@@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.
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.”
@@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
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.
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!
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.
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.
That's not what he did. He took for example, a case of water. Scanned it as a return. Scanned his card for the funds to go to. Printed out fake receipt and such. It's not hard. Very easy and done all over.
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.
"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?"
Nah son! Someone else above him in that business was involved. They just left him as the fall guy. I also bet the others involved aren’t black. Hence the reason why we aren’t hearing about them. They probably quietly asked them to come in for questioning. Just saying that 1 million in two weeks time is something ANYONE on management staff should have noticed. If they didn’t, they were in on it as well! I wouldn’t be surprised if the district manager also knew what was going on.
It has something to do with money laundering, I imagine. I can't speak to Kroger specifically, but a lot of big corporations are running "black verticals" - off the books side business - that nobody knows about.
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.
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
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.
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.
Please tell me what kind of merchandise is in that store that adds up to almost a million dollars in two weeks...he's been doing this much longer than that!
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.
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.
@@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.
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🙃🙃😂😂
@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 TH-cam 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.
There's definitely more to this. He was doing large returns daily and it took them two weeks to stop it? How many retail locations do this amount of daily returns? Literally less than 5% of sales come back so they should've been questioning him after day one. This isn't how 19 year old's normally move. Some one else with more experience than him had to train him on it.
I agree, I work at Costco and we process at the most about 20k to 30k refunds daily. A Sales auditor or Manager should have noticed this, and who was the supervisor that keyed all these refunds/voids?
@Dillon McCluskey i hope he goes to prison and kroger Sue's and when he gets out he can never work retail only construction jobs! But the fucked up part is he is out on bond!! Can you believe they let that dirt bag out and he probably payed the bond with the stolen money!! Makes no sense!!!
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 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.
@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.
@@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.
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?
of more than $980,000 over a two-week period, According to police, Brown created more than 40 returns for non-existent items in December and January. Those returns, which ranged in price from $75 to more than $87,000, were then placed on several credit cards, investigators said.
Managers were in on it. All refunds show up in the system and most need an override number & key once a certain amount is refunded. Grocery stores like Kroger have modern loss/prevention technology and store managers get emailed daily earning/spending reports
this is actually why " Work Farms " need to be brought back ...... victims compensation has been ignored for far too long in this country !!! Does anyone ever question why auto, homeowners and business insurance rates are through the roof ?!?!
Fraud certainly contributes, but what no one ever mentions is insurance companies are notoriously bad investors. Guess who covers those losses to keep the shareholders happy?
If a 19 year old kid was able to take 1 million dollars from Kroger in under 2 weeks then just imagine what everybody else there is getting and has been getting away with for years. He's definitely not the only one doing this but he will be the guy who goes down for it. 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 the movies.😳
@@marikiemarie7622 It was a typo. I corrected it and thanks for the notification. The crazy part is that it would of been 2 million within the next seven days had it not been discovered. Who would of ever thought you could become a millionaire within a week working at the local Kroger.😳
@J.Crooner well, 2mill isn't much different them 1mill when it's retail theft in only 2 weeks. That's insane. I had a friend that was a cleptomanic when she was young. She stole something everywhere she went. Something small most often. Like shampoo. Then batteries. Them lipstick. Here and there. I hated it because she did it when I was with her. She got caught at the mall once while I was with her. Big drama. The store manager could tell I had no knowledge of it. She watched the cameras back and seen me fighting with my friend to put that stuff back. So the cops didn't charge me. I was working at a nice clothing store at the time and was promoted to manager at 18 so I was terrified it would cost me that job. It paid very well too for an 18 year old. She only got worse after that. I tried to get her help but nothing worked. I ended up only hanging out with her in places where theft was less possible. I lost touched with her for a few years. Met up with her one day at a big outdoor sale convention. I didn't even think about all the stealing she did. We were about 25 or so at the time. We headed to out cars and she opened her truck and started emptying her pockets. Earings, bracelets, perfume, lotions, watches and even a small purse like thing. I was so pissed. I yelled at her a just left. She called me saying she doesn't even think about me being there and she just does it. Well I broke off contact after that. But just a year ago, she was on the news. She stole 89k from her employer from a bridal store. She did that in 8mths. Her house was searched too. She had over 120k in retail stuff. Everything from pricey towels, purses, jewelry and credit cards. She will be in prison for 14 years. Crazy things is she is highly educated and went through 6 years of med school and is technically an M.D or was. Lol ugh I couldn't believe how much money she took and why she felt she needed to do it
@@marikiemarie7622 😳That's one hell of a story and the fact that she went to med school and had become a MD is very troubling but not surprising either if I'm being honest. It's so many people out here who literally have gifts and are given things they truly don't deserve. It's more than clear that your so called friend just didn't care and was willing to put your future in jeopardy for her own selfish greed to take advantage of people. It's sad but i'm glad you saw the light and realized it was not worth it because in the end you can't save everybody unfortunately no matter how disappointing it becomes. You did the right thing and i'm sure you're a better person for it today because you care about your life and that speaks a lot in itself.👍😎👌
At some level someone has the authority to approve the transactions. I bet the non existent items were rung up as empty skew numbers that can ring up at any amount you enter. Then returned to another participant with authority to authorize the refunds. Otherwise I have no clue how this would work and that store needs to shut down or remodel, upgrade and rehire everyone.
@Chloe Welsh You make my point. In Canada, Whole Foods prohibited their employees from wearing a poppy (the red flower) on Remembrance Day, their holiday for over a hundred years now to honor those who have fallen in war. They believed it was not "woke," treating it like it was a political symbol of the oppressive right, but it only exposed their ignorance. They were embarrassed by instant, widespread, and justified outrage into reversing their asinine policy. What you seem to imply is Whole Foods are more attuned and attentive to black customers than other customers and that that's a good thing. Really? There's insensitivity, then there's irrational over-sensitivity. I would just see a customer who needs help, not a customer that needs to be especially catered to because of the color of their skin. In fact, I would be insulted to be the beneficiary of such corporate thinking. Sorry for being long-winded. But there was a reason I brought "progressive" Whole Foods into it. Have a nice day.
@Chloe Welsh There is only one Whole Foods. It was a corporate management decision, not a policy of the Canadian government, although they might very well endorse it. Sounds a lot like Trudeau, in fact. Why do you defend them? Why deny they might have a basic problem in their thinking sometimes? What are they to you? Don't believe in false idealism just because you have looked up to it and believed in it until you finally see the dirty side. Amazon bought Whole Foods because they were dying. They were dying because of their untenable corporate ideals. They were going under. Bezoz turned it into a business and would have shut it right down if he couldn't make it profitable. If I cared, I could google who runs it in Canada, but I don't. It doesn't matter to me if I know the name. Never happen in America? An American grocery chain a few months back forbade their employees from wearing a mask with any sort of American flag design on it. It's not like they had given out masks with the corporate logo and were enforcing uniform standards. Because they were fine with other non-standard masks. They objected to the idea of American patriotism. They were publicly shamed into abandoning their misplaced wokeness, too. Remember, smiling while you drink horse piss because the self-appointed moralists tell you it's lemonade is NOT social justice.. I am not trying to argue with you but in the old days, the grown-ups would teach their kids to tell shit from Shinola.
This guy was not thinking. Not condoning his actions, but if you are gonna still, why would you make big purchases like that and start spending instead of waiting for time😂😂
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.
Exactly? Especially for $87,000!! And so quickly too!? It takes like a whole week for the money to be returned on my card when I return something at Walmart for like $13 bucks 🤷🏻♀️
What say does the bank have here? I'm confused, you are supposed to tell the bank how and what your intentions are for all transactions? They work for you, not the other way around.
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.
Anything over $50 should be flagged. Who lugs a ton of groceries home only to come back and return them? Who buys 87K worth of groceries. If nothing else got a red flag, that should have.
Doesn't Kroger have a Loss Prevention Department ? How is that even possible ? Two weeks ? Are there not reports that "flag" questionable returns ? Word on the street is..that this happened at The Home Depot in Connecticut in the 1990's with "customers" ( more like thieves ) and employees ! Terrible !
OUCH, The billion dollar Kroger foods scamming Corporation, got scammed themselves. What goes around comes around. DONT FEEL BAD FOR KROGER AT ALL, JUST FEEL BAD THE KID WAS CAUGHT.
Goes to show you Kroger’s return system is ass and ripe for abuse. I bet after this one, the executives will be directing IT to prevent any big ticket returns without other verification methods like manager approval.
@@mclaine33 these returns would have to be approved by management. He was told by someone how to do this and how many other Kroger employees are doing this if it's that easy.
You absolutely do need a managers approval. There are also daily reports of the previous days refunds. They have multiple managers that should have noticed this.
Honestly not even mad just amazed. Kroger must have the dumbest fraud department ever. What can you even buy worth 87 grand there?
My thoughts exactly in two weeks!!
Lol. Kroger didn't notice the extra 0. On a 100m handsanatiser order!
Have you seen the price of meat lately
You don't really know how retail really works and how much a store can make in a day, weeks, or months in sales sooo
@@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.
If he worked in DC or Wall Street, it would be just another day at the office
Lol
He would’ve gotten a bonus, if he did that for Wall Street 😆
This is so true! Especially considering how they are acting after losing out on that GameStop stock lol
@@brucebruce7065 Right
He learned it all from Trump University! He’s practicing to be a Republican.
1 million in 2 weeks?!?! How does that go unnoticed by management or loss prevention? That’s crazy af.
L😂L ie Lots Of Loot
it's digital funds. Loss prevention or management was in on it most likly but teh brother was to blame.
All black employees
More people in higher up positions are probably involved in this scam.
@@jessefay4984
Are you doing meth in your photo? Lord have mercy
He got Greedy, when you get Greedy that's when you get caught
Exactly. His ass should rot in jail.
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@@laryanryan9170 chill
@@laryanryan9170 you do the crime you do the time
@@laryanryan9170 but he is a good kid
IRS Should hire him immediately.
Lol!!
right, 💯🗣️💬😭😭🤣😄😅😂💀💀
Not now but niiiiiow!
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I swear, I was JUST about to leave a comment like this. Turn those master scamming skills into something more useful!
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.
Can't trust anyone anymore
You're telling me there was no system to alert anyone if someone tried to return $86,000 worth of items in one return?
That would have been hard to miss unless Kroger sells teslas
@@michaelmerck7576 he was manipulating the inventory/ ordering system
they have very bad accounting system that doesn't set red flag for a certain amount!
Right!!!
Maybe the store manager was in
on it and he is black . Lol
Nearly a million in a week? Should have skipped town when the getting was good.
skipped country be better or live off grid.
Sometimes they wait on purpose to charge you.
Forreal
@@ceesan5605 bring that shit to Asia you'll live like a king.
He is young.He didn't realize or understand how massive of a scam this was.He should have quit after 100 k.
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.”
1 million in 2 weeks WTF
it said the manager was on vacation,
@@nme.00104 there’s more than one front end manager. There should be between 4-6
@@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.
Dudes a genius
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
$1 million in two weeks?
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!!!
And at a grocery store
I know, he’s good
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.
@@Peace2all4vr Right?!
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!
I know theft is illegal and $1M is alot... but I'm kinda impressed.
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.
Not getting caught would've been more impressive
@@sweetonyxakararegem692 HES GOING TO PRISION. AND FOR A LONG TIME.
@First Last Its worth it to go to prison? Wow you all sound like 12 year olds.
@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.
How the fuck does the store or manager not realize there was 900k dollars of returns in a week
They were all eating from the pie, hellllo...
The one got too flashy and they had to cut loose ends
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@@astralfluxaf he was framed. Cash registers won’t even let you refund an amount that large without a manager. Prolly unable refund an amount of $87k.
There is more to this story.
@@ast-og-losta ABSOLUTELY!
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.
That's not what he did. He took for example, a case of water. Scanned it as a return. Scanned his card for the funds to go to. Printed out fake receipt and such. It's not hard. Very easy and done all over.
A grocery store has a million dollars in returns in two weeks that's doesn't seem right
Sounds like they threw shrink from inventory in there
They don't even have $500k of inventory or the sales to support it. They'd be running negatives.
Fake news. He's the fall guy for management.
People can’t even return food. What are they returning?
Cash register wouldn’t even allow a return of that amount. Someone cooked books and blamed him
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.
"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?"
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
right, 💯🗣️💬🔥🔥😭😭😄🤣😂😅💀💀
😁🤦♂️
That's pretty good
Sure why not the entire district ,just put it on my debit card
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Nah son! Someone else above him in that business was involved. They just left him as the fall guy. I also bet the others involved aren’t black. Hence the reason why we aren’t hearing about them. They probably quietly asked them to come in for questioning. Just saying that 1 million in two weeks time is something ANYONE on management staff should have noticed. If they didn’t, they were in on it as well! I wouldn’t be surprised if the district manager also knew what was going on.
It has something to do with money laundering, I imagine. I can't speak to Kroger specifically, but a lot of big corporations are running "black verticals" - off the books side business - that nobody knows about.
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.
IMO this was inside job with co conspirators
Something sounds fishy
@@karlabritfeld7104 we live during interesting times and Nothing Surprises me. Companies are struggling in this economy as it combatting losses.
black magic
If he would’ve taken smaller amounts over a longer period of time, he could’ve definitely gotten away with this.
The amounts didn't get him caught tho...a hater did
I would like to know ur address or ssn number sir
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
😂😂😂😂😂😂 Your son? LOL.
@@omarlittle4925fr 😂
Kid took "go big or go home" to heart. If he was less greedy he probably could have stretched his scheme out a little longer.
Yup
The “vigilant” employee snitched because bro wouldn’t let him in on the action 😂
Or was in on it, found out that something was about to go down and decided to report his coworker.
@@onlyu7308 Rondy King said, can we all just get along, nope we didn't get all the million dollars!! ✌️
@@d.t.3538
Who is Rondy King???
I'm trying to think of many alternate realities/possible outcomes and in every scenario the poor bastard gets caught. The poor thing is braindead.
@@brucebruce7065 Rodney Kong’s half brother 😂
This is why scammers are idiots. I would have done it once maybe twice and skatedddd. When you get greedy is when you get caught
Absolute he got extremely greeeeedy!
Exactly 💯 wish I knew him 🤣 some shit would've been in my name 🙃😂
I bet all yall single moms to be 💅
@@isyourshitfixed married 😘 bye now
@@Amvndah what’s yo IG you need some real D in yo life
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.
Thieves are stupid.
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.
He essentially helped screw over his own people in his community as well. Kinda like those Walgreens, CVSs and Targets in certain communities….
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.
No for me itsleaving at 10 (more like1030) amd back in at 6
That part.....
💯 …I’m sure you’re being generous thinking they will give the “good employee” pin
That's why I say.....screw their loss. Take care of your employees and they would be more loyal.
Yes exactly
The greedy ones always gets Got. Don't think he's the only one pulling this off.
yup!
my white collar crime class says this is a lie
dont matter if greedy or not. Eventually when they start going over the books they will see money is missing.
No matter what eventually you will get caught
Please tell me what kind of merchandise is in that store that adds up to almost a million dollars in two weeks...he's been doing this much longer than that!
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.
Exactly they wanted a piece of the pie
U speak like an inbred lol@@PHlophe
Clowns b clowning fr don’t bitch bout it 😂🤡😭🤡@@PHlophe
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.
He stole almost a mill. In 2 weeks? Yeah okay. Sounds like somebody is a fall guy.
its probably a group of employees that are in on it and every employee should have bank records examined.
@@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.
He pissed somebody off and they ratted him put is all
I'm kinda offended nobody thinks this kid could've pulled this scheme off all by himself. What if he really was just that slick?
@@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.
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🙃🙃😂😂
Exactly he couldnt of been acting alone.
Probably just sum clowns lol
So he basically office space'd himself into jail... lmfao
Kroger steals from it's employees so I guess they even now.
Hahaha you're right!
I was this teenage scammer let’s get into it
Well you do have a valid point there
Hello!
I think his actions qualifies him to become a preacher at a megachurch.
You are a terrible person me too because I laughed jajajaja
right, 💯🗣️💬😭😭😄😅😂🤣💀💀
Absolutely he had such a bright future in the church. With these balls at 19, by 25 he might have been a billionaire in the church.
Absolutely 💯%
Lol...wow..
The irony here is Xfinity has stolen billions of dollars from consumers and will never face any consequences.
The guy who turned him in was mad because he wouldn’t cut him in.
🤣🤣🤣 he wouldn't cut him in so he took a little bit of money for turn it in🤣🤣🤣
Exactly!
that sounds about right
It's called insider trading 😮😂
If this guy was a politician he wouldn't have been in trouble.
He is just filling the requirments to get an elected position.
Now, he’s just another number on a piece of paper for the guys at the FBI to add to their statistics
@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".
You mean Democrat politician.
Not if he was a democrat
So if you're stealing around a million from a big box store, the police will finally take it seriously.
“Everyday I’m hustling...hustling, hustle real hard” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That's not hustling that's stealing
@@quarmainestephenson3163 😒
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...
He has a promising career in politics not retail
D.M.
He needs additional skills, however - but as soon as graduates from Trump University is good to go!
Biden should hire him as his financial advisor. It’s going to be a perfect team. 😜
Lol 😂😂😂
If he was able to do that much, the companys management should be the ones going to jail.
"He purchased cars, clothing, guns and a number of other items." GTA V in real life.
They need to look into his supervisors. How in the hell could he do forty returns all on a single credit card? Somebody else is involved.
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 TH-cam 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.
He thought he'd take it into his hands in getting his 'due' reparations. Dude should just up and go to San Fransisko.
If he was older with patients he would've accumulated that over a long period of time...teenagers always too eager.
But he’s not a doctor how would he have patients
Organizations aren't dumb, sometimes they wait for thieves to stack up to charge them.
Think Nolan meant patience**
@@bakgammon yup. Especially if they can involve the feds. The work RICO makes them have an orgasm they love them so much.
There's definitely more to this. He was doing large returns daily and it took them two weeks to stop it? How many retail locations do this amount of daily returns? Literally less than 5% of sales come back so they should've been questioning him after day one. This isn't how 19 year old's normally move. Some one else with more experience than him had to train him on it.
I agree, I work at Costco and we process at the most about 20k to 30k refunds daily. A Sales auditor or Manager should have noticed this, and who was the supervisor that keyed all these refunds/voids?
Eventually it will come out that it was an entire ring of scammers. He was just the first because he actually worked in the store.
@Dillon McCluskey i hope he goes to prison and kroger Sue's and when he gets out he can never work retail only construction jobs! But the fucked up part is he is out on bond!! Can you believe they let that dirt bag out and he probably payed the bond with the stolen money!! Makes no sense!!!
Don’t worry he’s gonna rat out his accomplice in court 😂 We will see it on the news later.
@@deeplyrooted3588 "Ms Pearl told me to do it.." Either way I hate to see anyone throw their life away like that.
Onrp his own credit card?
One return for $87,000?
How did it go on for two weeks unnoticed?
Its not even worth your freedom, as quickly you get it, you lost it all as quick.
There's no way he could of done that by himself as a regular employee
Yup.
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 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.
he got caught because someone snitched on him. remember that.
@BxxDxx Hoodoo Something a snitch would say lol.
God is real. People who steal and break the law eventually always get caught. It’s called karma.
@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.
He was just tired of waiting for his stimulus check, and decided to take matters into his own hands! 😂
Bahahahah 😂😂😂
Some politician will vouch for him, pay his bail and then hire him.
How is this even possible 900k in a few days of work , if he was working how did he had the time to make those fauls returns?
@Sway K he would buy item's then return them to make it seem like they were customer return's.
@@nme.00104 what if he was buying it, how was he turning a profit then ,buy returning it ?
@@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.
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?
Lots of Walmart employees who are currently doing the same are sweating bullets about now.
Wal-Mart is a whole different league of talent.
the company is too blame too....
The employee that caught him should get a raise and a promotion.
Maybe he was in on it too 👀
Yeah and then a couple of stitches for being a snitch!
@@vincentdin think so too, and a manager.
@@shawnmichael5684 right, 😭😭😄😅😂🤣💀💀 or a kroger or visa gift card for $25 or $50.
Mostly the employee wanted a cut, but noooo. Snitching
This is like cheating on the test with all of the right answers plus teacher notes.
It's like paying a school $500,000 to fraudulently get your child in
Who returns tens of thousands of dollars of groceries?
He should’ve put it all into Bitcoin that way when he gets out he’d be rich 😂
Plus when the cops ask him where the BTC is he can say I forgot the password. Lol
Lmfaoooooooooo
They would of thrown the book at him instead of getting a plea deal ..
Or Forex.
@@overseer3072 true I’d rather have my livelihood than one million
" a teen like this had to have help to pull off this kind of scam"
💯💯🗣️💬🔥🔥👌👍👏👆☝️ believe a manager will be arrested, he'll tell the truth once he finds out how much time he's looking at.
Sounds like reporter was throwing "shade" if u ask me. Implying he isnt smart enough to pull it off himself😒
Was wondering how many people caught that🤔
of more than $980,000 over a two-week period, According to police, Brown created more than 40 returns for non-existent items in December and January. Those returns, which ranged in price from $75 to more than $87,000, were then placed on several credit cards, investigators said.
*Should of skipped town and changed his whole identity while the getting was good. Boy flew to close to the sun and got burned.*
Kang lyfe.
Ikr. I'm not condoning criminal activity, but I always say a thief never know how to quit when they're ahead. The greed get them every time! Smh.
Yeah he’s not a very smart criminal lol
@@luxuryqueen42 oh wow
@@AgeofReason lol what?
Managers were in on it. All refunds show up in the system and most need an override number & key once a certain amount is refunded. Grocery stores like Kroger have modern loss/prevention technology and store managers get emailed daily earning/spending reports
Yep probably sum clowns
The little chump wasted the $ on video games! Now he's sleeps in big bunba's embrace! 😂😂😂
The Store Manager and the Controller have a lot of explaining to do.
I bet they are involved because that's a lot of money in just two weeks
Exactly. Imagine how much they are taking 🤔
What's to explain? They hired a thief.
@@TamaraGarrettAlpha if I were the manager and you accused me of that, you'd be in court for defamation.
@@rachelcoloradomy3kidz778 hell of an accusation. Especially without evidence.
Holy crow. He is qualified to be a politician!
this is actually why " Work Farms " need to be brought back ...... victims compensation has been ignored for far too long in this country !!! Does anyone ever question why auto, homeowners and business insurance rates are through the roof ?!?!
Fraud certainly contributes, but what no one ever mentions is insurance companies are notoriously bad investors. Guess who covers those losses to keep the shareholders happy?
He wouldn’t have gotten caught had he not been so greedy... that’s pretty impressive what did though
addicted to the money.....
Who in the hell is purchasing 87 grand worth of goods from Kroger
@Sway K he would buy items and return them as a card refund.
@Sway K he would buy them, and refund it like a customer purchase as a card refund.
right, 💯🗣️💬😭😭😄😅😂🤣💀💀
@@nme.00104 no it said,he was refunding his own card
If a 19 year old kid was able to take 1 million dollars from Kroger in under 2 weeks then just imagine what everybody else there is getting and has been getting away with for years. He's definitely not the only one doing this but he will be the guy who goes down for it. 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 the movies.😳
2 million?
@@marikiemarie7622 It was a typo. I corrected it and thanks for the notification. The crazy part is that it would of been 2 million within the next seven days had it not been discovered. Who would of ever thought you could become a millionaire within a week working at the local Kroger.😳
@J.Crooner well, 2mill isn't much different them 1mill when it's retail theft in only 2 weeks. That's insane. I had a friend that was a cleptomanic when she was young. She stole something everywhere she went. Something small most often. Like shampoo. Then batteries. Them lipstick. Here and there. I hated it because she did it when I was with her. She got caught at the mall once while I was with her. Big drama. The store manager could tell I had no knowledge of it. She watched the cameras back and seen me fighting with my friend to put that stuff back. So the cops didn't charge me. I was working at a nice clothing store at the time and was promoted to manager at 18 so I was terrified it would cost me that job. It paid very well too for an 18 year old. She only got worse after that. I tried to get her help but nothing worked. I ended up only hanging out with her in places where theft was less possible. I lost touched with her for a few years. Met up with her one day at a big outdoor sale convention. I didn't even think about all the stealing she did. We were about 25 or so at the time. We headed to out cars and she opened her truck and started emptying her pockets. Earings, bracelets, perfume, lotions, watches and even a small purse like thing. I was so pissed. I yelled at her a just left. She called me saying she doesn't even think about me being there and she just does it. Well I broke off contact after that. But just a year ago, she was on the news. She stole 89k from her employer from a bridal store. She did that in 8mths. Her house was searched too. She had over 120k in retail stuff. Everything from pricey towels, purses, jewelry and credit cards. She will be in prison for 14 years. Crazy things is she is highly educated and went through 6 years of med school and is technically an M.D or was. Lol ugh I couldn't believe how much money she took and why she felt she needed to do it
@@marikiemarie7622 😳That's one hell of a story and the fact that she went to med school and had become a MD is very troubling but not surprising either if I'm being honest. It's so many people out here who literally have gifts and are given things they truly don't deserve. It's more than clear that your so called friend just didn't care and was willing to put your future in jeopardy for her own selfish greed to take advantage of people. It's sad but i'm glad you saw the light and realized it was not worth it because in the end you can't save everybody unfortunately no matter how disappointing it becomes. You did the right thing and i'm sure you're a better person for it today because you care about your life and that speaks a lot in itself.👍😎👌
The boy knew how to steal but didn't know how to spend it...
Most 18 year olds don't yet understand the value of a dollar.
I respect his hustle😂😂 He should have stopped. They were not hip to the scam
Government should hire this person. They love scamming.
Dayum!! There’s definitely more to this that is not being reported.
Spending 87 grand at Krogers:
*Ahh yes, two and a half slices of your finest truffle please.*
Mom, THANKS FOR THE NEW CAR SON! I KNEW I RAISED A GOOD THIEF!
He was framed, computer software won’t let you return that large of an amount when the most expensive item maybe costs $100 at the most.
At some level someone has the authority to approve the transactions. I bet the non existent items were rung up as empty skew numbers that can ring up at any amount you enter. Then returned to another participant with authority to authorize the refunds. Otherwise I have no clue how this would work and that store needs to shut down or remodel, upgrade and rehire everyone.
If he got a job of Whole Foods, he probably could have doubled the money for the same items.
Whole Foods would consider his actions social justice.
@Chloe Welsh You make my point. In Canada, Whole Foods prohibited their employees from wearing a poppy (the red flower) on Remembrance Day, their holiday for over a hundred years now to honor those who have fallen in war. They believed it was not "woke," treating it like it was a political symbol of the oppressive right, but it only exposed their ignorance. They were embarrassed by instant, widespread, and justified outrage into reversing their asinine policy. What you seem to imply is Whole Foods are more attuned and attentive to black customers than other customers and that that's a good thing. Really? There's insensitivity, then there's irrational over-sensitivity. I would just see a customer who needs help, not a customer that needs to be especially catered to because of the color of their skin. In fact, I would be insulted to be the beneficiary of such corporate thinking.
Sorry for being long-winded. But there was a reason I brought "progressive" Whole Foods into it. Have a nice day.
@Chloe Welsh It was last November.
@Chloe Welsh There is only one Whole Foods. It was a corporate management decision, not a policy of the Canadian government, although they might very well endorse it. Sounds a lot like Trudeau, in fact. Why do you defend them? Why deny they might have a basic problem in their thinking sometimes? What are they to you? Don't believe in false idealism just because you have looked up to it and believed in it until you finally see the dirty side. Amazon bought Whole Foods because they were dying. They were dying because of their untenable corporate ideals. They were going under. Bezoz turned it into a business and would have shut it right down if he couldn't make it profitable. If I cared, I could google who runs it in Canada, but I don't. It doesn't matter to me if I know the name. Never happen in America? An American grocery chain a few months back forbade their employees from wearing a mask with any sort of American flag design on it. It's not like they had given out masks with the corporate logo and were enforcing uniform standards. Because they were fine with other non-standard masks. They objected to the idea of American patriotism. They were publicly shamed into abandoning their misplaced wokeness, too. Remember, smiling while you drink horse piss because the self-appointed moralists tell you it's lemonade is NOT social justice..
I am not trying to argue with you but in the old days, the grown-ups would teach their kids to tell shit from Shinola.
NO FATHER IN THE HOME.
This guy was not thinking. Not condoning his actions, but if you are gonna still, why would you make big purchases like that and start spending instead of waiting for time😂😂
*steal
steal steel or still?😳😳
@@retrofilmworx9326 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
To win at this, you need to play a long game. A 19-year-old with no impulse control was doomed from the start.
No way possible...You can't put 10k in any bank account without the IRS knowing about it..
He didn’t transfer to a bank acct, he put the money on his credit card.
@@CODYORMOE how do you put money “on” a “credit” card ?
@@ATLbench He ran through a bunch of bogus returns, so he put the money “back” on the card that was supposedly used to make the original purchase.
@@ATLbench it had to be a debit card linked to some kind of checking or savings account.
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.
He just needed clothes and books for school he is a good boy.
LMFAO
LOL
His credit card statement being 1000 pages long might set off an alert too.
Deposits over $10,000 are automatically reported to the government. This is known as the Bank Secrecy Act.
He should have used his cash app card, and sent some to his friends and family so he didn’t get caught. 😂
That must have been some type of scam to make 1 million in 2 weeks. He is a smart one and dumb at the same time. Put those skills to better use.
I guarantee you more people were doing it and he was the scapegoat
I bet more people were doing it too now he look like the bad guy
@@Dontrolling iono bro, i think there has to be atleast a manager or someone higher up involved.
How the bank not catch all those deposits coming in?
Exactly? Especially for $87,000!! And so quickly too!? It takes like a whole week for the money to be returned on my card when I return something at Walmart for like $13 bucks 🤷🏻♀️
What say does the bank have here? I'm confused, you are supposed to tell the bank how and what your intentions are for all transactions? They work for you, not the other way around.
@@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep Apparently @water lives behind the moon.
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.
Ain’t no way he got all those funds in that short amt of time. Kroger also needs 2 investigate the rest of the team
Right. Lets blame the kid.
They’re pinning it all on him. There’s no way he wouldn’t have set off an algorithm
You’d think an average Kroger wouldn’t even get $1,000 in returns in a week. Most people don’t return groceries. Only old ladies and Karen.
Yup.. Someone not reading the daily reports.
The Good News is since he spent the money he will still qualify for public defender unless Kroger can give him more hours in the store.
He probably was still named employee of the month.
can see it, 😭😭😄😅😂🤣💀💀 and was given a gift card too.
How is it not flagged that much returns at a store? Don’t they have someone seeing the returns on a monthly basis?
They probly do have monthly reviews, The problem Is he did it in 2 Weeks!
Anything over $50 should be flagged. Who lugs a ton of groceries home only to come back and return them? Who buys 87K worth of groceries. If nothing else got a red flag, that should have.
Managers have to approve every return. Someone else is involved and he might as well snitch on them.
How about the manager crunches the numbers at the end of the day and didn't see 80k dollars of return items in one day?
@@laryanryan9170 agree, 💯💯🗣️💬🔥🔥 at the beginning of the day the hr supervisor verifies any deposits, returns etc.
Apparently, bank tellers are alerting juggers in the parking lot when someone withdraws a lot of cash.
“The teen likely had help”. You think?
Doesn't Kroger have a Loss Prevention Department ? How is that even possible ? Two weeks ? Are there not reports that "flag" questionable returns ? Word on the street is..that this happened at The Home Depot in Connecticut in the 1990's with "customers" ( more like thieves ) and employees ! Terrible !
OUCH, The billion dollar Kroger foods scamming Corporation, got scammed themselves. What goes around comes around. DONT FEEL BAD FOR KROGER AT ALL, JUST FEEL BAD THE KID WAS CAUGHT.
When I read the title I was like so Kroger’s first name is Gwinnett
Why bother scamming $75 if you are going to do $87,000. I would think you would need a managers approval.
Goes to show you Kroger’s return system is ass and ripe for abuse. I bet after this one, the executives will be directing IT to prevent any big ticket returns without other verification methods like manager approval.
@@mclaine33 these returns would have to be approved by management. He was told by someone how to do this and how many other Kroger employees are doing this if it's that easy.
You absolutely do need a managers approval. There are also daily reports of the previous days refunds. They have multiple managers that should have noticed this.