<p>Considering the tooons of items “missing” from my library I really doubt every other Marshalls isn’t shoplifted…</p>
<p>LOL. i laugh at threads where they say they need to help their friend. even if its you its okay, we don’t know you. and i don’t know the answers to any of your questions =[</p>
<p>best strategy here is to take the offensive. Go back to the store and complain to the
manager ask that the district manager be called. Tell them you found a number of good
deals in the store but the employees threatened and intimidated you at the register so
you wouldn’t buy such a cheap deal. Threaten to call your attorney and the local paper
unless they give you the cheaper price. Just keep on *****ing and whining until they give
in. that’ll take care of things.</p>
<p>^ I would definitely not take that route. Between the video surveillance of the store and price/inventory records, it would be extremely easy to disprove that the items were originally $10 not $2. I’m not sure what I would do in that person’s shoes, but if they are worried about their future because of this, the last thing that I would do is continue lying. I do not see how that can end any better than going back and explaining/pleading or just not going back.</p>
<p>^i’m pretty sure speedo was joking</p>
<p>theReach, we had a national poster from the TJX corporation that was in the break room telling us of all the handbags alone that were shoplifted from all the Marshalls in a year. The numbers were in the 10,000s. Not including all the clothes that are stolen either.</p>
<p>your friend changed the prices…? am i the only one who’s never heard of this actually happening in real life?</p>
<p>& am i the only one who things it’s really weird & kind of sick? 0_o</p>
<p>LOL. Prob nothing will happen, just lay low and dont go back the that store for awhile.</p>
<p>It would serve her right if she does get caught though. The simple thing I’d do is simply not go to the store for a while.</p>
<p>And while you’re at, try shopping at a differenct chain, just to be safe in case they report it to higher ups.</p>
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<p>I never heard of it either…</p>
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<p>But when I heard about it, I thought, ‘that is so cool and easy! Why wasn’t I smart enough to think of doing that?’ Honestly, just change the price on one item to half off. Make sure it is a similar brand from a similar area of the store (don’t put a dish-set tag on shoes, but put adidas shirt tags on shorts), so it’s easy to blame the workers for negligent tagging. That’s so genius.</p>
<p>I’m not condoning stealing or anything, and I certainly won’t steal myself, but I do recognize genius when I see it, and this kind of stealing is genius.</p>
<p>This stuff happens all the time and it’s incredibly easy to get away with it, especially when it’s busy in the stores. Customers also tried to turn in items that were from other stores and get money for the return. The shadier customers would jam pack a purse with the clothes (the Handbag section was always empty), come back a few hours later, then stuff their purses with the clothes and leave. </p>
<p>Another lady, a long-time customer too, friendly, would chat with us, would pull the tags off and blame it on her toddler. She would spank her and then steal the clothes. </p>
<p>One time, we put out 3 pairs of Nikes in the morning. By that night, all three were gone. We couldn’t search the person unless we saw them stealing. So they’d be able to leave and even without all of our suspicions, we could do nothing unless we saw them.</p>
<p>You see the ugly in people when you work in retail.</p>
<p>Friend of my Wife’s was dismissed from Nursing school for shoplifting. Looking back my wife said her friend most likely didn’t want to be a Nurse anyhow and just didn’t know how to admit it to herself. Is your friend trying to tell you something she doesn’t want to admit to herself?</p>
<p>^like in the movie Rounders? Guy (Matt Damon) drops out of law school to play poker professionally.</p>
<p>I don’t know if like “abandonement of education” is a likely conclusion to be drawn from shoplifting. Maybe, though.</p>
<p>i hope your “friend” gets caught.</p>
<p>Seriously. Wow…She’s even going to an ivy.</p>
<p>Any updates?</p>
<p>This seems so insignificant.</p>
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<p>Wow i skimmed through that</p>
<p>If you go to an ivy and want to cheap out on such small items, than you don’t deserve to be there. It reflects on who you are that you would willingly commit petty crimes like that. Who is to say you didn’t lie on your application form. I would say if the school gets ahold of this info (which they probably won’t), then “she” may have some serious issues to deal with.</p>
<p>What happened to those days when you couldn’t afford something you put it back and buy it later?</p>
<p>She got Marshalls for what, $50? </p>
<p>They’re not going to do anything about it. Any trouble they may have given her would simply be to discourage her from doing it again. $50 isn’t worth the effort to look through tapes, call the police, etc. The store clerk isn’t losing money off this, manager needs to keep shrinkage below a certin level, and that’s it. If they can’t prove that she switched the tags there’s not anything they can do. As far as anyone knows someone mistagged them. </p>
<p>She can probably shop there again no problems. It takes a lot of effort to blacklist people. I worked at a retail store where some guy just stole a stack of jeans when no one was looking (they were near the front, it was busy). Nothing done about it.</p>
<p>Edit: I should have read the whole post. Considering she didn’t actually buy any of the things she changed the tags on, I don’t even think she commited a crime. They probably just retagged those things back to the price they were supposed to be.</p>
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<p>Probably. It just shows she’s got the potential to become the next Bernie Madoff. You start small, you steal big.</p>