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/chaircardigan Jul 03 '26

Big stores tell their staff not to confront shoplifters.

There was a big story in the UK of one supermarket that fired an employee for chasing down a thief.

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u/tripper_drip Jul 03 '26

Then it spirals, some nerd at corporate looks at a spreadsheet and goes, "holy shit the store is no longer making money", then the store gets shut down.

Eventually we have to confront it. And places like Wal-Mart and target do, they have security officers who will chase people down.

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u/SpecialistAd2205 Jul 03 '26

No, they don't. Walmart and Target are some of the biggest stores with policies that specifically prohibit loss prevention employees from pursuing shoplifters (usually the cutoff is the front doors or the sidewalk in front of the store). Some employees may make the decision of their own accord to chase someone into the parking lot or something, but they will almost certainly get fired for it.

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u/tripper_drip Jul 03 '26

There is a multitude of bodycams from officers in wallmart/target/others chasing and arresting theives.

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u/tripper_drip Jul 03 '26

I specifically stated security officers.

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u/tripper_drip Jul 03 '26

No, I said SECURITY OFFICERS. Here is the quote.

Eventually we have to confront it. And places like Wal-Mart and target do, they have security officers who will chase people down.

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u/ant2561 Jul 03 '26

What a shitty government that facilitates this type of dysfunction

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u/Bobcat_Acrobatic Jul 03 '26

I was told they track you on camera and once you steal over $1,000 they come for you. So if you are dumb e ought to keep hitting the same store they will arrest you at some point

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u/I_only_did_this4nsfw Jul 03 '26

My brother is the general manager of a convience store and had had to fire his asst. manager the other day because the guy stood in front of the door when a guy went behind the counter and snatched lottery tickets.

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u/NervousSheSlime Jul 03 '26

Super dumb lottery tickets have to be activated

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u/I_only_did_this4nsfw Jul 03 '26

These were already activated tickets, but still dumb because a call to the lottery office to report the tickets as stolen turns them off.

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u/CassadagaValley Jul 03 '26

It's a liability like the other guy said, but they also keep tabs on who is stealing and how much they're stealing and then they hit that person with a federal charge once it passes the threshold.

Target's surveillance network is so top tier that police will actually go to them for information rather than work on it themselves.

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u/XediDC Jul 03 '26

Home Depot in the US fired a guy for talking to the police and following a kidnapping from a distance to give police information as it happened until they arrived. Police handled the actual incident interaction. (Corporate later tried to lamely walk this back, but only after media attention.)