Don’t be a dumbass tips pt1:
-If you’re going to make a small purchase to avoid suspicion, use cash. I have heard stories of people being caught with credit card info, but what I’ve personally witnessed and is probably more common is stores saving a pic of you lfting on cam and your name from your credit card and passing it along to other stores in the same chain to help you get caught later on.
-Teenage girls in groups are sussed automatically, especially in high-end stores. Try to look older, or try to make at least one person in the group look like an adult, and that person should be the one who does the riskiest stuff. Do not come in together, do not leave together, and do not interact at all, if you must communicate do so by text, and use codewords. I’ve seen the cops take the phone of suspected boosters who were caught but some of this varies state to state. Especially do not come in as a group of teenagers, whisper to each other, giggle, and point at stuff you plan to lft.
-If you’re going to use an item that came off a table to put on one of your hangers to disguise that you took something, put that item back yourself, do not leave it with a fitting room attendant; they know which items have hangers and which don’t. Same goes for items you double tagged.
-If you get sussed heavily or an SA tells you they’re on to you, TAKE NOTHING. DITCH EVERY SINGLE ITEM. Don’t think “well she didn’t see me with that so that one is okay.” Doesn’t matter which item they saw you with, there’s still a good chance they’ll ask to search your bag. I remember being thirteen and dumb as a fucking doornail and, after an SA at 4ev21 asked me if I wanted a necklace to go with the earrings I stashed in my purse, thinking “lol she didn’t see I already took a necklace!” and paying for the earrings and still lfting other stuff. Somehow??? I didn’t get caught. Maybe she didn’t tell the manager, maybe there were less cameras then? I don’t know but every time I think about that story I want to go back in time and smack myself for being so stupid. I deserved to get caught.
-If the place asks to scan IDs for returns without a receipt, don’t fucking do it. VS stores in my area do absolutely jack shit about lfters. It’s comical. A friend worked for a company contracted to do security for them before Christmas and confirmed they don’t chase, they don’t confront, they don’t do shit. But the one thing they do? Compare IDs scanned from returns with thefts on cam. That’s all they do, and the most likely way someone will get caught. Boost that shit instead.
