For real, this sounds awful.

Agreed.

If you're gonna steal groceries, might as well pick up stuff that the dealer needs and deliver them to his door for full price + delivery fee.

With how crazy prices are getting at the supermarket, might as well start selling smuggled eggs from dark corners...

That's a crazy level of boot lick, Jesus fuck

I believe you but why do cops do what Walmart employees tell them?

Afaik in Canada, you aren't even breaking any law until you try to leave the premises without paying. Perfectly legal to grab shit from the shelves and stuff it in your pockets as long as you take it out and pay for it before you leave. If you wanted to fuck with their loss prevention people, do that looking as shady as you can, like furtive looks around as you shove things in your clothes, then just pull it all out at the register.

Note that they can ask you to just leave and ban you from the store without needing to charge you with anything (after which returning at all could get you a trespass charge), so it's more of a funny prank to think about and then not bother doing because there's nothing to gain.

so America actually does what my anxiety disorder used to tell me would happen?

guys you live in hell

Walmart, in general, is a horrible piece of shit company that is just as vile as Amazon. They just have more experience in sweeping everything under the rug.

And then upsell the heroin

I worked with a dude when I was in college that used to buy broken TVs on eBay and swap out the guts, return them, and then sell the TVs to people on eBay.

He was banned from a couple Walmarts around town because they caught on to what he was doing, but couldn't actually prove he was doing fraud because we would also remove and re-solder the internal serial numbers back on the returned tv.

Better idea.

Get a Costco executive membership. They will let you return anything, no matter how old it is. I should know, I work in a Costco processing returns in the back, which is where I'm typing this.

Last week I processed a return on a couch that was 4 years old. The member got a full refund of 5k, and we're going to eat that because the vendor has a credit limit of two years.

Costco's internal numbers say that people who return stuff spend twice as much over the course of a year compared to non-returners and they will do anything to keep that sweet membership fee coming in. So you can literally recycle your entire house on the cost of a single yearly payment.

I've done the tool "borrow" quite a bit with Amazon because fuck em. If I need a specific tool for a job on my car or something that I'll only use once. The Amazon returns also never check condition so it's a bit easier

Doesn't all tech have serial numbers these days? Is no one checking?

I've heard of people doing this with batteries and tires from rental cars.

Do they have heroin tho?

Depends on your fetishes.

Compared to what, a member of the Walton family?

If the receipt was for a purchase paid on a card, they would ask if you want your refund charged back to the original card or if you would just like a Walmart gift card.

If you happened to find a receipt that had been paid in cash, then great. Walmart would just issue you cash for the return and you can skip the step of swapping the gift card with a friend for half the face value in cash

Don’t they ask for the card that was paid?

I think they'll usually give you a gift card instead if you ask, though.

well there's nothing dishonest about stealing from Walmart, so it's not that