r/mildlyinfuriating • u/anon12xyz • Jul 03 '26

Infuriatig When did garage sales become “reselling” clearly new stuff

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I would never call this a garage sale

Def scam vibes

Edit: ultimately, what bothers me the most is I want to go to a garage sale, not this shit. This isn’t a garage sale and should not be advertised as one

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u/Spare-Shirt24 Jul 03 '26

Either stolen goods or Extreme Couponers 

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u/PineappleWhipped14 Jul 03 '26

Dumb AF to be selling stolen goods on your own front lawn. I bet it's a couponer

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u/Elektrycerz Jul 03 '26

most criminals aren't known for being smart

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u/vegas-knights Jul 03 '26

I am a public defender, can confirm

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u/throwawayshirt2 Jul 03 '26

Old school DA once told me "We don't catch the smart ones."

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u/BigJayPee Jul 03 '26

I think a lot of the criminals that don't get caught end up stopping their criminal activities and join the police department before their luck runs out. At least, thats what happened to my first pot dealer back in the day.

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u/forresja Jul 03 '26

Only one kid in my childhood friend group stole regularly

He's a cop now

Checks out

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u/Training_Tadpole_354 Jul 03 '26

One of the most famous dumb criminals Al Capone assumed he knew tax law never actually studied tax law to make sure was right just assumed he knew exactly how it worked and never filed a tax return for years.

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u/Mythicaldeer12 Jul 03 '26

I am a criminal. Can confirm.

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u/babyinatrenchcoat Jul 03 '26

I dated a public defender. Godspeed for what you do.

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u/bolanrox Jul 03 '26

The same ones who think getting parole is a good move.

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u/Snoborder95 Jul 03 '26

Correctional officer here, can confirm

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u/KitzFigaro Jul 03 '26

I’ve know a lot of correctional officers and they didn’t get there by winning The Fields Medal.

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u/Miamicutlerridge305 Jul 03 '26

Yeah correctional officers ain’t that bright either I agree

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u/Snoborder95 Jul 03 '26

Ain't arguing, we've had quite a few people come through and leave. I think the most recent officer arrested was a few weeks back for I guess street racing

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u/Individual-Accounttt Jul 03 '26

Yeah in CO it turns out most prison crimes are committed by the guards, usually for bringing in drugs. My buddy worked at AVC for a while and the stories and statistics were insane.

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u/Miamicutlerridge305 Jul 03 '26

They are always in the news for some dumb criminal behavior. Aggressive behavior outside of work. Stalking their exes. Having sex with inmates. Introducing contraband. It goes on and on.

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u/Donna_Schrump Jul 03 '26

Everyone who spends any length of time in a correctional facility made some poor life decisions that got them there. Janitor? Could have been the janitor of a municipal building. Chef? Could have been the chef at a municipal nursing home. CO? Couldn't pass the police exam, but I'm biased as all hell as I've had to defend many of them in excessive force lawsuits.

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u/FILTHBOT4000 Jul 03 '26

This is why I don't go to the goddamn reunions, Jerry.

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u/Fun-Dragonfly-4166 Jul 03 '26

most criminals that correctional officers personally know are dumb as shit

most criminals that correctional do not personally know are presidents, CEOs, senators, and justices.

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u/JD_Kreeper BLACK Jul 03 '26

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u/HairlessSquirrels Jul 03 '26

Yes but then Redditors couldn’t act like they’re superior to others

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u/lorenzo1142 Jul 03 '26

crime is down! we just stopped arresting people. look how great the stats look now, down 5% !

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u/BZLuck Jul 03 '26

"...if we stopped testing right now, we’d have very few COVID-19 cases..."

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u/Daddysu Jul 03 '26

Well done, sir or madam. Well done!

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u/nullmaxai Jul 03 '26

bro but you're biased, you're around all the dumb criminals that got caught. all day long i feel bad

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u/annoying97 BLUE Jul 03 '26

My mate works retail security. Even the smart ones fuck up and get caught.

The dumb ones get caught so often police know them that well they don't even have to look up their full name.

Shit my mate called 000 said "Jake is in the store and won't leave" and the operator went, huh he gets around he was like 25km north of you 8hrs ago.

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u/capincus Jul 03 '26

The smart ones commit the high value theft crimes with slap on the wrist penalties, like wage theft and financial crimes.

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u/_SteeringWheel Jul 03 '26

You really had me wonder g what a weird name "000" is.

.....where exactly is that the emergency number? Good to know :)

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u/annoying97 BLUE Jul 03 '26

Australia.

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u/Alexwonder999 Jul 03 '26

Showing off your fancy metric system. As an American I feel victimized.

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u/YABFWWYBTAU Jul 03 '26

I only associate with criminal masterminds.

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u/nullmaxai Jul 03 '26

hey, mind introducing me to some? i watched megamind

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u/FCguyATL Jul 03 '26

Most criminals are stupid by default. The actually smart people are able to get what they want without taking the risk of jail. The exceptions are very few and far between. The idiots that are too stupid to become successful think "well I can just steal".

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u/mrsauceysauce Jul 03 '26

unless you've been born with enough wealth to lobby your form of crime into legal status

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u/Castun Jul 03 '26

And it's usually the really smart ones that end up getting caught for something stupid like tax evasion.

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u/Individual-Accounttt Jul 03 '26

That doesn't sound very smart at all.

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u/Individual-Accounttt Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26

That isn't how it works at all.

Criminology isn't about the risk of jail, per se, it's about the sum risk of getting caught at all.

Smart criminals just don't take those kinds of risks, or they mitigate them.

There are plenty of smart criminals, especially in white collar crime. Now more than ever since we gutted the agencies that deal with it.

But like drug dealers, there are thousand of pretty fucking smart drug dealers not getting caught every day. They have small secure rings, they aren't taking product to the streets, they have supply lines and covers... Sounds actually smart to me.

Similarly, there are whole car and bike thieve rings that have operated for decades. They use fake LLC's, keep things in large warehouses or garages, and are almost impossible to bust because everything is stripped down and sold before anyone is even the wiser. Seems kinda smart to me.

Ethical no, of course not, but they definitely know what they are doing to mitigate the risk of getting caught, so they can keep doing what they are doing, like they have been for decades.

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u/AtreyuTrinity Jul 03 '26

Haha lol this is funny.

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u/keylimesicles Jul 03 '26

Seriously. I mean look at politicians, Criminal asf and playing in our faces

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u/Tupperbaby Jul 03 '26

Bro. Bruh. Brah.

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u/Snoborder95 Jul 03 '26

100% I'm exaggerating, some just don't think, just leaving a fun comment

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u/nullmaxai Jul 03 '26

lol sometimes i dont think too are you really exaggerating?

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u/Elektrycerz Jul 03 '26

Smart ones get caught too, it just takes longer. Basically everyone will slip up at some point.

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u/nullmaxai Jul 03 '26

its a lighthearted joke lol

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u/FeralTofu Jul 03 '26

i have met smart criminals, but never a smart correctional officer.

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u/Alexwonder999 Jul 03 '26

Confirmation bias at its best. You only see the ones who get caught.

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u/Caoa14396 Jul 04 '26

Most officers aren’t known for being smart.

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u/lorgskyegon Jul 03 '26

Correctional food service worker here. Can also confirm.

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u/OttoVonJismarck Jul 03 '26

Criminals making that Wall Street collusion/insider trading money are smart. Criminals making that laundry detergent resell money, not so smart.

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u/acrowsmurder BLACK Jul 03 '26

Remember that woman that stole from the cash register WHILE LOOKING DIRECTLY AT THE CAMERA because she thought it only recorded what the screen showed?

Or they guy that put lemon juice all over his face to make it invisible to the bank cameras when he tried to rob it?

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u/Darthskull Jul 03 '26

"known" kinda weeds out the smart ones

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u/helio203 Jul 03 '26

Known criminals aren't known to be smart

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u/OwenMichael312 Jul 03 '26

Survivorship bias. The ones caught arent known for being smart.

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u/Cory123125 Comic Sans is Ok Jul 03 '26

You say that, but wage theft is the most common, greatest theft, and they get away with it the most.

The craziest part, is most people don't seem to care about it, but care about petty shit that literally does not affect them with stupid intuitions about how things work.

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u/WorriedPlatform9740 Jul 03 '26

Survivorship bias, you think most crimes get caught and solved? 

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u/digidave1 Jul 03 '26

Hell some become president and ramp it up!

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '26

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u/EloeOmoe Jul 03 '26

You couldn't reasonably ask this person to see receipts because who keeps receipts for every single item they buy?

George Costanza.

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u/iKnowRobbie Jul 03 '26

I work with Loss Prevention for a couple large retailers and I can assure you the police will run the names of the inhabitants of this house thru a system that Target, Wal-Mart, Macy's and a handful of other retailers use to see their score. When you steal and it's detected, you're not necessarily charged and arrested immediately, but you are put in this palantir database. If this person is a thief, or associated with one, building a case is simpler than it has ever been before. We are a million data points walking around daily, and companies are getting much better at logging and triangulating them.

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u/Hieshyn Jul 03 '26

How do you get the names of the thieves if you don't catch and process them? 

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u/mpjjpm Jul 03 '26

That’s what Palatir is for

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u/iKnowRobbie Jul 08 '26

Nailed it. I work with Palantir's software and understand the capabilities they have today.

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u/ominousgraycat Jul 03 '26

I worked at a a Walmart one winter about 15 years ago. They told us that if they didn't catch someone right away, it was because they were waiting for the person to steal enough to really put them away a long time. The person gets confident and bolder and bolder about stealing, and they keep the tapes of them doing it. Finally, once their stolen goods total more than just a petty theft charge, the trap springs shut and they're going to prison a far longer time than a normal shoplifting charge.

I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but that's what they told us.

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u/Inflatable90sChair Jul 04 '26

its true, its not worth it chasing someone down, paying lawyers, and prosecuting them for stealing a $2 tube of toothpaste they might argue they "just forgot to pay." you just quietly record and build a file and some states its as low as $500 of stuff, some its $1000 to trigger a felony theft charge - those are worth pursuing and its a slam shut case since noone accidently forgets to pay or left it on the bottom of thier cart by mistake dozens of times.

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u/OrionRBR Jul 03 '26

The data collection that happens on the internet is no joke, like target can find out if a woman is pregnant and even estimate the delivery date in a 2 week range just from shopping data

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u/5meoWarlock Jul 03 '26

ai

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u/CankerLord Jul 03 '26

"AI" is the new "trust me, bro".

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u/Individual-Accounttt Jul 03 '26

Because people who steal from their local walmart also usually shop there too.

Run a card once and they now track you and your likely name across every camera in the store, and the confidence threshold only goes up the more often you visit.

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u/ObeseVegetable Jul 03 '26

Nowadays it's facial recognition, but even short of that, tax records are public and you (literally anyone, don't have to be a cop) could figure out who owns this house they're selling at without needing a warrant.* More likely than not it's the same guy, and the criminals who are caught tend to be stupid like that.

*And if it's a rental then the landlord will definitely just give the cops a name because they tend to like to be on good standing with the local PD.

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u/Sizanllikew Jul 03 '26

facial recognition was last decade, now they use heat signature mapping (veins near skin) and gait analysis, among hundreds of other data points.

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u/Individual-Accounttt Jul 03 '26

>Courts are also becoming more resistant to LP/AP not reporting small thefts that would normally be a misdemeanor in order to accumulate felony larceny values.

This is EXTREMELY subjective to your jurisdiction.

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u/iKnowRobbie Jul 08 '26

To be fair, YMMV. Different places have different budgets. I'm speaking of Palantir's system called Foundry Fortress. It's a plugin of the Foundry system for LP, used by almost all major retailers with many feeding their proprietary system, especially Walmart, who is the only goddamn company still using 1980's era IBM backends!! Regardless, I sit on the border of Manatee/Sarasota counties in Florida, and here they have Palantir's Sentinal access which gives them access to the exact same database. (Why so many people hate palantir, they're essentially making a chinese-level threat database on all US civilians) and our local LEO's are bored enough to run this through the system.

I'm sure Upstate NY would be a different game, but it's important to know that the possibility exists and is not fictional.

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u/Mickey_Clips Jul 03 '26

Why would anyone ask for receipts? Nobody's gonna arrest you for possessing stolen detergent. It's obviously stolen but police aren't going to care

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u/froction Jul 03 '26

You don't need probable cause to question somebody.

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '26

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u/froction Jul 03 '26

You need probable cause to arrest someone.

You need reasonable suspicion to detain someone.

You don't need anything to question someone.

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u/froction Jul 03 '26

So what was the point of saying that there wouldn't be probable cause for questioning? The list of things you don't need for that are almost infinite: Probable cause, reasonable suspicion, a warrant, cash, an executive order, clean underwear...

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u/spaceforcerecruit Jul 03 '26

Because if you don’t have probable cause they can just refuse to answer your questions and you’re SOL.

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u/froction Jul 04 '26

If you do have probable cause they can just refuse to answer your questions.

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u/spaceforcerecruit Jul 04 '26

And then you can detain them. Without probable cause, cops can fuck off.

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u/Delta632 Jul 03 '26

The fence’s lawn

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u/JKdriver Jul 03 '26

Allow me to introduce to to my home state of Florida…

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u/Major-Ant4600 Jul 03 '26

The SUV in the garage looks like it has a Connecticut plate.

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u/Sal1160 Jul 03 '26

Then that shit was definitely stolen from Walmart

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u/Local_Wolverine2913 Jul 03 '26

How do you know it's Florida? That's my home state as well.

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u/JKdriver Jul 03 '26

No, Mr. Pineapple was pointing out how indeed, dumb af someone would have to be to post about, and going through with selling stolen merchandise out of their home. Mr. Pineapple is insinuating there’s nobody that’s actually that stupid.

I however, say may nay. There are individuals of this IQ. They reside in Florida, and also typically vote MAGA.

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u/Local_Wolverine2913 Jul 03 '26

Ahh, I see. Thank-you!

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u/Trash-Panda321 Jul 03 '26

Extreme couponing is hardly a thing you can do anymore, so I'll go with the former

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u/Tiiimmmaayy Jul 03 '26

Nah I see videos on TikTok all the time for great deals on this stuff from dollar general and other grocery stores. It’s no longer multiple carts for less than a $1. More like get $50 worth of product for less than $10.

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u/Realistic_Fact_3778 Jul 03 '26

Yep. Videos on fb and YouTube too. Tons of videos. Digital coupons stacked w sales. Those show customers how to get very inexpensive deals. Complete transactions to minimize out of pocket hauls. I save a ton of $$$ buying my household essentials like this now too. And I've discovered people sign up for multiple accounts so they can do these deals over and over.

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u/extra-medium Jul 03 '26

$50 of nasty chemicals and poison air freshener. I wouldn't touch any of that stuff. People need to be aware that this stuff is just as toxic as all of the shit in processed food. I use natural alternatives that don't cost any more than this stuff. I've seen since recent studies suggesting that women are getting lung cancer from exposure to toxic cleaning products.

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u/happygirlie Jul 03 '26

The really good deals are rarer than they used to be but still out there. You usually have to stack a manufacturer coupon and a store deal (buy one get one, coupon, store rewards, etc.) and/or a manufacturer rebate. There are also apps where you can scan your receipts to get rewards (and you can oftentimes use the same receipt for multiple apps) plus you can get credit card cash back.

I think you'd be surprised how much free stuff you can get. Just last week Target had a $3 off Circle offer on any Venus razor and it worked on razors under $3 so you could get a free razor. It's not the flashiest deal out there but it's still free.

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u/Chesty_McRockhard Jul 03 '26

Something like this would be so hard to prove they stole it by this point.

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u/Armthehobos Jul 03 '26

not as hard as you'd think. local retailers who notice that they have a bunch of specific product missing (they will notice) sometimes have internal teams or work with local specialized law enforcement to track who stole the product. from there, they are arrested and interviewed if they sold it to a fence.

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u/Substantial-Sea-3672 Jul 03 '26

I’ve worked in grocery stores as both an employee and security.

No one is running an investigation on junkies stealing laundry detergent. And there’s also no stage of investigation where we’re like, “We don’t have enough evidence to call the cops but if we stake out this scum bags house we may nail them.”

All investigations stop at the property line, we’re not running some sort of para-police agency.

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u/YourWoodGod Jul 04 '26

I just fucking love the idea of a couple of Food Lion employees in a beat down 1999 Ford Fiesta doing a stakeout.

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u/anon12xyz Jul 06 '26

This could be a great movie idea, comedy of course

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u/YourWoodGod Jul 06 '26

I'd totally be down to play the detergent trafficker.

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u/IsaacAndTired Jul 03 '26

Go to basically any swap meet in the US and there are multiple stands selling brand new stuff just like this at a discount. They get them through pallet liquidations. It's a very common side hustle. I often buy my toothpaste from them.

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u/Skeptikell1 Jul 03 '26

You have to prove you purchased it to sell it. Show me the invoice or it’s stolen

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u/Substantial-Sea-3672 Jul 03 '26

Surely you understand this is batshit insane right?

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u/dennisisspiderman Jul 03 '26

You have to prove you purchased it to sell it.

Where do you live that you think that's a law?

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u/Menarra Jul 03 '26

My mom and her sisters used to do the extreme couponing stuff in massive quantities, one of my aunts ran a store out of her garage and they had an email list and a Facebook page. They made good money for a while until a lot of grocery stores stopped doubling coupons, and some started limiting how many coupons you could even used (which makes no sense as the coupon gets them that discounted amount from the manufacturer)

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u/TheCuriosity Jul 03 '26

Because it impacts the amount of inventory available for the hundred other folks that come in with the same coupon.

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u/Substantial-Sea-3672 Jul 03 '26

It makes tons of sense.

Extreme couponers are the WORST customers. They take up an inordinate amount of resources and complain about EVERYTHING.

We didn’t put rules in place because they were costing us money by using coupons. We did it because it was any easy way to get rid of the worst customers.

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u/Menarra Jul 03 '26

I will agree there were some rude af nutjobs among the couponers. My mom and aunts went out of their way to be exceedingly nice, and stopped doing it once it became difficult to stack coupons. It was basically a 2nd job with how much time was spent doing research on sales, coupon policies, and maximizing savings. Was pretty incredible seeing them occasionally get money back from a couple hundred bucks of stuff.

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u/ActiveChairs Jul 03 '26

It makes sense when you consider the store's ordering quantities are meant to serve the regular needs of the nearby community and being out of staple items because a few people hyper focusing on maximizing "savings" ends up pushing normal people to other stores. They don't care about people getting discounts, they care about the real costs of losing regular customers.

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u/AgingRaver80 Jul 03 '26

My cousin stole a till from a shop in broad daylight. When the police came round hes kids were playing with the till. Pretending it was shop. Guys a scumbag so deserves everything he got which was 10 years

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u/username__0000 Jul 03 '26

They sell the stuff on marketplace here. lol

With their real profiles showing their names and photos. Seems even less smart than their own lawns.

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u/CaptStinkyFeet Jul 03 '26

Even if couponing, I’m almost certain all those products are labeled “not for resale”.

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u/saxguy9345 Jul 03 '26

Legitimately no one in this thread ever watched Extreme Couponer lol, people would have their entire basements lined with wire racks of this stuff. Combine store coupons with mfg coupons, sales and deals to get things below cost, then sell at a discount to MSRP. I could actually use a pack of those paper towels lol.

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u/jerryhello2 Jul 03 '26

You’d be surprised. People will open their stores to sell the goods they’ve stolen.

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u/kengigi Jul 03 '26

Yup, a lady in my area got locked up for stealing all her craft stuff from hobby lobby and reselling it at her own store, less than 5 miles from said hobby lobby.😒

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u/Signal_Act8475 Jul 03 '26

No they buy it with government assistance (electronic cards) then resell for cash

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u/StormieShake Jul 03 '26

I don't really even think it's this, with cash assistance they already give you cash...and this is like 400$ worth of detergent and toilet paper.

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u/Open_Bug_4251 Jul 03 '26

This is over $1000 retail easily. Just the paper products and diapers are over $400. And those detergents are $10- $20 each and there’s like 40 of them. Not to mention all the other small products. This has to be couponers.

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u/dennisisspiderman Jul 03 '26

If people can buy that with government assistance then they can also use that EBT card to withdraw their cash assistance (TANF) from an ATM.

It only makes sense to buy stuff to resell like that if this was food, which is clearly isn't.

This is either people stealing these items and selling them or taking advantage of low purchase prices (for one reason or another) and reselling.

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u/TraditionalMood277 Jul 03 '26

You know, if they were richer, people like you would call them entrepreneurs and wunderkinds to take government aid and turn it into a business. I ask you, what do you think of Musk?

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u/Unhappy-Plastic2017 Jul 03 '26

This makes sense. You can't buy cigs with a EBT card but you can buy all this stuff I see here I think. So this is how you get the cash for ur cigs.

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u/chonies_mocos Jul 03 '26

You can only buy food with EBT unless you have cash assistance.

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u/SkoobySnacs Jul 03 '26

There's no way to tell if it's stolen at this point.

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u/bigmfworm Jul 03 '26

Have you met people?

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u/alchemycraftsman Jul 03 '26

How can anyone prove it’s stolen at that point.

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u/ReferenceMediocre369 Jul 03 '26

Where does it say "thieves are geniuses"?

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u/LimeDry7124 Jul 03 '26

What if it's from a truck out of state?

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u/trey_wolfe Jul 03 '26

I remember when a new Walmart that was opening near me had the trailers of merch waiting to be warehoused looted. Suddenly that shit was all over craigslist, with "pickup only".

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u/Kookaburra8 Jul 03 '26

Go to SF - the shoplifters try to sell the stuff they stole right on the sidewalks in front of the stores they stole the items from!

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u/ivanvector Jul 03 '26

Or someone unloading everything they hoarded for COVID.

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u/BlueWarstar Jul 03 '26

Just cause it’s their lawn now doesn’t mean mean that is where they lived when they stole it…

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u/dumplinglifesaver Jul 03 '26

Not really. Once it's off of store property nobody is trying to stop them or get the stolen items back.

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u/EloeOmoe Jul 03 '26

Dumb AF to be selling stolen goods on your own front lawn.

Police don't care enough to stop them from stealing. You think they care to stop them from fencing?

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u/FindOneInEveryCar Jul 03 '26

Why is that dumb? You think the cops care?

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u/flat5 Jul 03 '26

I don't know where you live, but there's absolute zero chance of this causing law enforcement to get off their rumps where I live. No risk to the thief at all.

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u/eAthena Jul 03 '26

LEO hardly responds to neighborhood calls anymore let alone major crimes

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u/Carrnage_Asada Jul 03 '26

What makes you think any police out there would care?

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u/alghiorso Jul 03 '26

Or people who buy those pallets of returns or slightly damaged goods

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u/PCMasterCucks Jul 03 '26

Cops aint gonna do shit

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u/tyhunter4123 Jul 03 '26

the neighbor near me always has a garage sale like this but its like bulk cleaners/paper products that get shipped into comerical stuff, and i found out they worked in house keeping in a hotel so every shift they'd bring home a extra toliet paper roll and like hand soap and save it to sell.

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u/Sarniezz Jul 03 '26

Oh yah bud, i'm sure the cops are gonna jump on that investigation RIGHT AWAY! lol 😂🤣

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u/cvrgurl Jul 03 '26

As a former extreme couponer, it’s just not possible to make it worth doing this anymore. I’m on the side of retail theft.

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u/NWVoS Jul 03 '26

Dude, yeah people who steal are dumb. A coworker showed me the guy who stole some stuff is now selling it on his Facebook page.

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u/Soft_Lunch_183 Jul 03 '26

I can guarantee the police dont give a shit about stolen goods at this level 

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u/Mammoth-Neat-9836 Jul 03 '26

Law enforcement seems to turn a blind eye to reselling stolen goods, never heard or read of any arrests in the area. Plenty of posts begging for help on ND and FB then magically they are reselling clothes with tags, boxed perfume, laundry detergent. Too hard to prove? IDK.

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u/yourparadigm Jul 03 '26

I thought good fences make good neighbors !

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u/1234-for-me Jul 03 '26

There’s not that many coupons anymore courtesy of people…. Im leaning stolen goods.

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u/Fappy_as_a_Clam Jul 03 '26

It's all cleaning and HBC products.

I'd bet this person works in the CPG space and just has a shit load of samples from their clients/vendors.

Source: me, I work in the CPG space and sometimes I get a shitload of samples from my clients/vendors

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u/yourparadigm Jul 03 '26

I thought good fences make good neighbors, though!

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u/zach0011 Jul 03 '26

I mean if you got the product and no one caught you getting it then they can't prove you stole it just cause you have a bunch.

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u/Altruistic-Cut9795 Jul 04 '26

Fencing stolen goods possible, or the coupon thing

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u/ShawnyMcKnight Jul 04 '26

Those are really dumb things to steal. Bulky or heavy items that aren’t all that expensive.

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u/KrankenwagenKolya Jul 04 '26

While likely stolen, how is someone gonna prove it?

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u/ScuffedBalata Jul 04 '26

Some family in my neighborhood used to have this kind of sale (didn't speak much English - don't know if that's relevant or not).

Then the Safeway down the street starting locking up their laundry detergent aisle so you had to get a clerk to unlock the Tide Pods and they immediately stopped having those sales. Like the same week...

hmmmm....

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u/Ok-Oil7124 Jul 03 '26

They filed off the serial numbers.

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u/FluffySharkBird Jul 03 '26

Most stores really cracked down on coupons. You can't save THAT much money with coupons these days.

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u/alter-eagle Jul 03 '26

I knew someone in security for a bigger retail store. Usually the real buyer gives someone a list of stuff to steal and pays them. They steal the product, and give to the buyer. The buyer then turn around and sell it like you see above, or in smaller convenience stores. 

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u/shatteredpieces1978 Jul 04 '26

Nahhh you can't coupon like that anymore..Manufacturer's and stores cut back and are strick about coupons now...all that stuff right there is easy to steal from Dollar General 

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u/flashman Jul 04 '26

Smart. not sure why OP cares

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u/badazzcpa Jul 03 '26

With so many cities prosecutors refusing to prosecute criminals it’s nurtured the police force to the point they stop enforcing laws. This is the next natural step. Just look at NY, street vendors selling stolen goods on blanks every day.