Imagine you’re grocery shopping one early Sunday morning – the lights are on, the music is playing, the automatic doors open and close, and the escalators are running. Everything is normal until you get to the checkouts where you notice every one of them is closed – not an employee in sight! Even the self checkouts are shut down. A bit surreal?
That’s exactly what happened early Easter Sunday morning at a Loblaw’s grocery store on St Clare Avenue in Toronto. Apparently someone who was working at the store Saturday night thought someone else was going to close up, and it never happened.
But here’s the best part – shoppers either put their groceries back when they got to the checkout area and realized no one was working, or most wrote down what they took and left a note so they could come back the next day and pay for their groceries. According to one shopper they saw no one actively try to steal groceries.
Eventually the police were called to come in and shut down the unsupervised store by mid-morning. And when contacted, Loblaw’s head office said they weren’t aware of any groceries going missing.
Got any stories of being honest while shopping?
