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Quoted from the article Here what I cannot figured out, say he bought the tv for $64 bucks, and returned it for $600. If he showed a receipt it should have said he bought it at $64. He should have never got the real price back in full. I assumed the employees are not that stupid, therefore, I have reason to believe this took place at Wal-Mart and he told them he "lost" his receipt and Wal-Mart says "no problem, here your gift card." Even my grandfather will tell you, this is most B.S. policy of them all. Of course 600 dollar loss is insignificance to Wal-Mart, but a loss is a loss. And it a great loophole for thief to steal something and return the item for cash or gift cards. :

I believe in being held accountable for my own action. You just said, you would agree that a flag should have been thrown when someone buys a big screen TV for $64 bucks. The employees should be approached by managers saying they made a big mistake and should be accounted for that, so that it will not happen again.... My grandfather was top manager at Wal-Mart and prior to that he was a store manager of a grocery store chain. I showed him this story he was just disgusted with how they let him walk out like that. He thinks both employees and the thief should be held accountable.

Who said Kmart was bailed out? They went through chapter 11 bankrupcty, which got rid of some creditors then bought Sears. I never said Kmart had best managers in the world, but the clearance system related to this topic, would be really hard to do at Kmart if employees knew their job like I did. That all.

Kmart filed for bankruptcy in 2002. what's left is owned by Sears: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1888946_1888944_1888940,00.html K-mart owns Sears. Edward Lampert was the brain behind it. Edward Lampert is known for his legendary hedge fund that invested heavily into retail stocks. He also served as chairman of few retail companies. http://money.cnn.com/2004/11/17/news/fortune500/sears_kmart/

Yup. Excellent point. Some people have done that to me. I was working in retail trying save up money for fishing and books.

That is false. I know, I dealt with it. Most of that problem had to do with shelf saying it on sale, and the employee that was suppose take the sign down didn't. At my store, if the sales ad was for the current week, the item showed up on computer every time. Most people either don't read the ad, or an employees made a mistake on putting the shelf tag on wrong item. It was either customer couldn't read, or employees made a mistake on what is on sale and what is not. Or the sale expired while the sign was still on the item. Heck, one guy actually gave me a news ad for half of crap he had, and was wondering why he didn't get the sales price for it, and the news ad was expired by two weeks. That wasn't a computer error. There was a rare time where the sales ad was current week and an item was not ringing up on sale, however, I had that information on hand that it was suppose be on sale, there was a mistake in computer somewhere, and when I did the price change it worked without manager approval. Number one reason why stores perform poorly is communication, the second reason is lack of work ethic. I was 17 and 18 years old dealing with customers over the price. Hell, one guy asked me if he could have TV 500.00 off since it was last one we had. I told him, "no, I'm trying make a profit here." He did reported me to manager for saying that to him, but come on, man, this is retail not a car dealership. I was reported to manager 4 times, only written up once and that had to do with me coming up short on cash register I signed off on. Whoops. Oh well, life goes on.

As a matter of fact, I would. I'm pretty sure there is a law where the lawyer can request the D.A. to hand over every single evidence they have on the defendant. Therefore, if they have no actual proof (that video wasn't clear enough) that I put clearance stickers on the merchandise, they cannot prove that I deceived them....I'm sure they got better video than what was posted, but I would make sure the evidence they have is not clear enough before making that argument. I'm sure they got at least one clear video, otherwise, how in hell can they accuse him of it? If it just one video I'm sure the charges and sentence would be reduced. I'm not saying K-mart is better than Wal-Mart, but it clearly the clearance system is. The managers at K-mart do not put clearance price into the computers, nor do they create a new UPC for it. (least my store they didn't), therefore, this required a management check the merchandise with his/her price computer, it did create time lags, but on other hand no one scammed us with clearance tags. I guess to K-mart's managements thought that was better than caring about whether customer thinks they spend way too much time in check out line. Major different between K-mart and Wal-Mart is the layaway. K-mart uses Layaway, Wal-Mart use credit card. Layaway for those that cannot afford the credit charges. Sears holding does offer credit card, but no one seems to be interested in them.

I still stand by my statement, a simple task perform by a manager or an honest employee would have prevented this. I've seen at it K-mart. Some people would buy something, go back to electronic grab a 20" LCD TV and try carry it out the door while some employee would just see the receipt and let them walk out the door. It didn't happen at my store, but the loss and prevention manager told me it happen at other stores and he told me when someone shows you a receipt, read the dates and the items. All I'm saying is, if employees knew how do their job they wouldn't be having this problem.

Read my post, I'm still trying figure out how they let it happen. :-? He didn't "steal" anything, he just simply change the price on things. If you are dumb enough let him get away with that then........errr... No comment. For once, K-mart finally got Wal-Mart beat in couple things. 1)Layway. 2) How our clearance system works.

I'm trying figure out why they gave it to him. If you are dumb enough to give it to him at that price, you deserve to be screw over instead of arresting him. imo. K-mart clearance stickers are different from Wal-Mart, if the original price suppose to be 20.00 and someone puts a clearance sticker of 5.00 on it, it would require a manager to override the price at the check-out line. I've had to turn down customers because that item was not suppose to be on clearance. :-X They wasn't happy with me, but at least I didn't cost my company money.

My thoughts exactly, ;D I remember on the basspro shop forum he posted all kinds of awesome hard baits in large quantity. He had one of the best crankbait selections I have ever seen.

Wait, roadwarrior can probably vouch for this one, is this the same guy that posted at the basspro.com forum under same name? The same guy with closet full of baits? And was consider by many an extreme tackle junkie?

Talk about a Christmas Miracle, I somehow passed Western World Literature. I feel so lucky. I should go buy some lottery tickets. ;D My professor was the WORST professor anyone could have. I'm so glad I'm done with it.

I love playing devil's advocate, also. Go to your local high school and check out the gym class. Guarantee a couple girls in there will be dressed revealing. Granted they might not be nicely filled out like a hooter girl, but nonetheless it still revealing.... When I was in weight training my Senior year, there was a sophomore girl in my class wearing a real small short...... Since we are all hypocrites, some parents will probably get real ticked off at school just because they are bored and want to start something. Oh yeah, did anyone else noticed the teacher that took them was a female?

I don't see what the big deal is. Girls in my high school gym class wore clothes just like the hooter girls....short short, with tank top.......

I just watch the Hangover. Wow, all I got to say. "Who was that guy? Why was he so mean?" I lost it. I'm watch Inglorious Basterd and Public Enemies tomorrow.

Yeah, something about the quote "I'm here for the gang bang" takes real sense of humor

http://www.ehow.com/how-does_5172235_beer-prevent-kidney-stones_.html ;D Drink beer and be kidney stone free! ;D

This kid: http://www.citizentribune.com/news/view_sections.asp?idcategory=67&idarticle=14000 This is from my local news paper, I graduated from West High in 2008.

I'm looking forward to it along with Inglorious Basterd. I also want to see Public Enemy.

They are probably still filming and editing... Like you said it primetime...Perhaps they are out there filming..

I'm thinking about buying it through my xbox. Get caught up on tv series, and if I get bored, I can just browse my xbox for a movie to watch instead of waiting for it in the mail or driving to Blockbuster. My bestfriend and his girlfriend watch way too much movie and he was telling me this is best value for renting movies. On other hand, my bestfriend and his girlfriend will be living with me next year, so I figure I just hack into their account and add movies to the list I want to watch on their dime. ;D P.S. For those of you that are into stock market, Netflix took Blockbuster to the cleaner. And their debt.

I would agree with that.

Robby speaks the truth. I shelled out 150 bucks for a biology book and the professor gave us lecture summary and powerpoints.....I never used the book, not once...My accounting class the same way, but I used the book to do some practice in the book so I can know how to do the procedure for a test. I also never used a book for economic II, but it was same book I had for economic I and I couldn't sell it back.

I got my calculus book for 20 bucks from an authorize seller from Barnes and Nobles. Go there website, textbook, authorize seller, you can find some cheap. I'm try Chegg this semester. I got a $200 business statistic book that I don't wanna pay for.