Stuff has been getting REAAAAALY expensive lately in my europoor nation, like I could get a buncha snacks with 5€, but then we had to sanction Russia and fuck everything up and so now I can’t get shit with that. So basically, how do I shoplift? There are like a bazillion cameras covering every aisle in my local shop and I’m confused as to how not to get caught stuffing my bag full of stuff?

  • tripartitegraph [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    Not a clue where you’re located, so maybe this isn’t relevant to your situation, but when I worked at Target they explicitly told us they’d let shoplifters steal many times, until they had evidence you’d stolen enough to get a felony charge. Then they’d call the cops to ambush you outside the store.
    And stores would communicate about specific shoplifters who went on sprees at a bunch of different stores in an area.
    I imagine other retailers have roughly similar policies. So, all that to say, keep the monetary value low, shoplift at stores not close to where you live, don’t hit a place too many times, and mix up the places you shoplift from.

    • Babs [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      2 months ago

      Same case here with many stores. Cops don’t want to deal with petty shoplifting, so they’ll wait until there is enough evidence to really ruin your day.