I have an irrational fear that someone is going to do this to me whenever I have to park the cart to go use the bathroom - what if one small object is removed while I'm peeing, and I don't even notice until I get all the way home?!

The total opposite of this happened once, and it was genuinely one of the weirdest experiences of my life. I was in the grocery store looking at packaged meats, and another lady comes up and parks her cart next to mine to look at them too. She starts making some choices, loading her arms up, but I'm not really paying attention because I'm comparing prices and thinking over my own selections... Until suddenly she starts putting the meat that she has chosen on top of my groceries, in my cart - that looked nothing like her empty cart, which she then grabbed the handle on and pushed away while I stood there watching, absolutely bewildered by what had just happened.

I did not buy the meats she had chosen for me, and I live in both fear and hope that our paths might someday cross again.

Learned this working a Black Friday once. Store didn't care who paid for the merchandise.

True story, I was grocery shopping and accidentally walked off with another shopper's full cart. I Pushed theirs around for several aisles before I realized it. I went back and got my cart, and wonder to this day if the other shopper ever got their cart back.

Life is much more than just law. Society, morals, friendship, love, kindness, fairness etc.

I've actually been told this earnestly by more than one idiot 😂

Sounds like a bad YouTube prank. Truly shitty though 👏

This is how you can get a mom killed.

You can actually just take their whole cart out without paying and the police will arrest them for stealing instead of you!

That a dood one. Had me rolling!

It still steal because other person have already paid part of the price for it. The price is time, energy to get that stuff and put in their cart.

If you want to get stuff from other people cart, you should ask, and tip that person $ for their work.