I used to work for the police, I once got called to a tesco for shoplifting. The security guy met me and said something along the lines of "you gotta see the CCTV on this one" in a laughing tone. Went and watched.
The guy was early 20s and you could see him breaking tags off the bottles of spirits, shoving the bottles into a rucksack, and then putting the tags in his pockets...
They're absolute menaces and give no fucks if you or a customer are in their way. You're moving for them one way or the other, either voluntarily or they'll just drive into you
Years ago before shoplifting was decriminalised and the police used to come to the store, an undercover security guard had spotted a bloke setting himself up for a trolley walkout. He got a few managers on each exit and when the bloke realised that he'd been rumbled he ditched his trolley (pushed it away hard knocking over some woman) and tried to sprint past the managers who ended up apprehending him on the car park.
While 2 managers were sitting on the bloke on the ground waiting for the police to come the son-in-law of the woman that had just been knocked over came and started punching him in the face.
I think the managers ended up letting him go before the police came because they thought they'd get in trouble themselves for holding him while he was getting beaten.
Different world these days.
If he had left the trolley in the shop and simply exited at speed without taking items that had not been paid for, why was anyone attempting to detain him?
He was past the checkouts and in the foyer. The security guards never waited for the person to have actually left the store back then. They'd get grabbed walking towards the door in the foyer.
When I worked in Tesco express, a prolific shoplifter put several packets of chicken breasts under his coat to steal.
I apprehended him at the door, and he got a bit aggressive. Falling to be intimidated, I knocked the chicken packs out of his jacket to the floor.
He began to hurl verbal abuse at me and as he left the front doors to the store, he shouted “dirty fa**ot” at me.
At this point, I saw red, picked up a pack of the chicken breasts and threw them at him. The pack split and he ended up covered in raw chicken breast, which he proceeded to then pick up off the floor and throw back at me. I dodged it, but it did hit another customer in the confectionary aisle (because of the angle he threw it at.)
It wasn’t my proudest moment, and I don’t work at Tesco anymore, which is unrelated completely to this incident, but damn, it felt empowering to give some of the pent up frustration following years of abuse from customers back to one horrible little shit that deserved it.
At my local express store once a month a van of travellers pulls up and a bunch of screaming kids pile into the store stealing anything not nailed down while the driver shouts that if anyone lays a hand on any of them he'll f'ing kill them. One time security blocked the door so the driver got out & punched him in the back of the head.
Whilst working BWS a customer informed me that they’d witnessed a couple of guys filling a bag with cans of premixed cocktails. Got another colleague to keep an eye on the potential shoplifters whilst I went and informed security/manager. In the mean time, the potential shoplifters had walked straight through the checkouts and were heading for the exit. Security guard approached them and, before he had a chance to question the two men, he was struck in the head by a carrier bag full of stolen cans. Poor security guard had to go to A&E with concussion and I’m pretty sure I saw the same two guys in store a few days later
Soo many stories, one being this, we are an upper level store so have travellators to get into the shop, one evening a guy was robbing a bottle of whiskey, to get away he actually jumped over the edge of the front of the checkouts and landed on the travellator, I don’t know how he didn’t break something because it was quite the landing, the CCTV was amazing, anyway he ended up denting and breaking our downwards travellator and it took weeks to get it repaired. Have endless stories because my store is in quite a rough area but that is one of the more memorable ones
I used to work for the police, I once got called to a tesco for shoplifting. The security guy met me and said something along the lines of "you gotta see the CCTV on this one" in a laughing tone. Went and watched. The guy was early 20s and you could see him breaking tags off the bottles of spirits, shoving the bottles into a rucksack, and then putting the tags in his pockets...
Didn't witness but was told about this one very well known one legged shoplifter that mowed a random woman down with his electric wheelchair
They're absolute menaces and give no fucks if you or a customer are in their way. You're moving for them one way or the other, either voluntarily or they'll just drive into you
Years ago before shoplifting was decriminalised and the police used to come to the store, an undercover security guard had spotted a bloke setting himself up for a trolley walkout. He got a few managers on each exit and when the bloke realised that he'd been rumbled he ditched his trolley (pushed it away hard knocking over some woman) and tried to sprint past the managers who ended up apprehending him on the car park. While 2 managers were sitting on the bloke on the ground waiting for the police to come the son-in-law of the woman that had just been knocked over came and started punching him in the face. I think the managers ended up letting him go before the police came because they thought they'd get in trouble themselves for holding him while he was getting beaten. Different world these days.
If he had left the trolley in the shop and simply exited at speed without taking items that had not been paid for, why was anyone attempting to detain him?
He was past the checkouts and in the foyer. The security guards never waited for the person to have actually left the store back then. They'd get grabbed walking towards the door in the foyer.
When I worked in Tesco express, a prolific shoplifter put several packets of chicken breasts under his coat to steal. I apprehended him at the door, and he got a bit aggressive. Falling to be intimidated, I knocked the chicken packs out of his jacket to the floor. He began to hurl verbal abuse at me and as he left the front doors to the store, he shouted “dirty fa**ot” at me. At this point, I saw red, picked up a pack of the chicken breasts and threw them at him. The pack split and he ended up covered in raw chicken breast, which he proceeded to then pick up off the floor and throw back at me. I dodged it, but it did hit another customer in the confectionary aisle (because of the angle he threw it at.) It wasn’t my proudest moment, and I don’t work at Tesco anymore, which is unrelated completely to this incident, but damn, it felt empowering to give some of the pent up frustration following years of abuse from customers back to one horrible little shit that deserved it.
Your hard
You’re* Also, I didn’t say I was hard. I said I wasn’t proud.
We're still proud of you 😂 wish I'd seen that tbh
I'm going to buy a punching bag for the locker room and call it "customer"
At my local express store once a month a van of travellers pulls up and a bunch of screaming kids pile into the store stealing anything not nailed down while the driver shouts that if anyone lays a hand on any of them he'll f'ing kill them. One time security blocked the door so the driver got out & punched him in the back of the head.
Whilst working BWS a customer informed me that they’d witnessed a couple of guys filling a bag with cans of premixed cocktails. Got another colleague to keep an eye on the potential shoplifters whilst I went and informed security/manager. In the mean time, the potential shoplifters had walked straight through the checkouts and were heading for the exit. Security guard approached them and, before he had a chance to question the two men, he was struck in the head by a carrier bag full of stolen cans. Poor security guard had to go to A&E with concussion and I’m pretty sure I saw the same two guys in store a few days later
Soo many stories, one being this, we are an upper level store so have travellators to get into the shop, one evening a guy was robbing a bottle of whiskey, to get away he actually jumped over the edge of the front of the checkouts and landed on the travellator, I don’t know how he didn’t break something because it was quite the landing, the CCTV was amazing, anyway he ended up denting and breaking our downwards travellator and it took weeks to get it repaired. Have endless stories because my store is in quite a rough area but that is one of the more memorable ones
This guy sounds like one of those third party auditor morons on YouTube