So, what's up with retail stores blatantly letting customer's shoplift..??

@cherokeepatti what i see is large amounts simply going out of stores like its nothing so if thats the argument they want to use the laws must be changed we will all suffer more you wait and see..

@SW-User the people who are stealing on a regular basis like that will often sell the stuff on sites like Ebay. They got a business going with it. When I worked at Walmart I would check out the clothes on Ebay and sometimes within a week or two of getting a certain style of clothing like women’s tunics you could find them on Ebay with the tags still on them and they had several in different sizes or colors of the same items. They wanted nearly as much as they were selling for in the store. So this law in California is probably creating small black market businesses for quite a few people.

@cherokeepatti regardless stores need to step up and tackle shoplifting otherwise whats the point of working??

@Stereoguy they’ll steal the stores blind and put them out of business. The stores are in business to make a profit and when there are losses in inventory they let their computers factor it up and increase the prices for those items. My friends works at Walmart and she said the price of Tylenol was almost double in our store than the one in Arkansas that she would shop at when she visited her family. Tylenol & other OTC items and cosmetics were heavily stolen at that store. Now they started locking up certain items like diabetic test strips, baby formula, fragrances, and other items stolen a lot. There is an area in Oklahoma City that they call a “food desert” because every time a grocery store goes in the area it’ll get shoplifted to the point they put them out of business within a few years. They are going on the 3rd store now within a few years after going on TV and making a big fuss about it.

@cherokeepatti exactly my point!!

@Stereoguy !!

@SW-User they have asset protection people but they go home after a certain time. When they get new people that need to be trained for other stores they would bring them to our store and train them there (more likely to catch people there) and sometimes have them working into the night. There were certain people bringing in merchandise to return and get cash. Back then you could do it if the entire price including sales tax was under $10. One woman would come in with two small children and repeatedly return items worth about $9, she would return, for example, decorative soap dishes of the very same style. One each day. Come back a few hours later and bring back a pack of Sharpies. and keep doing it till she started bringing back something different. She was well known not only in all of the Walmarts in this city but in the next city too. Asset Protection would communicate with other stores about it. But for some reason she never got caught and she always seemed to know when the Asset Protection people had gone home so she could get by with it and it made me think someone on the inside was telling her their schedule so she could do it.

@cherokeepatti people sure are crafty, for that amount its not even worth the trouble

@SW-User You’d think it wouldn’t be but it was like a little job for her. No telling what she took and kept for herself with each trip she entered the store. She would go to the cosmetic and pharmaceutical area and then go to the women’s clothing area. i believe she was shoving her shopping cart under a circular clothing racks filled with clothes. I would be told to go “zone” the area sometimes and find empty boxes that had Tylenol bottles in them under the clothes racks, and other things. Probably opened the packages and took the pills etc and threw the box down because they have those strips in them that can set off an alarm. I would see asset protection hiding behind a shelf looking at shoppers in that area but she was never there when they were doing it.

@cherokeepatti desperate and deadly

@SW-User what was funny was one time I took my break on the bench in the customer service area. She was standing in line ready to return one of her items to get cash. They told her the rule had been changed and now they had lowered the maximum amount to return for cash to $5. It made her mad and she started mouthing that she never heard such a thing etc. So she either had to find items that sold for 4.50 or less to get cash or bring in a receipt to prove that she actually paid for the item. Anyone can return the higher dollar items but you can’t get cash back without a receipt.

@cherokeepatti to prevent that i would ban returns unless its a high dollar item like $100 plus

@SW-User well one reason WM gets so much business is that customers know that they can return items if they aren’t happy with them for some reason, most things anyway. So people might stop shopping there very much rather than be stuck with something that doesn’t fit or isn’t right for what they needed it for, like a rug or whatever.

@cherokeepatti rug's are usually around 100 anyway well the good ones, plus banning returns will make customers shop in the store more and take their time still a win win