You know the display of phones at the service desk ? Somebody stole one of the phones .... No retailer is going to display a real phone .. And if they did it surely wouldn't be on Velcro .
That reminds me of one of those "World's Dumbest Criminals" shows I saw one time. They showed two guys breaking into an electronics store and carrying out several tvs that were on display. None of the tvs had any works inside them. They were just for show. Keep in mind this was before the advent of flat panel tvs.
We had some girl try to steal a pregnancy test, lube, a turkey baster and toothpaste one time. I couldn't make this up if I tried. She was being watched for quite some time, and she's legit bat shiit crazy, so who knows what she was trying to get knocked up with.
We had one do that on the back dock. Went through the doors with the big "Employees Only" signs on them, walked around looking around, made her way to the back dock and dumped on the salvage trailer.
A man came in wanting sex change equipment. My hand to God: True story.
'He' looked like a cross between Brittany Spears and Chaz Bono, smelled like a man who'd recently gotten a hair permanent in the septic tank of a slaughter house, looked about as much like a man OR a woman as Jame Gumb in 'The Silence of the Lambs' did. This character had the tact of a hopped-up meth head in front of a police sergeant, and didn't care how loud 'his' voice carried (which was at our pharmacy, at the time occupied by elderly men and women) :
"HEY GODDAMMIT, MY DOCTOR REFERRED ME HERE TO THIS STORE!"
"Sir, what exactly are you looking for...?" said the startled but accomodating clerk.
"THE ASTRO-TRACK BUTT BLASTER! It includes a penile erector set, and hormone therapy guide booklet. WHERE IS IT?"
I wasn't the intervening manager, but I seriously wish I had been~
a couple years ago, my 11 year old son saw the plastic gift cards for $20 and took them thinking that they somehow already had the cashola loaded on them and were ready to go. he wasn't too happy when I explained to him how they work and then grounded him for the day.
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One time I was working in the dairy and this teenage female came up to me asking where the jugga juice is. She repeated herself three times before I could decipher she was asking for jug of juice (the cheap colored sugar water stuff). She about flew of the handle too! lol
Putting items from different departments in my area. I work in dairy and we have two refridgerated displays. I once found a 2 packets of sirloin steaks stuck behind a stack of yogurts. The usual stuff are cheese from the deli, organic products and juice. It has to be the customers because the employees will go up and ask me where to place an item.
We never could catch the person doing it, but we had someone stealing butter from one of my stores in Indy (Thompson and Emerson). And it was always the same kind: LOL Salted Butter quarters. They'd leave an empty package on the shelves that management would find during their store walks. Really messed up.
We also caught people stealing meat there, stuffing the meat in their pockets sans wrapper. That's super messed up.
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We never could catch the person doing it, but we had someone stealing butter from one of my stores in Indy (Thompson and Emerson). And it was always the same kind: LOL Salted Butter quarters. They'd leave an empty package on the shelves that management would find during their store walks. Really messed up.
We also caught people stealing meat there, stuffing the meat in their pockets sans wrapper. That's super messed up.
We have a guy who would get chicken from the chicken shop and then just eat it while he was walking around in the store and leave the wrapper somewhere...
Putting items from different departments in my area. I work in dairy and we have two refridgerated displays. I once found a 2 packets of sirloin steaks stuck behind a stack of yogurts. The usual stuff are cheese from the deli, organic products and juice. It has to be the customers because the employees will go up and ask me where to place an item.
Putting items from different departments in my area. I work in dairy and we have two refridgerated displays. I once found a 2 packets of sirloin steaks stuck behind a stack of yogurts. The usual stuff are cheese from the deli, organic products and juice. It has to be the customers because the employees will go up and ask me where to place an item.
Of course, they at least put it back in the REFRIGERATED section...What about when they stow it behind the bread...We used to have a lady at a different store I worked at who would hide close-to-expired stuff all around the store in places no one would ever think to look, and then her "friend", who was working in tandem, would come in two-three days later, know exactly where the stuff was hidden, and say that she bought it that day, and it was already expired. She would demand her money back, but after a while managers caught on to their scheme...
It was night and we were close to closing the deli, when this little kid comes over and stands near the people we were waiting on and starts rolling around screaming. He also had a squirt gun and he was spraying people with it. I asked the lady I was waiting on if he was her's and she was like "no way, I'd beat my kids senseless if they acted like that!" So anyway he was running back and forth, still screaming, and he sprayed the girl working in Donatos with his squirt gun. No parents in sight anywhere. So I went to take him up front (not an easy task because he kept running off, and I'd find him rolling around on the floor in an aisle.) The front end called his mom and she finally showed up. She was obviously drunk and probably high and had been in the liquor aisle. Kind of sad for the kid....he could have been carried off and she wouldn't have even noticed.
