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Story time

This took place a year ago where I would lift w 3 girls who were new to lifting (bad idea). We just came from lifting from vs and ula and we were gonna hit up kölłhs. I was already tired and just not in the mood because i felt like i got everything that i needed but some of my friends wanted more makeup. They proceeded to lift and went straight to the bathroom which was totally sus and i tried texting them that it was but they just went ahead and ignored me. Onc in the bathroom they took everything out the boxes and put it the trash i tried telling them that was a horrible idea that it’s basically saying you wanna get caught but one of my friends said to me words i will never forget “you have your ways of going things and so do i” and after she said that i was like okay whatever and left the bathroom and minutes later saw an employee stand near tryna listen to the door i txtd them to ditch everything and it’s time to leave so i stood there trying to see what the employee would do and right when they left she entered. I didn’t say a word to any of them but shot them all a “you should fucking listen to me glare” and right when we left out the door an lp who was pretending to leave ordered us to turn around and head to the back of the room. Since I didn’t have a purse he said i was fine but proceeded to ask the others to look through there bags and all of them complied but guess who didn’t leave the merch behind??? The girl who had her way of doing things. She basically had to pay a 1000 dollar fine and go to court and since she was 18 it’s on her record. Anyways DONT LIFT W INEXPERIENCED PEOPLE DONT GO IN WITH GROUPS DONT LEAVE EVIDENCE BEHIND DONT GO TO THE BATHROOM SHIT IS MAD SUS

Caught story from a friend:

A friend of mine through an old community was recently arrested at K0hls. She beeped, and LP confronted her and she was wearing heels and couldn’t run. She was approached based on the beep, but LP was very close to the door when it happened so make of that what you will.

She had a ton of shit in her purse and in a shopping bag, including clothing, expensive headphones, jewelry, and more. She still has no clue why she beeped since she checked thoroughly for tags in a fitting room and used a magnet, but is reasonably sure it wasn’t via a magnet detector. We’re talking about a very very experienced lfter here who felt comfortable in this particular store.

The police showed up very quickly, as in while they were leading her to a back room, and she was arrested. Literally they took her in a police car to the station, booked her, took a mugshot, put her in jail, the whole nine yards. She was not strip searched. She was over the felony limit for her state, plus they found her tools, and she admitted she had taken some things, but not everything they found, and denied it was premeditated. She now regrets saying anything at all, and wishes she’d asked for a lawyer.

They took her purse and got a warrant for her phone. She had to give them her passcode. This is something I’d heard rumors about the police doing but this is the first person I know who that happened to. She was bailed out the same day by her husband, who did not know she lfts and is not happy right now, but they did not let her take her phone home. She knows she is in deep, deep shit as she was boosting shit over several different apps on her phone and had used the phone to text with partners, but not on the day she was caught or for some time prior. When her husband picked her up he was not questioned, but a cop mentioned to him that if he was involved he should confess because they have her phone and will find out who she was working with.

They did not get a warrant for her home or car as far as she knows; her car was still in the K0hls parking lot when she got out that night, with lfted stuff from another store in the trunk. Her husband told her to pack a bag of anything that she had taken recently which he is hiding with a relative just in case. She has lfted from K0hls before and is now worried about them checking tapes and getting her on more. She may be facing jail time just on what she was charged with already, and charges may be added depending on what they find on her phone. She may have put people she cares about in harms way, including a member of her family, because they texted her about lfting. She has hired a lawyer, and it’s not cheap, and has had to seek medical attention for severe anxiety that has made her unable to eat without getting sick or sleep a full night.

From what she told me, I have learned a few lessons:

1. Don’t wear heels if you can’t run in heels.

2. Tags may be hidden in very covert places. I wish I could tell you what got her caught, but she still doesn’t know and is very, very surprised it happened. Her only guess is a bottle of perfume that was somewhat pricey. She had removed a tag stuck to the bottom of the box but wonders if perhaps there was a second tag inside the box that she missed.

3. Know the law, and know how much trouble you’d be in if you got caught each time. If it’s serious, refuse to talk and demand to see a lawyer. The expense is worth it if you’re fucked either way. Also make sure you do not consent to any searches.

4. Be very careful about what’s on your phone. This is something I’d heard about in the past but just to be safe I’ve cleaned out my conversations on a few texting apps and deleted some photos. I’ve always used codewords for most conversations and now those are the only ones that could be found.

5. A lot of liftblr caught stories, as well as caught stories on other sites, seem to center around K0hls. I have never fucked with K0hls because honestly there wasn’t much at mine I particularly wanted. My friend was very, very comfortable with hers and is shocked this is the place she ended up getting caught. Don’t fall into the trap of “but mine is easy” when you’re talking about a chain that is known for having good LP. Yours may have been easy when you started, but they could easily have stepped up their game. Be very vigilant every single time and try to avoid the felony total in any one trip. This situation would be significantly less dire if she had taken two trips instead of taking so much in one. She is also wondering if perhaps they had suspected her of lfting there for some time but simply did not feel comfortable catching her until the beep gave them a reason to confront her.

6. We have been communicating through a very secure app on her ipad that does not log conversations since this happened. I don’t want to reveal any more about it right now but suggest those of you who like to stay in touch do your research about what technology you decide to use and maybe don’t use your phone if you bring that with you when you lft. I have always been very secure about my communications except for those where I chose to use code words.

Be careful out there.

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STORYTIME: my friend got caught in ULTA!

this is a quick little story but me and my friend were in an ULTA several hours away from where we live. we were with our moms so it was risky to lift anything and since neither of us are familiar with ULTA I decided not to lift anything, she just lifted a bottle of foundation. so she was really dumb and carried it around in the open for a WHILE and then went to the bathroom to conceal (again not familiar with the store so not comfortable concealing on the floor) so while she was in there I noticed an SA hanging outside the door and I texted her. why she didn’t decide to just put it back I’ll never know but she came out and they asked to see in her bag and I was shocked because they didn’t find anything. I assumed she left it in the stall but she had it the next day so I asked how she got out with it and UHM… long story short she put it up her vag and carried it out literally inside of her I’m so. 😂😂😂

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On-person concealing is the best way to conceal 💯

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this is what I call d e d i c a t i o n

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Honestly that is a fantastic idea. Just rinse it off before you stick it in and rinse if off again once you take it out.

I’ve concealed stuff in my panties before but never like that.

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I don’t collect stamps.

*Okay.* I’ve had quite a few people ask me about my methods for hiding tags. I don’t hide tags. I take them with me.

Pictured above are fewer than a quarter of the tags we’ve collected over the course of a couple months since we’ve gotten our magnet in the mail. We’ve gotten RFIDS, a slew of super tags we disposed of (they’re very large and not practical to keep), ink tags, golf tags, pencil tags, you name it. I didn’t beep taking ANY of these tags with me. Not once!

I’ve easily carried ten plus tags into a store and not made a sound. Dozens of times. Left with a concealed tag a hundred times without beeping.

What I’ve done is layered a Ziploc container in THREE layers of foil, individually taping each one. Make sure the top has the same amount of foil too! Nothing should be left uncovered! This will counteract the tag detection of the towers.

Everything I’ve read online has suggested using more foil, some people even say to use ten to twenty layers. Seriously? We’ve used three. I haven’t beeped at American Eagle, Express, Abercrombie, Aritzia, Garage, Cleo’s, Ann Taylor, Urban Outfitters, J Crew, Adidas (walking in with a bunch of tags), Payless, just to name a very short few off the top of my head.

You can use any container you’d like! Make it non-suspicious! We haven’t gotten around to making a better one yet. Put the foil on the inside! Make it invisible!

I detag in the dressing room, and place tags in the container. This stops the beeping, I can abandon the container if need be, it’s less likely to be noticed by employees and doesn’t make any crinklimg sounds at all! If you’re taking tags anyway, you have a magnet. So just detag in store. Don’t bother wrapping your whole bag. Waste of time and way more suspicious.

I’m getting really sick of all this double tagging non sense. Stop leaving behind your evidence. You’re already getting a felon charge if you’re carrying a magnet and removing security tags. Don’t pretend you’re a fucking angel because tin foil is somehow any more scary. Get over yourself. Maybe I’m more *illegal* than you (whatever helps you sleep at night) but I won’t be caught because sales associates call the police next time I’m in store after repeated instances of me leaving a dressing room of double tagged items. Miss me with your superiority. It is SO misplaced.

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How would u know if the layers are enough to keep it from beeping. I’m afraid that I would put this to the test and it would be too late for me to realize that I would need more tin foil to line the container

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Not my tip, not something I do at all, but I’m a big believer in testing shit out without any risk.

With this method, my suggestion would be go in with your little tinfoil container, with a sandwich inside, go into a dressing room and detag something but don’t actually take the item. Just detag, put the tag in or under your sandwich in the container, and put your magnet somewhere on your body. If you beep, even if they follow you or whatev, they’ll search your bad and find nothing; even your tinfoil is just part of how you pack your lunch for work.

And I would recommend doing this test run on whatever nice, new store in your area seems to have the strongest, newest towers.

You’d rather find out this tip isn’t working when you’re concealing a sandwich than when you’re concealing an MK bag or ten VS bras.

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Yo, guys. Seriously start practicing accents.

(I have 0 followers im p sure no one will ever see this post but hey oh well.)

Fucking leARN HOW TO IMITATE A FEW DIFFERENT ACCENTS AND INCORPORATE IT INTO YOUR DAMN COSTUME. FUCKING THROW ON FRECKLES AND CONTOUR WEIRD AND BE BRITISH OR SOME SHIT.

they’ll be looking for the British chick next time. And that british chick is not u. U is u. Git gud.

Note: i hit the same kohls 3x a week and i have 12 different looks set up and i can imitate 5 different accents. No one suspects a sweet little southerner with freckles and glasses and pigtail braids. Fear the voice Change. F e a r i t.

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I love things like this. I’m doing it.

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Jesus Christ

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Be careful what sort of accent you attempt, though. I’ve had two different racist managers tell us to target “foreigners” as likely boosters, usually specifically mentioning Russians or Chinese or Nigerians.

For instance a generic looking white girl who would never be sussed normally would all of a sudden get a target on her back if she opened her mouth and sounded Eastern European. Nonwhite people are going to get shit either way, though I think things are much worse for East Asians who have accents compared with those who don’t.

Lowrisk ideas for babylfters!

-My easiest store is G00dwll. I love vintage clothing and it’s the best place to get it, and they don’t seem to care at all about lfters, though of course you should stake out your location first. Mine has no tags, like one camera, counts nothing, and the dressing rooms always have hangers when you get in! A basically foolproof scheme for a babylfter is to come with something old of yours worn under your clothes, take what you want into the fitting room, plus a few decoys, and switch what you brought from home with whatever item you want, and then put back everything yourself. The risk on this is really low unless you take something super memorable.

-Vlta coffee cup conceal, one lipstick in a cup full of tissues to prevent noise, you cut an X in the bottom and shove it up inside the cup. Hold it close to the display, after you’ve staked out on a previous visit to see where the cameras are. As an extra step, you can take it to the bathroom, check the box for tags, if it came in a box, and stick it in your bra or panties for a great on-body concealment.

-Look for an untagged bra in your size at VS! Bring in about three decoys to the fitting room as well, put the one you want in the middle. Sometimes it’s smart to make one of the decoys the same as the one you’re taking. As long as no one looks closely when you’re going in, you’re golden! Just put it on on top or underneath the bra you’re wearing and make sure no straps are sticking out. Protip- give a fake name for the fitting room!

-Any mall store that is bad about tagging stuff and doesn’t count can be a great opportunity! Take stuff off of hangers or pick items without hangers. On body conceal in the fitting room.

-First time with a partner? Plan everything out in advance so you don’t have to interact while inside the store! No one should know you’re working together at all. Discuss your favorite blind spots, and you can perhaps arrange for one of you to place items there for the other to conceal, while the other stays near the SAs to sense out if there’s any chance of being sussed.

-Remember you won’t be able to do too much your first few times, once you actually start doing stuff your nerves will make you look sus, so you need to start small, and start using the lowest risk method you can. No matter how confident you think you are, you will be nervous your first few times, and experience is the only real way to learn. Do not try to get a “haul” of any sort, do not go for a big-ticket item, and stay away from notorious stores like S3phra, W@lmrt, JCP, Trge3t, and others with a strong LP system.

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Wal-Mart is on to me

I’m Like, 100% sure my walmart is on to me. I’ve only lifted like 3 things from there, tbh i dont even remember what though because it was so long ago at the beginning of my lifting carreer.

Basically, I walked in with my sister, we went to the pokemon/trading card area because she likes that stuff, then I took her with me to look at makeup/skincare.

As soon as I started walking in that direction, this dude in walmart uniform walked really quickly over there too to beat me there, and after like he was restocking stuff. I looked at makeup in the aisle he was in for a bit, then went to look at masks and such. He came in to the same aisle not even a minute later and knelt down to ‘stock things’. I grabbed a couple things, and then I agreed to take my sister to the toy area.

We go around the toy area looking at all the stuff, then I get a weird feeling and decide to dump some of my stuff; a spot treatment, some pokemon packs, and an acne scrub. I still have makeup wipes, a mask, and a more expensive mask.

I really wanted the expensive mask but can’t afford it, so I wander casually to a blond spot and conceal it in my pocket. I walk down an aisle and look at the bathroom because I planned on going in there to conceal it better and check tags. A lady was standing outside of the bathroom staring DIRECTLY at me.

I smiled and walked back to my blind spot, took the mask out of my pocket, and went to the register and bought the mask and facial wipes. It was really outputting.

Do Wal-Marts share suspected lifters with other walmart locations nearby??

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They are probably just being sussy bitches because you’re young and your sisters young too, I doubt you stealing three things forever ago have them on to you like that, if they saw you conceal before they would have you searched then, probably just some Walmart employees trying to seem like they’re working for once, yeah my aunt was the manager of a Walmart and told me it’s the easiest shit ever.

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Teen girls in groups are automatically sussed by many, many stores, if you and your sister are teens that is probably what it was initially, then they saw you “disappear” with at least one item and that is why they kept following you.

If you are older, then they could still be targeting you based on your race or accent, or there is a chance you’re right and they did remember you.

Also many Wlmrts if not all of them have full-time LP and they hare very tough on people they catch. Be very careful.

Teenagers is groups are AUTOMATICALLY sussed.

Don’t come in together, don’t leave together, don’t interact at all while inside the store.

If that ruins the fun, if this is just about giggling and socializing for you, honestly you shouldn’t be lfting and if you keep it up you will be caught, your parents will be called, and you will probably not be allowed to go to the mall or even hang out with your friends for months.

I have been on both sides of this, and when groups of teens come in and lft, I have to catch you or I would probably be fired. You are so obvious that anyone who doesn’t catch you looks suspicious and SAs and LP are told to look for you. Also, depending on the maturity level of your friends, there is a good chance one of them may do something really stupid and amateurish that will get you caught too if you’re with them when they do it.

Working with a partner is amazing and can really increase your hauls and decrease the chances of getting caught, but the right, smart way to do this is to plan out what you’re going to do in advance, enter the store separately, leave separately, and communicate only by text to coordinate what items you’re taking and who is leaving when. And ideally you use code words, which you plan in advance in private. Honestly that can be way more fun than hanging out in the store while you lft anyway!

And just look on this site if you don’t want to believe me: there are so many caught and almost caught stories that prove me right about this.

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Everything you need to know : Claires & Icing

Disclaimer: Although company policy does not vary, some store policies might. I worked at 4 different stores in 2 different states and found no inconsistencies among the following information.

(Clarification: claires is the parent company of the store icing, they work exactly the same)

BASICS: - RFID tags are fake - cameras are fake - towers don’t exist - LP doesn’t exist - employees can only CS you - SA offering you a basket doesn’t necessarily mean you’re sussed, just politely accept it - can only attempt to stop you once you’ve left the store - employee handbook states that managers must know EXACTLY what you have and EXACTLY where you concealed it - older stores have ceiling mirrors that allow SAs to keep a better eye on you just be aware

PRODUCTS/CONCEALING: - body jewelry and 14k gold is locked up, some employees will stand there while you look and some will walk away - don’t try to lift piercing studs, those drawers are locked - sterling silver earrings have the most (fake) rfid stickers - conceal behind towers & back of store if possible - if you come when there is one person working and they’re busy with an ear piercing, you’re in luck, usually they’re way too focused to watch you - literally just be nice to SAs and they’ll leave you alone especially if it’s early morning or late night when paperwork needs to get done - groups of teens are the MOST sussed

Pro tip: call the store you wanna go to and say “I want to get my daughter’s ears pierced (today/tonight/etc), when will you have two employees there so you can do both ears at the same time?” Now you know when there will be only one person working!

Sincerely, A formerly overworked, underpaid 2-year assistant manager of Claires and Icing.

myth or fact?

is it true wlmrt LP goes home at a certain time, i’ve heard it’s 9, 11, or midnight depending on the source, and no one who isn’t an obvious booster gets caught after that? has anyone here been caught at night?

Tip of the day:

do two practice runs before lftng from a new store if you’re nervous. a practice run is going to the store, doing everything you would do if lfting but without taking a thing. conceal on floor, but then immediately take it out and put it back. if confronted, say you forgot it wasn’t yours, you were being absent-minded, your phone distracted you, etc. you want to put it back so quickly that no one could get over to confront you with it still concealed. if concealing in a fitting room, do everything you would do if you were lftng it, but then take it out before leaving the fitting room. if you come with a hook/magnet for the first time, practice detagging stuff and hiding tags but take nothing. if you come with a magnet for the first time and are concerned about detectors, bring it with you, act vaguely sus but neither take nor conceal a single item and don’t use the magnet or even get it out at all. see if anyone is watching/following you. listen for alerts. if they knew you had a magnet you would probably pick up on that. someone would be watching you. this actually helps prevent getting caught and also helps a lot with your nerves when you come back to actually lft.

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VS has plain clothed LP. I was just there and there was a guy awkwardly standing around. At first I thought he was just waiting for his gf but he was walking around being super sus and that’s when I noticed the ear piece he had in. He had a jacket with him and when I left he was just standing by the dressing rooms. Be careful guys!!

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I saw one of these guys at Victoria’s secret too. I kept looking at him because he was kind of creepy. I think he was trying to act awkward, like he was waiting for his girlfriend or something, but he came off super creepy instead like a random guy just walking around Victoria’s secret watching girls getting underwear.

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they can definitely be lil skeevy if they don’t act right! i was once four seconds away from calling for an sa bc i thought some perve was following me… then i realised it was just an lp acting super sus

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I am curious when this was because I have heard from inside sources that VS does not have LP but this information is a year or two old. I also know on important weekends, i.e. between Thanksgiving and Christmas and perhaps a few other Holidays throughout the year, they have security which is contracted out and is explicitly not for LP but rather to protect customers and employees from shootings and fights.

Finally I guess it would be really stupid of them to have male LP but they wouldn’t be the only dumbass company...

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.

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reblog this with the first thing you ever stole

i’m interested to see how different/similar we all are

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Eyeshadow from 5 below in middle school

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A WITCH series comic book I really really wanted from a book fair in 3rd grade.

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baby lips lip balm from Bakers in 8th grade

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This girl I hated in elementary school who was super mean to me invited me to her birthday party in 6th grade so while I was there I stole her toothbrush so she’d have bad breath at school the next day.

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Fake ruby earrings from a now defunct department store when I was about ten.

Privileges and profiling:

As someone who has worked retail for a pretty openly racist regional chain which I will not name, I can tell you a lot about how we were told to profile, and it’s my belief that most stores do this but the larger a corporation is, the less “official” these policies are.

It’s also good to be aware of who has privilege and who doesn’t because some bloggers may share tips that they think are foolproof but actually aren’t that great, and that only work for them because of the privilege they have in one or more area.

Race privilege: White people can get away with shit more than any other group, are less likely to be followed around, less likely to be sussed, less likely to have their bag or body searched, and less likely to have the fitting room attendant check for hangers/tags when they come out.

Race/gender privilege: White men are less likely to be profiled than white women, but men of other races get profiled at about the same rate.

Thin privilege: Thin people are less likely to be profiled if they’re dressed in baggy or oversized clothing because people think it’s a fashion thing rather than a lfting thing. Intersects with white privilege a lot.

Age privilege: This is double edged sword. Younger women and men are more likely to be suspected, and more likely to be caught, though of course for minors the consequences are less. The more mature you can look, the better. Look like a thirty-year-old with a job, a mortgage, and a husband.

Nation of origin privilege: If your accent matches the typical one for your country, and if nothing else gives you away as an immigrant, you are less likely to be suspected than if you are noticeable “foreign”. Especially someone of Asian or Middle Eastern descent.

My personal philosophy:

I am opposed to the capitalist systems that dominate my home country.

I do not support the right of anyone to profit off of someone else’s labor without giving the laborer a fair portion of the proceeds.

Stealing from a corporation is not morally wrong. Financially supporting these corporations as they continue to exploit the working class is much worse.

Any action that harms the working class, i.e. dine and dash, or stealing from a co-op or small independently owned business, is morally wrong and should be avoided.

Stealing from a company that directly exploits the disabled (such as Goodwill, which pays disabled workers less) is good.

If you cannot afford ethically made products, it’s better to steal those that are unethically made rather than pay for them. It is also preferable to buy second-hand than new.

The free market will not provide for me so I provide for myself.

Hello!

I am someone who participates in certain activities, and has been lurking in this fandom for about three years now.

I have worked retail off and on for years, and have also been l1fting for years.

I have learned some valuable tips from the Tumblr community and want to meet others and share my own tips, as well as my insights from what I’ve seen commonly practiced from the perspective of someone who has done this for a long, long time and yet avoided being caught, except once when I was still in sixth grade.

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