Wil's Rant

Once again, what is left out of the story may be significant. Many retail companies have similar policies. I'm talking about a rule against any employee taking anything from the store or garbage, and for very good reason. The policy is intended to stop or prevent the practice of an employee falsely tagging items as damaged or defective, putting them in the trash, then retrieving the items after store hours. This type of employee theft can be devastating to the profits of a company. It's possible Zellers over-reacted to this incident. It's also possible that the man had been doing this for sometime and this is the first time he had been caught. Another possibility is as I had mentioned, that he had been deliberately discarding items that had nothing wrong with them to later retrieve. The least likely possibility is that this was a one time thing.