without giving names or store numbers or divisions, can we have a thread that just describes some of the stories involving security at your store? it can be a funny incedent or maybe an heroic act.
488 (in McKinney, Texas) it is a small store and Old. We refer to it as the Ghetto side of town.Had two bad inventories to the Store manager decided to alternate employees and have a greeter ( ala Wal-Mart) during prime time selling , peek periods and weekend evenings. Had another inventory and it seems to be working as the theft of beer and high dollar items have dropped and there is someone there to check when those sensors go off then not deactivated when items are purchased.
was to many years ago to remember all the details but there was a co-manager that tackled a customer trying to steel beer and cigarettes as he got out the door. Sherman Texas police came and hauled the customer off and chewed the ass of the Co-manager for doing that. The customer was a known thief , by the police, but the customer was also HIV positive.
heh heh! we had a cingular cell phone booth in our store. why a grocery store was selling camcorders, i don't know, but we had a display of them. cingular guy wanders over, takes one, goes back to his booth, takes the camcorder out of it's box, and puts it in his personal cingular bag. of coarse he was seen, and the dumb managment team we had at the time, prepared to ambush him when he left. problem was, this guy was BIG! and all of they , puny. he leaves, and like a three stooges bit, all three of them rush out, for their "points" they grapple in the parking lot, with cingular guy throwing them off, and making a run for it. I'm watching from the door, laughing my ass off. I'm big myself, former bouncer, and had a short run as a por-wrestler. i offered to help from the begining, but nope. well, cingular makes it almost to his car, when they catch back up to him. they get him down, but he is choaking out the store manager. so i finally go out, slap a choak hold on him to get him to let go. fraking cops took forever i got screamed at for helping, and vowed never to help again. should have let the jerk get choaked out
our security wears uniforms and are contracted out.
So they have released a total of four of them for theft. I saw one eat a whole candy bar and he never paid for it, so I told. The other three were stealing through uscan, but were being helped by the cashier too. Cashier later was forced out.
At my store, when they are there they usually talk to the front end supervisors or sit at starbucks.
My store manager catches most of our thieves. He will take your picture if you are stealing. Our store doesn't have that much theft.
507 in Columbia TN. DON"T HAVE SECURITY!!!! Hell I don't think half the cameras work, I've seen the monitor. THe fat ba$tard up from plays like there's security when he see's potential shoplifters by getting on the intercom and saying "security scan isle whatever they're on". Its a fricking joke. I just have to laugh. This from a billion dollar company being run like a HajiMart.hahahahaha
