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Don’t Say Cheese

Rick Berry went to a CVS drug store in Richmond, Va., and asked if the store sold sliced cheese. The employee replied they did not. Then Berry, his roommate Philip Blackwell, and another customer noticed something odd: they were suddenly totally alone in the store. “We looked around for probably 30, 45 minutes and we couldn’t find anybody,” Blackwell said, until a police officer showed up — but couldn’t get in the locked doors. “The cop himself ended up opening up the emergency door, which set the alarm off,” Berry said. The officer finally found the employees — hiding in a locked room. The officer told the customers “that we need to leave premises or else we would be arrested for trespassing,” Berry said. A CVS spokesman later apologized and said the employee who called the police will be “interviewed” and “possibly retrained.” (MS/WRIC Richmond) ...That employee is now head of security.