I was working for Kroger back in 2007, as an accounting clerk. One evening, I was emptying the self check out machines to close out the day’s business. One of the local “good kids who fell in with a bad crowd” type saw this and ran back to his car to return wearing a hooded jacket and carrying a gun. By the time he returned, I had finished with the machines and had returned to the accounting room. According to the video with five seconds to spare. I only found out about this when the night cashier started pounding on the door, scared to death because the guy pointed the gun at her as he ran back out of the store. After viewing the security video with the police and the store manager, I decided to start carrying while at work. (Something banned by company policy.) Retail and robbery go together like peanut butter and jelly.
Hmmm. So if someone open carries in Kroger, customers in an act of confusion will start handing that person their money? Or maybe they’d wait to have the gun pointed in their face while hearing “give me your money!” before handing over their cash.
January 19th, 2015 at 8:45 pm
I put the following reply in at 18:43 CST
“So the robber was a Kroger customer?
Or a Kroger customer in the parking lot accosted by a non-Kroger customer?”
Let’s see how fast my remark gets deleted or I get banned…
January 19th, 2015 at 10:18 pm
Heck, a few months back they blamed a literal masked bank robber (the bank was built into the Kroger) on open carry.
The best part… the robber kept his gun concealed until the robbery itself.
January 20th, 2015 at 12:02 am
I was working for Kroger back in 2007, as an accounting clerk. One evening, I was emptying the self check out machines to close out the day’s business. One of the local “good kids who fell in with a bad crowd” type saw this and ran back to his car to return wearing a hooded jacket and carrying a gun. By the time he returned, I had finished with the machines and had returned to the accounting room. According to the video with five seconds to spare. I only found out about this when the night cashier started pounding on the door, scared to death because the guy pointed the gun at her as he ran back out of the store. After viewing the security video with the police and the store manager, I decided to start carrying while at work. (Something banned by company policy.) Retail and robbery go together like peanut butter and jelly.
January 20th, 2015 at 8:28 am
So if I don’t conceal while I’m at Kroger I’m liable to go off the tracks and start robbing the place? Stupid is about right, there.
January 20th, 2015 at 4:15 pm
Hmmm. So if someone open carries in Kroger, customers in an act of confusion will start handing that person their money? Or maybe they’d wait to have the gun pointed in their face while hearing “give me your money!” before handing over their cash.