"Your daughter stole and she’s banned from the store, and we’re pressing charges"

The Post posted an Associated Press story on Thanksgiving that said Safeway corporate officials have apologized and since fired the guard: “Our policies on shoplifting are intended to protect our customers, but built on common sense. And everyone understands what common sense is,” said company spokesperson Cherie Myers.

Well, not exactly. “Common sense” means different things to different people.

This is the second high-profile apology from Safeway in the last few weeks, after a guard in one of its Hawaii store’s confronted and pressed charges against two parents who had been shopping with their toddler. The mother was 30 weeks pregnant at the time and claimed that hunger and fatigue had prompted her to munch on a sandwich and forget to pay for it. The couple was arrested anyway. Worse, they lost custody of their toddler for the night.