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Masterpost!!

So it’s been requested that there be a huge list of stores and the types of tags they use so here is kind of a first draft. I actually had a lot of this written down already so there’s also some general advice about each store. I’ve put down what I learned through research or experience so some stores may have less info than others. Remember this can vary depending on where you live and you should always check thoroughly for tags!

This is a guide on types of tags (with pics) and removal for reference:-)

If there’s a store left off that you want me to add or you have any corrections/additional info please message me so I can add it and this list can be more informative!

Abercrombie and Fitch/Hollister Super tags that require a hook Black dome cameras, mostly near register, but the separate rooms make for easy concealment

Aerie/American Eagle Tags for items over $30-$40 In my experience the dressing rooms aren’t well monitored so I conceal there

Aeropostale No tags Personally I don’t shop here so I don’t have much advice about dressing rooms or cameras but as always scope out the store and leave if you’re sketched out!

American Apparel RFID and pencil tags Sometimes you can find things untagged. SAs count going into the dressing room but they don’t usually hover so you can conceal a few things

Anthropologie RFID

Bath and Body Works No tags! Few cameras (mostly by register) and easy to conceal; SAs will probably greet you but if you’re nice they’ll leave you alone

Barnes and Noble NEVER try to lift medical textbooks. Paperbacks are hardly tagged, especially books that have been out awhile, but still flip through them. If you are lifting a moleskin journal or something take the plastic off first. The best method is taking a school backpack, picking out a few books, then sitting for awhile, reading/doing work/etc then just sticking your new books in your backpack

Charlotte Russe I haven’t been in awhile so idk the tags but they do monitor dressing rooms. Once I went in an unlocked dressing room and an SA knocked and asked who gave me the room and why I didn’t have a card saying my # of items etc. However I don’t think they count coming out.

Claire’s No tags Lots of mirrors in Claire’s so watch for those when finding a blind spot!

DIck’s Sporting Goods Tags require a hook I believe; almost everything is tagged in apparel Someone has to unlock the dressing room but they don’t count items

Dillard’s No tags from what I’ve heard

Forever 21 Dome ink tags; require a magnet I don’t believe they use RFIDs, so if an item is untagged it’s probably good to go; However the dressing rooms are well monitored, so concealing on the floor is probably best

Francesca’s No tags! The stores are pretty small so concealing clothes can be a bit difficult, but if they don’t count in the dressing room you’re prob good to go. Jewelry is super easy though

Free People Attentive SAs; they like to start rooms for you. Conceal on the floor and try not to linger

Garage I believe some things have tags but I know there are things that don’t. Not many SAs in my experience so pretty easy to conceal if you find a blind spot. They also monitor dressing rooms pretty well

J Crew Tag items over $30 and uses RFIDs

H&M Not sure about tags Stores are generally big and the SAs stick to the register area so concealing isn’t very hard

Hot Topic Not exactly sure about tags but I don’t think they tag everything

Loft RFID Large store usually, and I don’t remember anyone ever monitoring the dressing rooms very much

Lush No tags! Small store and attentive SAs, so getting in out as fast as possible is best

Lululemon Most things are tagged (I don’t remember what kind) and SAs count going into dressing rooms. You can conceal things like leggings and shorts pretty easily, but only if you find a good blindspot since there are cams

Madewell RFID tags

Old Navy No tags Generally few cameras and dressing rooms aren’t monitored

Pacsun Ink tags or super tags, RFIDs inside cardboard tags. I’ve also seen gator tags that you can remove with a hair band Generally inattentive SAs, few cameras (still scope out in advance), don’t count going in dressing rooms

Starbucks No tags This is one of the easiest stores. After ordering a drink just pick up whatever stuff you want and hold it like you own it. As far as I know employees don’t really do much when merchandise goes missing, but make sure no other customers are paying attention

Sephora Some tags, likely RFIDs on palettes I don’t really mess with Sephora; lots of cams and attentive SAs

Target Black dome cameras all around the store. They count going into dressing rooms. Finding a blindspot is hard but can be done. Please be extremely careful here they have plainclothes LP that are generally pretty good and they really don’t fuck around lol

Urban Outifitters Black square tags that require a magnet; RFIDs in price tags I’ve heard they count going in and out of dressing rooms and that they use magnet sensors so be careful. I also believe they have LP but not much info on that

Victoria’s Secret Pencil tags that require a magnet, but they sometimes use tags that require hook so be prepared; tag almost all clothes and bras and the occasional panty Locations vary greatly, but employees can’t act on you unless they are sure you’re stealing. There’s a lot of advice about VS floating around, and most people conceal in the dressing room, using shopper bags to bring in a lot of underwear

Ulta RFIDs on palettes There’s usually a blind spot in the hair care section, but always scope out the area well. Pretty attentive SAs but just act like you know what you’re looking for

luvlylifting

god bless this post

goddessgutz-deactivated20221206

What I need rn

A bf to show my lifted bra and panties too

A lifting buddy that knows wtf they’re doing

A new mindset of being healthy

A stronger fucking immune system jeez

dreamy-lifts

2,3 and 4 man Dx

adollamakesmeholla

@liftynaty I saw your question on my magnet post so I thought i’d just make a separate post about it. Basically, there’s no guarantee there will or will not be a magnet detector. It seems to depend on location. If they have a big loss issue, they may install them. If they have them, they’ll be at the dressing room as seen below. This is a good thing because you can enter the store but you don’t have to enter the dressing rooms. You may be able to scope them out or just go without a magnet and scope the store out one day, then come back with it if there’s no detector.

This one is made by CONTROLTEK.

Some stores have towers that can detect booster bags. These will not be at the dressing room, but will be installed at the enterence!

This is the foil detector made by Sensormatic. It is installed WITHIN the towers to the same router.

Below is another kind of foil/booster bag detector.

This is the hyperguard by CONTROLTEK. These can either be stand alone systems or they will be next to regular towers. If you see two sets of towers, it’s likely the second is for foil detection.

shmoneysaver-deactivated2019020

It’s crazy having to help catch lifters while being one. I recognize every single mistake they make when they walk in the door.

indigo-moon-the-thief-deactivat

Do you have any tips/major mistakes you see people make??

shmoneysaver-deactivated2019020

Normally unattended fitting rooms do not mean you are safe.

Avoiding any employees

Not looking at prices and if it’s a big sale or coupon/money saving store - the signs or ads

Thinking just because you have turned your back you have automatically made a makeshift blindspot

Getting things that aren’t clothing and putting them under a pile of clothes like people wobt notice

Trying 20 things on and carrying around 5 other items and buying absolutely nothing

Shifty eyes - good cameras and good lp pick up on it.

Noticing every single person who walks by you. people who aren’t sus dont notice other shoppers.

Literally the most stupid and most common way I personally notice people: walking quickly past every single isle looking for a blind spot and no people.

Coming in with a semi structured bag that is flat on the sides and obviously empty and leaving (attempting to) with it bulging.

Thinking babies and children in strollers dont make you sus. We watch and follow automatically esp if you put your coat over it and items in it.

Literally carrying you coat over your purse and putting items in that hand and making them “disappear”

If you do specific things and want to ask me if they are things we frequent feel free to ask or message me. There are a ton more but I’m not going to make this super duper long.

indigo-moon-the-thief-deactivat

Oh thank you!!

liftingkween-blog

Omg I used to do that small items and then clothes on top method, but it was honestly too sus

liftdelrey

What I wear when lifting…

This oversized sweater and spanx top:

I can body conceal shoes, bunch of shirts, a bulky sweater, and like 5 jeans with no bulging. And I still look trendy and fashionable.

I haven’t tried a huge haul with this outfit yet but I’m excited. Also if you’re wondering how i conceal my magnet, I wear these padded butt lifting shorts and hide it there.

Also, my magnet is from amazon. It’s as strong as a golf detacher if you get 4 of them. I have two and they used to work on those strong h&m tags but becareful cause they break easily

You’re welcome✌️

💕💸💕

dreamy-lifts

So has anyone tried to flush hard tags? Will they beep or just die bc electronic and water don’t mix

dreamy-lifts

Also follow up querying what if u stuck them in the back of the toilet? Like where the water is

dreamy-lifts

Fallow up fallow up observation, do u think if I drowned the tag I could pry it apart or whatever without it beeping?

dreamy-lifts

So has anyone tried to flush hard tags? Will they beep or just die bc electronic and water don’t mix

dreamy-lifts

Also follow up querying what if u stuck them in the back of the toilet? Like where the water is

istoleandrewtori-blog

All about Macy’s

I’ve decided to give back to the community with some information I’ve gathered on Macy’s LP’s protocol. Before I even begin, whenever lifting from Macy’s. exercise extreme caution at all times. My best friend was caught there back in the day, and I know plenty of other lifters here in the community suffered a similar fate. Macy’s has really good LP. Additionally, this is more than likely also Bloomingdale’s protocol.

Macy’s operates using a 5 step system. If they do not have all 5 steps, they will not apprehend you.

Entry: to the store or the department, so they can see what you are wearing and carrying.

Selection: they must observe you selecting the merchandise off the sales floor.

Concealment: they must observe you conceal the merchandise (see below for special situations)

Constant Observation: once they have the previous 4 steps, they must not lose sight of you, in case you dump the merchandise.

They do not want an NPD (non-productive detainment)

Exit: exit the building + all four steps to make sure you still have the concealed merchandise.Special cases: Fitting room.

Macy’s uses the “color and count” method in combination with the “two item rule.” That means they count how many items you walk into the fitting room with, and what color it is. When you exit (assuming you’re even being followed), they check your fitting room stall to see what items are left behind. If there are missing items (i.e. you walk in carrying a pink shirt, red shirt, and blue shirt. You walk out just carrying the pink and the blue shirt and red shirt are not in the stall or the dump rack) then they will have assumed you concealed and that will work for step 3.

Note: Macy’s cannot apprehend you if you layer the items such that it cannot be seen. That is to say, if you walk in carrying a t-shirt wearing your jacket zipped all the way up, put the t-shirt on, layer the jacket and zip it all the way up so the shirt cannot be seen, then they cannot apprehend you IF YOU DO NOT HAVE MEANS (bags). They especially won’t apprehend you if you’re suspected of layering underwear or bras, but only if you don’t have means.

Two item rule: You must be suspected of concealing 2 or more items in the fitting room for it to count as step 3.

Special cases: Small items

If you bring a small item into a fitting room, they count it as lost. They will not apprehend you if you take jewelry, ties, panties, certain wallets, sunglasses, etc. into a fitting room. Concealing small items on the floor goes by the two item rule, more or less. In this case, they need two separate acts of concealment. Of course, this is according to policy. If you’re incredibly obvious, they might bend the rules and take you anyways.

If you are working alone (not ORC, don’t need huge volume to sell, shoplifting for personal use), then the best way would be to:

NOT carry a bag

Take one item into a fitting room at a time to conceal

and layer all the items you want to take under a big jacket and loose pants. Make sure NO merchandise can be seen when you put your clothes back on. Tuck it in if you have to.

They will not apprehend you.

This is the safest way, but obviously not the only way. Bags are useful for taking larger amounts of merchandise, but obviously run the risk of being caught. Using a bag is a gamble–are they watching or or are they not?

Final thoughts: They are not allowed to step off the curb to pursue you. Managers have been fired for doing so before.

Elevators do not have cameras in them, period. Any you think you see are just dummy domes. This is useful for avoiding constant observation. If someone gets into an elevator after you, waits for you to select the floor, then waits for you to exit the elevator first, be wary. If there is anyone in the elevator with you, just stay in and wait til they awkwardly get out first, and select another floor (or even stay in the elevator a while for good measure before getting out). Again, this is not a guarantee for not being apprehended if you’re carrying a bag. While they’re technically supposed to check the elevator to see if you discarded merchandise after you get out, they probably won’t and just apprehend you anyways if they have all the other steps on you.

Macy’s is a pretty easy store to steal from. AP is usually understaffed and under equipped to handle shoplifters with one iota of sense. Don’t conceal on the floor. They have fitting rooms, do it there.

SOME ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Once LP has any suspicion of you, whether or not you’ve been approached or apprehended, they immediately send a clear, color photo of you to all of the surrounding stores within a few miles. It goes straight to all of the LP’s offices and pops up on their desktop, with an audible chime/ notification to get their attention right away. Please please PLEASE exercise caution, and if you think absolutely anyone is on to you, I advise not going back to that specific location (or the surrounding ones) for a couple weeks at least as they will recognize you.

liftingkittytiger

Great info. Thank you!

theglamlifter

Macy’s are also known to have 2-way mirrors.

istoleandrewtori-blog

This is true. Know your states laws regarding this. In California and some other select states, it is illegal to have two way mirrors. But in most, it is a very real possibility.

yoyoyoyotwodnso-deactivated2019

Found this on a połice website about łifting. Hope it helps!

this might help some newbies or even experienced łifters if they didn’t realise that they were doing one of these things 😂

Littles who are lifters 🍼💕♥️🍓⭐️💝💞❤️🎀👑🍰🌈🍪✨

so happy I’m not the only one!

So has anyone tried to flush hard tags? Will they beep or just die bc electronic and water don’t mix

sugarflift

how do you lift shoes? I am so scared because they can be baulky and there’s two of them😂

I usually pick them up together and hold them in one hand, then pull my hand back under something I was already carrying. Usually a jacket I came in with, so SAs wont try and take it from me when going into a fitting room. And yes, you CAN bring jackets around in the summer without looking weird.

Sometimes I just keep them there and walk out, or if I have a large enough structured bag I’ll make sure it was full-ish when I came in and conceal them at the bottom.

sugarflift

reblog for the anon that asked me how i lift shoes

heavenlylifter

Hey how did you get the bigger lush pots? Xx

when i got one, i didn’t have any big strategy behind it, i just went when it was rly busy so the SAs didn’t bother me, and picked up a pot and dropped it into a structured paper shopping bag when no one was looking. i also had a buddy stand next to me while we talked to minimise the chances of someone seeing😊😊something i often do is pick up a number of pots, holding them like i’m comparing them, and then putting some in my arms and picking up another. then i let them drop into my bag. it’s kind of like juggling the number, so as long as no one sees you put one in your bag they don’t know how many you’ve got!

douevenliftbruh-blog1

Hey guys! So this is my first post, and I wanted to share a trick I discovered for lifting small items from Lush such as shower gels, toner waters, maybe a lip balm or two, just small items really. This concealing method worked for me when I went to my lush which is a very small location in a mall, and I went when it was kind of busy so SA’s weren’t paying attention to me because I’m actually a regular there and I usually buy shit so they don’t really pay attention to me because they just assume I know what I’m there for and I know what I’m doing so I don’t need any help. So with one hand, I was holding my Hot Topic bag (My lush is about 2 stores down from a Hot Topic in the mall) and I just subtly dropped this toner water into the bag through the little wrist hole while using my other hand to smell a shower gel.