Paranoid walking out of shops?

CyberJuice

Wondering if anyone else feels the same as me..

Ive never been a shoplifter but anytime im in town or a shop with the alarms at the entrance im always mad paranoid when im exiting the store,i think the alarm will go off and security will come running out and grab me..

I know that i have not robbed anything but still i think the alarm might go off and id be very embaressed about being taken back into the shop and searched

Sometimes i think what if something has fell into my pocket and i havent noticed it,or what if somebody has thought its funny to slip a small item into my hood or my pocket or bag or something and then when i walk out the alarms ring

I cant be the only one with this problem can i? i hope not

Where To

Walk out backwards and you will be OK

whirlpool

Haha. I've definitely felt like that sometimes. But if someone has slipped something into your pocket without you knowing, they'll see it on CCTV.

And I wouldn't be embarrassed if the alarm went off. Those things are always going off for absolutely no reason.

Wetai

It's especially awkward if you're going into a shop while someone's leaving and it goes off, sorta seems like it's you. Or when you've payed for something and they don't take the thing off, and it beeps.

A Meteor shop in Dublin has their phones (tethered) right beside the door (w/ alarms), so when I was looking at one, and pulled it out a bit to have some give on the cord, the alarm started beeping . Kinda silly.

bullets

Bought 200 Rounds for my rifle when in town last and became a little
paranoid when walking into one of the shops going about my shopping
thinking somehow I might set off the alarm.

The local shopping center the strips on some Boots products still activate
the alarm system in HMV and Tesco despite the staff in boots disabling them.

~B

Chuck Stone

I feel guilty when I come to a police check point in the car even though I'm stone cold sober and have my tax, insurance and NTC all up-to-date.

I've had the alarms go off a couple times from items that weren't untagged properly in other shops or whatever. It was all handled fairly well so I don't mind if it happens again.

Eathrin

For some odd reason the alarm always goes off when my friend leaves a shop, not that he's robbed anything or something like that.
So one day as we're leaving a shop he says to the guard "Look, I haven't taken anything, but that alarm is going to go off now as I leave". It didn't. Embarrassing for him.

Gran Hermano

Unusual problem OP, have you tried taking something for it?

Oranage2

Just stop for a second then keep walking - If a security lad asks you to stop just tell him no and carry on.


My time is too valuable to give to one of these suited monkeys.

El Guapo!

Its worse when you go into a shop, walk around for a few minutes and don't buy anything.
Anytime I do that I always feel like I'll be stopped and searched at the door. I always try to look "not like a thief" when I leave, but I bet I look even more dodgy since I'm concentrating on it.

Coriolanus

Oranage2 wrote: »

Just stop for a second then keep walking - If a security lad asks you to stop just tell him no and carry on.


My time is too valuable to give to one of these suited monkeys.

You do know they're entitled to detain you right?

CyberJuice

Dean09 wrote: »

Its worse when you go into a shop, walk around for a few minutes and don't buy anything.
Anytime I do that I always feel like I'll be stopped and searched at the door. I always try to look "not like a thief" when I leave, but I bet I look even more dodgy since I'm concentrating on it.

yeah i dont feel so bad if ive bought an item,usually im not very paranoid but if i walk around and pick stuff up and put it back down and i dont buy anything then im just crazy paranoid walking out..

the feeling is worse if i walk into a store with a bag from some other store i just bought something from and then i dont buy anything there

TonyStark

Oranage2 wrote: »

Just stop for a second then keep walking - If a security lad asks you to stop just tell him no and carry on.


My time is too valuable to give to one of these suited monkeys.

Legally they can't detain you?

Sticky_Fingers

From what I've seen those things are pretty pointless considering the reaction of most store employees. Anytime I've seen these things go off the staff just seems to look over and cancel the alarm after a few seconds. I don't think they'd bat an eye unless they saw you trying to drag an entire shelf out the front door after you.

4leto

Ohh those alarms Nah I regard them as a starting gun and leggit.

It actually happened to be coming out of Tesco, I just stopped and went back to the cashier who didn't remove a tag.

Its absolutely no big deal, the security guard just looked towards me he didn't even get out of his seat.

aujopimur

Shop naked, problem solved

df1985

im the same, ill have seen them take the tag off, i ahve my receipt but im always expecting them to go off.

That or some little brat has dropped something into my other shopping bags.(easily done if they wanted)

Another one: I might have had 4-5 pints, nowhere near drunk. bouncer asks me something and i mumble my words making me looked pissed.
10 pints, swing up to the pub like i own the place and straight in the door!

Son Of A Vidic

bullets wrote: »

Bought 200 Rounds for my rifle when in town

I hope you're not dating/with anyone who works in a Hair Salon?

Professey Chin

I always wave my to the alarm 1st just in case. Always paranoid about it :pac:

Oranage2

TonyStark wrote: »

Legally they can't detain you?

Well they can but they'd be making a citizens arrest and thats a whole new ball game - its not worth it for them if they dont have CCTV of it also tell you have aids.

Also never go to the back rooms and stay in the open as ive heard stories of security placing items on people they dragged to the back stores.

If you've done nothing wrong then keep walking, if you did do something wrong then run!

Kingpin187

Yes I hate these things

I wouldnt say Im paranoid about them, but I do tend to step quickly through them.. to someone watching me it would be like watching someone step over a puddle.

Not only that, the missus has a collection of handbags, and there is ONE handbag that.. no word of a lie... sets off about 90% of shop alarms which gets embarassing, especially since when walking out I am just waiting to hear that noise... either that or she's stealing things... hmmmmmmm

sdanseo

My uncle came home from Australia to visit for a month a few years ago, and for whatever reason shop alarms kept going off around him. He linked it to a car alarm fob; if he walked through without it in his pocket it didn't go off.

Jimoslimos

A place where I worked in had a problem with their access control cards setting off the alarm in one of the supermarkets in the town. Never happened to me but plenty of others verified it.

Think it might have been an issue with the older cards since it was only reported by more senior members of staff.

Giselle

CyberJuice wrote: »

Ive never been a shoplifter but anytime im in town or a shop with the alarms at the entrance im always mad paranoid when im exiting the store,i think the alarm will go off and security will come running out and grab me..

I'm not usually paranoid in shops, but going through security and customs at airports makes me so nervous that I look nervous, and because I look nervous they ALWAYS stop me for a quick frisk and/or look through my bags.

While they're doing that I'm imagining a cavity search in a back room and get even more nervous, and one day they'll decide I'm nervous for a good reason and I'll wind up in that back room while a big Russian called Martha pulls on the rubber gloves.

Its a vicious circle.

ejmaztec

Chuck Stone wrote: »

I feel guilty when I come to a police check point in the car even though I'm stone cold sober and have my tax, insurance and NTC all up-to-date.

I'm the same when I'm on my way to the woods with a dismembered corpse in the boot.:(

Snakeblood

I was walking through the ARE YOU A TERRORIST section of the airport in Birmingham, and stepped through the metal detector. I always set the thing off. So I heave a big sigh of 'thank **** I didn't set that off' then a woman sees me sighing in relief, and brings me over to the room where a large gentleman showed me his glove collection.

SHOW NO EMOTION IN AIRPORTS.

foxyboxer

I'd risk it for a copy of Bonestorm.

Logical Fallacy

Oranage2 wrote: »

Well they can but they'd be making a citizens arrest and thats a whole new ball game - its not worth it for them if they dont have CCTV of it also tell you have aids.

Also never go to the back rooms and stay in the open as ive heard stories of security placing items on people they dragged to the back stores.

If you've done nothing wrong then keep walking, if you did do something wrong then run!

A security guard can only detain you if they are 100% certain that you have something on your person that you haven't paid for. This largely means keep line of sight on you the whole time you are in the store.

If you haven't taken anything and a security guard tries to stop you I would strongly suggesting returning to the store if asked...as you will have a nice little false arrest case that the shop will be very eager to settle.

Cupcake_Crisis

Mega Chin wrote: »

I always wave my to the alarm 1st just in case. Always paranoid about it :pac:

I always do that now! I set the alarm off once in a clothes shop (something I bought in a different shop) on my way in, and the security guard refused to let me into the shop searched my bags and all! So embarrassing!

Latchy

=whirlpool;
Those things are always going off for absolutely no reason

. That's the problem ...it's embarrassing for many people

Nevore wrote: »

You do know they're entitled to detain you right?

Which is why innocent people accused of shoplifting take the stores to court for the embarrassment of being frog marched through the store in front of everybody and they (rightly) get awarded thousends for having their character taken .

Cupcake_Crisis

Latchy wrote: »

That's the problem ...it's embarrassing for many people


Which is why innocent people accused of shoplifting take the stores to court for the embarrassment of being frog marched through the store in front of everybody and they (rightly) get awarded thousends for having their character taken .

I got €200 off the security company that worked for said shop!

recentlybigl

Haha i agree with the above poster. One time i was so nervous coming up to a check point ( completely innocent) they took me out of the car and proceeded to give a full search of car and me....couldnt understand what i was up to haha

Latchy

Cupcake_Crisis wrote: »

I got €200 off the security company that worked for said shop!

Fair play to ya . Faulty technology or those tags not taken off are to blame in many cases of course but I've have heard similar stories of iinnocent people been accosted by overeager, in store security .

I recently paid for a pair of headphones in an upper section of Asda and then went down the lower floor to browse however after getting a text ,I had to leave the store in a hurry .Then when I got to the exit , the ' beep beep beep ' alarm went off which was sorted when I produced reciept ( tag was left on the box ) but still annoying when you have to stand having your bag searched at the door .

Oranage2

Cupcake_Crisis wrote: »

I always do that now! I set the alarm off once in a clothes shop (something I bought in a different shop) on my way in, and the security guard refused to let me into the shop searched my bags and all! So embarrassing!

WOW - I know its not good to have a sue culture but this is a real infringment off your rights and 200e is tiny to what you could have got.


Security gaurds are no different from the any other member of the public, they can't falsely imprison you without suffient evidence and they cant go searching your bags.

--Kaiser--

OP, I think you are Socially Awkward Penguin

Plazaman

If the alarm goes off I like to stop just outside the front door, look back at the alarm sensors in distain then look up in the air shielding eyes from sun, whether it's there or not (compulsory searching for Superman look), shrug shoulders and walk away. Never had any problems *

* and the old five fingered discount is secured inside the jacket. Kids - Don't Do Drugs.

Logical Fallacy

Oranage2 wrote: »

WOW - I know its not good to have a sue culture but this is a real infringment off your rights and 200e is tiny to what you could have got.


Security gaurds are no different from the any other member of the public, they can't falsely imprison you without suffient evidence and they cant go searching your bags.

What i find most confusing is what the security guard was expecting to find. How would he know if an item from another shop was stolen?

What a dip****.

Latchy

Oranage2 wrote: »

WOW - I know its not good to have a sue culture but this is a real infringment off your rights and 200e is tiny to what you could have got.

Yes ...she should have got more and the sue culture is not just something for the rich and famous to avail of .

Security gaurds are no different from the any other member of the public, they can't falsely imprison you without suffient evidence and they cant go searching your bags.

They have done to people and still do but the average innocent shopper just want's to get on and get out of store so I love it when some innocent in above scenario takes the store to court and sues the ass of them .

Cupcake_Crisis

Oranage2 wrote: »

WOW - I know its not good to have a sue culture but this is a real infringment off your rights and 200e is tiny to what you could have got.


Security gaurds are no different from the any other member of the public, they can't falsely imprison you without suffient evidence and they cant go searching your bags.

I was young and niave! I didn't expect anything off them tbh, just an apology, fairly sure the guy lost his job too

Gingersnaps

This thread reminds me of an incident that happened to me a couple of years ago.
I bought a jacket in a large department store in Dublin. The jacket was on sale, reduced from 120 euro down to 60 euro. I went to the checkout to pay and the cashier was having difficulty scanning the bar code. So he eventually typed in the bar code number and the price came up as 20 euro. I paid up and couldn't get out of the shop fast enough. When I got to the door the alarm went off. I looked around waiting to be accosted by a security officer but nobody came near me. There was a couple coming into the shop at the same time and for some reason they presumed they had set off the alarm so I just left the store. Outside I checked my jacket and sure enough the damn security tag was still attached to the jacket. So of course I knew I had to go back in to get the tag removed but I was hoping I wouldn't have to pay an extra 40 euro for the jacket. And then of course as I re-entered the shop the alarm went off again and still no security person came near me. I then went to a different cashier and complained about the "embarrassment" I was caused because the tag wasn't removed and the alarm went off. The tag was promptly removed and I was profusely apologised to. I wasn't even asked to produce the receipt. So, realistically I could have been a shoplifter and just got the cashier to remove the tag for me.

stargazer 68

I bought some stuff in topman and went home - no alarm - however then discovered that the tags were still on a couple of the things!

Had to take them back to have them removed and the cheeky mare at the counter tried to tell me it wasn't her that sold the stuff to me until I pointed out her name on the bottom of the till receipt!! :rolleyes:

Oranage2

Gingersnaps wrote: »

This thread reminds me of an incident that happened to me a couple of years ago.
I bought a jacket in a large department store in Dublin. The jacket was on sale, reduced from 120 euro down to 60 euro. I went to the checkout to pay and the cashier was having difficulty scanning the bar code. So he eventually typed in the bar code number and the price came up as 20 euro. I paid up and couldn't get out of the shop fast enough. When I got to the door the alarm went off. I looked around waiting to be accosted by a security officer but nobody came near me. There was a couple coming into the shop at the same time and for some reason they presumed they had set off the alarm so I just left the store. Outside I checked my jacket and sure enough the damn security tag was still attached to the jacket. So of course I knew I had to go back in to get the tag removed but I was hoping I wouldn't have to pay an extra 40 euro for the jacket. And then of course as I re-entered the shop the alarm went off again and still no security person came near me. I then went to a different cashier and complained about the "embarrassment" I was caused because the tag wasn't removed and the alarm went off. The tag was promptly removed and I was profusely apologised to. I wasn't even asked to produce the receipt. So, realistically I could have been a shoplifter and just got the cashier to remove the tag for me.

LOL this is a common enough scam in retail - wip off the tag and go the the cashier looking for a refund or exchange and you lost the receipt.