Julie is grocery shopping. She has her baby, Waldo, in the grocery cart. Waldo begins crying. To try to calm him down, Julie removes a box of animal crackers from the store shelf and gives a cracker to Waldo
Periodically during her shopping Julie gives Waldo another cracker to keep him quiet. When the cracker box is empty, Julie tosses it in a trash can. Upon checking out, she does not pay for the crackers. Which of the following is an accurate statement about this incident?
A) Julie has committed misdemeanor theft.
B) Julie has committed no offense because she never left the store with the crackers.
C) Julie has committed misdemeanor theft of service.
D) Julie has committed no offense because grocery stores recognize that parents commonly feed children food from the store shelves and the stores simply view the act as the cost of doing business.
A
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