Here’s a savings tip – if you ever forget your coupons while shopping, just bring them back to the store along with your receipt, and an employee should be able to take them off retroactively and hand you the difference in cash. Here’s an even easier savings tip – if you work at the store, take off the value of[Read More…]
“I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!” And then you get punched in the face. In the latest unfortunate case of coupon-related assault, a New York man faces charges after he allegedly attacked a Carvel ice cream store clerk who refused his expired coupon. Police in Valley Stream, New York say 59-year-old William Hotz ordered an ice[Read More…]
Days after St. Louis-area police warned local shoppers not to use credit cards at Schnucks, the grocery chain has announced it’s “found and contained” a credit card hack and that it’s safe to shop with credit and debit cards again. But for some shoppers, the damage – financial and otherwise – is already done. In a news release issued this[Read More…]
(Be sure to read this update: “Schnucks Repairs Security Breach – But For Some, the Damage is Done”) Another supermarket chain has been hit with an apparent credit card hack, as more shoppers come forward to complain their account information has been stolen. St. Louis-based Schnucks says it’s investigating, and police are recommending that its customers put away their plastic[Read More…]
Might want to be careful next time you accept free samples at your local supermarket. Take too many, and you could get arrested and end up suing the store. That’s what happened to 68-year-old Erwin Lingitz of Gem Lake, Minnesota. In a federal lawsuit filed earlier this month, the retiree is seeking up to $375,000 from the store security guard,[Read More…]
Why should the originators have all the fun, while the copycats take the heat? More than a month after “gallon smashing” first hit the internet, spawning dozens of imitators and almost as many arrests, the three teenagers who started it all are now facing criminal charges. It’s all fun and games until someone goes to prison, kids. If you’re not[Read More…]
It’s stupid, reckless, wasteful, destructive and immature – though, okay, if you tap into your inner 12-year-old, maybe just a little bit amusing. But it’s wrong. Bad, bad and wrong. And copycats are never as good as the original anyway. That said, what started out as a dumb prank by a trio of Virginia teenagers quickly became an internet meme.[Read More…]
We’ve all experienced it – employees who don’t understand their own store’s coupon policy and won’t accept your coupon. You may get upset, you may let it slide – but would you attack the employee, and then pull a gun on her? If you’re Walmart shopper Mary Alday of Crawfordville, Florida, you just might. In a reversal of a recent[Read More…]
If the possibility of being charged credit card swipe fees isn’t enough for you to give up paying with plastic, perhaps this news will. A Phoenix-based grocery chain says it was the victim of a sophisticated cyberattack – though the real victims are the hundreds of customers, if not more, whose credit card information was stolen. Oops. The Pinal County[Read More…]
If shoppers in Western Michigan were wondering why their grocery prices have been high the past several years, now they know why. Their store’s profits were allegedly being used to fund an employee’s collection of vintage muscle cars. Christopher Pratt was charged in federal court Friday, accused of embezzling more than $6.5 million from his employer, Village Market Food Centers.[Read More…]
