BUYER BE WARE! rotary blades stolen out of packages.
08-21-2010, 08:58 PM
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One time I was in Hancock's Fabric a day before a 50% off notions sale. I was looking through some sale bolts on a table and found packages of rotary blades, seam ripper, sewing machine needles, and some small Omnigrid rulers. The manager says many people come in and hide the notions that sell out first so they can be sure to get them. At least it isn't stealing, the items are paid, for but it was strange that people think like that.
08-21-2010, 09:26 PM
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People do a lot of things that would never ever occur to me - I guess I'm glad I'm naive that way...
that and the fact that no matter how old I get or how old my mother is (91 and counting) she's STILL standing behind me watching every thing I do LOL
that and the fact that no matter how old I get or how old my mother is (91 and counting) she's STILL standing behind me watching every thing I do LOL
08-21-2010, 09:33 PM
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Originally Posted by SharonAnne
Pathetic!!! I can see stealing food to feed a family, but rotary blades? Give me a break. And better surveillence and more security drives the prices up even further than they already are. Viscious cycle, huh? Just waiting for overworked, understaffed help to get locked items when you are in a hurry is also a hassle. Hence - I shop online a lot.
08-21-2010, 09:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Sadiemae
Are they going to have to put things like this behind glass just to keep from being robbed blind?
And you know it wasn't a quilter that took that... :roll:
08-22-2010, 03:39 AM
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We check all packages at Walmart before buying. Stuff is missing all the time. If you walk around you find all kinds of products opened and part missing. Batteries, underware, socks, medications, you name it.
08-22-2010, 04:28 AM
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There was a story a few years ago of a person who had bought an expensive electronic device like a video camera. When he got it home and opened the box, someone had swapped the insides for junk, and he went back to the store to get his money back. The store didn't believe him. He had to make a very big deal about it.
08-22-2010, 05:36 AM
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How sad! At the JoAnns I work at, someone bought a new iron, and brought it back with the old one in it. They said they never opened it, so the manager DIDNT LOOK, and you guesses it, someone bought it, and they
were so mad.
Sad that you cant trust people anymore!
LOVED the Criminal Minds story........VERY ironic!
were so mad.
Sad that you cant trust people anymore!
LOVED the Criminal Minds story........VERY ironic!
08-22-2010, 05:48 AM
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Our Walmart packages ends of bolts of fabric by rolling it, and putting a paper around it telling how much fabric, content of fabric, and price etc. It is always discounted, and on Mon. it is half the discounted price. I had purchased several of the packages at different times and they just left the paper on and put it in my bag. Then one day I purchased 3 or 4 and the checker started ripping the papers off. I asked her why she was doing that. She said people started bringing the papers back in, buying the amount of fab. that was listed, then going to some corner, wrapping it around the new fab, and getting it at a discount! Yep, sick people out there!!
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