Why you should look a supermarket gift card in the mouth
By adamg - 10/13/10 - 2:38 pm
Boston Police report arresting a cashier at the Stop & Shop on Everett Street in Brighton on charges she took $100 from a customer for a gift card, then gave him a blank one and kept the activated one for herself. The customer found this out when he tried to use the card, police said.
So in case you were wondering where in the world Carmen Santiago was yesterday around 11 a.m., she was being booked on a charge of larceny by scheme at D-14.
Innocent, etc.
Comments
You threw away your job for $100?
Please don't breed.
And she damn better get denied unemployment benefits for this stunt.
Best of all, she threw it
Best of all, she threw it away for a gift certificate to a place where she works and could probably just steal $100 worth of stuff.
Wow, I'll have to dig out my
Wow, I'll have to dig out my Rockapella CD now... "Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?" What a great computer game & game show!
Heh, I had something similar
Heh, I had something similar happen to me years ago, though I assumed there was just some technical glitch now I wonder. It was $100 gift card from the Burlington Kohl's. I went shopping with it, and was embarrassed to find it was empty. The person who gave it to me as a Christmas gift took it back, and they pretty much accussed him of trying to pull a fast one and wouldn't fix it. He called WBZ action and they got them to put the $100 he paid on the card.
Now I wonder if it was truly an error or if maybe the cashier pulled a fast one like this guy. It never even occured to anyone that someone could have actually stolen the money for their own gift card.
When in doubt, assume
When in doubt, assume incompetence.