Fun With Shoplifters. (Very Short)

[NightAngel]

A week or so ago some guys came in and shoplifted a bunch movies from us. We knew who did it but by the time we realized what had happened they were long gone.

So, tonight one of the guys comes back- he manages to open the entrance door before my CSR turns around- recognizes him, and says, "Oh, no. You'd best not be coming in here to steal again!"

Guy looks shocked, sputters, shuts the door and leaves practically at a dead run.

[blas]

NightAngel, what happened after that? Did anyone chase him down?

[NightAngel]

Well, no. That was the whole story.
I just thought it was amusing all unto itself but maybe you just had to be there.

[draggar]

It was funny, and now he's all paranoid. Double whammy fun!

[Becks]

Funny!!!!!!!

[HALFHUMANHALFZOMBIE]

Shoplifters and ages they should know better

Ages 6 to12: Don't know better
13 to 17: should know better but nothing new
18 to 29: Definately should know better but nothing to get real pissed off about.
30+: REally bites the cake

I heard of a guy who went to Menswear to grab a coat, the associate who worked there didn't realize he stole the coat until he just walked out of the store. He was like 50 something, That a$$hole should've known better. The associate was telling me she doesn't get paid enough money to chase down crooks like that.

[Killer Bees]

It's pretty difficult to steal stuff here. Everything has those electric tags on them or security bar codes that go beserk when you walk through the electronic doors.

The alarm that goes off is LOUD. Associates come from everywhere to stop you when those alarms go off.

Sometimes it's a false alarm because the checkers didn't scan the barcode properly to deactivate them.

[captainvegetable02]

Shoplifters and ages they should know better

Ages 6 to12: Don't know better

I have to disagree with that one...anyone over the age of 3 should know better than to take something that doesn't belong to them.

[GyroKat]

My aunt's ex-husband takes the cake... he stole CANDY from a gas station... As in, he weighed the bag, then added extra stuff. The kind of stuff that KIDS do!

He's 48. That's just pathetic.

[Andara Bledin]

By the time you're old enough to be going to school, you're old enough to know the rules regarding personal property.

About 5% of the time when I'm leaving a store, that stupid anti-theft alarm will go off. I have had clerks wave me through, I've had clerks completely ignore it. I have never had a clerk come to check on me.

^-.-^

[BookstoreEscapee]

About 5% of the time when I'm leaving a store, that stupid anti-theft alarm will go off. I have had clerks wave me through, I've had clerks completely ignore it. I have never had a clerk come to check on me.

^-.-^

Seriously, in the bookstore, whether we go check on the person sometimes depends entirely on how busy we are. If we are crazy the cashiers are likely to ignore it unless the customer comes back to the counter on their own, and hope someone on the floor will get it. Most of the time it's just something that accidentally didn't get deactivated (and every once in a while a tag just won't deactivate) or it's a tag on something they are wearing and not one of our products. And if it's someone we just rang up we are more likely to wave them through. I also used to try to notice people who beeped on the way in so I can tell them not to worry about it. And it's not like the thieves are going to actually stop and come back anyway...

I have a pair of pants that had a tag sewn into the inside of waistband next to the pocket, which I had never even noticed. I had been wearing them for months (they were corduroys and they were going smooth in the high-friction spots) and suddenly one morning while doing the displays next to the door they just started setting the alarm off. You'd think they would have been deactivated months before, what with all the time I spent on register. I had to go to the bathroom and cut the tag out to make it stop!

[NightAngel]

We stop people when they set off the alarm. Theives usually remove the bits that set the alarm off though.

If you carry a cel phone (sometimes digital cameras) that's what is setting off the alarm. I don't know why but some cel phones just do. I can have a person set off the alarm, have them place their cel on the counter and walk back through and they don't set it off. I can hold their phone and wave it between the posts and it'll go off.

Dunno. It just is.

[cinema guy]

My old hearing aid used to set of the alarm in Boots.

[deafcat24]

My cousin once shoplifted a chocolate bar in the store, when I was right behind him, his mother, brother, and sister were also there. He sneaked it into his back pocket.

However I couldn't chase him out of the store because I had my hands full and I would get into even bigger trouble then he would if I had followed him out without paying. However I told my aunt, and he was forced to return it, I was allowed to see it happen.

In the last two months I have accidentally taken a chocolate bar, a box of Hot Stuff pizzas from two different stores. So bad I walked out of the drug store with it in the bottom of the cart behind my cases of pop. I probably could have gotten away with the hot stuffs because the cashier at the grocery store wasn't paying attention, but fortunately my mom caught it, again behind a case of pop. Even if she didn't catch it, the carry out would have.

I immediately returned the chocoolate bar to the store, even though I was already outside. I didn't get in any trouble for it. Both times were by extreme accident. I thought the chocolate bar fell to the floor and I forgot the Hot Stuffs. I still go to both stores regularly.

[Naaman]

My old hearing aid used to set of the alarm in Boots.

The old till systems used to set off the alarms in Boots