[quote name='reddjoey']In case you don't know, cashiers and managers remember you. Every time you PM or ask a question that makes them go out of their way you increase your chances of being remembered.
I was a manager of a retail store, and even with foot traffic in the thousands, I could tell the" regulars". I PM'd things for repeat business, but I wasn't above checking up on prices when business was slowing down or to see if they were lying.
What you might not know is that store manager will check up his cashier and why the inventory isn't generating the right revenue. Also he has a district manager that will look at all the PM's and dock his bonus (or pay, or some other form of discipline) if he feels he is harming the bottom line. Then loss prevention gets involved. I'm sure it wouldn't take loss prevention long to pull the "tape" from the time of purchase on the receipts and work from there. A bit extreme, but I've seen "retail wanted posters" before
You are going unnoticed because the holiday traffic is high and honestly at this point you are almost stealing. It's cool to get a PM a couple days after a sale, but to take a printout that you know is no longer accurate and try and get them to match it, why not fire up photoshop and make your own sales papers[/QUOTE]
I can also concur being a former retail manager. I had a small volume store, $30 - $35K a week, but we knew all the problem people as soon as they walked in. Once one came in, they all came in within an hour. We used to pull merchandise from the shelves and deny them the items and save them for customers that actually needed them. When people come in and pick up 6 glucose monitors because they are free, you have to question a bit what they are doing with them.
Doing this on games and pts cards isn't harming anyone, but I always felt bad when someone came in and needed some health item at my store and I couldn't give it to them because some hoarder bought all 10 I had in stock for the week. Other managers of stores like BB might feel the same about product walking out of their store as well, though.
And it is stealing after any reasonable amount of time. Oddly enough, I find it more of a game when we are just price matching as a "sale" is going on, or using a coupon that may or may not of been used as intended, as long as I am acting within the limits of what the company allows, whether intentionally allowed or not. Even that is borderline dishonest, but the line has to be drawn somewhere.