ESSEX, Vt. - A Vermont grocery store clerk claims that he was fired after he tried to stop a purse thief, according to a WCAX report.Amir Shedyak had worked at the Hannaford supermarket in Essex for four years before the incident in August.
Shortly after Shedyak started his shift, a customer told him that a theft had just happened.“And he was like - an old lady’s purse just got stolen,” Shedyak told WCAX news.