Shoplifting has become a major problem for retail stores. Where I work, they are installing more and more security cases that force the customer to find an associate to unlock the product for them and since there’s less and less associates, a lot of customers are choosing to go elsewhere or shop online. Read More…
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25 Evil Packaging Designs
This is from Bored Panda, and it boggles the mind that these are even LEGAL. People come in to my store all the time and claim “FALSE ADVERTISING!” because we have a sign in the wrong place, but these all scream False Advertising! more than anything I’ve ever seen. Seriously on #11, is it legal Read More…
Suspected Lakeland Walmart shoplifter dies after being detained
This news article was posted on a Facebook page for Walmart employees and the responses were all over the board. Of course everyone was sad about a person dying, but there were varying opinions about the whole thing. Some felt the employees shouldn’t have confronted him and thus contributed to his death, although it’s unknown Read More…
Is That A Python In Your Pants, Or Are You Happy To See Me?
Here’s another thief with some balls, although he put them at risk by his brazen theft of a python. I wonder if he walked around for a while trying to impress the ladies, or realized that his future sterility was at stake and he de-snaked as soon as possible…
7 Security Guard Confessions
This is another great article from cracked.com, and while I wasn’t a Loss Prevention Agent, I can tell you from my retail experience that it’s all true. (Well, maybe not the fitting room part, since I never worked in a store that had one, but it seems logical and I’m definitely wearing clean underwear the Read More…
A Clever Crook Rips Off A Wal-Mart
Ok, you’ve got to give this guy points for creativity on this one. In Fairfax, Virgina he walked into a Wal-Mart wearing an employee vest (do they sell those on EBay or did he just grab one from their breakroom?) and went up to a register and told a cashier that they needed to Read More…
Retail: It’s A Dangerous World
Unfortunately as times continue to get tougher for many, people may choose to do stupid things in an effort to offset declining or non-existent wages. As such, many of those stupid things are carried out in retail establishments across the nation. At any given time, without warning, we may find ourselves in the middle of Read More…
‘Tis The Season …
As most of you may know (okay, maybe some of you don’t), shoplifting is a prevalent, everyday crime committed against retailers on all types. It happens in affluent areas just as it does in the poorer areas of the country. According to NASP (National Association for Shoplifting Prevention, link below) there are approximately 27 million Read More…
Georgia Teens Ransack a Walmart Caught on Video
This must happen where I work almost every day, because the toy aisle and some other sections do in fact look like they were ransacked by an unruly gang of 50 teenagers. At least this Walmart manager knew it was intentional. The best part is that the ringleader ended up getting Read More…
Customer Calls The Cops on Himself
We’ve probably all had a customer threaten to call their attorney when they don’t get what they want and occasionally they threaten to call the police as well. For some reason they think this will intimidate us into giving them their refund or whatever they’re unreasonably expecting, but it has the opposite Read More…