Making $5.15 an hour, I used to work at Dollar General back in my teens, got my cousin on. I would work there stocking shit on the shelves and unloading the items every Sunday, truck day is what we called it, every DG truck comes on Sunday mornings to re-stock the store, shit is the worse day ever in life
With this action, I had a manager who was fat, lazy, crazy but cool at the same time. One Wednesday evening/shift that I was working, he decided to train me on the register. I thought I was moving up to the big leagues but I was to find out later that the motherfucker hated counting his register at the end of the shift. He would get in trouble by the regional manager when his register came up short at the end of the night, which it always did. I think suspension or termination was the next step if he was to come up short again on the register. So he trained my ass so I could take the hit. The register kept coming up short at that store and apparently the regional manager got tired of it and it threaten suspension/termination. I would later find out
On that Wednesday evening, he brought me up to the register, shadowed me as I rung up customers and greeted them. I met a lot of people and I found out that it's a lot of motherfuckers that shop at Dollar General, some come through that hoe 3 to 4 times a week. As the manager continued to shadow me while I rung up folks, this one customer lady, comes to my line. I ring her shit up, I think it was some face cream or some shit, the shit rings up $5.00, but it has a price sticker of $2.00 dollars. She tells me that the item is supposed to be 2 bucks, I'm confused because the register says 5 bucks. The manager scoots me outta the way, "let me get there Knock", which was in front of the register, I move outta the way, he pulls his glasses down and taps a few buttons on the keypad of the register and says, "look here Knock, this is how you void the price and fix the issue". I'm observing, pretty simple task. I get it. So the item now goes from 5 bucks to 2 bucks. The lady smiles, pays, and grabs her stuff and head out. The manager falls back and tells me, "see that's how you make a price change on items".
I say, oh kool.
I left that day and went home, I told my cousin who happened to be off that I'm working on the register. He was like, nigga stop lying, we stock boys, I said nah, the manager trained me today on that dumb shit last night. He goes into work the next day, gets trained also on the register, so now we both are bait for whenever the register comes up short. We both outta here, but again, we don't know this information. My cousin comes home and tells me that he's working on the register, I asked him did the manager show him how to void items/price change, he says what's that. So I give him the run down on the shit.
We both on the schedule the next day to work, we working the shift with the assistant manager who is our age, maybe 2 years older than us, but she's young and green to a lot of shit. Sweet chick, but not very savy.
I used to buy things from Dollar General while on the clock and just walk the shit out to the car. My cousin, the manager, assistant manager all did the same thing. No harm. We had the receipts, so if they ever see us on camera, and they wanted to accuse of stealing, we could always show the receipt. No problem.
The next day comes, me and my cousin chilling at the front, chilling, not working, riding the clock. I'm on the register, he's on the other one. If the store isn't busy, or we don't have a line, we are supposed to "front" the store, push the items on the shelves that are way in the back, to the front, (dumb shit if you ask me) but that was what we were supposed to do. The head manager wasn't there like I said, and the assistant manager is green and we didn't listen to her, so we like fuck that shit, we chilling.
Something hits me, I tell my cousin to grab me a Hawaiian Punch, he brings it over, the green kind, I scan the shit, it rings up for $1.55 or some shit, I go to Edit on the register and change the price for .5 cents and scan the shit again, the shit rings up for a nickel and we both laugh. I grab the yellow basket and he grabs 10 more Hawaiian Punches, I ring all them shits up for a nickel. He grabs 8 more for himself and he does the shit on his register.
Dollar General used to sell these soft padding for your bed, the shit was like 10 bucks, I grabbed one and run the shit up for 2 cents, stuck it in the bag. Him and I eventually end up grabbing like 43 items a piece and ringing each item for less than 25 cents. I think with the 43 items, I may have paid $14.32 cents or some shit. Shit was well worth over 100 dollars lol.
The assistant manager is walking around the store "fronting", she sees us grabbing items and loading them in the yellow baskets, coming in and out of the store. She yells at us, yall doing yall shopping, just make sure to have yall receipt. We are like, we have it as we are bagging the items. She's like ok.
We both laughing and loading shit up, can't believe we are getting all this shit for less than nickel, we showin off with the hack now. I'm saying shit like "I think I'm going to ring up this tire black magic for 6 cents, I ring all 3 up for 6 cents total. The last item, my cousin goes down an aisle and comes back one of those huge bags of dog food, the big heavy bag of dog, the bag where 1 bag takes up all of the space in the basket shit, nigga rang that shit up for 10 cents lol. He grabs 4 more. Nigga paid 40 cents for I know 60 something dollars worth of dog food.
My cousin and I must have did this stealing shit for about a week, at the time, I was staying with my folks still, my mama was like Knock, how are you getting me all this washing detergent, I have detergent to last us for a year and some change, I know this cost x amount of money and I know your checks aint that much, are you stealing this shit, let me find out, I'ma turn yo ass in myself, I said no I aint stealing lol. Technically I wasn't. I paid for the shit. She just didn't know I paid 1 dollar for 8 tubs of laundry detergent. J.E.T.S. Just enjoy the shit
I did this shit up until I got fired.
I got fired for accusing a customer of stealing, aint that some shit lol. Regional Manager fired my ass after the customer stated to my manager that I accused her of stealing. The regional manager fired my ass on a Saturday morning. I was supposed to get some dog food for my patna, but the region manager came in that Saturday, brought me into that office and played that tape of me and the customer going back and forward in the store smh.
I should have let that shit go, here I am stealing and got fired for accusing somebody else for stealing shit.
My cousin got fired the next week for actually stealing which was dumb. Said he had to get an item but he wasn't on the register that day. I'm like nigga just pay for it. He was so used to paying 5 cent for shit, he didn't feel right paying full price for the item lol.