Have you ever busted a shoplifter?

Badass

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nothing.

you can pretty much do nothing to someone suspected of shoplifting other than call them out on it and notify the police.

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nothing.

you can pretty much do nothing to someone suspected of shoplifting other than call them out on it and notify the police.

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I'm a little older then most here, but in highschool working with my friends at a K-Mart, we'd chase down shoplifters when they ran.
Usually caught them in the parking lot.
Once or twice we ended up in a neighborhood, jumping fences and shite then gang tackle the thug and wait for the security guy to come bring him back and have the police take them away.

I cannot imagine that taking place today.

Kinda like the keg parties in highschool that the parents used to host.

Those should be on the 'things you never see anymore' thread.

While in high school (in the 70's) I worked at a gas station at a mall. The gas station had a showroom with car accessories, etc. I caught about 5 shoplifters in that store! I would sit outside in my little office and watch people put radios, cb's, etc down their pants and would meet them at the door...the look on their faces was priceless.

I was real young in the 80s and we were in a Stage (actually before it was called Stage...Beall Ladymon or something?) and my sister saw someone placing clothes underneath the baby stroller. She told my mom who informed the manager. They busted him when he went to his car. He had over a thousand dollars worth of stolen items in his car, including items from different stores in the shopping center.

My mom wanted to remain anonymous because she was afraid the guy would find out who ratted him out. However the manager pulled the receipt and sent my mom a gift card for turning him in. She never used the card because she was afraid he would find out and hunt her down if she cashed it in.

Why are you looking down in the first place?

nope

I have not but my good friend is over loss prevention at the Macys in Lenox Mall. Not as much action in that affluent area but prior to that she was over the Macys at Arbor Place in Douglasville,Ga..

They would average 3 a day. She only got into physical altercations on rare occasions. Her SOP was to confront the criminal , with security, inside the store. Then talk nicely to them and tell them that by cooperating, they would possibly not be charged. Get them in the back and have the police come and arrest them.

I worked at a grocery store in highschool. One day my manager pulls some of us in the office and tells us to watch the surveillance tapes. Some guy in the meat section was videoed stuffing an entire (and expensive) beef tenderloin down his pants. He walked right on out the store that day and we never saw him again

No, but I busted some regional loss control operatives who were testing our system.

One stock clerk rolled a television out to the vehicle for them, while an assistant manager held the door open.