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Aural Offramp said:
Seconding the issue of shrinkage being a pain in the ass for a retail employee. I used to work in cosmetics and the shrinkage that we became aware of at stocktaking time was breath taking. Interestingly we weren't even a pricy store: our makeup was around drug store price.

Some of the worst lifters were teen girls from local highschools and it got to the point where we were catching one or two a week who were still wearing their school uniforms. In the end our store called a couple of the schools and named names of students we had caught, frankly the schools were more upset than their parents... possibly due to the thefts taking place while wearing their uniform.

Also one of the things that really used to gross me out was seeing that people stole the "tester" products... Stolen busted ass tester mascara is the best way to get pinkeye!
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Quite telling that this website claims to be secure with its HTTPS, but is actually quite insecure.
 
simuliert said:
I had some friends in high school that did this shit - it was before tumblr but they had the same "fuck the system" ideology about it. They thought that Bath and Body Works charging $12 for body wash was a worse crime than their shoplifting.

The one who was worst about it would walk out of stores carrying things in plain sight, and if she got stopped she'd act embarrassed and start apologizing profusely and pretend like it was a mistake and she just forgot she was still carrying something. It actually worked most of the time for some idiotic reason. A different friend eventually got caught stealing from Yankee Candle.

Of course these were all white teenage girls.
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#thisiswhiteprivilege
 
simuliert said:
I had some friends in high school that did this shit - it was before tumblr but they had the same "fuck the system" ideology about it. They thought that Bath and Body Works charging $12 for body wash was a worse crime than their shoplifting.

The one who was worst about it would walk out of stores carrying things in plain sight, and if she got stopped she'd act embarrassed and start apologizing profusely and pretend like it was a mistake and she just forgot she was still carrying something. It actually worked most of the time for some idiotic reason. A different friend eventually got caught stealing from Yankee Candle.

Of course these were all white teenage girls.
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White people must be stopped.
 
While we don't actually have any security personnel at my store, most amateur shoplifters are pretty easy to stop at my place. The greatest weapon at our disposal is the in-store intercom. If I see someone lift something, I just run over to one of the phone handsets & rattle out some bullshit that everyone in the store can hear:

"Officer Clark, please scan aisles ten through twelve."
"Security to the Meat department. I repeat. Security to the Meat department."
"Officer Thomson, head to produce. Security team alpha, head to the front entrance."

Nine times out of ten this rattles them enough that they drop whatever they pocketed & walk out. (Lol) That last one actually had had the lifter I spotted two days ago sprint through the front door.
 
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This one made me laugh. Cocky shits.

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Arctic said:
Problem: Tumblr's SJWs are also spoiled white girls :lol:
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Solution: A one way ticket to Tehran.

Let see them try to shoplift where the penalties for theft are much harsher, and they know what actual oppression feels like.
Best part, they can't bitch about the locals and their filthy, filthy foreign ways because that would racist cultural imperialism from a anglo who needs to check her privilege.

Yaks said:
This one made me laugh. Cocky shits.
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Well, if you were going to shoplift a company to death, I'm cool with that one; because Hobby Lobby is as fuckwitted as WalMart or Chick Fil-A. I may not sympathize with the shoplifter, but I have open antipathy for Hobby Lobby. Fuck 'em.
 
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Benis said:
>tumblr has now devolved to a bunch of edgy teenage girls who commit crimes to "roleplay" or to "fight the system," and upload results to a public website that contains whatever personal info they put in

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Kill me already.
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endure the pain, for when the real world hits them and they fail to understand why they can't get a job or go to jail
 
Is it weird if I think someone like this kept stealing from me? Those head mirror things in my car are like, five bucks at most where I live. And someone broke into my car and stole it twice. Both times my phone, iPod and labtop were in there. But no, they stole the stupid head mirror and that's it. I mean if you are going to go out of
Your way to break into a car, why steal a cheap piece of crap?
 
ChuckSlaughter said:
This is because employees manage to turn this shit into a PR nightmare. All it takes is one employee who thinks they can punch the shoplifter or one brainiac to say "I know you people are in here stealin and i coughtcha today!"... lawsuits, protests. Not to mention if you have one serious racist working there who thinks every black person has pockets full of merchandise and acts on it.
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As someone who works for a large grocery/department store chain, I can confirm this.

In training, we were taught to never deal directly with a shoplifter for both legal reasons and personal safety(shoplifters can be unpredictable at times and can lash out when caught red handed).

I have personal experience dealing with a shoplifter; he was some short scrawny kid who looked like a highschool dropout. He bolted when I asked to see his receipt for some cheap shoes he had on him after he set off the security alarm. If I had touched him, me and the store could have had a big lawsuit and be worse off than just letting him get away.

Big companies can usually afford to let themselves get lifted because they make a lot of money selling everything else. A luxary small business owners usually don't have.
 
I'm too much of a puss to steal. I blame my Catholic upbringing.
This one time I was in Wal Mart because I needed a bag of cat food and a bubble stone for my fish. I didn't use a cart and the cat food was heavy so I put the bubble stone in my hoodie pouch so i wouldn't drop it. When I checked out and went home I was sitting on my couch while getting super high. I felt something weird in my hoodie pouch and pulled out the bubble stone, the bubble stone I DIDNT PAY FOR...
So what does my weed addled brain do? Forget about it because it's an honest mistake and bubble stones cost $1.50? Of course not! So I grab 8 quarters out of my laundry fund and return to Wal Mart. I walk around the store (it's like 1am at this point) and leave a quarter in various locations (I had a reason why I couldn't leave them all in one place, but I don't remember.) Then, my weed paranoia sets in and I'm afraid I'm going to be caught loitering the Wal Mart at 1am, so I buy like 5 frozen pizzas and some brownie mix to avoid suspicion.

Total stolen: $1.50
Total spent to make up for the total stolen: ~$40

God I'm lame.
 
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New pet peeve? People who steal multiple of the same thing "just because they can" / and or people who steal multiples of limited edition items just so "paying losers" can't have them. ^^
 
I stole a Kit Kat bar when I was like 3 or 4 years old from a convenience store in a mall. My mom didn't want to buy it for some reason. So, I put in my underwear when nobody was looking. I was caught when we walked out a few feet away from the store because I was walking funny. So I pretty much learned not to steal because you will look like a dumb kid with a candy bar in their pants.
 
One time when I was about 6 or 7 I accidentally walked out of Rite-Aid with a gardening catalog (grew up poor with no backyard or park nearby, so the gardens in these magazines were like exotic places) and I felt so bad about "stealing money from the workers" (mom always told me that stealing from anyone is always stealing from the poor) that I ended up running back to the store bawling with the crumpled magazine in my hand because I didn't want the workers to end up with their electricity or water shut off (common thing when I was little) . Walked out with an ice cream cone and an embarrassed Manager to my exasperated parents.

Meanwhile these people are stealing bikinis and makeup while claiming its fighting capitalism, which ultimately just means lower wages for workers who already get paid shit.
 
When I was like 4 I stole a pack of Fruit Stripes gum from a grocery store. I can't remember how or why. But it had Knuckles the echidna on it!
 
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