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Had some excitement at work. I was watching SCO as usual, and see SM walk by very fast on his cell phone. I hear him say "She hasn't gone through the register yet" and signal me to move away from the last register/paystation, which I do. A woman comes up to the last SCO, uses a scan-gun and all seems normal. Then SM approaches her after she pays and the receipt prints, starts going through her bags and matching items, then the cops show up. I think he was following her around.
Turns out she was a professional shoplifter and had a list of items to get for people. All expensive stuff like fruit bowls, shrimp, steaks/ground meat, etc. She brought her own bags, scanned the random cheaper items (and paid for those)...and walked out with the expensive stuff. She had been in the day before and done the same thing, SM was in but didn't catch her in time. The gun never popped for an audit either time. I wish I knew exactly what triggers the audit process.
(is it just me, or if these idiots use their own card should one store not be able to alert everyone else "hey guys, this card number is being used by a potential thief"...wait, that would make sense)
She was trespassed from the store and no charges were pressed (WTF, if they know she's done this before why not...maybe the dollar amount wasn't high enough). The key to getting a trespass order to stick is that everyone knows what she looks like and there is a manager readily available to quickly call the cops if needed. Somehow I have my doubts about this place getting their act together to do that...
In other news, I found someone attempting to use labels from the weigh-it-yourself scales in Produce by sticking them oh-so-carefully over the barcodes on pricy organic barcoded stuff. Not too surprising, but I wish I'd actually caught them in the act of trying to scan it (label was for four cents worth of bananas stuck on a 12 oz box of cereal, obviously it did not go through so they left it rather than risk being caught). Produce Manager was not amused. We've both been bitching about the scales; I've seen people add more of the same to a bag after weighing it, but not use the labels on other items before.
Turns out she was a professional shoplifter and had a list of items to get for people. All expensive stuff like fruit bowls, shrimp, steaks/ground meat, etc. She brought her own bags, scanned the random cheaper items (and paid for those)...and walked out with the expensive stuff. She had been in the day before and done the same thing, SM was in but didn't catch her in time. The gun never popped for an audit either time. I wish I knew exactly what triggers the audit process.
(is it just me, or if these idiots use their own card should one store not be able to alert everyone else "hey guys, this card number is being used by a potential thief"...wait, that would make sense)
She was trespassed from the store and no charges were pressed (WTF, if they know she's done this before why not...maybe the dollar amount wasn't high enough). The key to getting a trespass order to stick is that everyone knows what she looks like and there is a manager readily available to quickly call the cops if needed. Somehow I have my doubts about this place getting their act together to do that...
In other news, I found someone attempting to use labels from the weigh-it-yourself scales in Produce by sticking them oh-so-carefully over the barcodes on pricy organic barcoded stuff. Not too surprising, but I wish I'd actually caught them in the act of trying to scan it (label was for four cents worth of bananas stuck on a 12 oz box of cereal, obviously it did not go through so they left it rather than risk being caught). Produce Manager was not amused. We've both been bitching about the scales; I've seen people add more of the same to a bag after weighing it, but not use the labels on other items before.
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