🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1993Jan9.112353.7411@doug.cae.wisc.edu>, kolstad@cae.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad) writes:
|> In article <1993Jan8.235403.9630@tellab5.tellabs.com> chrz@tellabs.com (Peter Chrzanowski) writes:
|> 
|> >There's no debt because they're not
|> >your Chee-tos yet.  (BTW if you ate them before paying you
|> >have committed retail theft, for which you may be prosecuted).
|> 
|> Actually, I've heard that it's perfectly legal to go into a store and do
|> something like this.  I go into PDQ's all the time and fill up a cup of pop
|> and start drinking it long before I pay for it...  It becomes a crime the
|> minute you walk out the door without having paid.  (Of course, the store
|> has a right to demand payment _immediately_ and kick you out as soon as
|> you've done so... no doubt they would, if you went to a store and started
|> eating bag after bag of Chee-tos! :-) )

I've seen this happen quite a few times at grocery stores -  a person will 
grab a bag of Chee-tos or chips off the shelf and eat it while shopping.
When they get to the cash, they show the empty (or partially eaten) bag to the 
cashier and she rings it up.  No problem.  I suspect you're not *really* 
supposed to do this, but as long as you pay for it before leaving, the store 
likely wouldn't object too strongly.

-- 
===================================================================
Colette George 			
Bell-Northern Research Ltd. 	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Internet:  colette@bnr.ca 
===================================================================