I just returned from the Everett Costco where I witnessed a boy eating grapes out of the container, leaving the container wide open and then joining his parents, his sister and brother.
I went to his parents and I told them that their son was stealing by eating grapes from a container that the family had no intention of purchasing. His mother asked him if it was true. He nodded and said “yes.” Then his mother began to holler at him and she thanked me for informing her that her son was stealing from Costco.
I told his parents they needed to buy that container of grapes their son was eating from. His father made him get the container of grapes to put in their cart, but when I reached the front of the store as the family did, the container of grapes were nowhere in sight. Somewhere along the way the family had dumped it off.
I reported the theft to the store manager. The store manager told me unfortunately the laws in our state are stacked so heavily against businesses that unless he saw the theft with his own two eyes there is not a thing he could do.
As I left the store I told the boy’s father he should teach his children not to steal and he yelled at me “just get out of here.”
When the people of Washington state wonder why prices on store items are so incredibly high, we can all thank the good old Democrats for making it easier for thieves to steal and to get away with it instead of forcing them to pay the price for their criminal acts.
Katrina Newhall
Everett
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