@mugssy65 wrote:
I certainly do not object!
In fact when exiting a store I head towards the person on duty and offer my open bag, more often than not I'm waved through, if they take a look I tell them the wide screen tv I'm stealing is in the front pocket. I only carry a small handbag, about 20cm by 15cm.
ditto. I have a big bag due to having a 2 year old. I always offer it to be looked in.
I actually get a bit peeved when they dont look as its there job to check bags.
When i was a Big W manager i always told my staff they had to also check the bags that people offered. Shop lifters know that if they offer their bag for a look, most time they are waved through
"Installing security cameras, monitoring every customer and when suspicious behaviour is detected, alert the security guards who will either be able to stop the customer in the store or initiate pursuit......I presume...."
Nope. They cant do that. Security is not allowed to stop a customer until they have left the store. Even if they see a shopper shove an item down their pants, its not shop lifting until the shopper leaves the store.
When i was a checkout superviser at Big W , i caught lots of shop lifters.
I recall 3 big ones.
An Asian lady who had 2 big full shopping bags hanging off her pramBoth bags had daggy old jumpers on the top but we had no idea what was underneathy those. When asked by the checkout operator if she could check her bags, the lady played the "I dont speak English" card.
I asked her numerous times to let me lok under the jumper, she wouldnt move it. I then told her i would be calling the police and then she lifted the jumpers and there was $480.00 worth of bras and underwear in the bags. Police were called. She was charged.
The 2nd one was a drugged out guy who had taken his shoes off and left them in the show dept and put on some new ones. I was 6 months pregnant when i confronted him and he immediately admitted what he had done.
The 3rd was 2 staff members who were letting their friends through their checkouts and skipping scanning certain high priced objects. On the day i caught them, they let a friend through without paying for a stereo. They were questioned by police and admitted they had been doing it for a few weeks. They were charged.
What i cant stand is the people who are rude to the poor person who asks to check their bag.
This person is just doing the job they are told to do and what they are paid for.
Dont go off at them.
You wanna kick up a fuss, have the balls to ask to speak to the manager or head of security about your issue with bag checking.
The 2nd one was a drugged out guy who had taken his shoes off and left them in the show dept and put on some new ones. I was 6 months pregnant when i confronted him and he immediately admitted what he had done.
I had that happen to me when I was working in a shoe shop, I was out the back searching for a size in somthing else he wanted to try on and when I came back in customer was gone and his old shoes were still sitting there on the floor.
"btw, what on earth do you people with "personal items" carry in your bag that you wouldn't want anyone to see?"
The mind boggles.
My handbag has my purse, keys, phone, tissues and a pen. I do have sanitary pads in there but they are in a secret zipped compartment. Although, one time while standing in a checkout line with my son, before i noticed, he found that secret zipper and proceeded to pull a pad out and say "Whats this Mum?"
