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Peeldred
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What is the name of your state? Florida. I had a friend who was recently detained at a Publix supermarket for shoplifting. What happened was that she and another friend were splitting a deli sandwich. The way the store is set up, you go to the deli and get your sandwich and do not pay until you get to the checkout line. It is very common for people to eat their sandwiches as they shop, and this is what my friends did. When they had finished with the sandwich, one of them took the wrapper and the attached price-tag, threw them away, and proceded to leave the building. When she left she was detained by store employees. The other friend who had eaten the sandwich realised that the wrapper had been discarded and returned to the deli, prior to leaving the store, to get a copy of the price tag with which he could pay for the sandwich at the checkout line. The deli gave him a new tag, he took it to the checkout, and they took his money. Then he left the store to find us all waiting outside. When we all realized that we were missing one of our group, we went inside to see what had happened, and found out they were detaining her for shoplifting. They called the cops and took her away, all the while refusing to look at the receipt the other sandwich eater had been given after paying for the sandwich. Has any crime acyually been committed. If the store accepted payment for the sandwich, even if it was after they had already detained someone for shoplifting the item that was paid for, do they still have a case against my non-paying but paid-for friend who they had arrested? If she presents the receipt in court, is there any way for Publix to claim that any theft actually occured? Haven't they already 'settled' by accepting payment for the item? Sorry to make this so long.
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