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Just the tip: shoplifting edition

Ok so I have discovered a technique that works for all genders and mostly all seasons I would think. STEP 1 Get a jacket and turn the hood inside out STEP 2 Cinch the strings and tie them STEP 3 Tie the jacket around your waist STEP 4 Just shove stuff into the hood

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This is actually really smart.

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DAM

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Wow. Gonna do this fo sho

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How to check if shit is tagged like the sneaky motherfucker you are

I’M NOT TALKiNG OPENING BOXES I’M NOT TALKING EVEN LOOKING AT BOXES

YOU HAVE 2 WAYS OF DOING THIS

With a partner : you’re gonna have your buddy go “oh shit left something in the car brb” or “oh shit I’m gonna go look at that store” and have them start to walk out the store with nothing in hand. Once they get past the gate, you (with the item(s) you plan to lift) are going to run over, past the gate and yell “wait! I found the keys come back” or something. If you beep, you have tags to look for, if you dont, you’re in the clear. If you beep just turn around and go “oh gosh I’m so sorry I was just trying to get my friends attention lmao” they’ll let you do your thing.

without a partner: fake a phone call. Act like it’s your mom or some shit. Walk kinda to the alarm and poke your head out while pretending to look for someone outside. Don’t go all the way past the alarm gate. Just enough so you can look like you’re looking for someone. “No I don’t see you/your car. Can you just come inside I’ll meet you by the shoes section” and go back in the store. If you beeped, you have tags, if you didn’t, you’re clear. Tell the employee you didn’t mean to set off the towers you’re just looking for your friend.

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Okay guys I’m gonna tell you a secret. Bags like this are my favorite to use when lifting from a mall. The structured bags hold more but they’re a lot easier for others to peek into and see all your stolen goods. the handles on THESE bags are close enough to the top that you holding it will close the top off so nobody can look inside easily. So it doesn’t look too empty or weird, when I start a mall haul, I put one of my own thick sweaters at the very bottom before dropping stuff in; that way it already looks like I’ve done some shopping. Also, the soft material helps cushion the noise of the stuff you’re lifting when you drop it down.

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Shoplifting Laws By State in US

-Alabama

-Alaska

-Arizona

-Arkansas

-California

-Colorado

-Connecticut

-Delaware

-Florida

-Georgia

-Hawaii

-Idaho

-Illinois

-Indiana

-Iowa

-Kansas

-Kentucky

-Louisiana

-Maine

-Maryland

-Massachusetts

-Michigan

-Minnesota

-Mississippi

-Missouri

-Montana

-Nebraska

-Nevada

-New Hampshire

-New Jersey

-New Mexico

-New York

-North Carolina

-North Dakota

-Ohio

-Oklahoma

-Oregon

-Pennsylvania

-Rhode Island

-South Carolina

-South Dakota

-Tennessee

-Texas

-Utah

-Vermont

-Virginia

-Washington

-West Virginia

-Wisconsin

-Wyoming

Taken from the National Association for Shoplifting Prevention (oh, the irony)

Know your state, know the risks. I can’t stress enough how important this is for everyone; it can be the difference between a misdemeanor and a felony, probation or jail time. While getting caught shoplfting is awful, we do so knowing the risks. Stay safe everyone. 

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bless ur soul

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god bless

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I always want to click on these but I have an iPhone and it automatically makes links to websites go to my browser (usually) so I’ve never tried it on tumblr cuz my mom made it so I can’t clear my search history and I don’t want lifting tips stuck on my browser forever

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For yall us bishes❤️

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Tips I’ve picked up that always work

Never gotten caught with these bad boys

-Cup trick: where you take a not clear cup, like a coffee cup, and while walking around the store drop small items into your (clean and empty!) cup. 

-Elastic belt trick: take a piece of elastic from the sewing store (the good kind) and tie/sew it around your waist. Make sure it fits, but is not tight! Then, wear a semi-baggy jacket (It’s that time of year!) and when you conceal, do it on your person by sneaking this to fit snuggly into that elastic band

-The inflatable bag: Take a very large ziplock or two, depends on the bag size, and blow them and stick them in your bag to make it look full. Then, while in a blind spot, as you put things in slowly deflate the bag to make it look proportionally as full as it was when you left. 

-The Big Boots: take a large pair of non-sus knee high boots. make sure you can fit like, half your arm in the boot, because its so roomy. you know what I’m taking about. As you “shop”, drop things like jewelry, makeup, small packs of condoms, stickers, buttons, you know the drill. It may get uncomfortable in your shoe, but eh. Worth it, right?

Some (un)common knowledge:

-If you’re gonna lift clothes then for petes sake look at the price tag before you hold it up to your body or take it to the dressing rooms

-Don’t lift nail polish by putting up your sleeve it will fall out and break and BAM you’re caught

-Putting something between your thighs as a way of lifting is really hard because you have to walk out perfectly normal

-If you get shaky hands or get really nervous, pull out your phone and pretend to call/text someone to meet you at the store. This way, when you leave without buying anything, it looks like you went outside to find your friend

-Dont start pulling out your goods in the parking lot. Rookie mistake here. Wait until you get in your car with doors locked and windows rolled up. Even better, wait till you’re at home. 

-Scope the store out a couple of days before you lift

-Trust your gut

-Try to avoid backpacks; instead go for a purse type thing. Easier to slip things in

- Don’t try to avoid LP. Ask at them only one or two times, if you make eye contact with them, just smile and wave. If you think someone is watching you, go up to Lp and ask shit like “do u have wet n’ wild mascara? Is there any pink ribbon here? What foundation tone should i use?” Seem interested while they talk. But don’t get too friendly. 

-Be cautious and observant but not paranoid and jumpy

-if you get a bad vibe, leave with what you’ve already concealed. Not getting your hair dye is better then getting a fine.

-Lifting while wearing a skin tight sundress is hard mode. 

-Barcodes don’t set off alarms unless theres a RDIF under it so check!! 

-If you cant afford a hook or magnet, then use a seam ripper for what you can. If you don’t mind small holes in clothes, that is. 

Anything else to add?

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Rebloging because my dash is more active

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The drop technique and my quick concealing method shown.

Drop technique notes: 1. Use a bag with a shoulder strap so you don’t have to think about where the handles are. You do not want to worry about getting your product tangled up in them. Another benefit of a shoulder strap bag is that there is no gap between the bag and your body (that the product could fall through). 2. Use a structured bag, so that if your product hits one of the sides (as my peanut butter & honey palette did!!), it falls inside anyway! Floppy purses are bad for this because your product can become unbalanced on the cloth if it hits the side, and end up on the floor. Cloth is just one more thing for the product to become tangled in. 3. See how the inside-tops of each side of my purse are angled slightly inward (toward the zipper)? These are your bumpers, babes. Like rails in Mario kart, these guide your product into the bag, so you don’t have to think about it at all. 4. I usually do something with my hand while doing this, as an excuse to move my arm and drop the product. Because I don’t touch my purse, it was clearly “just an accident” if I were to be caught. 5. Once this is done, immediately zip up your purse. Preferably do the concealment and zipping in a blindspot, or the closest thing to a blindspot as you can find. Also a great tip: walk into the store with your phone in a pocket. After dropping, place your phone into your purse and zip it up *without looking* at it.

Light speed conceal technique notes: 1. Hold the product in the hand on the opposite side of your body from your purse. Here, my purse is on my left and the product is in my right hand. I conceal it with my right hand. First, my left arm provides a little bit of cover. Second, it’s just a lot less obvious to me to have my right arm crossing in front of my body than it would be if I were bending my left arm to put the product in. I also like to use my left hand to hold my purse open if it’s a really big item (like I’m doing here; if it’s not a large item, I don’t do this). Third, it’s just a lot harder to do with the arm that’s next to the purse, IMO. Try both out, see what works best for you, and do so in front of a mirror. Practice, practice, practice. 2. Use only in what you are 200% sure is a blindspot. Also great for stores with no cams. 3. Use in clothing stores that count going into dressing rooms (conceal before you go in and detag in the dressing room). Again, be wary of cams. 4. Don’t do this with people around! Very advanced lifters probably are already using this technique to crowd conceal, but if you aren’t very advanced don’t do this anywhere near other people or only try it with *extreme* caution. Practice at home first!! For me, I often use my partner’s body to block others’ view of the side that my purse is on. Using a support beam, wall, or display on that side can also be helpful. I sometimes do it when I’m in a busy store and I’m 200% sure there is no one behind me and maybe one or two people in front of me, both facing away from me. The only reason I do it in these situations is because I’m also 200% sure I can conceal the item in less than 2 seconds (as shown here). If someone did turn to look at me after I’ve started to conceal, worst case scenario is that they see me with my hand in my purse. I’m pretty quick. 5. I often use this technique in makeup stores while holding 2 items. I only want to conceal one and the other is my decoy, which I hold on top of the thing I want. Then I cross my right arm over my body and pretend to look closer at something on a shelf (maybe reach out and grab something with my left hand and look at it), and only shove/drop one item in my purse. Then I’m still holding my decoy which I put somewhere random before leaving. It’s less sus in stores crowded with SAs. 6. Never ever EVER: do this in front of a camera, in front of another person, or on the floor in a store with very active and vigilant LP! Don’t do it! This method is CLEARLY intentional, unlike the drop technique. I have no cover or excuse for this if I get caught and neither do you. This is my favorite and most used technique, but it’s risky. Again, I only recommend this for the experienced and the entirely un-sus. I had a lot of experience before I ever tried concealing on the floor like this. Please be careful.

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Script for Getting Out of A Store

So this is always what I do when I need a calm way to exit a store (works best if you’re at a mall). I know I always struggle with not bolting out of a store and acting sus so this helps me~ 

So after you’ve concealed everything, set an alarm on your phone for a minute or two, and make sure the alarm tone is something that sounds like a ringtone. The alarm will ring and slide to turn it off and hold it up to your face like you’re taking a phone call. Then I usually say something like this:

“Hey, yeah, are you done?”

*pause*

“Okay cool, I’m at [insert store here], want me to meet you?”

*pause*

(right here you’re going to want to start exiting the store)

“Yup yup, I’ll be right there. Okay I’m on my way.”

The important thing is not making the pauses sound super obvious and being able to smoothly start walking while in the middle of a conversation. Don’t look back, don’t stop, don’t fidget, and if you set off the towers just keep walking. SA seem to be more hesitant to stop you if you look like you’re busy. This seems like I pretty simple tip but I’ve seen plenty of people give the “fake a phone call” tip but sometimes it’s hard to think of a realistic sounding conversation while under pressure :)

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Download the fake a call app it makes your screen even look like you’re getting a call.

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Ahh I didn’t even think of that, good tip!!

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10 top ways shoplifters get caught

This was written by an LP, i merely copied and pasted it. REBLOG AND INFORM

Despite what you may have heard, there is no perfect shoplifting method. You can be caught NO MATTER how you try to steal. A lot of it is the luck of the draw. Is LP in the store? Are they busy with another shoplifter? Are they watching you? There is no way you can be sure. You can be sure however, that you significantly increase your chances of getting yourself caught when:

10)You carry a flat purse or back-pack: Fairly obvious, right? Not only is this an attention grabber, but it also makes the LP Agent’s job much easier. Your bag was flat, and then magically became full right after all the merchandise you were carrying disappeared. Did the LP Agent watch you fill your bag? That does not really matter. The LP Agent did not need to see concealment (See my article: The 6 Steps of Loss Prevention) to confidently make a stop on you. It is fairly obvious. Most LP Agents will make that stop. On top of being obvious, entering a store with an empty bag can also bump your charge from petty theft to burglary.

9)You over-act: You pick up the item you plan on stealing. You begin tapping on it, wiggling it, playing with it, and looking around like everything is cool. Yes, people actually think this works. When you take this approach you are basically telling LP Agents “Hey, I am not going to steal this! Look, I’m playing with it out in the open. I wouldn’t be doing that if I were going to steal it.” Then you steal it. Happens all the time.

8)You under-act: You pick up the item you are going to steal and immediately palm the item, or hold it behind something. You then quickly walk off to the most deserted part of the store. The race is on. The LP Agent knows he needs to get a view of you, either on camera or on the floor to witness the concealment.

7)You are overly friendly: You come in and immediately start chatting with store employees. You’re such a nice person! You would never steal. This will work when trying to deceive regular workers but LP is not falling for it. I have even had employees try to stop me from making an apprehension because they thought I was going to make a bad stop on that “nice” person. When I see someone being overly friendly with cashiers, managers or anybody with a name tag, I immediately become suspicious. They could be a genuinely nice person but nice people steal too.

6)You fail the “scare test”: When I suspect somebody is a shoplifter I will often give them the scare test. This means I will have several people walk past the area where my suspect is looking at items. A normal shopper will pay little to no attention to who is around them. A nervous shoplifter will turn their head at everyone that passes by. Often times they will look them up and down evaluating whether or not they seem like an undercover. When this happens it is a good indicator that I should set up on this person and wait for them to “go”.

5)You are bringing non-clothing items into the fitting room: Some people actually think that if they conceal merchandise in the fitting room that they can not be arrested by Loss Prevention Agents. This is because it eliminates the possibility of the LP Agent’s step # 3. This might work on some LP Agents, but certainly not the one’s that are good at what they do. If I see someone bringing something into the fitting room that is not supposed to be tried on such as DVDs, Jewelry, makeup, etc., they have my full attention until I see them exit the fitting room carrying that merchandise. Believe me, bringing stuff into the fitting room is a false sense of security and it will get you caught.

4)You are leaving an evidence trail: You select the item you want to steal. You are not sure if the item will make the door beep or not so you decide to remove the item from the package. Or maybe you want to pretend the item was already your’s so you rip the tags off. Now you can conceal the item. However, you also need to rid yourself of the package. So you discard it on the shelf, or you hide it behind something. You just made the LP Agents job 95% easier. Maybe they did not see you conceal the item, but they did see you toss something down or hide something. They find the package. Now LP knows what the item is, they know you removed it from the package (this is vandalism and is illegal), and they know you are up to no good. When you walk out of the store, all the LP Agent needs to do is approach you with the empty package and demand that you return the item. They will likely tell you that you are on video opening it (you may or may not be). They will tell you that if you do not return the item you will be charged with vandalism (this trick is likely against their LP policy but it is completely legal). Once you produce the item you are under arrest for theft. It is a lose-lose situation that you created by leaving a trail of packages and tags.

3)You have “shifty” eyes: Everyone knows that you are not supposed to blatantly look for cameras or look around for people when you are going to steal. However, it seems that the majority overcompensates. When you look up to the ceiling and then side to side without moving your head, you have “shifty eyes”. Shifty eyes get shoplifters caught every day. In fact, if I am about to give up on a perspective shoplifter and they shift their eyes, I will watch them until they leave the store, no exceptions.

2)You use two hands: As an LP Agent, nothing catches my eye more than somebody with both hands on the sales shelf. When an honest shopper looks at a product of interest on the sales shelf, they typically take the item in one hand and remove it from the shelf to look at it in the open. When a shoplifter puts both hands on a product and does not remove the object from the shelf it is a DEAD GIVE AWAY that they are opening something. I have caught shoplifters that I otherwise would not have even noticed simply because they used two hands!

1)You just plain look like a shoplifter: You know who you are! This is by far the most common reason people get caught. If you fit the stereotypical profile of someone who would likely shoplift you are likely being watched as an “easy stat”. So if you have 10 facial piercings, and a bright green mohawk, or if you’re just a shady looking character, don’t do it.

REBLOG AND HELP A FRIEND

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confession: sometimes, I go into a store and do ALL these things but don’t actually steal anything. I’m lowkey hoping to trap lp into a bad stop so i can complain. highkey testing to see what they do when they suspect a lifter.

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Getting out

Okay, I’m seeing a few specific posts about “how to know that you’re sussed,” and I am loving this advice. Sometimes stuff that is applicable to one place can go across the board and be relevant elsewhere, too. So… * Have you noticed anyone near you? (Customers can be as much a threat as LP/SAs, and may very well be ununiformed LP. Keep this in mind, especially if you don’t honestly know.)  * Have they moved with you around the store? (SAs often like “straightening up” areas where they have customers in line of sight, especially if it’s very quiet.)   * Are they as quiet as you (hopefully) are? * Has someone made eye contact with you and genuinely looked surprised? (They may have seen something in your hand and then *not* seen it.)  * Has someone seen your hand near/on/in your bag? * Have you heard any questionable announcements? “Carol, you have a call on line one in Kidswear,” if you’re in cosmetics, it might not be too weird, but anything with sketchy sounding names (or highly ordinary or unusual names– might be a store code for “Houston, we have a problem”) or in your general location? You’ve just gotten your cue to make very quick exit plans. * Have you seen more than one staff member near you, and how is their body language and do they seem to be whispering? I sometimes LOVE it when staff are casually talking about their plans of the weekend/the bitchy manager from another department/who’s rostered on this weekend/etc, but there is a marked difference between this and when their guard isn’t down.  What to do? Swallow your pride, continue on as normal, and get out. Don’t come back for awhile. Keep in mind, you may be sweating bullets at this point, but this is where you know your local laws (some places don’t go you for lifting until you have passed the point of sale, in some places, concealing in and of itself is criminal) and go into normal mode. Anything ELSE you do from this point that looks sketchy is just going to be another point against you, especially if people are already watching you. And if they aren’t, you’ve psyched yourself out.  I’ll be honest: I think everyone has had something like this happen in their history of lifting. It doesn’t mean The End, it doesn’t mean getting caught, it doesn’t mean mass panic and it doesn’t mean doing time. What it does mean, is that you have to stomp down every single drop of adrenaline and the instinct telling you to freak out, and you need to a) offload anything you’ve concealed in a complete chill manner, and b) work out how you’re going to get out. Remember, you could always be a first-time lifter who got spooked and decided not to go ahead with anything, or someone who’s realised they’ve left their wallet at home or lost their credit card (losing a wallet or credit card will naturally make people panic, too, so it ads some plausibility if you’re looking frantic and upset when you leave… just don’t, for the love of fuck, have anything on you to suggest otherwise or that you’re stealing.) My “getting out” depends highly on the situation, and this is where being adaptive to your environment is important. Stores that are multilevel or have multiple exits will change how you do things and the speed with which you can escape. (Ideally, you know where all the normal exits are, already, too.) My general method goes like this:  a) Find a blind spot. Ditch anything I’ve had in my bag, while pretending to look for my phone. If you can’t do this, getting into an unmanned changeroom would possibly work, too– just grab a couple of clothing items, and leave everything you’ve pinched in there. Now isn’t the time to go, “But I’ll still sneak this lipliner no one saw me with.” No, sweetie, they might have seen that. Ditch ALL of it. Remember, going into a changeroom when you already are being watched can be a massive tell. If you leave things in there, they knew you had the intention, but if you haven’t taken any of it, they’ll assume you chickened out, and often they won’t follow beyond that. Loss Prevention is what it sounds like a lot of the time. Not about “catching the bad guys” but, well, preventing loss. You leaving stuff in a changeroom because you were spooked still means they’ve done their job and prevented that loss from happening. b) If they see you with something in your hands, and you have cash, after ditching what you’ve concealed, just swallow your pride and walk to the counter and buy the damn thing. If you really can’t afford it, keep the receipt and return it at another store with an excuse about how you bought it for your friend but you got the wrong one/your friend is allergic to one of the ingredients/you thought the product was cruelty-free but since learned otherwise when you got home. If it’s clothing, you got someone something in the wrong size/found a cheaper alternative elsewhere. Toys or homewares? You bought it for someone and they already have it.  c) Don’t return for at least a few weeks. And when you do, do so at a time where customer traffic and staffing is likely completely different. (ie. You were sussed on a Monday morning? Go back in a month on a busy Saturday afternoon.) And try to make your next visit one where you aren’t stealing anything, where you’re just sussing out things (it’s always a good idea to keep up with store layout and camera changes; some places will add cameras to blind spots or rearrange displays) or legitimately shopping. Maybe go with someone different, too: sometimes when they’re expecting to be on the lookout for a sole lifter and suddenly you’re there with someone else, and probably dressed differently, etc, they just plain won’t recognise you. Remember, people often see what they’re looking for. I’ll say this, too: getting sussed and having unfortunate events is going to happen at some point in time. Statistically, your odds of getting caught increase the more you lift (this is before taking into account psychological changes like getting cocky or too relaxed, too); most reports on lifting suggest that an individual who gets caught has already gotten a few thousand under their belt before getting busted. Shit happens, but like a lot of other areas in life, it’s not so much the cards you’re dealt, but how you choose to play them. As I’ve said before, I still think about 60% of lifting is in the social engineering execution. 

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Jaidyn & Echo. These two are a little older and not very well done. I'm not too proud of them, but I guess they're decent enough to post.

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I kinda messed up, but when do I not? Her name hasn't been decided yet.

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My main oc. She doesn't have a name. She's wearing a space suit kinda thing. Idk.