We havent had a loss prevention person for almpst a full 2 years after our local PD stopped doing it and now all of a sudden they get this bright idea to hire ONE yes ONE LP guy to cover 3 stores in an 80 mile radius. They also implemented this other "bright idea" to stream all cameras in those 3 stores to a room in the back of one of those stores, and this is this guys home for 12 hours a day. The guy came to our store today and started posting up crazy notices to employees about coats and drinks on the floor or in the coolers. Now, i can understand it to an extent but for me, i work in and out of the dairy cooler and frozen cooler for hours at a time and well, i need a damned jacket! Not only that but he has brought in 3 people to our store that do nothing but follow US around and dont so much as look the customers way. I feel the employees are being punished for working at a store in a small rural town with a **** economy that 4/10 customers steal from. Its wrong to think that the employees here are responsible, some of them very well may be but most are definately not. I'm just getting tired of lookign over my shoulder every 10 minutes and seeing one of those dudes staring at me like some weirdy when there are customers taking crap off the shelves and eating it then putting half of it back. yuck!
its easier to charge employees with theft than it is a customer, their following the money. I worked at a meijers and we had a guy get fired for stealing a cookie and drink, ufcw promised him if he admitted to what he stole the past few years he wouldnt be prosecuted, they lied, he got charged, fired and money was sent to meijers account.
Had an LP person come to my store and state that they would rather catch one employee stealing than catch 100 customers. They actually said that employees charching their cell phones could be considered theft.
Soem days I'll see courtesy clerks wander through self-checkout two and three times when they can't be clocked out on breaks. I've also see purchases (?) hidden in the cubby holes where the small plastic bags and paper wine bags are.
Customers who bring me wrappers, empty drink bottles, half-eaten food annoy me too but none of that compares to stuff just randomly left on shelves all over the store.
Thats funny, because I charge my cellphone at work sometimes. I don't consider it "theft" because I actually use my phone for work sometimes to relay important information. I can't do this unless I have a powered cellphone. If they ever did that and my phone was dead i'd just go ahead and cut communication off completely.
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I finally found one of those dudes walking around town on my day off and politely greeted him and made it firmly known that i do not appreciate being followed around the store and stared at like some thief after i have put in 25 years with the company and have not even had a single write up. I advised him i would pursue harrassment charges and possibly a restraining order on the guy doing it if it doesnt stop. It is really REALLY creeping me out.
i know courtesy clerks charge cell phones at work. i don't notice any body else doing it.
ya its sad. there was a king soopers down the way from where i lived that had a homeless man arrested because he was using the socket on the light pole on the far corner of the parking lot to keep his phone charged in case he was called for a job! (that king soopers never would give him an interview, he applied a good 4 times.).
Not uncommone where I work for people to charge their phone while on break in the break room and we do from time to time. Like one of you said earlier I use mine for work occasionally to call other store deli's when customers come to the wrong store to pick up a order. For some reason the phone in our deli won't allow outside calls.
Not uncommone where I work for people to charge their phone while on break in the break room and we do from time to time. Like one of you said earlier I use mine for work occasionally to call other store deli's when customers come to the wrong store to pick up a order. For some reason the phone in our deli won't allow outside calls.
"theft" of electricity is the stupidest **** in the universe. Unless you're transporting that power over a distance (say from one home to another) then the problem comes down to you being a penny pinching faggot.
Also, yeah, LP can go a little crazy sometimes.
-- Edited by BagBoy on Sunday 7th of April 2013 07:35:03 PM
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Weird, at my store I myself caught 50+ people trying to shoplift, even had to get physical with two of them. Our loss prevention does even better than me, she usually catches multiple people a day and isn't afraid to get physical with them either. If someone is stealing, they're in the wrong and deserve to be apprehended.
Weird, at my store I myself caught 50+ people trying to shoplift, even had to get physical with two of them. Our loss prevention does even better than me, she usually catches multiple people a day and isn't afraid to get physical with them either. If someone is stealing, they're in the wrong and deserve to be apprehended.
