Canadian Tire Greatness

Wrong Way said:
f**k some of you guys are small minded.....

Will they take a hit? 'Course not.

Will they notice that 900+ rounds of baby killing bullets are gone out of stock without record of them being sold? Yup.

Will they overreact to the above? Probably.

Will they consider it too large of a liability to continue to stock ammo as it is just "dissapearing"? Also likely.

Give yer heads a shake...stealing is stealing regardless of who it is from, Trying to justify it is just you trying to feel better about being a punk.

As if stealing isn't stupid enough, stealing ammo is likely to cause the store to stop selling it, thereby screwing over ALL gun owners in the area.....and thats not only morally repugnant, it's f**king stupid.


WTF is this world coming to.....men used to have honour, nows punks come in and brag about how they screwed a local retailer for multiple bricks of ammo....AND they get cheered on by other members!

Sad. Just friggin sad.....
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Uhh.. As a CT employee... Not likely.

It's treated as stock that comes in via purolator, kept under lock and key, and is sold only to authorized individuals and nothing more.

The UPC code on the outside of a case of thunderbolt .22s is the exact same as the ones on the small boxes on the inside. So, 500 rounds will scan the exact same as 50. Sometimes 10 boxes will get entered into the system as 1, because whoever scans them into stock won't realize that there's ten boxes inside the big one. (Which also has all the logos on it. Happens especially when pallet loads of ammunition come in before hunting season) As well, if somebody (Mind you, somebody not too familiar with the .22 ammo) were to set the shelf up for those without realizing they have to come out of the box, you'd be paying 3 bucks a brick. Chances are it'll get fixed soon enough.

And I don't think it's stealing when the customer brings the item (Or has the item carried, as anything that's locked up is, to prevent shoplifting) up to the cash, the cashier scans the UPC that's on the box (And the customer has not tampered with whatsoever) and the customer then pays the price the item scans for.

Morally wrong if the customer is aware of this error, no doubt, but not flat out theft either.
 
heavyBullet said:
Walking out the door with a brick and a smile on your face is one thing, but going back and cleaning them out is another.
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Agreed. Going back to really screw them over is IMO over the top.

I rented a tank for my mig welder's argon gas last summer('09). It was a good deal at a promotional offer of $50 a year for the large tank. This summer came and went and I thought for certain I would hear from them but didn't. I happened to need a new regulator for the tank, so I stopped in a few weeks ago. The guy told me their system wasn't recognizing my lease/rental on the tank, it had been entered as a purchase. I dealt with the same guy who rented me the tank last year, he is the only employee there. Although he didn't say anything to me about coming back, he gave me a good discount on the newer and better regulator than I had bought last year.
I am sure if you bring those bricks back to the store they will give you a good deal on them, and you will feel better about it in the end.
 
Isn't is funny how being morrally right in this world is called being on a high horse and is looked down upon and frowned upon. Calling on men to be men of character, our children need us to be leaders and honest ones, our wives need it, our girlfriends need it and our society needs it. What is wrong with trying to do the right thing regardless of what the law says, regardless of what the policy says? I can take all the criticism in the world for being on a high horse and speaking to a moral issue, can you man up and be men of character.....we as a country need you to be. What is so wrong with doing it?
 
You are a thief

The bottom line is you ripped them off and you knew it. You are a thief!
I wouldn't sell myself out for a couple of bucks.
I can only imagine what you would do if you saw a tree stand or a game camera out in the woods.
I guess you would take it and justify that the items were lost!



-JD- said:
Come on, I'm a honest person and all but you really think CT is gonna take a hit from this little screw up?

I know people who worked in their financial departement and this is peanuts compared to the losses they take on credit card fraud and they still offer credit cards don't they.

If this was my local gunshop I would say something but like I said before I'm sure CT won't notice the loss.
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JBD said:
Your still mixing up the two. As you stated the store owner owns the inventory. If someone pays for 1 and gets ten they are taking from the guy who owns the inventory. The mom and pop. They are not ripping of the landlord, distribution,marketing behemoth that is canadian tire corporation.

If you went to tim hortons and paid for one donut and the clerk made a mistake and gave a dozen. The store owner would be out his donuts TDL group would not be out anything.

If you went to walmat and the samething happened, well you would be taking the 9 boxes of rimfire from the heirs of sam walton and all the other shareholders of walmart stock.

My point in all this is not that any stealing is good. But rather to clear up the misconception that if you take inventory without paying you are not taking from the big canadian tire corp. You are actually taking from joe blow who is trying to meet his payroll on Friday. This distiction is lost on you even though you have worked one of the stores. It will most likely be lost upon someone who is dropping by to pick up some toilette paper.
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Fair enough... I'm a business owner myself (not retail and I don't stock inventory thank god) and I wasn't implying that theft is ever good. BTW my experience working for CT happened over 20 years ago when I was 15 years old and I am sure things have changed some. I remember they put me at the automotive parts desk even though I was too young to drive and knew nothing about cars... We had ancient parts in an area near the battery fill area including stuff from cars that didn't exist for many years like Packards and Morgans...

Jeff
 
Something about this seems fishy. If you informed them that the prices were wrong then yes generally they would sell them to you at the price but immediately pull the price from the shelf and not let you go back and buy them all for that price. I've worked in two different CT stores. They aren't going to let someone go back to keep getting items at the wrong price.

I had the same thing happen with two crates of shotgun shells at Walmart and although they sold them to me for the wrong price, they immediately went and pulled the price off the shelf until it was sorted out.
 
AFAIK, some stores can write it off, some will make employee pay for the mistake.
Just a couple of days ago, I went to buy a bottle of rum, $38 or so total, it rang as $15.... guess what I did....










sure enough, knowing it's a private store and the young girl behind counter will be in trouble, I mentioned that to her ... and she charged me the correct amount.
Cambodian Tire (a.k.a. Tired Canadian) may have been a different story :)
 
trebor2880 said:
How many people rushed to their CTC to see if they could get a "deal", and when they couldn't, wrote in to condem this lucky ba*turd?!
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I dunno. I bet at least some here wouldn't waste their time for the amount of money the OP saved. Some would just dream about all the coin returns they wouldn't have to fondle......
 
SKYNET said:
Canadian Tire is a piece of crap store. The greater Toronto area ones only sell pellets... and you still need to show pal. They used to give 5% CT money

now they give .02%. I feel no pity for them and I'm not going to scold the dishonest guy either.

Think I'll start calling them Liberal Tire.
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WRONG.

CT on Lakeshore near the Beaches has ammo.
 
dizzy said:
Isn't is funny how being morrally right in this world is called being on a high horse and is looked down upon and frowned upon. Calling on men to be men of character, our children need us to be leaders and honest ones, our wives need it, our girlfriends need it and our society needs it. What is wrong with trying to do the right thing regardless of what the law says, regardless of what the policy says? I can take all the criticism in the world for being on a high horse and speaking to a moral issue, can you man up and be men of character.....we as a country need you to be. What is so wrong with doing it?
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If you had simply stated that in the OP's position you would not have done it, then you would be morally right. Whining about it here and the pile of doozies in that post right there is being on a high horse. Actually, it goes beyond high horse into some sort of dramatic attention seeking. Please, do not confuse this with anyone thinking you are wrong, morally, it may be considered wrong to take advantage of a pricing error. Jaywalking as well, I find to be a horrible strain on our society, and it harms our children and wives and such to the same or even greater degree, but everyone thinks I am crazy when I rant about this.
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I used to work at the sports dept of the local CT when I went to college.

Canadian Tire's policy states that if there is a price on the shelf for that product, that price must be honoured.

The OP did nothing wrong, CT screwed themselves this time.

Calling a person a thief who isn't one, is almost as bad as being one.
 
Hokus Grey said:
Canadian Tire's policy states that if there is a price on the shelf for that product, that price must be honoured.
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Ah-hah! I bet the price on the shelf did not say $3.50 per BRICK.

Do try and keep up with the conversation, dear boy. It will help with the relevance of your posts......cou:
 
joe-nwt said:
Ah-hah! I bet the price on the shelf did not say $3.50 per BRICK.

Do try and keep up with the conversation, dear boy. It will help with the relevance of your posts......cou:
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Actually the price on the shelf for the blazers said $2.99, there was no price on the shelf for the thunderbolts.
 
dizzy said:
Isn't is funny how being morrally right in this world is called being on a high horse and is looked down upon and frowned upon. Calling on men to be men of character, our children need us to be leaders and honest ones, our wives need it, our girlfriends need it and our society needs it. What is wrong with trying to do the right thing regardless of what the law says, regardless of what the policy says? I can take all the criticism in the world for being on a high horse and speaking to a moral issue, can you man up and be men of character.....we as a country need you to be. What is so wrong with doing it?
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Judging a person wrongly, without any evidence to support your conclusions makes you a good man of character? Hmm, sorry, but to me, your moralities come into question when it seems more important to you to rant about how great you are, rather than real justice and honesty. If you would be so kind as to actually read what I posted, you would see I was honest with the store and upfront about the mistake. Now to me, I think that was fulfilling my duty and desire to be a man of good character. What we as a country do NOT need, is another man making false accusations of anything and everything that trips his moral judgometer, especially when it is skewed.
 
J_MIL_20 said:
Judging a person wrongly, without any evidence to support your conclusions makes you a good man of character? Hmm, sorry, but to me, your moralities come into question when it seems more important to you to rant about how great you are, rather than real justice and honesty. If you would be so kind as to actually read what I posted, you would see I was honest with the store and upfront about the mistake. Now to me, I think that was fulfilling my duty and desire to be a man of good character. What we as a country do NOT need, is another man making false accusations of anything and everything that trips his moral judgometer, especially when it is skewed.
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So let me get this straight. Calling men to be men of character is wrong, in your books??? you may have done everything right, I don't know I wasn't there but calling out men to be honest, moral, and self policing is never wrong to do, if you don't like it then that speaks more to your character than anything you did at Canadian tire. all the best. Some folks likes to learn and improve others don't
 
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