Shop lifters

Wow.... I have never witnessed anyone shoplifting but like one poster said About the lightbulbs jacked from the box, ya I have noticed similar things.

I am a "see something say something" kind of person though. If I saw someone do it, I would make sure they paid. I would probably call the cops straight up. I have very little tolerance for stealing/cheating, fine with rebellious acts but not when it involves taking from someone else or hurting them even if it's just a big corporation.

Problem is jack wagons like this get FINED and often do not pay bc they are so poor or destitute or at least convince the judge that is the case.

Still. I guess if it was a mom and a child and she was say trying to steal baby formula or something that is a legitimate "need" I would maybe handle it differently and approach her

I do understand the frustration of others though.... Wth self checkouts eliminating many jobs and increased vulnerability to shoplifting I have to believe it's a calculated decision so I don't feel so bad but yes they use loss as a portion of costs
 

C'est Moi said:
I was in the checkout line at the Dollar Store recently, and a woman with an armload of stuff ran by me and out the door. (Stealing from the Dollar Store... seriously?? :D) The cashier watched her run and did nothing; she said it happens frequently. Apparently they are instructed to do nothing to try to stop the theft.
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You cannot do anything to a shopper until they leave the store. Trying to stop them inside the store is asking for trouble.
 
C'est Moi said:
Well, today I was buying groceries and fresh cherries were on sale. I hate buying tasteless fruit, so I filched a cherry and popped it into my mouth. šŸ˜¬ šŸ’ It was good, so I bought 2 pounds of 'em. I suppose they could have weighed me to see how much I owed for the pilfered fruit, but I'd have hit them with my purse.
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I always taste the cherries and grapes. A single cherry or grape - I don't make a meal of them. 90% of the time they're good and I buy them. Produce managers are pretty good at figuring out who's on the up and up with tasting.
 

I'd much rather see somebody pop a cherry or a grape into their mouth than have to buy fruit or vegetables that have been handled, poked, squeezed, etc. by some of the old ladies who seem to make a career out of this. I've developed a defensive maneuver of reaching up as high as I can for fruit that is hopefully out of reach of the old ladies. (Unfortunately, I'm not that tall myself.)

Remember the old commercial, "Please don't squeeze the Charmin?" They should put a sign like that in the produce section. Who cares if they squeeze the toilet paper, anyway? :rolleyes:
 
We are so naive shoppers. We think that the store raises the prices of items to cover shoplifting and that if shoplifting was eliminated the stores would lower their prices?

Really are we that naive? You must live in never never land.

The reality is the bottom line is all that counts no matter how it gets there.

I mean if someone goes through all the trouble of changing the item sticker to gain the difference between an apple and a pear? They deserve a break.

Most of that stuff gets thrown out anyway.
 
summer_sky said:
I would not report a suspected, or even known, shoplifting incident occurring in one of today's Corporate-owned stores. I am not running security for the Corporate Overlords who make their profits off the backs of under-paid and under-appreciated over-worked working class citizens struggling to put a roof over their families' heads.
However, If it were in a Ma&Pa shop (becoming a rarity in today's business model) I would most probably make the store owners aware of my suspicion/knowledge so they could handle the situation as they see fit.

I rebel against becoming an automatic "see something/say something" minion as the current fear mongering Surveillance State has been trying to steer society towards.
Morals and ethics in modern day society is changing and it is not the general population that are the "bad guys".
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1984 anyone?
 
Camper6 said:
There's a problem with prosecution when the lifter has not left the store. They can always say they intended to pay. If you arrest them outside they have no intent of paying.
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No......
People are and have been successfully prosecuted if they pass an area where they could have paid but choose not to.
 
Accidently walked out of WalMart with two bags of solar salt once. Couple more times I did it on purpose and no one cared. I quit getting solar salt there for a while. Too tempting. That was my foray into shoplifting. Don't get the appeal of saving twelve dollars and knowing I'm a thief. Stunk up my self-esteem. Anyway WalMart got their money back and more by charging me twice for items as usual. Never used the self-checkout yet, that seems like it would be a shoplifter's dream though.
 
What about the stores that stack stuff outside like Garden supplies and leave them there all night?

What is to stop someone from loading it in their trunk?

It really bugs me when they don't have a sign or anything indicating how you are supposed to pay for a bag of Earth. Do they expect me to carry it inside?

No one around to serve you. The service these days is abysmal.

They could at least have a phone number out there that you can contact someone on your cell phone.

Give me one day at those places and I would have it straightened out like you would never believe.
 

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