>>1995
Those only work with items that have beepers. Often - liquor, brands clothing, electronics... Beepers are small plastic things attached to such certain products, to protect the most expensive ones from being lifted.

>>1997
Can I get an image as a reference? Nothing's coming up on google

>>2000
I call them beepers, because if you try to pass exit, exits gonna beep. Few products have RIFD chips on them, which, after purchase of such product, is removed by shops staff member. This video explains how to remove them in home field advantage (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqBkLXo-j940), yet RIFD devices can have any shape or size or whatever.

Alright, I found even better video, with many more types of beepers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJENcL2Uaos)

>>2002
>>2003
Got it, thanks a lot m8

>>2008
Just by the way, don't go bombing magnets on every cap you see, you will look like a jive turkey. You need super strong niobium magnet or something.

>>2009
It's neodymium magnets and electro magnets can work even better if you have a powerful enough little fucker.

>>2010
I'm just saying, don't go farming with a fridge magnet. I'm actually considering making a magnet-glove device, for easier access.

>>2012
Phishing. Legit scheme to get cash monies.

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Your kit is your success

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>>2018
>>2018
>>2018
Part 2

>>2019
Fun fact:
I copy this sort of stuff, amend it, then give it to my staff as part of their training for loss prevention.

>>2020
Why art thou on a chan whiteknight?

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>>2020
>fun

>>2020
Fun fact: I have stolen at least $5000 of shit in the past 2 years alone and never gotten caught. Even on the off chance I do get caught I will get probation for a petty theft charge which is totally worth it. Get fucked.

>>2075
Don't get me wrong, I've no problem with you stealing shit. Just don't do it in my store.

The main reason I train my staff is because it helps me get my bonuses which can total up to 2.5k a year. It's not about white-knighting, it's about me lining my pockets.

>>918
uscan machines usually have a scale, so they'll notice that there are more things in the paid area than have been scanned.
at least here in OH

>>2076
Seems like you could make more if you steal, too.

>>2111
I live in ohio as well and our wal mart has u scans that you can take things off the scale and put them in your cart before you pay for them. they have cameras on them but.....

>>489
I can confirm that this strategy works really well. Pocketing some small expensive stuff like vanilla extract along with your regular shopping is easy as fuck, anyybody can pull it off.

BOGOF offers:
Buy 5 of them (you can mix it in with a whole trolley of stuff if you've got a legit shop to do)! After you've paid for them offload one to your mate, go the customer service counter and tell them they charged you for one too many. Get it refunded.

BUY A PREPAID PHONE. DO NOT HAVE ANY INFORMATION ON IT RELATING TO YOUR ACTUAL IDENTITY.

POST SINGULAR ADS TO CLASSIFIED AD WEBSITES LIKE CL.

ONLY MEET PEOPLE AT PUBLIC AREAS

NEVER PARK IN THE PARKING LOT OF THE STORE YOU STEAL FROM

EASIEST METHOD IS CONCEALMENT. DONT CONCERN YOURSELF WITH ALARMS, DONT STOP FOR BEEPERS, UNKESS YOU ARE UNDER ARREST YOU ARE FREE AND INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY

>>2391
ha, thats a great one, lol

ITT: bad people.

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go into the grocery store or anywhere where there is produce that gives bags with the little wire tristies. Always double bag your stuff and take two twisties. Sneak a few in your pocket and in no time you could sell the twisties at the metal yard by the pound, or on ebay. Also, take huge wads of toilet paper from public restrooms.

dont just steal shit then try sell it....steal to order. take a plastic bag with empty cornflake box with rag in the bottom to the store like you bought it in the last store. drop ordered toiletries, untagged booze, razor blades, meat etc into the empty box. buy something cheap then walk out.

if the store has wifi, log on and get the ip. later at starbucks try that ip on port 9000 etc or 23, 8080. you can often get into the dvr on the camera system. i can get a few shops near me and steer the cameras away from steal zones, one i can wipe selected days footage, copy an old one to that filename. then you can really take the piss and when they look for who took that 42" tv....well nobody did, its still there. manager then manager suspicion. lol

go to the reduced chilled goods section. take a bar code, place on massive fillet steak. reduced bar codes dont carry weight info. use on self service till if poss. swapping codes on busy days is easy money. till op cant watch the till display while scanning esp if your wittering some donald trump rant at them

hide in store till close, between shelves, display tents etc. fill trolly and run out through fire exit. profit

I don't steal but I work at a superstore and can tell you that most employers are not allowed to stop you and can lose their job if they do. I've had people walk into my store, grab TV's and walk out, knowing we can't do anything about it. Your main goal should be to not look suspicious at all, just wearing regular clothes and acting like youre shopping. If you want it to be easier, go to a store in a city that enforces a 'bring your own bag' law or something so they it is alot less weirder to just grab stuff and put it in your bag, then walk right past the registers and be done with it.

I have a jacket with a shell that has pockets on the interior that are inaccessible when zipped up. I can drop shit in there when no ones looking and then zip it up. If someone told me to empty my pockets nothing would be there, because its between the inside and the outside of my jacket.

I'm sorry to interupt just need a line for a photoshop meme:

> Implying we're not the one true /rel/

> Implying

>>2915
>>2915
This might work, but beware, most stores do follow closing procedures and employees will be told to check the store for customers. You will have to hide from unmotivated underlings while they do this and up to 45 minutes of your anus clenching and other closing procedures. Not to mention they might have additional security they put on during the night (my old wage-slave-store had motion detectors which are WAY cheaper than a camera system and cover everything). You would have to have intimate knowledge of a store to pull this off.

Technically I cannot condone illegal activity but if you are particularly desperate such as in a homelessness situation perhaps you can find use in something I call the phone game I recommend only doing this at low and dollar stores as a means of covertly shoplifting pic related

What you do is pretend you are texting on a phone the damn thing doesn't even after work it could be a toy phone for all I care this is simply so that if someone was trying to watch you they would simply think you are sending text messages perhaps to whoever you are shopping for now I've only seen cans of sardines be the right size to do the phone game but basically what you do is you grab two or three of the item that you want and then place your hands together like you are texting with both thumbs and then just slip the 1-2 cans of sardines behind the phone and take the remaining can and put it back on the Shelf where it belongs preferably facing forward flush with the rest of the product so it looks like you put everything back this will allow you to grab things even while people are watching you and they won't suspect a thing and then you can take your phone hand which everyone clearly sees you are feeling with your phone so then with simple sleight of hand or diversion whatever technical word you would like to use you can slip the phone into your pocket along with the tins of sardines and you can repeat this process pulling your phone back out later to pretend you are having more texts and repeat the process until your pockets are full enough to survive

Thank you for taking the time to listen and I hope you have a wonderful day

>>2957

Wow and effective way of stealing phone shaped items from a store.

Anyone ever had luck lifting booze from Aus stores? Everything here has the cap tags

If they happen leave a box of something big empty on the floor... grab it.. fill it up with all the small things you want.. and pack it tight.

High risk, but huge reward.

Yes, you either pay for whatever the big box item is.. or you run with this box OUT THE BACK, not the front. but inside you packed it with stuff to make it worth your while. Go towards the hardware section.. clear pack tape the box. Go pay. A cart helps.

Many stores, the back exit is unwatched.. and if anyone stops you.. "my mom is bringing the car around for a pick up." etc.

>>468
Stealing from target is super easy, if you find the right one. Go in with a friend and a backpack.If there is no one at the security desk(there usually isn't) put your backpack in a cart and walk around the store like you're supposed to be there. Grab a bunch of random shit and anything you want to steal put in your bag(its easiest to do this in the clothing section). Then act like you forgot your wallet or something and walk out with your bag and leave the cart. As long as you don't take items with security tags you should be fine. Most targets near where I live are semi-understaffed on weekdays do they'll have security on restock. As long as you use your head and don't do anything stupid like go to the same target too frequently you should be fine

Being/having a female helps. I've stolen so much shit in my purse. Go in with an empty purse only holding your wallet, phone, and some junk papers. Inconspicuously put items in your purse along the way. I like to hold the object in my hand, take my phone or paper out and hold them in the same hand, look around, then put both back in my purse. Before you check out, make the inside of your purse look all messy and junky as if everything's from your house. I've never even gotten my purse checked, but it's a good precaution.

You'll have to be more careful with this one, but I've stolen plenty of clothes in the dressing room. Wear the bare minimum of clothes such as a hoodie with nothing underneath. Take a huge stack in of clothes in. Try them on and put them under the clothes that you're wearing, but make sure that it doesn't look obvious. Walk out. I've easily stolen bras, swimsuits, and shirts this way. I feel like pants and leggings are harder, but they might be doable. This is another instance where being a woman helps because boobs/curves can help hide things.

I agree on the time of day - I feel like midmorning is usually best. Depending on the store, it will be too dead early morning and too busy around early afternoon.

Former Wal Mart employee here. I don't shoplift but people specifically go there to rip shit off. Can't be hard because their shrink is fucking ridiculous (iirc one year had 6 million in profit and lost over 1 million in stolen shit). Ever since muh covid when they built 20 self checkouts and only have 1 normal one that may or may not be open, it's probably far worse. They don't care and I'm still salty about being treated like shit and managers being petty tyrants so fuck em.

They do have loss prevention and some employees are brown nosers who absolutely will call them because they want to stand back smirking and watch the shit show. But for every one of those there are three who will see someone rip shit off right in front of them and give zero fucks. It's a game of chance if you don't know the employees but if you see them busy shooting the shit with each other while people are calling them or on their phones it's a pretty good clue they don't care. The gung ho ones are usually sour middle aged hags so if any are working you might not want to lift anything.

Most popular method for the big expensive stuff is to have an accomplice who sets off a loud theft alarm clear across the store as a distraction while you grab something expensive and book it out a fire exit or the garden center into a getaway vehicle. Alternatively if you see a miserable or teenage employee and offer them $50 to let you out the back that very well could work. Have some oopsies at the self check out if the cashier babysitting the area is occupied, but keep in mind there is a camera on the front of it so be discreet. If you have any excuse to push a kid around in a carriage you can stuff shit in there, just don't look sketchy. It also gives you an excuse to nip into the bathroom for an "emergency diaper change" and ditch some packaging. Worse comes to worse and they say something just act like you're salty because you don't know how to use self checkouts and hate them on principle.

If you're a real piece of shit you can do what some guy did when I was there: He waltzed into the back, into the break room, calmly microwaved someone's Hot Pockets in the fridge, sat down and ate, then swiped every wallet, ring, device or other valuable that people left in there and fucked off. No one challenged him because the turnover is so high that it's not weird to see new people. Fuck you if you do this but I'm just mentioning it's possible.

Most commonly stolen items and easiest to sell are expensive meat (mostly steaks), cosmetics, shit from the baby section, and probably clothes (especially really good bras). The shitty little chicklet things that set off the alarm can be peeled off and the spider wire can usually be yanked off too if you're determined. Act like you're one of those people who won't buy something unless you can first inspect the contents of the box. The meat and the makeup is often sold in bars around the area, barflies don't snitch. You find women looking for nice baby shit by joining those types of Facebook groups and messaging them privately (preferably not under your real name) if they're in the market for something you have. Just do not openly advertise it.

No matter what anons here are saying, if you advertise something you just stole in Craigslist or some shit you are absolutely retarded.

Compared to 2012 America and the west in 2022 are much more decadent and declined. It's easier to engage in petty theft, people are more tired and apathetic. The only thing I usually steal is just food, the walk in and out, grab and go, ect. That just works fine on the cheaper stuff.

I used to work at two different retail stores and while I doubt it's the same for every single retail store at both the stores I worked at we had similar schedules of when loss prevention and lead managers would be in. Mondays and Tuesdays after 8pm were typically when loss prevention would never be there and the lead manager would take the days off as well.

>>3806
I worked at Ross and we intentionally varied the hours of loss prevention.

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Don't steal, it only works until you get caught.

LP here (store cop), this is my job so I don't judge, if you did the job would drive you mad anyway.

So there are some core dynamics to understand here:
1. Consequences: What actually happens if you steal tings from stores, are suspected, are caught.
So you might get asked the leave the store, get banned, be put on a ban list for a whole chain of stores, a whole group of stores, from a shopping complex (a premises ban), you could be arrested, charged by police, you could be put through loss recovery (sheriff raids your house), PLAM (corporate thugs, debt collectors), you could get beaten up, stabbed, robbed.
2. risk management: How the potential consequences might effect your actions
So for example shopping malls are a single premises, so if you're caught stealing from any store it's likely you will be banned from the entire complex immediately. This is the core reason these complexes even exist. If you steal from a mom and pop store, well they don't have corporate resources to press charges- so might decide to beat you up, which may be a better or a worse outcome. You should have a good concept of the kinds of police charges you might face to avoid breaking laws you don't have to.
3. asset management
What do you do with all the things you steal? Just sit them all in your lounge room, give them to people as gifts, park them all in someone else's garage, sell them immediately (hot), swap them (wash),dump them.
4. revenue management
How do you manage the income you get from this? how do you actually manage your income from this? Do you need the money now, later, do you not need it at all and are happy to sit on assets

This is a distinctly corporate/LP view of store theft, most thieves don't explicitly think in these terms but functionally it's what they do.

Case study one: Liquidity

Someone has asssets worth $1000 (a car) and needs $200 to pay for petrol. Selling the car for petrol wouldn't make sense, they can't sell a fifth of the car.
A. They rent their car to someone, incurring $1000 liability (someone might steal the car) for $200 worth of fuel, and only after some period of time would they get the car back to actually use it.
B. debt-leverage (so, a pawn shop loan) the $200 with the car as collateral to buy fuel. They would incur a steep cost (maybe $100) for the $200 loan, they avoid the liability of the car, and if they can't repay the loan their car gets repossessed which solves their liquidity problem.
c. They steal something from a store for gas money.

This is a classic reason people steal things, they have short term bills they can't pay and would rather risk stealing something as a one-off type of arrangement to try to pay that bill.
Problem: they want an immediate pay-out, are stealing because they are desperate. Probably don't have a buyer, any connections, no idea what to steal.
So typically, they try to steal exactly what it is that they need. Food, fuel, gift cards, clothes and bedding, tools.

Problems:
they do not understand the consequences, cannot manage risks. They would rather steal than beg, because they are trying to protect their reputations in what they hope is a recoverable situation. They do not appreciate however that I will just take a photo of them stealing a $30 item and post it in public. And because I can prove they are thieves, their boss can legally sack them. And I crucify these people because that's my job, and it's the best way of discouraging every ordinary shopper from stealing steak on rent week.

Solution:
These people have ordinary expenses and expenditure, if they can't pay their petrol bill they shouldn't immediately steal petrol, they could steal $200 of literally any other sundry item. they are $200 short that week not out of petrol. They should have asked a thief what to watch out for, to avoid obvious bait.

Case study two: asset management

Recent migrant has no household items, no clothes, they don't actually have enough money to buy all these things. They attempt to become a normal functional member of society by stealing an entire household worth of sundry items.
They burgle houses, ransack one store after another, very common they will loot a store then "dump" the items in their own community, it's often communal theft.

So what that might look like is a displaced person/migrant trying to steal and entire rack of T-shirts.
Nobody needs 100 of the same shirt, nor do they really have any resale value- but they have barter value. so the next week every immigrant from that suburb will be wearing the same shirts and the thief will barter one household item off each of them.

Problem: asset management
The thief has 100 identical shirts, which everyone will assume are stolen, will have 99 at the point they try to dispose of the first because, these items have so little resale value they are hard to wash. This migrant will be caught with the actual items, often wearing items stolen from 6 different stores.
I arrest this person the second I see them; because they're about to steal $200 worth of a single item and try to sprint out the door and down the road like a wilderbeast. And I just assume police will arrest them for possessing stolen property from previous thefts.

Solution:
Steal things, deal in stolen things, buy stolen things- but not all at once. Don't swap one stolen thing for another, don't wear stolen clothes while stealing clothes. Have a plan to dump the assets. It's not uncommon I just walk up to these people's cars and can visually observe a car full of stolen items before they even come into the store

Case study three: risk assessment

A professional thief relies on income from theft, but doesn't need revenue straight away, has a garage full of stolen items on someone else's land, nothing in their house is stolen, they aren't on bail.

But one week they miss-judge the risk, pick the wrong mark, and suffer a loss they can't recover from.

Mom and pop have no store camera, the store isn't easier to steal from, there's a risk they could be beaten up. pop just punches the thief in the face and they run away with a black eye. for most thieves this wouldn't be a problem, but for a pro it means they are visually identified entering every store they want to inspect, so they might be suspected at 30 different stores for every single store they actually steal from. Long term, being so broadly suspected of being a thief is something they can't recover from.

Someone resorts to stealing meat from a supermarket on and off when they lose shifts at their job. The supermarket doesn't press legal charges for individual items stolen especially if the thief is making ordinary purchases as well. They earn more from the thief than they lose from the theft.
The thief steals from a private butcher, thinking it's just the same meat, which it is.
But the private butcher is part of a merchants association which has a private legal fund, and presses charges with association money, so the thief gets a criminal record over $10 of sausages and looses their job.

They didn't asses the nature of the risk correctly.
There's no moral here, this is basically how 90% of the thieves get caught.
walk into a store wearing items stolen from a different store, get beaten up and subsequently marked, cop a charge and have to post bail then caught again while on bail.

Smart strategies: Things that make our lives hard.
You might wonder why I'd just tel you this, it's because there's no structural reason for me to protect retailer I don't work for. If they don't hire me, theft is their problem not mine. Morally? story for another day.

1. Duplicate Item theft.
This is when you buy something, and steal the same item at the same time. So you might scan only one of two items on the self check out, or carry out the same shirt in a different size. on CCTV it becomes hard to prove which item you were carrying, and at what time, and to separate you from other shoppers.
If you put two chocolate bars in your pocket, pay for one, I don't have shit on CCTV. you would just say it's footage of you picking up the item you paid for. even if you were eating the chocolate bar in front of me and produced the wrapper, I cant prove how many you've got stuffed in your chipmunk face.
2. shelving.
I can't sexually assault someone in the course of a search, so if you can shove a stolen item into your anus, it's yours. I'm just not paid enough, neither are cops. I cant remove someones underwear, even if I see a phone charger in your underwear I can't photograph that, or remove that. This is why the bathroom is the epicenter of petty theft.
3. FAST theft
Stealing volumetric products rather than consumer items. petrol, oil, individual slices of bread, single batteries, one CD from a set.
This is so stupid, but we don't barcode the bread itself, the mince meat itself. If you just pull a fistfull of mince meat from a pack and put it in a plastic bag I can't prove it was even our mince meat, or how many slices of bread the bag had in it to begin with. when you see this its like...jesus christ, fml, this nigger stealing individual slices of bread from 6 different bags.
4. change ups.
Yes, still works in 2025. registers are designed so clerks can't go backwards in the process to add extra items but if someone receives cash in their hand, as a rule you can change them up. It's a punk move because you're always on CCTV and can only claim you did it by mistake if you aren't on CCTV in 20 different places trying it. But thieves move around a lot, they will still do it especially if they aren't store thieves.
5. mobbing
When you get more thieves into a single store than the store has employees. 20 kids come in at once and just start throwing items between each other. people who exchange items in their carts with other shoppers.
6. people who steal from other shoppers. they will chase you for weeks, I won't. so why do it? because you can pick the weakest marks. stealing grandmas purse in my store, walk through checkout, buy a cold drink. How the fuck am I to know who's bag you're carrying?
7. theft of not-for-sale items. stealing display items, store equipment, stealing the coat hangers, stealing the carpet, the toilet paper, things we inventory internally, and which only some staff may use. often these are trophy items thieves only steal for a joke, stole the store's step ladder, stole staff uniform, stole cafe salt and pepper shakers. But some of this stuff is legitimately valuable, even shopping carts are worth a heap, despite there being no primary buyers if someone wanted the scrap metal, yea they could steal 10k worth of shopping trolley in an hour.
8. rack raiding
This is when one person distracts a department store clerk and a second person just runs off with a whole rack of designer items, usually straight into a car. it's brazen, but the raider travels and pays a local crook to distract us. it's easy to fall into the trap of sending the whole store's security to tag a single known thief, only for some random thief to run off with a whole rack of items from the other side of the store. doesn't work on mom and pop stores, you've all probably seen the video.
9. caravan'ing
Bringing so many of your own items into the store that it takes so long to search you that security will just pay you $5 in cash not to come in. moms with strollers, armfulls of bags, often a "kit" of items that look like they were just purchased from other stores but are really just props. you get six asians with wheeled luggage and airport tags, pretend not to speak English, clerks get exited thinking these people will buy a heap of stuff. actually one has just stuffed a suitcase with a whole bunch of your shit and they all barrel through the checkout together and are carrying so much secure luggage we can't search them in any sensible way. Locking stolen items in a bag is a 4D play because I can't unlock a bag without a warrant and neither can police- that's a destructive search.