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Chairs ‘stolen’ from a Queenstown café have been returned by a confused shopper.
The mysterious case of the exchange of the stools of a Queenstown café for new Kmart chairs has been solved.
Queenstown Police Sgt. Steve Watt said police had spoken to the elderly woman involved in the late-night exchange after her husband purchased four chairs from Kmart Frankton the day before.
The woman returned to the mall with the chairs and exchanged them for the stools at the Jamaica Blue Fine Coffees, located at the entrance to the Kmart store.
The cafe was closed at the time but Things She understands that the woman told a nearby security guard that she was the owner, and the guard helped her remove the stools.
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The bar stools were purchased at Kmart Queenstown and exchanged with a nearby café.
Watt said the woman was “apologetic and mortified” when she spoke to police this week.
“His explanation was that he went in to change the chairs and they told him that he could make a change.
“She believed that coffee was part of Kmart and she could change it for that.”
She denied telling the security guard that she was the owner of the cafe, Watt said.
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Jamaica Blue Fine Coffees, at the entrance to Kmart Queenstown.
CCTV footage showing the couple’s car license plates and public assistance helped police locate them.
The chairs had since been returned and the woman would not be charged, he said.
“It was a friendly reminder to make sure that when you change products in the future, you do so at the actual store you bought them from and not the cafe next door.”
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