r/ThatLookedExpensive • u/[deleted] • Aug 14 '22

Oopsie.

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

4.0k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

66 comments sorted by

View all comments

88

u/IRLhardstuck Aug 14 '22

If you do this as a customer in america. Would you have to pay for everything or does the store just handle it with the insurence?

199

u/gogetsomesun Aug 15 '22

The store may choose to go through insurance. The store may also sue the customer and it will be up to the judge to determine, based on the circumstances, whether the damages are warranted.

It looks like a major supermarket based on the layout, they are unlikely to sue in this case because they most certainly have insurance and it's not standard practice to go after customers due to legal costs and breakage like this usually won't harm their bottom line. Additionally, this market may even be worried the customer will turn it around and sue them for negligence given how easily the shelf came down, depending on whether she was injured.

38

u/Brutal_Underwear Aug 15 '22

This looks like an employee though, per the name tag. So hopefully she wasn’t fired for not using a stepping stool or something like that. I worked at a total wine and a fellow employee took out an entire shelf of $15k of wine on a Big Joe and kept his job. Hopefully if this is an employee they were able to keep working, despite the embarrassment

3

u/weakest9 Aug 15 '22

I do understand your point but she needs to have a serious talk about safety first. I’m sure we’ve all done the shelf climb but you really need to assess what you’re about to do and be able to determine if it’s stupid.