The “Water Cooler” is a feature on Claycord.com where we ask you a question or provide a topic, and you talk about it.
The “Water Cooler” will be up Monday-Friday at noon.
Today’s question:
QUESTION: Have you ever witnessed anyone steal something? If so, where, and what what is?
Talk about it.
Thought this question came up earlier this year,….
Yes, many places:
Shoes at Macy’s
See’s Candy
Safeway, may times
CVS
Thrift Shops
Not that I remember, but then again I don’t shop much. When I go in I know what I want, find it, pay for it and leave. I’m not a people watcher.
Yep. Safeway and CVS are prime examples. Employees are afraid or prevented from intervening to prevent lawsuits (for being racist, sexist, classist, LGBTQ+phobic, whatever) and injuries. Once again, California’s lax criminal ‘justice’ system adversely affects Law Abiding Citizens!
No chuckie. The reason staff are prevented from chasing thieves is liability. It’s not a SJW conspiracy.
The idea that a retail employee should intervene when they witness someone stealing, it not a good idea. More often that not these are petty theft and when discovered most thieves would just drop the items and run or hold on to the items and run, but you never know when you encounter someone with a gun and bad temper or desperate for something they can turn into money and feed their drug habit.
I work at Macy’s and if we see something suspicious we call security, describe the person and the location, they can then zero in on them with a camera and follow them, and when they have enough evidence detain them and then call police. They are trained to handle the situation, sales associates are trained to provide customer service.
Friend came back to his parked car over in the Haight and saw that he had a flat tire He took a jack out of the trunk of his car, walked around the block, jacked up someone else’s car and rolled their tire away.
Seemed like a good idea to him (1966).
That’s kinda funny. I guess he traded his jack for the other guy”s tire. My grandpa once had his car battery stolen from his 1972 Pinto. A couple of days later the thief returned the stolen battery and took the new one.
Is he a PG&E executive now?
When I was a teenager I knew a guy that stole a driveshaft out of a parked car. The poor car owner probably didn’t know what to think when he started his car, put it in gear and it didn’t go anywhere.
Every time I go to Safeway.
Young man ran out of Kmart with a cart full of misc. items. Safeway middle aged man ran out with hand cart full of meat.
Target in PH. Two ladies came up to a register with an arm load of clothes and pretended to put them on the belt. Then picked them up again and sauntered right out the front door. Security (after a stunned moment) was right behind them. Gone! Probably had a car at the curb waiting.
Many times. Grab and run at Sears, a group of teenaged girls stealing and their mother waiting for them in the car outside. No security around. And I see it at Safeway ALL THE TIME. Best ones are the women shopping with their strollers and not putting every thing up on the belt. No accident.
There a young guy on a bike who always takes beer/liquor and walks out of Safeway on Bancroft and Ygnacio. Stores know it, employees know it, even the shoppers. Safeway tells it’s employees not to intervene for liability reasons and if they should they would be fired for taking action. Only encourages behavior. Consumers in the end pay for it.
Have worked at Macy’s at Stanford Mall for 9 years, recently transferred to Macy’s in this area. Considering the many hours I have spend as a retail associate it is very few times I have actually witness someone stealing.
Once as a middle age somewhat a shabby looking middle age man was leaving the store I noticed part of a women’s scarf showing from his jacket.
I called the security, but it was too late, it was right before mother’s day, perhaps he just wanted a present for his mother, not that it excuses anything, the scarf was probably priced around 35-25.00 full price, 30 to 40% less on sale. Of course being in retail that many years, I have heard about many stealing incidents, and a couple of times, see security lead an employee of the floor and then call the police, most of the time these are seasonal employees.
Does proning out two suspects just as they exited a bank they had just robbed count??
CVS
Safeway
Many others.
108RS
Everyday,and its always someone homeless,cause they look really dirty.They have no interest in improving themselves as long as things are free.On with the bleeding heart complainers about this comment.You could offer anyomne of them a job,asnd they wont show up.No more”will work for food” signs,they were all lying.
Yes. A couple of times seen sketchy looking people stealing small items near the check out. Both times I called him out loudly to the cashiers
All stores should have Security Employees or they are just asking for it in kalifornia.
Sort of. I was robbed at gunpoint in SF 2 weeks after I retuned home from Vietnam. A salt and pepper team (one white guy, one black guy) stuck a chrome semi-automatic pistol out a car window at the Shell station where I was working one night. I gave them the cash in the drawer, they took off, I called the cops, they got busted near City Hall, I testified at their trial (along with about 20 other victims), and they went to prison. It was the good old days, when criminals actually served time.
Just tonight! I was at CVS in Clayton, and watched a guy walk out with his arms full of stolen stuff, the alarm was going off at the door and the cashier walked out and calmly said “Now don’t you come back..” and that was it!
I see it at Safeway all the time too, they just walk right out with a cart full of groceries.
I find this hard to believe. I worked retail for many years, and I know people steal, but to walk out of Safeway with a cart full of groceries does not seem possible. First of all I shop at Safeway and CVS, and have not witnessed anything like that. Be careful about judging people without concrete proof.
You can buy groceries at Safeway pay at check out and then go back to the pharmacy and pick up a prescription, thus it looks like you just walk out without paying. It is best to not jump to conclusion and judge before you have the actually fact. Like I said I know people steal, but to walk out with a
cart full of stolen groceries, seems a little far fetched, especially if you see it all the time.
Thank you voters and lib politicians who pass these stupid ass laws instead of doing what they are supposed to do. That way they can stay in office and give their laundry list of what they have done for the illegals, Freddy and Frederica the freeloaders and the homeless who do not work or want to work because they can get everything for free. Which, BTW, the lawful taxpayers get screwed for.
Sorry for the rant but it is so evident and no one wants to do anything about it.
There are lots of problems with the homeless, and no seem to have any idea of tackling it, also some services are available to them. However, many of the homeless do not take advantage of these services, some homeless are working, but if you only make $12.00 an hour you will be hard pressed to find housing even in Concord, where rooms rent for $700.00 and up a month.
Some make it sound like the homeless live a comfortable life where everything is paid for, I doubt that is the case. How would you like to be homeless in this weather, even if someone has a tent, it is cold. I cannot think of anything worse than being homeless, no safe place to go. No matter the reason anyone is homeless it is no bed of roses.
The effects of AB109 and Prop 47-what did you think would happen?
Yes, a few years ago at the Safeway off Contra Costa Blvd. The perp didnt
get too far though. Shirtless dude was looking to steal something (i.e., alcohol) from the moment he stepped into the store. He was down on the ground within a few minutes thanks to the local PD.
Saw her husting at Safeway in Clayton. Total sham. Her hubby pulls up in a new Dodge van and they climb in with a day’s worth of cash taken from the bleeding heart suckers who don’t realize they are suckers. Suckers.
Duh! We live in the east Bay Area. Of course we’ve all seen someone steal.
Standing outside in front of Sun Valley Mall Sears on the west side. A car pulled up, at the same time a woman flew out the doors w/a high stack of clothes on her arms with hangers & price tags. She jumped in the car and the
guy floored it to the north.
A man took something from Safeway and a nearby store employee next to that Safeway took the law into his own hands. He chased the suspect and threw him on the parking lot and took out his hand gun and pointed it to his head. My friend was driving my car and decided to save the poor suspect. Just in the nick of time the Martinez Police drove up and arrested the suspect who stole a bottle of liquor (I think it was). I was very upset with my friend who drove right up to these men on that parking lot. This happened many years ago but I remember like it just happened. Scary.
KUDOS to that employee. Dangerous; yes… KUDOS just the same.