Lidl products are popular: baskets, robot cooker… Customers are in demand and there are often shortages of stock. In the vicinity of Toulouse, in Haute-Garonne, some lucky buyers were able to obtain items from the distributor at a lower price on the Internet. It was actually an employee of a store in the region, who used the stocks of “unsaleable” products in the store in order to resell them for her profit, reveals La Dépêche du Midi. This would have embezzled 3,000 objects, worth 60,000 euros, according to our colleagues.

The dumpster for damaged items emptied a little too quickly

The employee was arrested after suspicion from the Lidl warehouse which employed her. Site managers seemed to notice that the stock of tippers of damaged products, discarded due to breakage or manufacturing defects, was shrinking. A complaint has been filed. According to the regional daily, when the police are seized from the home of the employee in question, it is a real “branch” or a “subsidiary” Lidl that they have discovered. Hundreds of boxes, containing both food and household appliances, stored at home, occupying a large space in her living space.

His companion was also implicated. Both reportedly recognized the trafficking in police custody. The prosecution sent them to court in a so-called guilty plea hearing scheduled for March.