Man caught stealing eggs from Loblaws charged with theft over $5,000
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VANCOUVER — Police working with Loblaws store security have managed to foil a brazen daytime robbery of the Grandview Highway Superstore location, the suspect almost making off with two dozen eggs valued at approximately $6,500.
The suspect, identified as 45-year-old Emil Durand, has been charged one count of grand larceny.
According to store security officer Geoff Michelson, the heist showed great planning with Durand knowing exactly where in the store his target was located, the Dairy and Eggs section, and when it would be accessible, normal store hours.
“He knew exactly what he was here for, walking right past several lower ticket items including a $15 head of iceberg lettuce and rent-to-own pack of President’s Choice® chicken breasts.”
Surveillance footage reveals that the suspect had visited the location many times prior in order to case the joint, each time purchasing a small amount of food to avoid suspicion.
“It’s very fortunate, we were able to intercept these luxury goods before they made it onto the streets,” said Michelson, referring to the 24 extra-large brown eggs. “Once they’ve had their barcodes sanded-off they’re basically untraceable.”
Police also suspect that Durand may have had help from a partner, the cashier working on the self-checkout that day, himself.
In response to the theft, Loblaws CEO Galen Weston Jr. announced he plans to use a portion of the grocery store chain’s record-breaking $1.3 billion profits to ramp-up store security measures across the country.
“We’re shocked and saddened by this theft and in an effort to curb future shoplifting will be introducing a number of new measures including moving dry pasta to a time-locked safe and placing explosive dye packs inside of bananas.
Yet despite the evidence collected, the larceny charges against Durand may not stick. Thus far police have been unable to obtain any eyewitness accounts of the theft with several shoppers explicitly telling police that “they didn’t see shit.”
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$15 for a head of lettuce is an exaggeration, they only cost $8. Broccoli on the other hand requires a generous loan shark.
A dozen eggs are about 6.50. I thought I was seeing things.
3.89 to 4.39 here
Still ridiculous as we were used to .89 to 2.89
But it isn't inflation, it's aviary flu and the resulting deaths of some 60 million chickens.
Some of us know that, but evidently not all.
It's obviously the fault of the POTUS, /S
At that price I hope that they were extra large grade AA.
Time to go to Tractor Supply and get some chickens.
Have some of them yard eggs....
The ducks are mating like crazy and we are keeping an eye on their favorite nests.
With the amount of eggs we use it would be too labor intensive and a heavy monetary investment that wouldn't gain us anything. I'll stick to robbing banks so I can buy eggs
I thought you were going to blame the wildlife around there...Haha
We are too close together around here. I should try it with one or two just to drive my neighbors nuts.
I would have trouble with the wildlife, too, especially raccoons, coyotes, and foxes
One of my employees has chickens, so we joke that we should have been all set, but they're getting too old to lay. A real farmer would have already had them in chicken pot pie, but she's too softhearted to do that.
I went to the store on Saturday to get ingredients for dinner. Mr G wanted to grab some eggs. I told him I needed a bank loan
$5.49 a dozen large here in Denver at Krogers. Situation made worse by a new law that laying hens be cage free that started January 1st
Since eggs here cost around a third of what they do in North America I wish I could go into the egg sales business but the shipping cost to half way around the world would price them too high. I enjoy eating eggs for almost all my breakfasts, and it hasn't exactly sent me into bankruptcy - scrambled eggs, soft-boiled eggs, ham and cheese omelettes (a double sin), sunny side up, egg soufflee, boiled bird eggs in my oatmeal, French toast, etc. etc.
There's a farmer's market near here that has them for $3.99 a dozen last time I checked, but it's 20 miles away, so I have to weigh in the price of gas and the irritation of driving that far just for eggs.