Walmart/shoplifting

[joanne0012]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "cindysphynx" <cindysphynx at h...> wrote:
>  I worked at K-mart in my youth, and the stories I could 
> tell!  The champion shoplifter was the woman who shoplifted an 
> unboxed 13" TV under her coat.  She got caught, so maybe she doesn't 
> win the trophy after all.

Nope, the trophy goes to her colleague who slipped out with the 21-inch TV 
while all the security people were distracted by the woman with the 13-inch 
TV.  

Personally,  I'd give the trophy to the guy at a local mall,  who wheeled out an 
entire rack of chained-up leather coats into a waiting van and took off before 
anybody could do a thing!

When I worked in a jewelry store, we were told that if a customer ever made a 
big scene, nobody but the manager and whoever was waiting on the customer 
should pay any attention, and the rest of us should go on high-alert keeping an 
eye on everyone else who was in the store.

Every time I'm in a store with those doorway alarms, I hear the alarm go off 
and nobody in the stores pays any attention; the customer who set it off 
almost always just keeps going.  Is this alarm ignored because of a high rate 
of false alarms, or because the store's understaffed, or what?!