This happened a few weeks ago and I finally decided to write about it.
Bg: when the main cashier goes on break or lunch the photo tech or the girl in cosmetics covers the front for them. /end bg
One afternoon I come in for a closing shift. I'm scheduled to work cosmetics this evening instead of the main register. As I leave the break room my SM see me and as we're walking to the office tells me someone stole a bunch of stuff yesterday from cosmetics.
The dude came in while the cashier was on break and went behind the cosmetics register and opened the fragrance cases (which weren't locked) and grabbed a bunch of fragrances, put them in a plastic <our store> bag. When he left he put the bag on the pile of paper towels next to the security gate, walked through the gate and grabbed the bag from the other side thus not setting off the alarm.
That took place on I believe a wednesday (the days of the week this took place on have become fuzzy). My SM was telling me this on Thursday afternoon. She showed me his picture off the security cam so I could know who to look for, cause we suspected he'd be back.
So later that afternoon a guy comes that looks kinda like the guy on the security video so I call the manager on duty (not the emergency code) and go 'Umm. I think the dude's back. I'll watching him from cosmetics. Just thought I'd give you a heads up.'
He and SM come running while the thief walks over to photo. While at photo he goes behind the photo counter and grabs 6 Bluetooth headsets off the wall and puts them in his cart. But because we're keeping an eye on him he abandons them and leaves. But not before SM enquires as to what he did with the head sets.
Later that same night (and after SM had left for the night) he comes back and buys 5 candles. Confusing the hell out of all of us.
The next morning (Friday) I open and it's truck day so we have a lot of people there. And sometime before or around noon in strolls the same dude. This time I call our emergency code. I'm taking no chances. And he asks me if someone found his id that he left last night when he bought some candles. Wtf? And as I've called the emergency code most of the managers and co workers we're up front. When he leaves empty handed several people follow him at a distance while one of the managers call 911.
The manager that followed him calls the store from his cell and says the thief has gone in the movie store less then a block away and he and one of the stockers are keeping an eye on him.
Around this time the SM's wondering where the cops are and has the manager who called 911 call the cop that responded the past few times on his cell.
Eventually Friendly Cop pulls up to the movie store and cuffs the thief. And they find out he had put a PS2 (it may have been a PS3) in his bag but since he had not left he didn't technically steal it. And cause he didn't have any of our merchandise on him Friendly Cop brings him back to our store (in cuffs) to review the videos.
SM buys us pizza after Friendly Cop leaves with the thief to celebrate. But we find out later that cause of some technicality he gets let go. *growls* Cause of him we lost a thousand dollars in merchandise and he's let free. Oh and there may have been two of them working together.
Sorry this is a but jumbled. I can't remember all the details.
Bg: when the main cashier goes on break or lunch the photo tech or the girl in cosmetics covers the front for them. /end bg
One afternoon I come in for a closing shift. I'm scheduled to work cosmetics this evening instead of the main register. As I leave the break room my SM see me and as we're walking to the office tells me someone stole a bunch of stuff yesterday from cosmetics.
The dude came in while the cashier was on break and went behind the cosmetics register and opened the fragrance cases (which weren't locked) and grabbed a bunch of fragrances, put them in a plastic <our store> bag. When he left he put the bag on the pile of paper towels next to the security gate, walked through the gate and grabbed the bag from the other side thus not setting off the alarm.
That took place on I believe a wednesday (the days of the week this took place on have become fuzzy). My SM was telling me this on Thursday afternoon. She showed me his picture off the security cam so I could know who to look for, cause we suspected he'd be back.
So later that afternoon a guy comes that looks kinda like the guy on the security video so I call the manager on duty (not the emergency code) and go 'Umm. I think the dude's back. I'll watching him from cosmetics. Just thought I'd give you a heads up.'
He and SM come running while the thief walks over to photo. While at photo he goes behind the photo counter and grabs 6 Bluetooth headsets off the wall and puts them in his cart. But because we're keeping an eye on him he abandons them and leaves. But not before SM enquires as to what he did with the head sets.
Later that same night (and after SM had left for the night) he comes back and buys 5 candles. Confusing the hell out of all of us.
The next morning (Friday) I open and it's truck day so we have a lot of people there. And sometime before or around noon in strolls the same dude. This time I call our emergency code. I'm taking no chances. And he asks me if someone found his id that he left last night when he bought some candles. Wtf? And as I've called the emergency code most of the managers and co workers we're up front. When he leaves empty handed several people follow him at a distance while one of the managers call 911.
The manager that followed him calls the store from his cell and says the thief has gone in the movie store less then a block away and he and one of the stockers are keeping an eye on him.
Around this time the SM's wondering where the cops are and has the manager who called 911 call the cop that responded the past few times on his cell.
Eventually Friendly Cop pulls up to the movie store and cuffs the thief. And they find out he had put a PS2 (it may have been a PS3) in his bag but since he had not left he didn't technically steal it. And cause he didn't have any of our merchandise on him Friendly Cop brings him back to our store (in cuffs) to review the videos.
SM buys us pizza after Friendly Cop leaves with the thief to celebrate. But we find out later that cause of some technicality he gets let go. *growls* Cause of him we lost a thousand dollars in merchandise and he's let free. Oh and there may have been two of them working together.
Sorry this is a but jumbled. I can't remember all the details.
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