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[BladeoftheImmortal]

If you really need something. i don't see a problem. I think going after lobster is a bit much, though.

For OP, tell your higher ups in written form about the problem. Keep a record of your concerns and what you would do to fix the issue. if they try to bitch at you that you are under performing because of this. show them your records and how you've explicitly tried to warn them again and again. i'd say message them once a month until a review or something so they can't say you let it go too easily. The ball will be in their court, then.

 

[nampad]

Without going into too much detail, when I worked in retail I caught a girl (must have been mid 20s) trying to steal panties.

I called her out on it and she did not give a single fuck about getting caught (almost as if she wanted to) and then proceeded to take her shorts+panties off and chuck them at me.

Spoiler

she missed.

Target and white girls. I swear man.

I would watch that porn clip.

 

[RinsFury]

They are fucking scum. They could hit up retail stores worth hundreds if not thousands of dollars and not be called scum?

Shoplifters are the sole reason many stores go under. Fuck all of them, because at the end, they know what they are doing.

I shoplifted food and other necessities while homeless, you do what you have to do to survive. Not every shoplifter is scum.

 

[Violet_0]

I stole a bow once from a store

ever since then they know me only as "THIEF"

 

[Jebusman]

When I used to work for a home improvement/construction store, dude stole a chainsaw from under by nose by

1. Putting it in his pants
2. Getting on a pedal bike
3. Biking away

I wasn't even mad when I found out. Biking with a chainsaw in your pants seems terrible. Funny part was when we told the police, they knew exactly who we were talking about.

Other time was when I worked out in the Garden Center of same store (which was located outside), we have sold tags on a lot of larger plants/bushes/trees to let people know they're already taken.

Some woman came in, ripped the sold tag off some bush, ripped the price tag off a cheaper nearby shrub, slapped the cheaper price tag on it, and then took it into the store to try and ring it through (as the people in the store wouldn't know offhand what was being rung in wasn't in front of them).

When I confronted her about it, she claimed I was yelling at her (at the time I wasn't) and that I was doing this just because her kid had some sort of autoimmune disease. She was just sort of propping him up as a shield to any accusations. Eventually I did start yelling at her (just short of telling her to fuck off) and the store formally apologized later. She never did get the bush though. Mission accomplished.

 

[g11]

I accidentally shoplifted a 24 pack of water one time when I put it on the rack under the cart and forgot about it while doing the self checkout. Didn't realize until I got out to the parking lot. I went back in and told the lady working the self checkout about it and she just smiled and said something like "it'll be our little secret" and sent me on my way. I guess Wal-Mart isn't too worried about $4 of water.

 

[LegalEagleMike]

Used to work in a shoe store. People would try to put on the new shoes, stick their old ones in the box and walk out all the time. Often had to sarcastically tell them that they forgot to put their shoes back on. Sometimes theyd be moving quick and Id have to write down license plates.

 

[ty_hot]

why is there a bathroom inside the market?

 

[PSqueak]

[Card Thievery]

This story reminds me of the one time i could have stolen a bunch of Yugioh cards from 2 different places on the same day but i decided to do the right thing and not.

The first place was a small store that was among the few places in my town to carry the game at the time, i arrived the place and it was seemingly closed, but since i had gone all the way there and didn't want to admit defeat i tried entering anyway hoping it was open but the cashier was like at the bathroom or something. While the doors were indeed open, there was no one inside. After asking the nearby stores (it was a mini plaza) they told me the person who runs the shop hadn't shown up yet and it was supposed to be closed.

While the thought of being able to get away with it (because who would bother if only the YGO cards were missing?) did cross my mind, i did the right thing and just informed the people in the plaza that the place was unlocked with no one around.

Then on my way back home, there was a party at a local arcade and the parents were putting YGO cards in the decorations, i thought that would be easy to snag some, but who'd be so dastardly to steal cards from a kid's party?

 

[Rktk]

I used to work at Waitrose in the wine & spirits department. We didn't have security, the tags did nothing and they gave me a phone. This guy walks in, I recognised him from a card game in a pub 5 months prior where he bragged about stealing alcohol from shops. I called management and he threw a tantrum when he noticed he had a few eyes on him, swearing and all that, threw his basket to the floor screaming "I HAVEN'T DONE NOTHING!"

Had a lady hide booze in her pram and blame the baby.

 

[Frozenprince]

You don't even have to go to reddit, last time shoplifting was talked here, some people came to defend their shoplifting.

There truly is a defense force for everything in gaf.

Looool I remember that. It was a fucking communist arguing that him stealing shit was a big ole "take that" to capitalism.

 

[GSG Flash]

There was a kid in my class in highschool who used to steal music CDs from HMV and expensive electronics from Walmart and give them to the hot girls in class as "presents". It was extremely satisfying to hear one day that he got busted by a plainclothes officer outside the store and had to spend a night in jail.

 

[JackDT]

One time when I bought a salad at the grocery self-checkout and I threw it on the scale, the box was slightly touching the regular counter. So it would measure slightly less than 100% of the full weight. I could have fixed it, and I didn't. Probably at least 10 cents right there. That's all I got.

 

[n0razi]

I managed lots of restaurants and people always steal condiments (the large full bottles, not the free packets) and silverware. They will order something to-go and stop by the counter where they grab at least 5 sets of metal knives, forks, and spoons. Many times its a middle aged lady with kids. One time I called a lady out on it and she wrote a 1 star Yelp review for terrible customer service...

 

[jellies_two]

The supermarkets here are backing away from the self checkout sections because too many people were scanning one for the store then the next item went straight in the bag, repeat.

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]

The supermarkets here are backing away from the self checkout sections because too many people were scanning one for the store then the next item went straight in the bag, repeat.

Don't the bagging areas have scales to check item weight and flag down extra items?

 

[killamajig]

Looool I remember that. It was a fucking communist arguing that him stealing shit was a big ole "take that" to capitalism.

Like right in this thread?

I don't shoplift but it would be pretty easy for me to justify. If we accept the premise that everyone has a right to life then by extension everyone has a right to food. Furthermore, if my thieving is directed against a massive corporation it's obvious they also avoid paying their taxes which is itself a form of theft. So in effect a shoplifter who steals food from big business is only exercising his human rights and taking back what has already been stolen

If you're hungry, yeah, you have a right to take food, doesn't matter much who it's from as long as it's not someone in worse circumstances than you. It's more ethical to steal from the massive businesses though because they barely notice the loss and they're probably already insured for that kinda thing. Nobody really suffers if someone snags a lobster or two from Walmart. If you sneak into my house and empty my fridge that really hurts me though, so it's less moral.

I'm basically saying Robin Hood ethics can easily justify theft from a moral perspective. Steal from the rich (businesses) and give to the poor (people). From another point of view stealing from the rich is just levying a tax. If you still feel my logic is garbage you can send a letter of complaint to the Italian judge who ruled thusly: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36190557



1) True. Stealing from a small business wouldn't be as easy to justify. If your concern is that the farmers/producers will lose their livelihood, the justification is: "the governement will subsidize them anyway, they're not in danger, if things get real grim the government can cut its massive military budget to help the farmers."
2) Tricky to justify but still possible. You could argue that no individual would be responsible for the extreme losses and thus no individual would be wholly to blame. Taking a sandwich from Walmart doesn't make me responsible for the boss of Walmart consequently sacking his employees and shutting down the store. The responsibility for extreme losses would be dispersed in small increments among the community of thieves, each thief bearing a small part of the blame. But you could argue that the chief responsibility lies with the government. Instead of wasting money on a massive military the government should be providing people with a small basic income or a food/shelter security program

Addressed this point in an edit to my previous post but can repeat myself. My (hypothetical) individual action of snagging a sandwich doesn't make me responsible for people losing their jobs. Though if people did lose their jobs due to thieving, the blame would be more or less equally distributed among the thieves. No individual would be wholly responsible but every individual would be partially responsible.

Still easy to justify though because in the end, why do people steal food? Usually it's because they're hungry and/or poor/in need. You could argue, if so many people are stealing that a store has to close down, it's actually the governments fault that people were driven to steal. The government should be buying food and giving it to people for free, along with some basic shelter such as tents/sheds. Instead the government spends billions on military and/or space programs and other less important things, so people are driven to theft


Maybe, it depends. In my opinion it would never be right to break into someone's home to get food if there is a big business nearby, and usually there are. If there are no big businesses close by then it kinda depends how hungry you are. If you're literally dying of hunger sure, we're agreed, but it takes an average healthy person like a month to actually die from hunger. If someone hasn't eaten for three days but they've been otherwise healthy, they're probably not in mortal danger, but it still might be justifiable to break into someone's home and steal food. Of course, it would probably be better to just knock on the door and ask first, since they would likely say yes.

typist is full of bad ideas. Unfortunately they aren't the only one. smh.

 

[paperboywriter]

Used to work in a shoe store. People would try to put on the new shoes, stick their old ones in the box and walk out all the time. Often had to sarcastically tell them that they forgot to put their shoes back on. Sometimes theyd be moving quick and Id have to write down license plates.

The real crime here is buying bottled water. Same thing happend to me with beer, my gf insisted on going back. I would not have done it.

 

[jellies_two]

Don't the bagging areas have scales to check item weight and flag down extra items?

Evidently it is too easy to fool

https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/amp....diy-shoplifters--swipers-20160802-gqjq7z.html

 

[Trouble]

Don't the bagging areas have scales to check item weight and flag down extra items?

I'm always setting those things off and the attendants just remotely clear it without checking anything almost every time.

 

[PhantomZone]

I was in a supermarket once, couple of blokes were doing a runner with a few bottles of vodka. Checkout lady asked me to run after them. Nope.

Female that is technically 4th in charge asked me to deal with suspect thieves (at worst hooligans being idiots while in the store).

This went against store policy (allowed to observe and watch but only a manager can confront and deal with them).

Two reasons why I didn't 1) could have gotten reprimanded for going against store procedure. 2) wasn't going to get belted while in a confrontation.


I do like having the store security role though, keeping an eye on people. I've caught kids pinching play cards, taking cans of drink, food packets etc. The more amusing ones are the big nappy packs, printers etc (amazes me how they can conceal giant items out of a store undetected).

Read a story months ago where someone stuck cheap earring barcodes over expensive items (attempted to get $1,000 of stuff for just $12).