Walmart is Getting Tougher on Shoplifters Now…

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@cherokeepatti yeah, in my corner of the world there is an off duty cop parked in his vehicle and ready for shoplifters. according to the news they bust them from time to time.

I hate thieves and con men worse than politicians and tv preachers (oh wait...con men...)

@Pretzel One time when I was working at Walmart someone went out the door with a tv in a shopping cart, hadn’t paid and the alarm went off. He pushed it to his car and loaded and sped off. By the time he got home the cops were waiting for him and arrested him. Someone got his tag number and the police may have been familiar with this person, they went right to his home.

@cherokeepatti I always report crimes when I see them. Its one less person with those tendencies in my neighborhood.

@Crazywaterspring They have one employee plus cams watching 4 or more customers, pretty sure they don’t catch near all of them

@Crazywaterspring Some of the walmart cameras at SCO here catch that right away.

@CestManan I believe the real reason they started closing them at night was to cut back on shoplifting. There were some people at the coming in every night after midnight that the security wouldn’t go after because they were so mean and intimidating

@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout this is in Oklahoma though. They don’t have that here.

@Fluffybull For professional thieves it does. These weren’t ordinary shoplifters, they were a traveling theft ring.

@cherokeepatti I was being a bit facetious.......😉

@Fluffybull I drive by a lot of "buy here pay here" lots. They sell a lot of pickups and European cars. I guess a lot of people like ten year old ragged out BMWs.

@Oster1 yeah.

@ImperialAerosolKidFromEP they are too damned cheap to do that.The security needs bulletproof vests and helmets

@Stereoguy I don’t think so

@CestManan I wasn’t working that day. Some of the ones who were said they saw the chase in the store. One was running through the fabric department and didn’t even swerve around the fabric cutting table. Did a jump on top and jumped down and kept running. If anyone had accidentally been in their way they’d stampeded them.

@MethDozer No kidding. Not like walmart is going broke.

@CestManan Their sales have gone down this past year. When they do inventory and calculate the missing merchandise the prices will go up for the same items store. This is why prices may be lower in Walmart stores that have recently opened but as years go by and shoplifters increase the prices rise. This is you can buy Tylenol at a store in Ft Smith for half the price as the store I worked at 11 years ago. They will
Lose more paying customers at those stores with higher prices and the shoplifters will run them further into the ground. Paying customers will do price comparisons and shop elsewhere. And self checks have made it even worse especially for things like produce with price switching