That’s false as hell. When you order for online sale from a store, they go get it and lock it in a cage with your name on it. Electronically, they remove that paid for purchase off the inventory the second you buy it. The employees have no say in that.
The only way you get fukked is if someone was in the store holding it in their hand at the exact time you made the order, so the employee couldn’t get it.
You’re talking to someone who worked inventory at Best Buy, Walmart and target in my life. Hell and Costco. Lol. Employees can’t do shyt but steal them