Its not really a rant, its just me looking for information so that I can prove to the store PIC that I was right and she was wrong. Its all about right kicking the crap out of wrongs rude arse.
I also know a guy who worked for the Big Red "S" (a kroger company) who was fired after 29 years of service for giving a customer the product, in this case a can of split pee soup, when it rang up at the wrong price. Note that it was the policy of the company to do so when a product rang up wrong. However since he was so close to retiring they used it to fire him. He was fired by a young 20 something punk arse store supervisor who was on the fast track. It came out that he was told to "get rid of" Kyle by the Division Manager. In fact all store managers were told to do this to any emplyee that was close to retirement age. Kyle sued and so did the Meat Cutter who was also fired for missing a scheduled day to work do to the fact that his schedule was changed on his day off and he was not notified.
I know Kyle won a settlement, or resolution as he called it, but the meat cutter did not settle and wanted to go to court. I don't know how Johns case turned out.
But this was how the Big Red "S" did things in the late 80's and early 90's.
I can tell you horor stories for hours on the things that I know. When your dealing with profit measured in cents on the dollar, nasty things are planned and those who do not do as they are told find themselves out on the street or demoted back to some demeaning job like meat department clean up. Not a nice company to work for.