Supa Cheap fake security announcements

[TruBlu351]

Each time I go to Supa Cheap auto I notice they have pre recorded security messages that go over the store PA system....

Their cool elevator music will stop, followed by:

"Security report to section A" etc etc. Quite funny really. So now I try and avoid putting sockets into my pockets

[eXtremist]

Haha,

I work at Woolworths and they have like 38 cameras and only 8 of them are real.

[Linz]

Hahahaha...BUT beware the "ordinary looking shopper"!!!

[Linz]

I know this because a relative of mine was a store detective...had a few interesting and funny stories to tell!

[TZENU]

Originally Posted by linz

Hahahaha...BUT beware the "ordinary looking shopper"!!!

thats true.. a mate use to work for loss prevention for Coles Myer.. He once caught an 8yo stealing MEAT!

Generally you can tell which camera's are fake and which are real.... You can actually see a camera inside the bubbles

[bjr22n_]

when i was working at woolworths, if someone looked 'dodgy' we had to put over the security call over the PA, I stuffed up once and made up a section, it went like,

'security to section GT, security to section umm, err, D'

but once the call was made, all the floor staff had to stop work and look and walk down every isle.

[Casper]

Coles do it too.

[Brent]

Fake security, real security, whatever..........its an indictment and a disgrace on society that businesses have to resort to such things just to try to stem the tide of stuff walking out the door.

Maybe its just perception, but the problem of theft seems to be getting exponentially worse. I'm fairly sure that crime stats back this up. I just read this morning that a CFA vehicle had its radios etc knocked off overnight whilst in action against the bushfires in Victoria. An emergency vehicle ferchristsakes!!! This follows the theft of equipment from an ambulance that happened in December '06 whilst the ambos were treating a patient at a beach! Honestly how friggin low can somebody stoop to?

Personally, I've had a gutful of this particular issue. Turn your back for a moment and stuff goes missing. For example, my car stereo 7 or 8 years ago; 6 months later the whole car itself; my trail bike (although the cops caught 'em); newly planted shrubs in my front yard; and the odd car badge......and that's just speaking personally!!! God only knows the volume of stolen goods that must be getting around throughout Australia.

Bloody theives. Should be allowed to shoot them.

Sorry, off my soapbox now.
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[eXtremist]

Originally Posted by bjr22n

when i was working at woolworths, if someone looked 'dodgy' we had to put over the security call over the PA, I stuffed up once and made up a section, it went like,

'security to section GT, security to section umm, err, D'

but once the call was made, all the floor staff had to stop work and look and walk down every isle.

Haha,

We were just told to acknowledge that they are near by looking at them or greeting, and if you suspect them of stealing you're meant to follow them around the store until they give-up and drop whatever they have and run away.

[monkey_boy1990]

Originally Posted by Brent

Fake security, real security, whatever..........its an indictment and a disgrace on society that businesses have to resort to such things just to try to stem the tide of stuff walking out the door.

Maybe its just perception, but the problem of theft seems to be getting exponentially worse. I'm fairly sure that crime stats back this up. I just read this morning that a CFA vehicle had its radios etc knocked off overnight whilst in action against the bushfires in Victoria. An emergency vehicle ferchristsakes!!! This follows the theft of equipment from an ambulance that happened in December '06 whilst the ambos were treating a patient at a beach! Honestly how friggin low can somebody stoop to?

Personally, I've had a gutful of this particular issue. Turn your back for a moment and stuff goes missing. For example, my car stereo 7 or 8 years ago; 6 months later the whole car itself; my trail bike (although the cops caught 'em); newly planted shrubs in my front yard; and the odd car badge......and that's just speaking personally!!! God only knows the volume of stolen goods that must be getting around throughout Australia.

Bloody theives. Should be allowed to shoot them.

Sorry, off my soapbox now.
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Well some of those words you used were to big to read for me but i totaly agree. My familly owns a small grocery store and we are constantly looking through isles and checking pockets. The smallest thief we have caught was only 9 and he had atleast 5 chocolates down the back of his pants.

[Scott]

Originally Posted by eXtremist

Haha,

I work at Woolworths and they have like 38 cameras and only 8 of them are real.

Recipe for a legal disaster.

Yeah i work at one of the smaller franchise supermarkets... got plenty of cameras but none of them recording anything - i just have to follow the 'regular dodgy looking people' around.

[LTDHO]

It's good because whilst security is in section 'A', you can grab the socket set!

[4.9 EF Futura]

Originally Posted by LTDHO

It's good because whilst security is in section 'A', you can grab the socket set!

And then proceed to bust every single one of them... or strip every single bolt.... "not quite" 3/8ths

[myxr6]

I hate people who eat or drink things from the shelves or fruit/veggie dept , then leave the empty container on a shelf and walk away.I watched an Asian family pig out on some expensive fruit then just walk away.When I made a comment to them thy looked at me as if I was in the wrong.

[[Tonko]]

Originally Posted by myxr6

I hate people who eat or drink things from the shelves or fruit/veggie dept , then leave the empty container on a shelf and walk away.I watched an Asian family pig out on some expensive fruit then just walk away.When I made a comment to them thy looked at me as if I was in the wrong.

same, but i work in a liquor shop and the scum that try to scam a free drink in the beer fridge are incredible, its sometimes funny actually, catching them having a premix mid skull and watch them spit it all over themselves.... then denying they did anything wrong
stripping slabs is worse though, empty a $25 slab of light beer (cans) and fill it back up with O.P or Bulleit or something,
The management will not put a camera in there, apparently its not worth it. idiots.

[4.9 EF Futura]

Originally Posted by TonkoXR8

stripping slabs is worse though, empty a $25 slab of light beer (cans) and fill it back up with O.P or Bulleit or something,
The management will not put a camera in there, apparently its not worth it. idiots.

Genuis. Pure genuis.

Err...in a bad way.. of course...

Now, um, just nipping down to woolies liquor...

[DJM83]

Originally Posted by eXtremist

Haha,

I work at Woolworths and they have like 38 cameras and only 8 of them are real.

I do to mate but all the cameras in our store are real as we recently had a refurb

[bjr22n_]

at the supermarket i worked for, before i joined woolworths it was just a small IGA just outside of Wagga.

I saw a lady stuff 13 chocolate mud cakes into a bag and her pants, walked out of the shop, i grapped the manager and we stopped her and asked if she had a reciept for the cakes... she produce one, however, the reciept was 3 years old and only showed 8 cakes, of another brand.

she then abused us, through the cakes on the footpath and swore all the way home.

makes for great christmas party conversations but...
this big fat piggy aint getting her cakes.

[farah9]

Originally Posted by TruBlu351

Each time I go to Supa Cheap auto I notice they have pre recorded security messages that go over the store PA system....

Their cool elevator music will stop, followed by:

"Security report to section A" etc etc. Quite funny really. So now I try and avoid putting sockets into my pockets

Thats good to know, I seem to hear that announcement every time I go into supercheap, I thought it must have been the way I looked.

[Kil4Collingwood]

Geez I must look shifty everytime I walk into a store some wannabe cop follows me around been kicked out of so many 'cause it really gets to me and I have a short temper I've never shoplifted in my life for christs sake!!!!

[bigev]

Originally Posted by monkey_boy1990

Well some of those words you used were to big to read for me but i totaly agree. My familly owns a small grocery store and we are constantly looking through isles and checking pockets. The smallest thief we have caught was only 9 and he had atleast 5 chocolates down the back of his pants.

You sure they were chocolates?

[Greenhorn]

Originally Posted by TruBlu351
Each time I go to Supa Cheap auto I notice they have pre recorded security messages that go over the store PA system....

Their cool elevator music will stop, followed by:

"Security report to section A" etc etc. Quite funny really. So now I try and avoid putting sockets into my pockets

lol that happened to me today too

[SNB05T]

Originally Posted by TE50 056

I do to mate but all the cameras in our store are real as we recently had a refurb

ditto, all the cameras in the woolies store i work at are real they've already busted 3 staffies flogging stuff of the shelves :
when i go past the store managers office you can see the cameras recording on the monitors

[the_scotsman]

I always thought it was me too....but now you mention it, almost every time im in there, I hear that announcement...lol...

[J_Tank]

back in the day we used to take the little turds out the back and hold their hands down and threaten to chop em off with the machete in produce...... things were better back then.

[crusher]

Thats same same with bunnings. They dont have security. Its just a recording or the staff saying a code over the pa.

My mate used to work there and people would just walk out with stuff. A bloke walked out with half a shed and noone even looked at him. Luckily this bloke had paid for it! Pretty easy to steal from bunnings it seems...

[HLC]

its all because of petrol prices. YES, LETS BLAME PETROL PRICES FOR OUR NEWFOUND TIGHTAR5ENESS. =|

[DTFRMONT]

I worked as a manager for the Reject Shop years ago. The reg op. was meant to put out a security call every 10 minutes or so, half the time it wasn't done, the only time we would make sure it was done was if our area manager, or someone from head office was visting.

[EL8TED]

the calls are designed for your average thief who will be going to steal and then get scared under the pressure thinking that the store security is on to them..

companies are aware that if someone experienced or someone who has done thier homwework wishes to steal an item or items they wont care and will do it anyway..

we have had many people steal from our shop despite warnings, and we have had many people caught also ..

It's dissapointing that society now is about stealing for large profit. Eg. a can of coke and chocolate bar in the old days, and now its thousands of bucks of meat or trolleys full of shopping etc ..

I wish we could grab these guys buy the scruff of the neck and giving them a good crack over the skull.