Yup, that sounds about right. Only Billy and Connie can get away with it. 🤣

It's okay. Walmart would've put them out of business anyway.

@@gearheadgregwi that is true too. Or Target. 😁

Charlie grow up to become a crackhead and spent most his life in and out of jail for shop robberys 😁🥴🤪😜😝😛😋😆😅😂🤣😭

And you live in mommy’s basement

Ya, and she's probably going to feel pretty embarrassed once they contact her parents at their home in a retirement community somewhere in Florida.

😂😂😂😂

Reminds me of that Walk Hard movie with John C Reilly. In the beginning he yells at his family that he's leaving and the female playing his girlfriend yells "I'm going with him because I'm his twelve year old girlfriend." and it's blatantly obvious it's a mid to late 30's woman in a dress and her hair in pigtails

​@@brianallison1913I remember this! One of my favorite films!

So BS real teens aren't used on this. They would act better for these incidents.

We used to be able to predict whether or not we were going to play basketball in the gym that day based on how high the PE teacher was.

Yeah so true, we used get these films on fridays like the last 2,5hours before we go home, if the teacher didn't had time to check our homework the day before.But we love it...lights off, beamer on and we throw papers balls at the girls to get their attention, miss those days

My substitute teacher looked and smelled like a fuckin homeless person....

So, basically.....you're white

Stupid lemming's judges did that 😅😂

I suspect that you're lying 🤥 about not stealing anything from the thrift store. I could be wrong, but I doubt it. If you'd steal from a place full of people, you would most certainly rob a store with only you in it. Have a good day and I hope you've given up your life of petty crimes.

​@@M60gunner1971or they were setting her up via camera to see if she would steal again.

@@M60gunner1971 You obviously learned a lot from this documentary!! Anyone who shoplifts doesn't have the intelligence o strength of character to operate in a free enterprise society!!

We bought our first VCR in 1983. I’m pretty sure it cost over 2k at the time.😂

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Weird now CDs 💿 are out of date

These days, it's any device with access to streaming services.

Now in 2023 it's the mob "Smash and grab!" 😂

Me TOO!!!

😂😂👍

If I get by.... Its MINE, mine all mine.

I'd been caught stealin' once, when I was five.@@fresatx

Go to California and you can just walk right out with up to 1k worth of stuff. No one will stop you.

Chimal?

A lot of these are obsolete now that everything has barcodes or an alarm tag. Back in these days, you could simply switch a price or put something in your pocket and walk out. Not so much anymore.

Remove the packaging. I see empty boxes laying around all of the time at Dollar General, Wal-Mart, etc.

it is also a good video for shopkeepers and others to know how this is done so they can better protect themself.

Cameras

@@somewhereinspace2166I used to use a 600ml wax coated flavoured milk container when I was younger, chocolate milk of course! Start with an empty container, cut a small square out of the base and then cut from the corners of the cutout to the corners of the container. Cut a straw short and tape it in the straw hole. Then you can walk around a store and place the carton over anything you wanted and it looked like you were doing nothing more than drinking a flavoured milk. Not my most honourable days, certainly, but I live an honest life now and give more to the community than I should. I often wonder if its my guilty conscience telling me to balance the ledger in a roundabout kind of way.

Thank you!

Hahaha, me too

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She is such a Con. And she brags like it's 1983!

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Connie done messed up the game 😂

That’s pretty much how it is now

Back in the day, they used to place items behind the counter but that all changed at the turn of the last century when everything came out for customers to touch. I shoplifted just once as a teenager. Grabbed three cassette tapes (I’m really era dating myself) and tried to walk out of the store with them. The security guard caught up with me outside, threatened me with arrest and that I was not to return to the store ever again. Scared the hell out of me. He also took the tapes. I think it was a Thrifty’s, which is now Rite Aid.

Ok kojak, I see you're on top of the case...

1800-1950s?

back in the olden days before piggly wiggly introduced the modern grocery store layout, you could either give your list to the guy at the counter at the store and he'd bring you your stuff or you could put in an order with the store and they'd deliver it to your house. which, you know, is where we're ending up again. probably because that's just what makes sense anyway.

So is that the original reason why strangers still approach a pregnant woman and start touching her belly?

The only thing worse would be owning a liquor or convenience and wondering which customer is about to put a gun in your face and rob you.

I worked for a mom and pop owned local grocery store back in high school in the early 90's. The owner was this old so-called Christian asshole that thought everyone was a damn thief, including his employees. He had video cameras on every square inch of that store. They did have these broke rednecks that would occasionally go in there and try to steal stuff, but it was misery working for his store, because you always felt like someone was constantly watching you. Luckily, I only worked there for about a year, during my senior year.

It’s bad enough being a contractor and the rare customer stiffs you 😒

That's why I feel for Dollar Generals and Family Dollar stores. They choose to put themselves in impoverished neighborhoods, predominantly black and brown neighborhoods where the bus ride to Walmart is too far for a few items, so they are to blame in that way. But that's the only way they can theoretically compete with Walmart I guess. Imagine being the manager at those stores. I have heard the shoplifting is INSANE and the corporation has to factor in something like 20% in losses right off the top. It doesn't help that those stores also make shoplifting so easy when there is no camera and the shelves reach the ceiling!

@@MWorsa Now THAT I can relate to, I was a general contractor for over 40 years, mostly small tenant improvement work. Commercial customers were better about not stiffing me than homeowners were.

Ya, I can't stand the upselling.

you sound paranoid

​@@brucesmith1544Develop a personality ❤

@D-jj5dy you've never shoplifted, right?

@@SpookyDollhouse exactly

@@brucesmith1544 ?

Does not suprise me a lot of Judges are crooks or henchmen for crooks ( Govt).

The first thing I ever stole was a Mars bar!

I heard about this guy that fraudulently acquired millions and millions of dollars in assets from a sketchy source. Now he regularly appears in the highest court of the land. He's a SCOTUS judge, and no, he's not going to recuse himself and you can't make him.

A Trump appointee, no doubt!

@@Cjnw Wrong. biden all the way. Some Republicans still are honest. No democrats are honest.

Jam is my favorite thing in the world I would have loved Connie

Turns out, what caused all these businesses was Walmart. They put more stores out of business than all the shoplifters ever did x100. And now Amazon is putting those corporations out of business, who put the small businesses out of business. But yeah, let's blame the shoplifters, and bootlick Walmart and Amazon.

I believe the masses are getting quite tired of it. "Somebody gonna get a hurt real bad" ~ Russel Peters

Now u have to steal up to 1k or some shit for it to even mean anything. Damn shame

The businesses that closed recently in California did not close due to shoplifting.

yes they did@@Hotshotter3000

Yeah the stereotype about libraries is that you check out something and legit forget to take it back, so that many years later you're like "oh god, I never returned that book on cotton production in the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic, I feel as if I have committed a mortal sin against God and mankind."

Same energy as stealing a balloon on Free Balloon Day.

Well that's no fun when you are a klepto

"Yeah, '71. That was my first year on the job. Bad year for libraries. Bad year for America. Hippies burning library cards, Abby Hoffman telling everybody to steal books. I don't judge a man by the length of his hair or the kind of music he listens to. Rock was never my bag. But you put on a pair of shoes when you walk into the New York Public Library, fella..."

Nobody said that 🐒's were smart. On that note, I am convinced that only the bookstore would be a safe and viable business. They can't read anyway and will just walk out.

The algorithm knows

The 80s called

Gibsons! Weavers! The Acme at the Malls Shopping Center! Kroger on 23rd street!

Security in this time is not allowed to touch or apprehend someone. Years back the personal injury attorneys would advertise call us if stopped by store security.

No, it's because society actually cared then. Thieves today are courted for Democrat votes and protected accordingly.

There were more human employees. BTW, Best Buy credits those for having minimal "shrink" even now.

You know what else is crazy? In the 50s and 60s you could work at a hardware store as an employee NOT an owner, just an employee... and be able to support your kids, have a stay at home wife, AND a house ... All paid for with that JOB... SO long to those days., I wish I was alive back in those days and not born into these days .... SMH.. @@myfriendgoo2816

Must have, not must of.

People were far less distracted and connected to their surroundings. This is indeed a factor, I manage and often deal with having to remind crew members of the same regulations nearly every day, in-between telling them to get off their phones and remove the airpods. When you're focused and present in mind, you retain information and absorb your surroundings; you build better habits that support a good work ethic. Imagine all of that mental energy spent on social media posts or online shopping and tiktok size meme vids being channeled towards job related tasks such as recognizing typical patterns displayed by shoplifters? You'd be surprised what you pick up on when you are where you are in mind as well as body!

That happens all the time my boi.

Dude I’ve seen people take entire desktop computers under a dress and walk right out the door.

A fat lady shoved a large flat screen tv up her dress and made it out of Walmart.

Mom whipped me good at 6 years old when she caught me with a stolen toy. I haven't shoplifted since.

@@MisterMikeTexas When I was 12 I got caught shoplifting and the store and the owner chose to prosecute. I did a perp walk to the cop car, they cuffed me, and then they called my mom from the station. She came in crying. Last time I ever shoplifted. Except for condoms when I was 15. I was too embarrassed to face the cashier, so I stuffed them in my sock.

I did loss prevention too, and never once cared. I wasn't paid enough to care. Only time I would say anything is if the sensors beeped, and I had to do something. But most of the time, the sensors were either malfunctioning and just beeping randomly, or not working entirely. So I didn't anything. I was paid $10/hour. Minimum wage = minimum effort. Pay me $100/hour, and I would've caught every shoplifter. Pay me $10/hour, and I won't catch any. Why should I care about your merchandise, when you don't care about me to pay me a livable wage? Most of the stuff people shoplifted were things I couldn't afford anyway. Like something that's $50, I would have to work 5 hours to buy that. And that assuming I didn't have to pay for rent, bills. utilities, food, gas, etc. What are they gonna do to me? Fire me? Ooh I'm so scared. I'll just get unemployment for 6 months, and get another minimum wage job.

Now look what we're putting up with.

Same here. Did they seriously think I was going to ruin someone's life while on a $6 an hour salary? Nah. Did they think I was gonna risk my life for the corporate overlords who don't care about me? Nah. When I did loss prevention, all I did was stand at the doors. If the sensors ever beeped, I'd just let them go. I'd of course do the whole charade of pretending like I cared what they potentially stole. But if they were on line, and showed a receipt, it was all good. Because it meant they bought something. I wasn't about to inspect their receipt, and check to see if every item was paid for. That's above my pay grade. Pay me more to do all that. They want to do a $60/hour job, but only pay me $6/hour. Nah. I'm gonna do a $6/hour job. If you want me to do a $60/hour job, pay me $60/hour. Otherwise you get what you pay for.

to be fair everything was a lot more affordable in the 80s, as a zoomer even with understanding inflation i am jealous of the prices you guys had back then

@@I_WANT_MY_SLAW companies cheap out and were suprised when gen x didint care, neither did millenials or zoomers, everyday i see more and more backlash against corporatism

Are you sure the security wasn’t helping themselves too? My buddy had an autozone manager sell him a car battery off the books when he couldn’t afford one with the exchange of his old one on top. Wouldn’t be surprised if the security was doing some off the books activity.

Good thing they were busy watching them so you didn't get caught.

We are not going to go there.

statistically, blacks steal a massively large percentage of the overall shrink

I know people who still play this bias. Girls in college and high school all the time would work together. The black "shoplifters" would wear the trashiest clothes they could and look shifty as possible. If they were confronted, they'd sometimes ham it up and make a loud scene about racism and "the man", diverting more attention on them. Either way, whether the black store-goers distraction was due to confrontation, or for being watched like hawks, the white "customers" would dress to the 9's, put on a posh accent, and muse to the employees/clerk about their vacations and summer homes. All eyes would be on the black friends, but then the other "Team B" white, posh-dressed friends would waltz in later and just "blend in" and buy a very cheap item to avert suspicion. They'd be lining their pockets while the white "rich Team A" decoys were hamming it up acting as if they would make some big purchase for their vacation or pool party. I can't even get mad at them. They made out like bandits and split the loot fairly. Zales was also famous in my town for being easy to nab from if you got a lot of black friends in hoodies to stand close to the cases and you got an eye for who was the most careless worker. Every teen/young adult in my area knew about or how to use the hilarious "racism glitch." You just had to have the correct amount of people, the right _kind_ of people for the role, and the right set up/props.

You should be prosecuted

i now put myself in embarrasing situation of asking if an item is free or not.. like sometimes there are newspapers the the doorr entrance. And it is hard to know if those are the freebies or not. I have seen sometimes people putting day old newspapers in that area to give away after they have read them as well. It takes a lot of expereinces in lots of different scenarios to have a common sense of what peoples intent is by leaving an item like breathmints next to a cash register. Some restraunts give away the breathmints to customers. And to make it easier for them they just put them in a bowl near the register instead of handing one to ever customer seated. Some customers don't want them and would throw them away.. and some do want them. And putting them next to the register seems like a good place for them. I think maybe your mother could have also been wrong. Did you ask the clerk when paying for the candy if it cost money and how people would know and know how much it costs?

Worked for a big box store where confronting a shoplifter was a fireable offense. We couldn't even accuse. Back then security wasn't camped out at the door so folks just walked out with carts filled with stuff.

Ah yes, back then when employees were treated well enough that they'd care if someone was stealing.

​@@pkmnan00bisgoes to show that they don't care about you.

20 years ago when I worked at Target, the security actually asked me to leave my register to help chase down a thief, so I did. No chance of that happening today.

When I did a paper round in the late 80's all the paperboys used to nick grumble mags from off the top shelf. Me included🥳

"Yes, I carry this carton of cigarettes around while I'm shopping. You got a problem with that?!?"

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Not the one in Bellevue. Two junior high aged kids were on bmx bikes soaked in mud from rain. They went into the Bellevue KMart, dumped their soaked and soiled clothes and replaced them with underwear, shoes and layers to thick jackets. It was hilarious.

Interesting. Back during my troubled teen years I went to a local Kmart with some school acquaintances, we had the intention of shoplifting. I got a bad vibe, so I refrained from touching anything, but my companions loaded up on some nonsensical items. I remember the little security guard waiting for us at the door, somehow put his arms around all three of us and escorted us into the security office. Not that any of us were struggling but it was mildly impressive how this little guy managed to get a decent hold of all three of us significantly larger males. The guy gave the least aggression to the kids that stuffed their pants with candy, slim jims, glass bottles of soda (dunno how this boy got 3 in those cargo pants) and I think a Numetal cd and a PS1 game (it was 1999), but he had plenty of attitude towards me despite having nothing on me. I get the feeling the guy got a bit too much pleasure out if busting people, maybe a sense of superiority, something I deprived him of it seems. The other boys got their parents called, whereas he called the police on me. The officer seemed somewhat annoyed with the security guard, and was pretty decent towards me, he escorted me back to school and after a brief explanation to the administrative desk clerk, left for more important things. The office lady basically just told me to go back to class and that was that. I kind of got lost in memory lane there, but you had a point, Kmart bagged me empty handed, but Walmart and Sears never did. I don't think it came down to the technology, from what I could see Kmarts was a bit behind in that matter, but it did seem that they did have active and dedicated staff watching the security cameras, and their stores were small enough for them to monitor, whereas Walmart and other places had more cameras, but it seemed only the management would watch the cameras and often times only in review of reported incidents; well documented but unmonitored. I have long since given up that sort of behavior and regret spending my younger years in that manner, I suppose the one positive is the perspective and growth that such experiences have given me as a starting point.

no they wouldn't, you think someone getting caught doing a crime thats that easy to get away with if you just never go to that store again is the crime that people run from the most

@@circleinforthecube5170 How old are you?

Sir, I need to see your receipt

@@user-oz2cs7mw5j there's no money in it now fool 15 20 years ago there was I remember walking out of Zeller's with GameCubes when they first came out Xboxes small flat screen TVs and why the hell would anyone move to California people who live there don't want to be there

It was 40 years ago when you could run from the cops just for fun. Then came K-9 technology.

Shoplifting used to be so much worse. Anyone who thinks it's bad now is either young or getting propaganda fed to them. Like the other commenter said you used to be able to run from the cops for fun now it's a prison sentence and then they'll probably kill you when they catch you

​@@user-oz2cs7mw5jstop believing right wing propaganda and look up a term called shrink and how it's being manipulated currently

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Another story from my retail job; some of the *employees* were in on it because they didn't get paid enough. They caught a ring of employees smuggling meat to resell in a "local" grocery store. Made hundreds a day. When the truck came in they said they were putting it on the shelves -- but loaded it into a car of a waiting family member. Since all of the workers in that section were in on it (and got a cut) no one noticed for months.

Funny, big paragraph like this means you never worked a day in your life. Welfare is something that needs to go away as you can do nothing all day and not starve to death.

@@Penoatle It isn't even a particularly "big" paragraph. There have been working-class leaders like August Bebel and William Z. Foster who wrote entire books.

Not an excuse and none of these stores ever paid a "livable age" so you just are being lazy and justifying yourself

@@troylee4196 speak for yourself. My grandfather worked a regular minimum wage job for entire life, and he was able to support a family of 5 kids, his wife, 2 dog, and 5 cats, have a nice fully furnished house in suburbs,with all the latest fancy appliances of the time, a tv, a refrigerator, 2 cars, had all his clothes tailor made, never struggled to put food on the table, go on a two week vacation every year, and he was able to retire at retirement age, with a pension, and SS benefits.

Things were better back then. People were far more intelegent and respectful.

@@askjeevescosby2928 You mean, "intelligent"?

@ThatArabGirl10 spelled it wrong one time and hit the stupid check, now it corrects to it every time. And I said they were intelligent not that I was. Because I'm not. My brain is mashed potatoes.

@@askjeevescosby2928 As someone who dealt with rampant unchecked racism I'm glad your memories are fonder than mine.

@@SonNguyen-mk2wq why time period are you talking about? If you don't mind discussing.

They created this gaslighting buzzword called inflation. But inflation doesn't exist. Salaries are still the same as they were pre-pandemic. So how is it that all these corporations "need" to charge more, but they're paying their employees the same as they were previously? Where is this money going if not to paying the Salaries of their employees? Oh that's right, it's lining their own pocketbook. So who's the thieves here? The corporations.

Bidenomics ☹️

@@joeshmoe9978 BDS

Well well well...m

All the dozens 0f white people stealing, and you focus 9n the one black guy. Says a lot about you.

Terrible stereotype, also terrible stereo for your music. There were never any fellows of that pursuasion using boom boxes

1980s called in wants its inaccurate racist stereo type back.

They steal everything that isn't bolted to the floor at Dollar General.

one of my least favorite parts of being a cashier was having to cut off the hands of people my manager said were shoplifting, she never even let me see the security footage so i could be sure.. This is my story

@@JimTheCurator Well, the "handless" thieves WON'T do it again! 👍🤣

@@marcse7en They cut off their heads in other countries like Nigeria, China, etc.

@@puppylove3781 Hands or heads, one thing's for sure, they WON'T do it again! 🤣

100% of people named Mohammed agree. 😜

I saw a brother/sister duo get busted at a clothing store by a cop about 30 years ago. The sister looked liked she was about 6, and the brother looked to be about 10 or 11. Lord only knows what the hell they were stealing.

Thanks.. I will have a look.

Their jeans were very popular for sure.