Shoplifting

The question's been asked time after time; "How do I get started with shoplifting?" Well, u/thief, am here to answer that for you.

Well, first of all, welcome to the world of professional thievery. You'll find that this may become very beneficial to you, as shoplifting (and all its other forms that are practiced) may save you money and sometimes earn you money when you get more professional and skillful at this type of crime.

Why do people shoplift? Some people do it because they need to. Some people do it because they want to save money. Others may do it for fun because it gives them a surge of adrenaline.

However, before you start, you have to remember that shoplifting is a criminal offense. It can be classified as either a misdemeanor or a felony depending on your state laws. If you're caught and lift over the felony limit your record is fucked for a long time. Be sure this is the type of thing you want to get into before you start, or before you get caught.

You need to remember, however, that nervousness and strange behavior is the main reason people get caught. Now, I'm not saying if you're anxious about lifting, it's not for you; however, if you're even going to think about getting into the world of theft, you need to control yourself, your worries, and your anxiety before you get yourself caught by displaying erratic behavior.

Now that we have the introduction out of the way, let's get right into the basics.

1. Your First Lift (Basics)
2. The Day
3. Success

1. Your First Lift (Basics)

If you've lifted at least once before, you can skip this step.

Well, if you've decided you want to start stealing, welcome again. Here's how you can plan out your first lift.

• Plan a day to start. When will you be the most ready to swipe your first product? Are you feeling daring and want to go right after reading this? Are you feeling nervous and want to go tomorrow? It doesn't matter when you go, you just have to make sure to trust your gut and go when you're ready. Your first lift can be a nerve racking experience.

• Pick out a store to hit your first lift at. Never, and I mean never, attempt a store you know will be difficult, or that has a lot of security measures. This is how you will get fucked in the ass the first time and get a criminal record. My greatest suggestion is to try a superficially easy store such as Dollar Tree or Dollar General (or whatever the easiest store is in your country). Those are two easy stores with almost no security features at all. Do not attempt gas stations.

• Decide what you want. You should know this so you're not strolling the store looking for useless objects. Take something you can actually take advantage of. This includes things such as food items or drinks. You should actually need the item you're taking. Well, not necessarily need, but you should always take something that you can actually use. For example, don't steal a phone case you don't have the phone for. Take a soda, or maybe a pack of gum. Take something concealable that you can fit on your person without it being very obvious.

That's the basics. You just have to make sure you're ready for..

2. The Day

Alright, so it's the day you're going to attempt your first lift. You're ready for action and planned it out.

• Go to your location. Picked an easy location? Good, go there. However you get there doesn't matter.

• Open the door and walk in with confidence. You've opened the door and you are now mere minutes away from taking off with a product of theirs. Avoid suspicious behavior. Do not look at the counter. Do not walk too slow, but do not speedwalk or run. If you make eye contact with anyone else, including employees, flash a quick smile and be on your way.

• Walk to your item. Once you're there, do not act suspicious.

• You ready? Pocket your item. Obviously you're going to want to look out for employees and customers in your area. This is often a very tense and scary situation for many beginners, but do not act suspicious under any circumstances. Once you can confirm you have at least ten seconds alone, shove your item in your pocket, in a purse, under your shirt, wherever you know it won't be bulging out or slip out, and is comfortable.

Tip: It is advised you do not conceal more than one item unless it is small and you are confident.

• Leave the store. And make sure you leave quickly. Again, do not run, but do not walk slow enough for anyone to apprehend you if you were caught. Do not stare at anyone or the counter. Look at the door and walk forward. Flash another smile to fellow shoppers and employees. And keep your hands out of your pocket. Push open the door. Success.

3. Success

You made it out of the door. You made it past the point of sale (POS). Now you officially, by law, committed an act of shoplifting.

• Keep walking. Go home. If you drove, keys in the ignition, put it in reverse, and leave. If you walked, just walk home. If no one's stopped you at this point, you made it clean.

• Congratulations on your first lift. Now what? Now you can move onto larger lifts. Not large, but slightly more each time now that you're confident.

• Plan to do slightly larger lifts each time. Lift two packs of gum this time. Take two sodas. The time after that, take three, maybe take a larger object that's still concealable.

| would personally say, after your third lift you should be ready to move up to intermediate lifting. Yes, I'm talking about stores with some degree of security measures. Not anything too difficult, but maybe a store with security towers. Maybe one with a little bit of cameras to get used to using blind spots. Pace yourself. Tagged items should only be attempted by the advanced. Be sure to read the intermediate guide once youre ready to step your game up.

But it should go without saying: Never get too cocky.

Next: An Intermediate Guide to Shoplifting

This is basically just a cleaned up version of the Raddle Shoplifting Guide

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/technology@lemmy.world/t/714088 (How can I make this link work??? LOL, idk why its broken, pls copy it instead of just clicking)

Rite Aid is banned for five years from using artificial intelligence (AI) facial recognition to try to curb shoplifting, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said Tuesday. In a press release, the age…

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cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/news@lemmy.world/t/748626

It turns out shoplifting isn’t spiraling out of control, but lawmakers are pushing for tougher penalties for low-level and nonviolent crimes anyway.

Caught in the act, not the first time he'd been at this judging from the way he kept out of sight of the staff.

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Drawing of a store camera. The camera lens is pasted over with a yellow smiley sticker and on the grey camera body "IF IT'S A CHAIN IT'S FREE REIGN" is written in red letters.

This is the second short that launched the anti-career of Frank Lopez and subMedia, rumored to have been funded by the generous donation of a volunteer bank regulator.

You can see the remastered version at the start of subMedia presents: The Two Decades of Subversion Riot Porn Jamboree.

Crossposted from https://slrpnk.net/post/5066451 Archived version

This is the real significance of the “glorification” of shoplifting, adultery, etc. that some radical propaganda indulges in: not to argue that shoplifting itself is revolution in action (or for that matter that one must shoplift to be radical as if revolution was a commodity in a scarcity economy, only available through certain channels!), but to establish connections to the daily lives and resistances of individuals who are not yet acting out of an articulated desire for revolution.

From "Why We’re Right & You’re Wrong - infighting the good fight" - archived version

A couple years ago I saw a (non-food) shoplifter in a Lidl store in Europe. Lidl is not a large exploitational chain like Wal·Mart or Amazon AFAICT, and Europe has a bit more control over capitalism than the rest of the world. So it seems like an unlikely target for anti-capitalist action. I spotted a shoplift in progress as I was exiting. I went to the Lidl website and tried to use the feedback mechanism to report the shoplifter. The website tried to force me to execute non-free Google JavaScript in order to solve a fucking #CAPTCHA. Fuck CAPTCHAs and fuck all those who would force me to solve a CAPTCHA esp. when forcing me to feed a surveillance capitalist like Google at the same time. I’m not going to use phone credit to call it in. And even if I could have called for free, CAPTCHAs need some negative consequences on the CAPTCHA pushers.

So I did not report it. Call it poetic justice.

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#Amazon would theoretically be the best candidate for shoplifting. Obviously anti-capitalists would have a bone to pick with Amazon. But even those who don’t outright condemn capitalism, Amazon is still probably the most unethical retailer in the world nonetheless.

Amazon has reportedly designed its brick and mortar shops so that the normal way of shopping is just to grab your stuff and walk out, and let facial recognition sort out the billing. Does that mean shoplifters can cover their face and get away with it? Surely Amazon must have thought that through. Has anyone looked into that?

(note that link points to page 17 of a 4mb PDF file)

Michael Garcia was hit by a #3strikes law. His third offense was stealing meat.

Some #vegans would likely argue that stealing meat is actually an ethical act since the meat industry is harming both animals and the planet.

    One officer is seen standing at her door and repeatedly telling her to "get out of the car".
    "For what?" she responds twice, adding: "I'm not going to do that."
    One officer seen in front of the car has his left hand on the hood, his gun drawn in the other hand.
    "Are you going to shoot me?" she says moments before a single shot is fired and the officer quickly moves out of the car's path.

    The cop who killed her was in no danger, and has time to casually stroll out of the way of the vehicle.

    What he doesn't have is a name or a face — as often happens, the police haven't been named, and their faces have been blurred in the video.

    Why?

If they weren't cops — if they were just a pair of random dudes killing a black pregnant woman, and there was video footage — would their names remain secret, their faces blurred?

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Cameras are everywhere around Pittsburgh Mills.

"They call them the LPRs, license plate reader cameras," Kuhns said.

The system patches the various retailers' surveillance cameras into the police department and they've been very effective when it comes to catching alleged shoplifters.

"We have a lot of people who come up there and they steal televisions, big flat screens, computers, electronic devices," he said.

But many times, these electric eyes reveal that in some cases, what's being stolen aren't big ticket items at all.

With the popularity of hashtags like #shoplifters and #borrowingtips, young people are stealing goods as a way of fighting the system and the rising costs of living

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[Image Description:

Meme with text above "It's up to you to break generational trauma" and an image of an older person saying "Theft is Crime" to a middle aged person,

The middle aged person is saying "Theft is Crime" to a young adult.

The young adult is speaking to a child painting and says "If it's big Corp, it is not stealing. We are liberating goods.

Based on the "It's up to you to break generational trauma" meme template]

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After announcing store closures, critics began debunking Target’s claims of out of control organized retail crime, parroted by mass media, and exposing the retailer’s deep investments in high-tech crime fighting, including its two world class crime labs built in 2003 “that even the FBI can’t match.”

When Popular Info’s report reached consumers, there was widespread condemnation for Target online. Some even suggested that the organized retail crime panic was cooked up inside corporate boardrooms.

Stakeholders in Minnesota chimed in, including State Rep. Aisha Gomez, chair of the Minnesota House Tax Committee.

“It’s much easier to fall into alarmist law and order rhetoric than admit things aren’t going well,” Gomez tweeted.

Industry insiders agree that overall loss “is largely in line with past years and is considered a normal and healthy level of shrink,” according to CNBC.

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“All these companies that are screaming about theft, they’re kind of complicit in it because they keep reducing staff,” says Steven Rowland, the host of The Retail Warzone podcast and a former retail store manager. “From an hourly standpoint, a lot of these folks feel like they’re not paid enough to care anyway. And then you have store managers who are bleeding out, basically, because they have a lack of payroll, they don’t have enough staff just to get their basic functions done.”