A Kentucky Ford employee says a $1.95 chocolate chip cookie ended his 11-year career at the automaker after the company accused him of theft. Weeks later, he says his own bank records proved he had paid for the snack all along.
The case involves Kurt Kromm, a 60-year-old electrician who worked at Ford‘s Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville. The incident first came to light through original reporting by automotive journalist Phoebe Wall Howard in her Shifting Gears Substack. Local news outlet WKRC also reported the story. According to Howard, Ford later verified Kromm’s payment, offered to reinstate him with back pay, and reviewed how it handles similar cases.
