Have you ever wrongfully been accused of shoplifting?

[Overdispersion]

I went to the supermarket this morning to buy some cube steak for lunch and my eyes caught these new Red Bull Zeros (who btw taste disgusting) and decided to throw a couple in to my shopping basket. I go to the self checkout and when I'm done the cashier (or the self checkout inspector) tells me: Excuse me, you haven't paid for those energy drinks. I'm like wtf, what is he basing that on? He goes: There's a age limit on energy drinks and no one authorized your Red Bulls, so you can't have paid for them. Is he kidding me? Without even having taken a look at my receipt, he's accusing me of shop lifting? Rather than thinking maybe those Red Bull Zeros are new and aren't registered in their system as "ID required", he thinks I just bought a €40 cube steak and decided to not pay for €3 energy drinks? Either way I'm stuttering and realizing everyone passing thinks I'm a shoplifter and with my trembling hands I show him my receipt where it shows I've paid for my items and he starts apologizing but I'm so furious, I just just put on my headphones again and walk out of the store.

Would you have been terrified in this situation aswell? All those people who passed by, before I showed my receipt still think of me as a shoplifter. I'll probably never go to that store again.

So what's your "shoplifting" stories?

[Hinansho]

€40 for cube steak, holy shit man. You guys have a beef shortage or something? Over here cube steak usually runs what would be €2.4 a pound.

But my only shoplifting story was when I was too young to know better. I really wanted some targets for my new bb gun and the family went o the sporting goods store. I was so sure my parents would buy it I walked through the store holding on to them. We checked put and got left the store only to have my parents notice that I was still holding the targets. They took them back to the store and explained what stealing was to me and I ppologized. That was really it.

[Deleted]

No, but I accidentally shoplifted once at ikea and never got caught >.>

[Independent voter]

I've had store employees follow me around in a store.

[Icemix]

not me per say, but I was with my dad when he bought new shoes. the lady at the cash register didn't flash the magnets correctly so at the exit door the alarm went off.my dad was taken into the security office, had to take off his shoes, showed the receipt, they flashed the magnets and they apologized.

[Overdispersion]

€40 for cube steak, holy shit man. You guys have a beef shortage or something? Over here cube steak usually runs what would be €2.4 a pound.

Here in Sweden it costs about €25 a kg (or about €13 a pound). Maybe there are different kinds of cube steak, I dunno.

[Ausr]

When I was 11 or so, some lady thought I broke into a micro machine container at the newly opened Kmart because I had just lifted it up to see what happened to the plastic and went to get the manager.

Although I didn't rip into the plastic initally, I did sneak out 1 of the micro machine cars and got my ass out of there across the store.

[Independent voter]

Here in Sweden it costs about €25 a kg (or about €13 a pound). Maybe there are different kinds of cube steak, I dunno.

Here a cube stake is a round steak they beat with a hammer or run through a machine to make more tender. It's a very lean cut.

I've heard it said that cost of living is much cheaper in the U.S.

[The Glitch]

Never been accused of shoplifting.

However I have many times been in supermarkets, and had a basket of items, only to meet someone I know, and get talking, and end up walking to the exit with them only to walk outside with my full basket unaware due to being in full gabbing mode lol. I then realise *oh crap* and run back in, never had anyone stop me either. It's easy done.

[Hinansho]

Here a cube stake is a round steak they beat with a hammer or run through a machine to make more tender. It's a very lean cut.

I've heard it said that cost of living is much cheaper in the U.S.

Yeah, same concept for cube steak here. It's usually tougher cuts of the caow and most markets here use it to move their almost expired chuck quickly, could be a reason that it's so cheap here.

Also I used to work loss prevention at an electronics store... I followed people around in casual dress and signalled the survailance team on who to watch. Was a fun job and paid very well. Catching actual shoplifters was the best, watching someone for two hours only to have them chicken out sucked.

[Deleted]

Only rightfully.

[Deleted]

I used to steal stuff as a kid all the time, I even told my mom and she smiled. Good parenting I know. I have never been wrongly accused though, but hey I still got a couple of years ahead of me!

[drwelfare]

My cousin and I were at Sams Club one time and we ended up being followed the whole trip by the store security dude (off duty police).

Police was black, and we are two of the whitest looking dudes.

[Twoddle]

Yes. Shop security guards are highly suspicious of people who wear giant coats with loads of pockets similar to the one I wear. Whenever I'm in a shop they follow and stare at me like a hawk to the point of embarrassment.

Once they stopped me at the door and insisted that I'd nicked some piece of cheese while I was walking by the cheese counter. Of course I hadn't it was all in their heads but they kept there for about 15 minutes interrogating me waiting for me to own up which of course I couldn't do because I had nothing to own up to, it was quite funny actually but they didn't think so.

Eventually they let me go while saying "take it take take" but I had nothing to take! Never shoplifted, never been a thief.

[MyCorpse]

Never been accused, but at the pharmacy at the local shopping center, the "Undercover" security guy would follow me and my friend any time we went in there, from the time we entered to the time we left. We used to go in there almost daily to look at/buy magazines and buy junk food.

One day I got fed up because he actually got behind us in line, so I said quite loudly that this pervert keeps following me around and staring at my butt all the time and ranted on making a bit of a scene. Never saw him working there again. If they hired someone else as undercover security, at least they got someone way less obvious!

[khazlol]

have a huge problem with shoplifting in the supermarket where i work. never cought anyone myself, but a colleague of mine stopped a woman hiding meat in her hat once :P

[Deleted]

a colleague of mine stopped a woman hiding meat in her hat once :P

Lol what, that's a good one!

Can't say I really did shoplift. I do remember one occasion when I was young and shopping with my mother that I poked holes in the plastic wrap of an 8 pack of Coke or something and stuffed a few packs of chewing gum in there and ended up with some free gum.. Not caught but yeah.. That's the only time I can recall doing anything like that.

[Deleted]

Never, although i have been followed around when younger and at school.

[George]

No, but I accidentally shoplifted once at ikea and never got caught >.>

Meatballs or a couch?

[P for Pancetta]

When I was a younger student and carried around library books in my backpack it wasn't uncommon for certain stores' alarms to go off. However I was never ever treated badly because of it. Most of the times the personnel didn't even want to check my bag let me go without question.