Anyone ever work for anti-shoplifting crews at retail stores?

[kizzo 10+ year member]

I always thought that'd be a cool job to just snoop around stores and catch shoplifters.

What's the pay like for that job?

And how long do surveillance tapes stay on record? I was thinking about that too wouldn't they run out of spaces on their computers or something if those cameras are on all day?

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[onnoff7 10+ year member]

are you trying to find out... cause you stole something and hoping now one wouild review the tapes?

 

[WantedIsHere]

lol someone scared of tapes ?

 

[Imtjnotu 5,000+ posts]

are you trying to find out... cause you stole something and hoping now one wouild review the tapes?

that was my first thought

 

[ArrizX 10+ year member]

that what it sounds like.

hahahaha

well anyways depending on the store, they will burn them to CD's at midnight before the start of the new day and they will file them and be there forever.

so if you're worried, you ought to be.

 

[StealthKill 10+ year member]

I'd say like a weeks worth at any given time, but not certain...I'm not a scientist.

 

[shava 10+ year member]

Well I know someone that used to about 10 years ago. He told me he was making like 12-14 an hour but he liked the job. And the tapes stay on "file" anywhere from 24-72 hours. But this can vary between stores, people just dont review tapes all day and look for someone stealing something.

 

[jimmclrk1 10+ year member]

Blockbuter keeps tapes for the past 90 days or some shit. After that, they run out of clean tape and just re-record over old stuff.

 

[Famous_78]

I actually had a buddy of mine that worked for the state of illinois corpreate (sp) wal-mart then he would go thru-out the state and try shop lifting and if he got away with stuff he brought it back in and told the managers and they got some kind of fine.

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

that is what ice does iirc.

 

[4runnercrazy 10+ year member]

okay so u wanna be a rent-a-cop and u alreadyt stole someting from that store.....kick *** plan

 

[crunktimes.com 5,000+ posts]

I have worked in IT for a few retail chains and I can tell you most places have upgraded to using computers that they burn nightly/weekly and save as long as they want. I know the place I am at now they still have all the tapes from 2004 when they upgraded from old VHS > Computer/CDR.

I can tell you I would not want that job, at least in the city they deal with some shit and they have this wall will all the 'known' shoplifters and another wall with those that have different diseases HIV/AIDS etc.. Could not pay me enough to wrestle around with some AIDS infected basehead.

 

[rtillaree 10+ year member]

isn't icetee a "loss prevention" guy? only reason i half remember is because he kept brining up how well the average salary in his position is in his area...

 

[JesterFPS 10+ year member]

I had those loss prevention guys about last week at the grocery store I work at.

One guy was wearing a long black trench coat and the others, g-unit shirts and baggy jeans. I had this customer that I had a hard time checking out at the checkstand because she was lying to me and her food stamps wouldn't cover hot food items, turns out she messed up and put the cold sandwich (which food stamps do cover) into her purse and accidently left the hot one out. If she would've done it right, she would've been able to purchase all her items, including the cold sandwich and pay the difference for the bottle of vodka she had on the side. The lady from loss prevention had her take out the sandwich out of her purse right their in front of everyone, then she was all like, i don't want to waste time having to write up the report and the thief lady said "i'll just take the vodka" and we had to put back all the rest of her items, after having to get an override from the manager since the computer was already half way through the order.

 

[kizzo 10+ year member]

haha no i dont wanna be one i just wanted to know more about it and no i didnt steal anything who cares anyways