@@antivenom56 i worked in a Kroger store and a large department store so I'd hear how much each one would make in a week which I won't say here but all I was doing was having a little fun with the guy who was able to steal money from them,not the price of meats or anything in the store.Krogers is a really great place to shop as far as I concerened.i go there when I do my shopping.i give it 2 thumbs up.
How was he even able to return an item that Kroger didn't even own or exist in any of their stores or inventory etc???? This is just nuts and my mind can't even fathom or compute what I have just seen and heard.
I know they are gonna give him a grand theft charge for this which is felony which will be on his record forever. When he gets out that felony is gonna screw him over. It wasnt worth it.
@First Last go sit in prison for a few years then say its worth it. Then come out and lucky you will get a $10hr job for the rest of your life because of your record then say it was worth it. $1 is NOT alot of money and will not go far. No doubt you are a kid. Im guessing 14.
@@corygifford2908 💯🗣️💬 agree, when I worked there we had a front end manager and 4 supervisors. believe a manager will be exposed once he finds out how much time he's getting.
I don’t believe it , I bet it was like 30k and Kroger put a year worth of losses on that dummy. One million and he gets a used camaro this is atlanta that would have been a hell cat or Lamborghini lol
Wow. So, someone in management or loss prevention didn't notice a MAJOR increase in returns?!?! This happened at a store I once managed. A cashier, who I trusted dearly, was watching managers do refunds and writing down our pass codes. When I went on vacation for a week, I got a call from our home office. They told me my store was having an unusual high amount of refunds all of a sudden. Once I got back to work, I reviewed our security taped and watched her, she would ring up a customer, make 2 copies of their receipt and keep one, them once they left, she would return the entire cash purchase and pocket the money. Well, I had to keep it to myself that I had caught her, and I was told when to schedule her to work again, and that the police would be coming to talk to her. Sure enough. The police pulled up, and she called me to the front, she said " look, the police are walking in here ! I wonder what's going on?!?!?" I just looked at her and said " I guess we are about to find out ". After the police reviewed the tapes with her she burst out crying begging them not to arrest her. I had to walk away.
Oh I see, so that is how that this guy could have done it perhaps. 2 copies of receipts, and issue a refund to the "wrong", e.g. the cashier's own credit card etc., as opposed to actually refunding it to customer's card etc., and customer wouldn't know because they weren't out of any money, only store was out of proceeds/revenue from sale. That is interesting. Thanks for explaining that possible scenario, was wondering how this story was "possible" in a sense. Thanks.
Me in line at Kroger: “Sir, I need a manager to return this item because it’s over $40.” At the same Kroger: “I’d like to return this customer order for $87,000.”
If a 19 year old kid was able to take 2 million dollars from Kroger in under 2 weeks then just imagine what everybody else is getting and has been getting away with for years because he's definitely not the only one everybody else is guilty too they just won't be punished for it It almost sounds too good to be true. You don't even see that kind of theft in movies😳
My thoughts exactly!!! Total lies!!! And if his 19 year-old self was doing this.....HOW MANY MORE EMPLOYEE'S WERE??? SOUNDS LIKE A LIE TO ME.... LIKE...."WE'LL JUST PUT IT ALL ON HIM" KNOWING FULL WELL....THEY DID IT TOO!!!
Yeah - at a food store no less? Not even a furniture store gets that many returns in 2 wks. Plus our supermarkets around here won't even let us return anything b/c of covid. That sounds like a heist by the top dogs who found a patsy.
Being 19, he also flashed his stolen money brazenly. In cases like these, the crime is much bigger than you think because a lot of people rely on this establishment for employment, the expenses of their children and the families, mortgage payments. This would have affected not only the establishment, but also the town in general.
It has no effect on the town. These Corporations are so huge, billions of dollars, the loss is just another tax right off and literally earned back from a few minutes of doing business.
It's a chain and the video said that some of the 'funds were returned to multiple outlets'. I bet he went into stores he wasn't employed at when they weren't busy and used the computers to do it.
No he couldn't. I don't know why they didn't fucking mention it- but the dude who handles all the money was on vacation for two weeks. If you have vacation days- you only have a certain amount of time you can take then until they reset. So he took as much as he could and then got caught when he came back
The vigilent employee will be rewarded with a "Good Employee" pin on their nametag and will still be expected to come in at 7am after leaving at 11PM the night before.
"Yes Id like to return this building and everything in it" Kroger: "Sure! Super easy, bearly an inconvenience. Would you like to return the south store too?"
@@mathgasm8484 oh most definitely. There's absolutely no way an employee wouldn't get the transaction approved by a manager for those amounts. It would be a lot of money to be responsible for losing. Unless of course the entire chain of them up to a certain level were in on it. Eventually the highest returns are going to stand out by corporate accounting so it's game over from there as soon as they notice how many there were in that amount time to the same card. It used to take weeks for stuff like that to even be reviewed but now its all run by software. Smart software that can probably flag those three issues at once. By the end of the week or even day if the refunds were for that much. But never in my life would I have ever do thought that walmart sold anything that costed over 10 k. Definitely not no 87k.or wait maybe they just rung up a blank serial code and entered the amount manually. Then had a diff guy that in on do the refund. That's hella bold. Too bold. Bet that guy gets out a very dangerous man.
@@CC-si3cr When I worked for a grocery store I required an override from a manager. I cant just refund stuff for more than $5 without an override back in the day.
Your damn right he had help!! There’s no way he’s smart enough to pull off something of this magnitude. Subpoena his phone records n that will tell u who’s the mastermind behind it. Thinking he’ll get a slap on the wrist because he’s a juvenile. Guess again, juveniles are now being held and charged as adults.
i work at a kroger owned grocery store, and i have been there for years, i can't even imagine HOW this would even happen, management stays on top of the money and i don't care how busy your grocery store is, even 50k is a HUGE amount of money. something just isn't right with this picture. EDIT: hell, if the grocery store i work at had even 2k in returns in 1 week we are talking a full on audit.
There had to have been more people involved in this theft. Why any store would allow more than a few hundred dollars in returns within a few weeks would be suspicious. Names of cashiers, clerks, customer service employees are on the reciepts and return documents. Someone dropped the ball.
The young man must have studied accelerated course in theft. Almost one million dollars - and he's 19 years old. I am in my late 60s and may have made a million dollars by now - by working.
A return scam is not a new thing. I know of retail employees doing this back in the 90's but getting straight cash as opposed to running it through credit cards. I'm sure that wasn't new even in the 90's. What is amazing is that he was so embolden to do larger ticketed items at a grocery store. Seriously who wouldn't notice a 5 figure return to a grocery store. When most returns are 2-3 figures at most.
As the male customer said: "If He knew how to do it, someone else knew too".Whoever else knew dimed him out because he got greedy and didn't want to split the money.
i am on the fence here cos on one hand maybe he got too greedy but if someone in there was in the know and they fell out cos he wanted to keep the bag for himself then i can see why a workmate snitched.
again this is assumptions based on customers who don't work there. maybe he had help or maybe he didn't? the take away is that he knew how the system worked, to me that is a sign he either worked in returns or someone told him how to do it.
I am retired from Ralph's/Kroger. A whole punch of heads are about to roll. I was working when 24 Store Directors were arrested for stealing. But this dude had help and they are going down with him. I did 38 years and would never think to steal from these billionaires. You are sick. I watch one of our stores fire 18 employees because of a similar situation. They are going down.
And to think, strong, totally independent black women have spent the last 50 plus years vehemently claiming that they can raise children better all by themselves without a man!
@V.P.N..... He probably got away with this for as long as he did because he was Black. Had an early arrest or early investigation taken place, he would have pulled the "race card".
When he splurges on a Camaro, then totals it prior to his arrest. I bet he woke up after that, and found the money he was throwing in the air was just grass...
I work for Kroger and could totally see this happening without anyone noticing. Managers deal with complaining customers, complaining corporate, complaining employees all day. Supervisors also tend to be focused on serving the customer. One of our employees just recently got fired for stealing gas (yes, gasoline. We had a gas station) for over a year. Kroger just don't give a fuck because they make money regardless. Nobody really cares about anything but their own jobs around here.
@@benjaminfarias9169 Soooo...let me see if I got this right. You work for Kroger...currently? You used your real name on RU-vid to complain about your job. PLUS provided the public with internal company information about gasoline theft. Okay.
I used to work for Kroger, and anyone who worked in customer service got override tags. That means they could literally override anything that called for one, including multi-thousand dollar returns.
@@iPLAYtheSTATION But that's why they have those tags. To put on record who is doing what and how many times. If the overide is used too many times, then the cheese should find out.
I work in retail and for him to get a return credited to a credit card, he would have purchased the item of that same amount in the first place. A manager has to authorize above a certain amount of returns as well. There’s something not right with the chain of authorization.
Not a Kroger, I worked there, you can just enter a blank item into the computer and the price, it’s really ridiculously stupid, and you can add the money to any card, just need a supervisor approval, not manager
@@muddywisconsin Ok supervisor/Mgr/Shift leader as we know these titles are used interchangably to keep people thinking they have power and to pay them less. His point is that someone else has to be involved either directly or indirectly in deriliction of duty. Somebody was doin somethin' to somebody🙃🙃😂😂
@BxxDxx Hoodoo In my opinion you are quite misinformed and that’s sad bcuz I was like you and being shown the light is not an easy process. Everything happens for us to learn and grow from it. Everything. God instills justice with karma. That doesn’t mean someone who is a great person doesn’t have bad things bestowed. It just means they won’t have as much because they don’t need to learn as much. You don’t have to believe me, one day you will see it for yourself. Remember me.
@@mattheww239 that’s the ignorant shit I’ve ever heard. You literally have ppl on earth worth billions and they made it on the backs of ppl and they seem to be doing just fine guess karma never finds its way to the rich just only the poor. And give that no steal lecture to a hungry kid in India 🇮🇳 or Yemen 🇾🇪 you clueless man.
@@danielpreseley2921 If all you needed was backs to make money, anyone could be a billionaire. Doesn’t work like that. Regardless, ever heard the expression “money doesn’t make you happy” or “only God can judge”: because things are not always as they seem. God understands his plans better than you or I. But something I know is when you’re kind and work hard God will reward you. And vice versa. Don’t believe me, try it for yourself.
you'd be amazed, used to work in retail, I knew alot, I knew where the exits were, where they kept the tvs, I know how to use the forklift, I knew when trucks came in, and came out. When you work in retail you know alot more then the average person does, sometimes your job is to help other workers, and you get to see what they do. I personally have never once stolen from my work, but I could see someone like this pulling this off, especially if they worked as a cashier, or worked with returns, its easy to take advantage of, but unlike this guy you don't do that cause the realization is they know every single thing that goes on in that store.
I had to have two managers and a head cashier to return an unopened box of cat food today at Walmart...Like how tf. I can’t even wrap my mind around the stupidity of all parties involved. Did he think he would get away with that? And it took two weeks for Kroger to catch on to this, only after another employe ratted him out?
40+ years of retail. Worked in stores doing 100 million a year. I cannot conceive of $1 million in refunds going unnoticed for three weeks. There’s more going on here than it has been revealed.
@@t.r.s8138 yes, he would buy items around the store, but he would process the refund as a customer return. when he bought the car, that's how he was caught. believe a manager knew and let it slide, read on my Google news feed the employees reported him in.
there's a thing going at Kroger where if the younger guys hooks up with a female floor manager aka A Cougar. She gifts him the keys to the front door meat department and all the codes to the customer service refund deapetment.
@@nme.00104 you're not a cashier so you don't know how he could do it you're dumb. He doesn't even have to buy anything he can just go around collecting items and then scanning them as returns. You get multiple Big Ticket items that cost a lot and just multiply the same item. They said one of the returns was $87,000 he's not going to go buy $87,000 worth of stuff and then return it. And buying a car is not how he got caught he got caught when the other employee snitched him out.