
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He stole almost a mill. In 2 weeks? Yeah okay. Sounds like somebody is a fall guy.
its probably a group of employees that are in on it and every employee should have bank records examined.
@@mathgasm8484 oh most definitely. There's absolutely no way an employee wouldn't get the transaction approved by a manager for those amounts. It would be a lot of money to be responsible for losing. Unless of course the entire chain of them up to a certain level were in on it. Eventually the highest returns are going to stand out by corporate accounting so it's game over from there as soon as they notice how many there were in that amount time to the same card. It used to take weeks for stuff like that to even be reviewed but now its all run by software. Smart software that can probably flag those three issues at once. By the end of the week or even day if the refunds were for that much. But never in my life would I have ever do thought that walmart sold anything that costed over 10 k. Definitely not no 87k.or wait maybe they just rung up a blank serial code and entered the amount manually. Then had a diff guy that in on do the refund. That's hella bold. Too bold. Bet that guy gets out a very dangerous man.
He pissed somebody off and they ratted him put is all
I'm kinda offended nobody thinks this kid could've pulled this scheme off all by himself. What if he really was just that slick?
@@CC-si3cr When I worked for a grocery store I required an override from a manager. I cant just refund stuff for more than $5 without an override back in the day.
Another career criminal. Kudos to the employee who stopped the thief.
I have lost customers because they hired criminals that I wouldn't cooperate with. Nobody would listen.
If he would’ve taken smaller amounts over a longer period of time, he could’ve definitely gotten away with this.
The amounts didn't get him caught tho...a hater did
I would like to know ur address or ssn number sir
No he couldn't. I don't know why they didn't fucking mention it- but the dude who handles all the money was on vacation for two weeks. If you have vacation days- you only have a certain amount of time you can take then until they reset. So he took as much as he could and then got caught when he came back
😂😂😂😂😂😂 Your son? LOL.
@@omarlittle4925fr 😂
i work at a kroger owned grocery store, and i have been there for years, i can't even imagine HOW this would even happen, management stays on top of the money and i don't care how busy your grocery store is, even 50k is a HUGE amount of money. something just isn't right with this picture.
EDIT: hell, if the grocery store i work at had even 2k in returns in 1 week we are talking a full on audit.
There had to have been more people involved in this theft. Why any store would allow more than a few hundred dollars in returns within a few weeks would be suspicious. Names of cashiers, clerks, customer service employees are on the reciepts and return documents.
Someone dropped the ball.
IMO this was inside job with co conspirators
Something sounds fishy
@@karlabritfeld7104 we live during interesting times and Nothing Surprises me. Companies are struggling in this economy as it combatting losses.
black magic
A 19 year old scammed a million dollars in two weeks!? I’m not even mad.
Damn... He's a beast. That was wrong, but damn.
They should have thanked him for finding the flaw in their system.
@@earlofsandwich7884 Give him a medal and a free sandwich
I think his actions qualifies him to become a preacher at a megachurch.
You are a terrible person me too because I laughed jajajaja
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Absolutely he had such a bright future in the church. With these balls at 19, by 25 he might have been a billionaire in the church.
Absolutely 💯%
Lol...wow..
$1 million in two weeks?
My thoughts exactly!!! Total lies!!! And if his 19 year-old self was doing this.....HOW MANY MORE EMPLOYEE'S WERE??? SOUNDS LIKE A LIE TO ME.... LIKE...."WE'LL JUST PUT IT ALL ON HIM" KNOWING FULL WELL....THEY DID IT TOO!!!
And at a grocery store
I know, he’s good
Yeah - at a food store no less? Not even
a furniture store gets that many returns in 2 wks. Plus our supermarkets around here won't even let us return anything b/c of covid. That sounds like a heist by the top dogs who found a patsy.
@@Peace2all4vr Right?!
I am retired from Ralph's/Kroger. A whole punch of heads are about to roll. I was working when 24 Store Directors were arrested for stealing. But this dude had help and they are going down with him. I did 38 years and would never think to steal from these billionaires. You are sick. I watch one of our stores fire 18 employees because of a similar situation. They are going down.
A return scam is not a new thing. I know of retail employees doing this back in the 90's but getting straight cash as opposed to running it through credit cards. I'm sure that wasn't new even in the 90's. What is amazing is that he was so embolden to do larger ticketed items at a grocery store. Seriously who wouldn't notice a 5 figure return to a grocery store. When most returns are 2-3 figures at most.
Kroger steals from it's employees so I guess they even now.
Hahaha you're right!
I was this teenage scammer let’s get into it
Well you do have a valid point there
Hello!
Nearly a million dollars in two weeks? Now that's a real stimulus check!!
That must have been some type of scam to make 1 million in 2 weeks. He is a smart one and dumb at the same time. Put those skills to better use.
And to think, strong, totally independent black women have spent the last 50 plus years vehemently claiming that they can raise children better all by themselves without a man!
As the male customer said: "If He knew how to do it, someone else knew too".Whoever else knew dimed him out because he got greedy and didn't want to split the money.
i am on the fence here cos on one hand maybe he got too greedy but if someone in there was in the know and they fell out cos he wanted to keep the bag for himself then i can see why a workmate snitched.
again this is assumptions based on customers who don't work there.
maybe he had help or maybe he didn't?
the take away is that he knew how the system worked, to me that is a sign he either worked in returns or someone told him how to do it.
Exactly they wanted a piece of the pie
U speak like an inbred lol@@PHlophe
Clowns b clowning fr don’t bitch bout it 😂🤡😭🤡@@PHlophe
The greedy ones always gets Got. Don't think he's the only one pulling this off.
yup!
my white collar crime class says this is a lie
dont matter if greedy or not. Eventually when they start going over the books they will see money is missing.
No matter what eventually you will get caught
Harvard should accept him immediately for his outstanding extra curricular activities outside of school.
The young man must have studied accelerated course in theft. Almost one million dollars - and he's 19 years old. I am in my late 60s and may have made a million dollars by now - by working.
This is why scammers are idiots. I would have done it once maybe twice and skatedddd. When you get greedy is when you get caught
Absolute he got extremely greeeeedy!
Exactly 💯 wish I knew him 🤣 some shit would've been in my name 🙃😂
I bet all yall single moms to be 💅
@@isyourshitfixed married 😘 bye now
@@Amvndah what’s yo IG you need some real D in yo life
If this guy was a politician he wouldn't have been in trouble.
He is just filling the requirments to get an elected position.
Now, he’s just another number on a piece of paper for the guys at the FBI to add to their statistics
@V.P.N..... He probably got away with this for as long as he did because he was Black. Had an early arrest or early investigation taken place, he would have pulled the "race card".
You mean Democrat politician.
Not if he was a democrat
Your damn right he had help!! There’s no way he’s smart enough to pull off something of this magnitude. Subpoena his phone records n that will tell u who’s the mastermind behind it. Thinking he’ll get a slap on the wrist because he’s a juvenile. Guess again, juveniles are now being held and charged as adults.
Mom, THANKS FOR THE NEW CAR SON! I KNEW I RAISED A GOOD THIEF!
“Everyday I’m hustling...hustling, hustle real hard” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That's not hustling that's stealing
@@quarmainestephenson3163 😒
When he splurges on a Camaro, then totals it prior to his arrest. I bet he woke up after that, and found the money he was throwing in the air was just grass...
The guy who turned him in was mad because he wouldn’t cut him in.
🤣🤣🤣 he wouldn't cut him in so he took a little bit of money for turn it in🤣🤣🤣
Exactly!
that sounds about right
It's called insider trading 😮😂
This kid is a natural born hustler.
So he basically office space'd himself into jail... lmfao
He has a promising career in politics not retail
D.M.
He needs additional skills, however - but as soon as graduates from Trump University is good to go!
Biden should hire him as his financial advisor. It’s going to be a perfect team. 😜
Lol 😂😂😂
"He purchased cars, clothing, guns and a number of other items." GTA V in real life.
Kid took "go big or go home" to heart. If he was less greedy he probably could have stretched his scheme out a little longer.
Yup
Bought cars, clothes, and jewelry.. What an upstanding citizen.
I work in retail and for him to get a return credited to a credit card, he would have purchased the item of that same amount in the first place. A manager has to authorize above a certain amount of returns as well. There’s something not right with the chain of authorization.
Not a Kroger, I worked there, you can just enter a blank item into the computer and the price, it’s really ridiculously stupid, and you can add the money to any card, just need a supervisor approval, not manager
@@muddywisconsin Ok supervisor/Mgr/Shift leader as we know these titles are used interchangably to keep people thinking they have power and to pay them less. His point is that someone else has to be involved either directly or indirectly in deriliction of duty. Somebody was doin somethin' to somebody🙃🙃😂😂
Exactly he couldnt of been acting alone.
Probably just sum clowns lol
They need to look into his supervisors. How in the hell could he do forty returns all on a single credit card? Somebody else is involved.
I work for Kroger and could totally see this happening without anyone noticing. Managers deal with complaining customers, complaining corporate, complaining employees all day. Supervisors also tend to be focused on serving the customer. One of our employees just recently got fired for stealing gas (yes, gasoline. We had a gas station) for over a year. Kroger just don't give a fuck because they make money regardless. Nobody really cares about anything but their own jobs around here.
@@benjaminfarias9169 Soooo...let me see if I got this right. You work for Kroger...currently? You used your real name on RUclips to complain about your job. PLUS provided the public with internal company information about gasoline theft. Okay.
I used to work for Kroger, and anyone who worked in customer service got override tags. That means they could literally override anything that called for one, including multi-thousand dollar returns.
@@iPLAYtheSTATION But that's why they have those tags. To put on record who is doing what and how many times. If the overide is used too many times, then the cheese should find out.
How the fuck did NOBODY notice something wrong until almost a million dollars was missing????
Some politician will vouch for him, pay his bail and then hire him.
If he was older with patients he would've accumulated that over a long period of time...teenagers always too eager.
But he’s not a doctor how would he have patients
Organizations aren't dumb, sometimes they wait for thieves to stack up to charge them.
Think Nolan meant patience**
@@onlyrog5 yup. Especially if they can involve the feds. The work RICO makes them have an orgasm they love them so much.
he got caught because someone snitched on him. remember that.
@BxxDxx Hoodoo Something a snitch would say lol.
God is real. People who steal and break the law eventually always get caught. It’s called karma.
@BxxDxx Hoodoo In my opinion you are quite misinformed and that’s sad bcuz I was like you and being shown the light is not an easy process.
Everything happens for us to learn and grow from it. Everything. God instills justice with karma. That doesn’t mean someone who is a great person doesn’t have bad things bestowed. It just means they won’t have as much because they don’t need to learn as much.
You don’t have to believe me, one day you will see it for yourself. Remember me.
@@mattheww239 that’s the ignorant shit I’ve ever heard. You literally have ppl on earth worth billions and they made it on the backs of ppl and they seem to be doing just fine guess karma never finds its way to the rich just only the poor. And give that no steal lecture to a hungry kid in India 🇮🇳 or Yemen 🇾🇪 you clueless man.
@@danielpreseley2921 If all you needed was backs to make money, anyone could be a billionaire. Doesn’t work like that.
Regardless, ever heard the expression “money doesn’t make you happy” or “only God can judge”: because things are not always as they seem. God understands his plans better than you or I. But something I know is when you’re kind and work hard God will reward you. And vice versa. Don’t believe me, try it for yourself.
I'll never understand criminals who steal all they can and have zero chance of not getting caught.
I would be totally lying if I told you I wasn’t impressed. This guy needs to put his skills and talent to good use and go work on Wall Street.
There's no way he could of done that by himself as a regular employee
Yup.
you'd be amazed, used to work in retail, I knew alot, I knew where the exits were, where they kept the tvs, I know how to use the forklift, I knew when trucks came in, and came out.
When you work in retail you know alot more then the average person does, sometimes your job is to help other workers, and you get to see what they do.
I personally have never once stolen from my work, but I could see someone like this pulling this off, especially if they worked as a cashier, or worked with returns, its easy to take advantage of, but unlike this guy you don't do that cause the realization is they know every single thing that goes on in that store.
Holy crow. He is qualified to be a politician!
2 weeks? How could they not see this? Others must be ripping their eyes out without worrying about getting caught.
$1M in two weeks at a Kroger? Do they even sell that much in two weeks storewide?
Its not even worth your freedom, as quickly you get it, you lost it all as quick.
He was just tired of waiting for his stimulus check, and decided to take matters into his own hands! 😂
Bahahahah 😂😂😂
The co worker who ratted him out was in on it too, I'm guessing greed between them played a part in him getting caught SMH
The IRS would have caught him eventually. No 19 year old Kroger employee can afford a Camero, assuming it's a new Camero.
The employee that caught him should get a raise and a promotion.
Maybe he was in on it too 👀
Yeah and then a couple of stitches for being a snitch!
@@vincentdin think so too, and a manager.
@@shawnmichael5684 right, 😭😭😄😅😂🤣💀💀 or a kroger or visa gift card for $25 or $50.
Mostly the employee wanted a cut, but noooo. Snitching
Who in the hell is purchasing 87 grand worth of goods from Kroger
@Sway K he would buy items and return them as a card refund.
@Sway K he would buy them, and refund it like a customer purchase as a card refund.
right, 💯🗣️💬😭😭😄😅😂🤣💀💀
@@nme.00104 no it said,he was refunding his own card
This thief should be locked up for 35 years to life. The amount of money proves it
Another ninja committing crime, SHOCKER!
" a teen like this had to have help to pull off this kind of scam"
💯💯🗣️💬🔥🔥👌👍👏👆☝️ believe a manager will be arrested, he'll tell the truth once he finds out how much time he's looking at.
Sounds like reporter was throwing "shade" if u ask me. Implying he isnt smart enough to pull it off himself😒
Was wondering how many people caught that🤔
This is like cheating on the test with all of the right answers plus teacher notes.
It's like paying a school $500,000 to fraudulently get your child in
Greed. Just GREED ...
How does a single return of $87,000 at a grocery store go unnoticed?
Spending 87 grand at Krogers:
*Ahh yes, two and a half slices of your finest truffle please.*
I had to have two managers and a head cashier to return an unopened box of cat food today at Walmart...Like how tf. I can’t even wrap my mind around the stupidity of all parties involved.
Did he think he would get away with that?
And it took two weeks for Kroger to catch on to this, only after another employe ratted him out?
Lots of Walmart employees who are currently doing the same are sweating bullets about now.
Wal-Mart is a whole different league of talent.
my manager did the same thing until the bookkeeper brought it to my attention... claimed he deserved it, well he got what he deserved! way to go Matt.
How in the world!!?? Did he do that??? And get away with it?
The boy knew how to steal but didn't know how to spend it...
Most 18 year olds don't yet understand the value of a dollar.
He should’ve put it all into Bitcoin that way when he gets out he’d be rich 😂
Plus when the cops ask him where the BTC is he can say I forgot the password. Lol
Lmfaoooooooooo
They would of thrown the book at him instead of getting a plea deal ..
Or Forex.
@@overseer3072 true I’d rather have my livelihood than one million
40+ years of retail. Worked in stores doing 100 million a year. I cannot conceive of $1 million in refunds going unnoticed for three weeks. There’s more going on here than it has been revealed.
That can’t be right, there’s no way he could’ve stole nearly $1 million in two weeks from a grocery store from returns! That’s just totally absurd.
I respect his hustle😂😂 He should have stopped. They were not hip to the scam
There's definitely more to this. He was doing large returns daily and it took them two weeks to stop it? How many retail locations do this amount of daily returns? Literally less than 5% of sales come back so they should've been questioning him after day one. This isn't how 19 year old's normally move. Some one else with more experience than him had to train him on it.
I agree, I work at Costco and we process at the most about 20k to 30k refunds daily. A Sales auditor or Manager should have noticed this, and who was the supervisor that keyed all these refunds/voids?
Eventually it will come out that it was an entire ring of scammers. He was just the first because he actually worked in the store.
@Dillon McCluskey i hope he goes to prison and kroger Sue's and when he gets out he can never work retail only construction jobs! But the fucked up part is he is out on bond!! Can you believe they let that dirt bag out and he probably payed the bond with the stolen money!! Makes no sense!!!
Don’t worry he’s gonna rat out his accomplice in court 😂 We will see it on the news later.
@@deeplyrooted3588 "Ms Pearl told me to do it.." Either way I hate to see anyone throw their life away like that.
the company is too blame too....
They definitely thought, “let’s see how far he gonna go with this” to build a case against him.
The Store Manager and the Controller have a lot of explaining to do.
I bet they are involved because that's a lot of money in just two weeks
Exactly. Imagine how much they are taking 🤔
What's to explain? They hired a thief.
@@TamaraGarrettAlpha if I were the manager and you accused me of that, you'd be in court for defamation.
@@rachelcoloradomy3kidz778 hell of an accusation. Especially without evidence.
He wouldn’t have gotten caught had he not been so greedy... that’s pretty impressive what did though
addicted to the money.....
If he was able to do that much, the companys management should be the ones going to jail.
How would that not immediately be flagged?
How is this even possible 900k in a few days of work , if he was working how did he had the time to make those fauls returns?
@Sway K he would buy item's then return them to make it seem like they were customer return's.
@@nme.00104 what if he was buying it, how was he turning a profit then ,buy returning it ?
@@t.r.s8138 yes, he would buy items around the store, but he would process the refund as a customer return. when he bought the car, that's how he was caught. believe a manager knew and let it slide, read on my Google news feed the employees reported him in.
there's a thing going at Kroger where if the younger guys hooks up with a female floor manager aka A Cougar. She gifts him the keys to the front door meat department and all the codes to the customer service refund deapetment.
@@nme.00104 you're not a cashier so you don't know how he could do it you're dumb. He doesn't even have to buy anything he can just go around collecting items and then scanning them as returns. You get multiple Big Ticket items that cost a lot and just multiply the same item. They said one of the returns was $87,000 he's not going to go buy $87,000 worth of stuff and then return it. And buying a car is not how he got caught he got caught when the other employee snitched him out.
This guy was not thinking. Not condoning his actions, but if you are gonna still, why would you make big purchases like that and start spending instead of waiting for time😂😂
*steal
steal steel or still?😳😳
@@retrofilmworx9326 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
To win at this, you need to play a long game. A 19-year-old with no impulse control was doomed from the start.
Why would he need help, that seems so basic??
Please tell me what kind of merchandise is in that store that adds up to almost a million dollars in two weeks...he's been doing this much longer than that!