Ohh, tell some! I want to read them!

I didn't know stores had stretch budgets for that X'D

yeah, each store has a different name for it but basically it boils down to allotting a certain percentage of cost to things getting stolen, the customer has to cover the cost though in nearly every instance

Ah geez, that sucks D:
Either I don't pay attention enough in stores, or I just come in whenever it isn't a good time for theft.

all times are theft times, you just dont notice XD

ok, i am off for a bit, chat with you later~

See you cho!

I should pay attention more :o

taaa~


it will probs upset you if you do XD

Admittedly, it probably would, but it's better to see it than to not notice it? Ignorance isn't bliss when you know it happens but you don't see it happen?

Besides, there was once a guy who stole my family's laundry card money and I didn't notice until my sister told me D: -I should have paid attention-

This old lady came in one day. And came to me with a pillow that "lost" it's price tag(mind you i work at a thrift shop. Yes suoer hipster) and I'm the only person up front with the abilities to price items. So it was a practically new pillow with the original store price of $24.99
I was feeling nice and generous so I told her $5.99
She immediately told me. "No." And got very red faced. So I told her "I'll have our bed and bath pricer price this for you then" she tried to follow me into the back room which isn't allowed. And i had to stop her.
So I went to my friend who prices the bed and bath section and asked her to put $4.99 on it. Again just wanting the lady to buy the stupid thing and leave.
I even had my friend bring her the pillow and explain why. And the lady blew a damn casket and threw the pillow.
She stormed off towards the front of the store and I followed her guessing she was going to leave with our items.

And she did.
So I followed her out and asked for a receipt and she was like "these were my items I brought it." I couldn't call her oht on the books since we dont put pricetags in books (plus it was half priced book day so she stole like $1 worth of books e.e) but I noticed the plastic container had a new tag on it (we have a color code system) and asked her for it back and she insisted she bought it last week but that couldn't be possible so I called her out on that. Then she threw that at me and left.

Apparently she tried calling the store for me like 10 times (It was Halloween time so we all were forced to dress up every day and that day the easy outfit was a witch ) we got repeated calls for "the witch"
We all figured she wanted to scream at me more
But she came back into the store "crying" and "apologized to me" basically she was upset she got caught and didn't want to feel like she did a bad thing and also wanted to buy that plastic thing.

Everytime I see her I stalk her or have someone stalk her around the store lol.

Heh, that story ended pretty well on a sort-of happy note. The things people do X'D.

Wow, people. -shakes head-

(Poofed to work on updating my quest thread)

I low-key call people out on switching tags by saying "oh this is the wrong price. You can see where someone tore the tag off" and watch as they pretend it wasn't them. Like "oh I knew that deal was too good"
Lol.

It's sort of staggering that people try to rip off thrift stores. It's already super cheap... o.o

Although, all told, I'm not surprised by it.

I don't really know what people think about when they try to steal '~'
Stealing's illegal anyway, but what's the reason behind it..? Do most people feel it's necessary or do they get a kick out of it?

-a bunch of unanswerable questions-
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My mom once said to me that whenever someone accused her of something, no matter what, she'd deny it. It's sort of similar D:

I mean technically I work at a "high end" thrift shop.
We are basically a department store.
But like. Our prices aren't even bad. We price according to brand. So expensive brands cost more than mass marketed stuff from Walmart or target.
Half the people are impressed and think our prices are great and the other half think it's too expensive.

But it's not like we can even control anything. The way we price things is regulated by the store policies. If we dont price the way the store makes us, we get in trouble.
We have this simple star rating program. 1 star is the cheapest and 5 the most expensive and each star has a price point and price points vary depending on the type of clothing like jeans price points are higher than t-shirts.
But we have very precise guidelines on how to price virtually everything.
So when people complain and treat us like we do it to spite them it sucks. Plus it's way too complex to explain to an angry customer.

A lot of the people who steal feel entitled. Like they feel they deserve the items for free. At least in my experience.

Yeah, I can see that being the reason.

Yeah, angry customers don't want to hear any kind of explanation.

Well, that's true. I can't help but wonder what motivates them XD.

EDIT: That makes sense. If you don't feel entitled, how can you take something?

I've never watched a customer argue with an employee, but that does sound extremely annoying. Kind of like soup kitchen arguments over getting food.

Customers avoid me because they know they cant get away with anything with me.

It sucks because if you're nice to me, I give extra discounts and stuff. It's not hard to be a decent person

I worked for a grocery store as a cashier during a semester of college...

One day, we got a warning about people going around trying to short-change cashiers by asking to break and combine things rapidly in hopes of getting more money than they'd handed over.

Somebody tried it on me, but I happen to be really good at computation in my head, so I had no problem with it...and when it became apparent what he was doing, I ended up shorting him some money. :P

That's fantastic.
Great job

I always have a perfect drawer or either up or down a cent or two.
People have tried to scam me but its easy to notice when they try.

Break and combine things? How does that work :o?

I gave people food packages and signed people in at a soup kitchen for mandatory community service. There would be people arguing about what they wanted taken out or more of in their food packages. And the people who had to sign in, well, I don't really remember it too well. Except some people would yell about something? I don't remember what they were unhappy about X'D.

I live in a place where talking to cashiers is sort of scary. People don't really talk with each other here as the norm, I think. Mutual awkwardness for most ^^;;

That's good. :D

My drawer was never off, or, at least, never off enough for them to tell me it was.

We just have to watch them weigh our drawers and stuff. We have a cash master so opening and closing is super easy and quickkk.

It's a normal thing to go up to a cashier who's not busy and say, "Hey, can you give me two twenties and a ten?" and hand over a $50 note.

So, the scam involves doing that, then handing back some of the bills and asking for different combinations.

Ohh, I didn't realize that was normal :x
I've never seen it happen before XD

Yea it's quite common.
In the end the poor cashier suffers and possibly could get fired for someone being shitty like that

Oh dear, that's pretty awful, rather shameless for taking advantage of that D:

Hence why I did not feel at all bad for taking the guy's money. :P

Fresh Pumpkan

So I've been using a new method to make sure I actually read everything, but now I forget to read the most recent posts :') and then I post things in nonsequential order :') I'll remember how to forum eventually

Good morning folks!
Don't ask why im so awake this early.
I'm not even sure.

I woke up 6 or 7 times last night to use the restroom.

Now I'm awake for the day but sleepy.

QQ

Awwe, poor sleepy Glitch.
Take a nap?

then I won't sleep tonight!

It is a vicious cycle!

Hmm... Have some cocoa. It'll perk you up :s-tongue:

golly, what a long read that was XD just read through the time i had to fiddle about online, hahahaha


though i have(to my knowledge) never had anyone try to do the change thing, of course being very slow and carefully counting things out every single time is probs a good deterrent?

Yea I count like 5 times before handing change over or putting it in the register