I can understand if store employees want to keep an eye out for people shoplifting, but following shoppers around and hiding behind shelves watching them until they leave is just plain disrespectful.
You could have at least been a little bit more discrete, I could see your giant ugly glasses and disgusting stained sweater in plain view every time I went to a new aisle. I hope you heard me yell “you could at least pretend to be doing something”.
Even after I left you continued to point at me, telling your co-workers that I was stealing. It was pretty embarrassing standing there looking at oven mitts in my work uniform while you fucking stood there staring at me. It was my first and last time in there and I didn’t even purchase a thing… and since when is a dollar equal to $15? —Buck up
This article appears in May 6-12, 2010.
The last person I knew who stared down customers and was suspicious of everyone turned out to have stolen a hefty sum from her employer over a period of ten or so years.
MAN. Why don’t you cut your fucking hair?
If you didn’t look like you should be followed, you wouldn’t be.
HIPPIE.
so what did you steal dude anything good 🙂
it happens to a lot of kids. and some adults too. if you don’t lookthe part, don’t sweat it. but if you look like you might be a crackhead, then…..
Maybe it was a game of Tag, or Hide and Seek. Would be funny if you followed them around, pointing, and whispering.
Highfield Laser Tag, except instead of lasers it’s 9’s and instead of being “it” you simply refuse to co-operate with the 5-O
Anybody remember Menace II Society? “Hurry up and buy!”
should have gone all “falling down” on their ass…
“You think I’m a thief? Oh, you see, I’m not the thief. I’m not the one charging 85 cents for a *stinking* soda! You’re the thief. I’m just standing up for my rights as a consumer!”
Leaving without buying anything doesnt really help your case any though.
I hate when people do this to me. It was really bad when I was 14ish. I would also say things “they could at least pretend like they’re doing something”. But having been on the other end of it, it’s not always the person’s decision to be following someone around.
Oh and also from my retail experience, it’s fucking hard to prove that someone stole anything. The requirements to even stop someone are:
you have to see them put something in their pocket, you MUST watch them the entire time they’re there (because they could decided against it and just put the item down somewhere), and they must leave the store before you can do anything. I don’t know who has the time/luck to catch someone doing all that.
me and the bear… plus posse. rawk
Do you employ trained security Corbies in your establishment PG? Peck the glims out of any light-finger Svends seeking to redistribute the wealth.
haha, i think they have been following me to the shop…since the feeder made it’s appearance they have been making themselves right at home
i don’t really like oven mitts, the ugg gloves are ok…i prefer towels
Next time you get followed around the store and you decide to leave the store without buying anything, ask the person following you if the store carries some item which you KNOW the store doesn’t carry.
Like rectal flares?
LOL……that made me laugh TTFN
NtH, Corey and Trevor much?
at convenience store…
“do you carry tube socks?”
“no”
“fuck, that’s what I was lookin’ for”
and if your in a music store ask for a copy of “Oh Canada” . I have yet to find a store that carries it.
It is the perfect cover for perverts. When I come across bad floorwalkers I go to the front cash and ask to see the manager complaining of some pervert following me around and ogling me. Threaten to call the police. Pretend you had no idea it was a bad floorwalker. This kind of feedback usually results in staffing or security contractor changes at the store.
I just use O-Dogg’s style from Menace II Society: “Hey look, bitch, stop followin’ me around this muthafucka! You gettin’ on mah nervez!”
Sometimes I use the Korean shop owner and say, “YOU ARE NOT TO DRINK BEER IN STORE!”
Oh hi, here’s another comment for you to delete.
As an older, white, well dressed person with clean hair I don’t recall this ever happening to me, that’s why I steal stuff.
joking of course – anyone interested in some batteries?