Steal from Whole Foods? Get Banned for Life

Woman who frequents Whole Foods spends $180 on groceries, accidentally doesn't pay for a case of water (worth about $5) that is hidden by her gym bag. Gets stopped by security, explains the mistake, and is detained and banned from the store.

Eventually, Whole Foods apologized with a whopping $25 gift card, which will get you roughly a half pound of turkey and a kale smoothie.

Ironic that Whole Foods is sensitive to someone stealing from them. I feel robbed every time I leave that place (yet I keep going back )

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A woman who mistakenly left Whole Foods without paying for a case of water was detained by the grocery store's security guards and banned from shopping in the store ever again.

Marni Sky, a frequent shopper at the Yorkville Whole Foods location, put a case of water in her shopping cart last week. She said the water was obscured by her gym bag in the bottom of the cart. After paying for the rest of her groceries — $180 in total — she says she was "arrested" by a security guard while attempting to leave the store. But the security guard made her get out of the elevator she was in, detained her for a time and then banned her from ever shopping at that Whole Foods store again.

"Accosting her in a crowded elevator in front of 15 other customers (accomplices perhaps?), he loudly (and proudly) proclaimed, 'Miss, you are under arrest. You stole water from us and I am going to have to take you in,'" wrote Shimmerman. "I kid you not, the lad said 'take you in.'"

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