Today I walked into a supermarket to do some price checking and I noticed something odd. There was a guy who was observing these grapes for a pretty long time and there also appeared to be a store manager of sorts standing and observing him. The guy didn’t notice it where afterwards he took like two grapes and ate it. The manger then went up to him to ask in a semi annoyed way if they “taste good” and the guy didn’t say anything. The manger then continued to ask him the same question followed by if he was going to buy any. The guy was nervous it seemed and afterwards just said no.
The interesting thing was how the person he was with, which I assume was the wife, arrived to meet him and he was treating the situation as if the manger was like an annoying commission sales person trying to make a sale. I was just thinking how in my view that constitutes as stealing in many ways whereas for him he swayed it off as if it is normal for people to do that. It kind of made me think for the business side on how much money businesses lose because of things like this or as the consumer how anyone can think that is okay.
Funny enough I went to a different store afterwards and they had a table full of various fruits for people to try. In my view a business has to openly have something like that as an invitation for you to sample items. Of all the ways you can save money just going to any store and helping yourself to items that should clearly be bought first isn’t one of them. Though it makes me wonder if anyone actually thinks it’s like a normal thing to do.