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Originally Posted by GarkoCollector
One time I was at walMart and I was picking up a few blaster boxes (I open them all and mix the packs and give them to some of my therapy case kids) and I saw a kid, maybe about 15 or so. He was taking handfulls of packs and bending/squeezing them. Must have gone through maybe 100 packs or so.
I noticed a guy in his late 30's standing behind us. I thought he was doing what I was doing and watching this kid. He had it down to an art...just a couple of seconds for each pack. I took a step forward to grab a couple of blasters and the guy behind me put his hand on my shoulder and says "hold on a second bud, give me a minute." I just looked at him and said OK. After maybe another minute and maybe 30 or so more packs, the guy steps forward.
The guy says to me "excuse me fella, time to go to work" and then smiles. He walks up to the kid and pulls out a badge and an ID. He was the regional quality control manager but was also an off duty police officer. He made the kid gather the nearly 150 packs and took him into a room by customer service. He was gone for a good 15 minutes and came back without the kid.
When he walks back to me, I am still in line near the cards and he starts straightening the packs. He sees me still in line and says "its a shame he's going to be in trouble over baseball cards. I ask him what he means. He said the the kid was having charges filed against him for destruction of property and theft by deception. The kid either had to pay for all of the packs or have the charges filed. All in all, it was probably 500.00 worth of packs at minimum.
Never did find out what happened, but there was never anything in the newspaper so i guess someone paid for the packs for him to keep him out of trouble.
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That's an interesting story, but it's not true. Theft by deception is passing bad checks or making a contractual promise that you know you cannot keep. He may have been guilty of destruction of property, but unless he was opening the packs, the store would have to open the packs to prove it. And if they opened the packs, they would have to pay for them.
Wally and Target both have deals with their distributors to where they only pay for packs sold. That's why their card section is always such a wreck - they don't care. The vendor takes care of it, and the vendor is the one assuming the risk in return for being able to sell their product in such a high-traffic area.
Further, there is no such thing as a "regional quality control manager". Quality control is done at the packaging facility of the card companies. There's no "region" for them to manage.
Like I said, interesting story, but it's not true. You added too much useless detail and tried to throw out too much jargon. I'd give it a 4.5/10.
03-28-2008, 04:59 PM
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