Who steals from WalMart???

[Salty RI]

My local State Police are looking for a guy that put 4 top of the line truck tires in a shopping cart and walked out the door, past the security camera !!! "employees tried to stop him as he left the store,.....police are looking for a grey pickup". not one of those store people got his plate???

I saw a gray pickup this morning, was it a Toyota, I didnt get the plate # either. [emoji1]

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[rubiranch]

People suck.

 

[desi2358]

Sadly far too many people steal from walmart.... and probably everywhere else they think they can get away with it. I work part time at the local wally world and can tell you that ever day there are piles of torn up packages found and turned into loss prevention... and those are just the items they tear out of the packages, no real way to track the stuff they steal without taking it out of the packages.

They love the expansion of self checkout too. Recently we found several rolling tool boxes in hardware were stuffed full of other merchandise. Seems they were loading them up and going through the self checkout scanning just the tool box... the one harried clerk trying to run the self checkout is unlikely to catch them, especially if they spread it out over the course of a day, one at a time. We messed them up that day but just how often have they gotten away with it?

It's really disgusting just how bad it is anymore. Way too many people who seem to think rules and laws are for suckers and they should just take what they want. Someone else mentioned the ones who grab delly food and eat it in the store without paying, they eat prepackaged stuff too, drink sodas and leave the empty or half consumed packages where ever they feel like... Pay for it?? No way! It's just the big box store, that makes it okay in their minds........... The older I get the more I wonder where this world is going..........

 

[Golddollar]

Sadly far too many people steal from walmart.... and probably everywhere else they think they can get away with it.

Some people will just steal anything that isn't nailed down.

 

[DWalt]

In areas of the country where opioid addiction runs rampant, the main currency is often shoplifted Wal-Mart merchandise.

 

[The Last Standing Knight]

My wife works at WM. There was a tiny, skinny woman that worked there at the time. Not to be disrespectful but the woman never seemed quite right but to her credit she was working. The management put her at the door as a greeter. On day a guy rushes the door with a big screen tv. The woman asks to see his receipt and is ignored and he rolls out the door. The woman chased the guy to his car and gets his plate number. For her efforts to protect the company and their property she was called to the office and fired!

Having worked with LP in several major stores over the years, I can understand why.
We used to cuff 'em and stuff 'em....but the legal system has changed since those days and not for the better. In some areas, you bust someone then their buddies will come back around for a little payback. I've seen gang members threaten dept store managers with "burning the place down" if stopped from stealing.
The standard I have seen in this era is get a description with the usuals and turn it over to the cops. Especially since a $10 t-shirt isn't worth some idiot taking out a gun and turning it into a active shooter scene. I saw this exact same scenario involving a 15-16 year old at a Walmart in west Houston many years ago. LP chased him out the store with the shirt....LP stopped when the kid turned around and showed LP the gun in his waistband and told LP to come get him....that he would kill him. He then got into a car with four of his buddes and slowly drove off.

Happens everyday.

 

[7tenz]

About 10% of the time I see a police car outside a dept store Walmart, Target, etc and sometimes a grocery. I always check my receipts and once found the clerk at Walmart failed to ring one of a few Barney Almond Butters. I went back in and stood in line at CS for seemingly half an hour to pay for it. Discovered an extra bag of dog food once from a grocery, went back in to pay. Not bragging because I think it's the norm, not exception. The kid in CS at Walmart said he wouldn't have come back in but just a dumb kid who needs to learn about life. Might be a tough life ahead for him if he don't.

 

[Watchdog]

Who steals from Walmart???

Anyone who can every chance they get, and it's nothing new. There are organized crews around here...a lot of them consisting of women...who make a living at it until they get caught. They don't care about the cameras...a lot of them disguise themselves. One or two of 'em will distract any Walmart employees who might be around, and the others will load up with merchandise...mostly clothes.

Their biggest problem is the in-store security personnel, the ones who don't wear those cheesy uniforms. They dress and act like typical Walmart shoppers...they'll push carts around up and down the aisles, just watching for these groups of women.

Then there are the totally brazen ones. One guy got caught trying to walk out with a 52-inch TV still in the box. He actually got out the door with it, but never made it to the car.

 

[ACORN]

That said, the whole checking receipts at the door is ridiculous. I must have an honest face because I've never been asked for my receipt at the door.

If your items are all bagged chances are you won't be checked. Unbagged items like small appliances, TVs, large bags of pet food raise a flag.
The store my wife works at a few years ago came up $2,000,000 short at inventory time. $2 million dollars! The following year manager came by all smiles. My wife mentioned her good mood and the manager said that they got their inventory results and they were ONLY one million short!
JEEZ! I get upset if my store is missing a $35 set of brake pads!

 

[DWalt]

At least at my nearest Wal-Mart, they are now spot-checking receipts against what's in the shopping baskets at the exit doors. As ours has fairly recently put in a large number of self-checkout lanes, it seems that many customers may not be scanning everything in their baskets.

This goes back a couple of years, but the wife and I were shopping in a large mall shoe store. While we were there, a pair of punks came in, walked around, scooped up some shoes, and ran out. The store staff did nothing to stop them, although they could have. I asked one of them why, and he told me that they were under orders from management to do nothing except call the police to report the theft.

 

[Harkrader]

It's a common as rain in a rain forest. Local Walmart has lost large-screen TVs that just walked out the door.
The local one has a close relationship with the PD, but for the most part they don't know what's missing - or who took it - until they check inventory.

Ever called ahead or asked once inside for something you know they carry but couldn't find on the shelf? Clerk checks inventory, which says it's in stock. Walked out the door.

 

[Doug M.]

Most people have no idea what those of us in the system see. Most people would be way worse in how they respond to them than we are, too. As a friend of mine said recently, "when decent people find out how bad it really is, the Purge movies will look like Winnie the Pooh."

 

[CH4]

Way too many, especially in CA where there’s little to no deterrent of prosecution.