Shoplifters... people who want the Five Finger Discount, or one of the main problems of high prices today...
One of the main factors of higher prices in any retail stores is because of these people...
So... lets share our tales of these people, how they stole something, almost stole something, getting caught, or big adventures in loss prevention...
Note: Don't list your workplace unless it is totally okay with your workplace to give out that info...
Here is one of my biggest stories:
This happen back in '06 back when I was first working for the W... I was in Lawn And Garden during Novbember after black friday sometime...
A CSM wanted me to come up front to cover a lunch at the door because during this time, there was only about 1 Door Greeter in the store for the whole day at a time... so, I said sure...
About 30 minutes in my stay at the door... I saw this customer with a plastic tub in here cart... a non-transparent one... and because where the door is I didn't see her check out at all... So... I waited for her to come to the door to check the tub out, but, at that moment there were so many customers leaving the store at that time... so I couldn't get to her fast enough when she hit the door...
Then... the door went off... right when she went through the sensors... and I know it was here... I just new it...
So, I tried getting to her, but as I said earlier, so many customer were leaving at once... But, that didn't stop me from following her... I went out the door, following her...
I did not ask her to stop at all, or forcefully to stop... I just followed her... asking for her receipt, NEVER saying anything of her stealing anything...
But... when she looks like she was going to her car... she went in a very weird way... like in this picture here...
She drops off the cart where the X is and starts walking away from it... I went to the cart, and opened up it, and found tons of electronics like cameras and such...
After I looked in the tub... I looked up the woman... and are eyes locked... then she ran off...
I took the cart to the customer service desk and let the person know that I recovered all this stuff and should let a CSM know about it... and went back to the door... after a couple minutes... a CSM wanted me to go to toys to help a customer... when I was in the process of helping that customer a CSM came up and told me that I saved over a thousand dollars worth of merchandise from that and the working asst. Manager wants to talk to me...
I went to the working manager and she wanted to buy me lunch because of that... I said I was only working a four hour shift so I don't have a lunch... So she told me to wait for a couple minutes and she came back and gave me a 10$ gift card to the store... Awesome... less then 1% of the amount I saved the store, but hey, I saved over a thousand dollars worth of items that day!
So, I was the man of the month for that! \\ \\ \\ \\
Also found out a year later that the thief was most likely my best friend's old X-Girlfriend... :shock:
Note: The thief was never caught from what I know...
So... that is my story... there are many more stories that I have... but those are for later......
So any stories that any of your want to share?
One of the main factors of higher prices in any retail stores is because of these people...
So... lets share our tales of these people, how they stole something, almost stole something, getting caught, or big adventures in loss prevention...
Note: Don't list your workplace unless it is totally okay with your workplace to give out that info...
Here is one of my biggest stories:
This happen back in '06 back when I was first working for the W... I was in Lawn And Garden during Novbember after black friday sometime...
A CSM wanted me to come up front to cover a lunch at the door because during this time, there was only about 1 Door Greeter in the store for the whole day at a time... so, I said sure...
About 30 minutes in my stay at the door... I saw this customer with a plastic tub in here cart... a non-transparent one... and because where the door is I didn't see her check out at all... So... I waited for her to come to the door to check the tub out, but, at that moment there were so many customers leaving the store at that time... so I couldn't get to her fast enough when she hit the door...
Then... the door went off... right when she went through the sensors... and I know it was here... I just new it...
So, I tried getting to her, but as I said earlier, so many customer were leaving at once... But, that didn't stop me from following her... I went out the door, following her...
I did not ask her to stop at all, or forcefully to stop... I just followed her... asking for her receipt, NEVER saying anything of her stealing anything...
But... when she looks like she was going to her car... she went in a very weird way... like in this picture here...
She drops off the cart where the X is and starts walking away from it... I went to the cart, and opened up it, and found tons of electronics like cameras and such...
After I looked in the tub... I looked up the woman... and are eyes locked... then she ran off...
I took the cart to the customer service desk and let the person know that I recovered all this stuff and should let a CSM know about it... and went back to the door... after a couple minutes... a CSM wanted me to go to toys to help a customer... when I was in the process of helping that customer a CSM came up and told me that I saved over a thousand dollars worth of merchandise from that and the working asst. Manager wants to talk to me...
I went to the working manager and she wanted to buy me lunch because of that... I said I was only working a four hour shift so I don't have a lunch... So she told me to wait for a couple minutes and she came back and gave me a 10$ gift card to the store... Awesome... less then 1% of the amount I saved the store, but hey, I saved over a thousand dollars worth of items that day!
So, I was the man of the month for that! \\ \\ \\ \\
Also found out a year later that the thief was most likely my best friend's old X-Girlfriend... :shock:
Note: The thief was never caught from what I know...
So... that is my story... there are many more stories that I have... but those are for later......
So any stories that any of your want to share?