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Adreanna Shelton and her nine year old daughter Gray were at the Dollar Tree on South Bend Avenue shopping for a gift for Gray's teacher when Gray reached for a candle on the shelf.

"We're smelling candles, and she picked up a candle to smell and tilted it back and it literally, liquid, went down her. At first we were like maybe it's just water, and as we were just walking through the store we get a foul smell and Gray goes, 'mom my shirt really stinks,'" said Shelton.

That smell was urine sitting in the candle on the store shelf.

Appalled by the stain and smell on her daughters shirt, Shelton went to a manager searching for answers.

The store manager offered her a shirt as a replacement.

"They have been telling me this has been happening over a month, and they're not able to catch the person doing it, and there's no cameras down the aisle where he is doing it, so the store employees, the manager, has asked corporate to put in cameras in those areas. And corporate just doesn't want to pay for those,"said Shelton.

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[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why would they not move the candles to be within view of the cashiers/existing cameras after the first or second incident?

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I presume the positioning of stock is carefully managed (especially as, I believe, companies can pay extra for better locations) and/or no one cares (is paid enough) enough to bother.

[–] GroundedGator@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Based on John Oliver, I'd say the later is true.

https://youtu.be/p4QGOHahiVM

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 6 points 1 month ago

Going by the report and the comments, there are usually too few employees to man the store and the security cameras are fake, obviously so because they sell the same ones. Given the level of neglect and violence, a bit of piss in some candles is the least of their worries.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The pisser is probably just gonna piss on that shelf no matter what product is on it because they may have surmised it's in a blind spot.

[–] ravhall@discuss.online 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It was a Goop candle I’m betting.

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ah yes, I forgot about the range A Splash of Paltrow.

[–] ravhall@discuss.online 5 points 1 month ago

Golden Gwyneth

[–] tpihkal@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I'll put it next to my Belle Bath Water Candle™.

[–] AnarchistArtificer 7 points 1 month ago

"The manager said Dollar Tree has been in contact with police and are trying to find who is urinating in the candles."

What a sentence