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    Old 08-21-2010, 05:04 PM
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    I ran errands today and also picked up a new rotary cutter Friskars Comfort grip $15.97 at the local Walmart. Not till I was home did I notice that one edge of the plastic form fitted package (the hinge part) was cut open. I was a little distressed and tried to get the cutter out through just that opening. No problem, I could easily remove the rotary cutter and slip it back in through the opening. I examined it and looked if it had been used. There was no lint or anything on it and it did not show wear. Now the test. I tried to cut some quilting quality fabric. Nothing! It did not cut anything. I pushed and went back and forth. Still no cut fabric at all. It appears to me that some one bought this cutter, took it home, cut the hing part off the plastic mold around the cutter, slipped the cutter out and switched blades, then brought it back to the store. Ugh!!!!! Lets hope it is not a quilter. I thought as a whole we were pretty nice and decent people. I also think this person has been doing it more often because I was trying to buy a rotary cutter months ago at another Walmart close to my home but there was but one cutter and I noticed it was open in the same area. I did not buy it and left it. Sick! Just be on the look out quilters and check before you buy.
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    thanks for letting us know
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    Old 08-21-2010, 05:11 PM
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    You know as sick as this sounds it doesn't surprise me!
    People today are just I don't know what to say! They steal everything possible!

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    Old 08-21-2010, 05:12 PM
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    Good to know I worked retail for 34.5 years and I could tell you many stories....
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    In Hancock's, people do all kind of really horrible things. Yesterday when I was talking to the manager she told me there were 4 cards from buttons in the yarn--no buttons and they were the really expensive ones. Someone took the buttons off and left the cards. It is really disgusting.
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    The manager at my local Hancocks said she was being robbed blind with her rotary blades.
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    Old 08-21-2010, 05:17 PM
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    Are they going to have to put things like this behind glass just to keep from being robbed blind?
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    Old 08-21-2010, 05:19 PM
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    I think so. If they don't, they'll have to go out of business.
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    Old 08-21-2010, 05:21 PM
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    Originally Posted by quilting Carol
    Good to know I worked retail for 34.5 years and I could tell you many stories....
    Right there with you. - I've worked retail since 1980! It's amazing what the thieves think of and do that us honest folks would not and could not even imagine anyone thinking of let alone doing!

    I found empty DVD cases hidden under some of our bead boxes on the shelf one day ---- 3 seasons of a TV show------ Show was get this ----- "Criminal Minds!" Two weeks later... I found 2 more empty DVD cases of ---- you guessed it ---- the next two seasons of the show for "Criminal Minds"!!!!
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    THE JOANN'S I GO TO THEY LOCK UP THE ROTARY BLADES AS FOLKS WERE TAKING THEM OUT OF THE PACKAGE, YOU HAVE TO ASK FOR THEM...
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