ShopliftingWhen I was young and impressionable and on holiday in France, I followed some friends into a sweet shop and we each stole something. I was so mortified by this, I returned them.
My lack of French hampered this somewhat - they had no idea why the small English boy wanted to add some chews to the open box, and saw it as an attempt by a nasty foreigner oik to contaminate their stock. Not my best day.
What have you lifted?
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chthonic, Thu 10 Jan 2008, 11:13)
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Inside JobI once worked for a major high street music shop. (Sounds like Dour Spice.)
Everyone who worked there nicked stuff, all the time. (The wages were shit, people saw it as 'legitimate'.) I knew a manager who had all sorts of goodies, like PS2s, SNES, not to mention loads of cds and dvds. You name it, folks nicked it. We were always pretty hard with 'civilians' we caught nicking cause that was a staff 'perk' obviously. There was one little kid who tried to pinch some cds once and wasn't too good at looking innocent, so we used the shop stereo to 'tip him off'. Been Caught Stealing, Shoplifters of the World Unite, you can guess the rest. He fled in tears and always came in to the shop with his mum after that. We knew who all the shoplifters were and had nicknames for them. 'Goldtooth', 'Big Knickers', etc. It got nastier in later years as the shoplifters became drug-driven. (See earlier posts.)
One member of staff was caught with a mobile and a bunch of cds once and 'fessed up' to this with a robust sneer. She was handed over to what she refered to as the 'feds' and lead away in the 'bracelets'. That was actually quite funny as it was well deserved.
BTW I work in a Bookshop now and we're wise to that reciept/refund scam, so watch out kids!
(, Thu 10 Jan 2008, 23:43, Reply)
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