Basically it is almost always easier to side with the abuser than to side with the abused and the victim.

I mean that's most stories frankly

i was confused because its used for nausea, pregnant woman uses it too, and its not illegal to carry it. unless she was planning to sell it for some reason.

It was later revealed that Pettipiece did scan the ham and asparagus

Absolutely insane this came to anything more than "please pay us for the ham and asparagus" from a check out clerk.

The need to arbitrarily ruin people's lives over any perceived infraction, because of some mythological view of law enforcement...

It's insane to me as a Canadian that thc is a controlled substance elsewhere. It's been legal ten years here and has caused literally zero problems.

Seems rather important to note the potential criminal liability one assumes when using self-checkout. You can be charged with crimes for a failure by the self-checkout system.

People seem to be losing all semblance of a social contract. Need to enforce every minor thing via over the top legal force.

No, the malfunctioning scanner did not cause this... The aggressive policing of these types of errors is what did. When it became clear the items weren't scanned, they should have turned her back to go pay for them, not arrest her right then and there

"In the aftermath of the arrest, with a torrent of headlines sweeping across the state, Pettipiece resigned from her role as an NCAA Division 1 softball coach at Valparaiso University," reported The Independent.

Wouldn't surprise me if she was pressured by the University Admin to resign, but this one falls to the court of public opinion.

It was later revealed that Pettipiece did scan the ham and asparagus, but Walmart's scanner failed to register the scans. Also, the vape pens contained no THC, and the anti-nausea pills didn't belong to her

Precisely because they spend all day at Walmart arresting people. Police work for corporations not the public. We're just responsible for funding them and their lawsuits with our tax dollars.

Because many people don't have any other options.

Because Walmart ate the smaller stores

Many don't have any other options. Whether because other options are too expensive or just don't exist. Shop there or just don't eat. Not much of a choice.

Well where I am the local grocery stores are where you go when you want to pay gas station chain prices at the grocery store.

Walmart gives it to you the cheapest available. So its like $2 vs $5 for a Gatorade and that's one item. I don't understand how anyone affords to shop anywhere else.

And yeah I feel you they are evil and the Waltons suck and the sales tax kills little kids in other countries through missle strikes and it all fucking sucks I feel you on that but damn at the end of the day I'm either going to blow my brains out about it or find the cheapest way to continue feeding me and my family. Which is unfortunately wal mart.

I envy the privelage one must have to be experiencing to ask questions like "why do people shop where its cheapest!?".

I have to scrape together change and some people drink $8 cups of coffee in the morning that they don't even finish I really don't get it maybe I should go back to school. I don't understand how people blow money comfortably like that it would keep me awake at night knowing I blew $8 on a single cup of coffee.

I see people driving brand new cars and smoking cigarettes in them and going out to clubs every night. What the fuck do these people do?? They can't ALL be drug dealers or jewel theifs or some shit. I really don't understand how it can be that way when I am drowning in debt from an extreme health injury I had to use credit cards to get through.

Idk this is getting off topic. People shop at the cheapest place because they can barely afford to breathe without it sending them into panic attacks about their financial situation.

People shop at Walmart because they're broke and have no other choice. They have the best prices, especially for people that can't afford Costco membership.