I had a bad stop today. The manager says I'm not fired, but he's not happy, and the DM will surely be pissed. I have to go in tomorrow (was going to be my day off) and fill out a statement. This is my one and only screw up allowed, I bet. I just got transferred to a different store where the LPM isn't my friend (at the old store, we were friends before I got the job). He's way cool though, but I don't know him like the guy who got me hired at Kmart. I shouldn't have stopped him since I didn't actually see him conceal. However, I had seen him in there before scoping the place out, and not buying anything. We happened to be in the outside garden area one time and he tried to see if he could open the gate. He must have come in six times that day and not even selected anything. Today he comes in and grabs a basket, and I'm all trying hard to impress the boss so I'm like "yeah, he's gonna steal for sure." I see him go straight to electronics and take six Playstation 2 games, and one Nintendo DS. He didn't even look at the titles, he just grabs the whole stack. I follow him around for an hour or so, and he lost me in this one corner because if I go over there, he will see me and not shoplift. When he comes out, he has his basket still with some food in it, but no games. I was sure he stole. He dumps the basket on the floor at a random place and leaves. I wanted to get one today really bad, because I had been letting them go all day due to not having all six steps. I stop him, and he had hidden them in the corner, so he could come back later for them. "****."
He comes back into the store without being forced at all, and offers to let me search him and wants to go back to the location of the games. He must have seen me following him, or he's just a chicken and changed his mind. I go get the games after he leaves and all of them are there. I'm going to get me arse chewed tomorrow morning.
Anyone ever stopped someone for shoplifting and they didn't do it or had dumped?
He comes back into the store without being forced at all, and offers to let me search him and wants to go back to the location of the games. He must have seen me following him, or he's just a chicken and changed his mind. I go get the games after he leaves and all of them are there. I'm going to get me arse chewed tomorrow morning.
Anyone ever stopped someone for shoplifting and they didn't do it or had dumped?
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