Re: Home Depot Store Security

On 12/1/2010 2:09 AM, harry wrote:
On Nov 30, 11:35 pm, "Moffit"<he...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
"Red"<RedA...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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On Nov 30, 12:14 pm, G. Morgan<usenet_ab...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:





George<geo...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
A few years back one of the local big box "associates" stopped and
detained someone with a receipt in their hand for the items they
purchased after they had set off an alarm because of a tag. It cost them
some bucks to settle the lawsuit. If you operate a store on the cheap
trying to copy walmart then it is your problem when stuff like this
happens not the problem of someone who paid for the merchandise.

Yup. If they attempt or manage to detain you and you've stolen nothing
they
have a big problem on their hands. It could even escalate to criminal
kidnapping, or unlawful arrest.

You would think all the loss prevention employees would know the rules
inside
and out, but I read about incidents all the time where they overstep
their
bounds.

--
You'll be Ok, Enjoy. Life is nothing more than a bunch of mini
vacations all rolled into one. - Old Gringo

I once worked at a big box store. We were told NOT to detain anyone
under any circumstances. Loss prevention employees were the only ones
authorized to initiate detaining anyone, and that was only based upon
one criteria. They had to have constant video surveilance, on tape,
of the person walking from their car into the store without packages,
video of them throughout the store without gaps in the video, and
video of them exiting without going thru a checkout point. Any of
that video missing and they had to let them leave unchallenged. Yeah,
they missed a lot of thefts, but they were damned good at profileing
the semi- pros.

The biggest scam though was stealing from one store, going to a nearby
similar store's customer service with the stolen item and asking for a
refund claiming a lost receipt.

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Wal-Mart needs to implement a training program for employees. Have you read
about the 100 yr old "Greeter" trying to play security cop?http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1334450/Woman-arrested-assaul...- Hide quoted text -

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Heh Heh! Good one that. You won't get a refund over here (UK) without
a reciept.
The scam over here is to look for an item with a price difference. You
buy one at each place. You take your cheap one back to the expensive
place for a refund. If possible you hang onto the reciept. You then
get your friend to do the same. And again. And again. etc.
I say "You" in the for example sense. Haven't actually done it
myself :-)

Aren't there store specific price labels on the merchandise? The stickers retailers here use are quite sticky and hard to remove
without tearing the package.

TDD
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