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quick walmart late night haul!

target run with my friend!

we didnt plan at all to go to target so we only had our bags but i managed to snag some :

nair cream $4.00

small razors $3.00

a new razor $5.00

yesTo charcoal mask $16.00

burts bees hydration mask $18.00

burts bees x3 undereye masks $10.00

NYX sweet cheeks pallette; i was actually looking at buying this on the nyx website so when i saw it had to haveee it $15.00

burts bees cuticle cream $5.00

hydrating tablets $6.00

x2 burts bees lip balms $6.00

×2 panties, these are the ones that had tags in my previous post $10.00

X2 face lotion $5.00

i also got some makeup wipes for my friend as her bag wasnt big enough

yesTo age refresh for undereyes $8.00

nyx honey dew primer $13.00

Hey this is for all you lifters from the uk 😘Also if you have anything to add please tell me

👚PRIMARK👚 •The fucking gold mine, go crazy •No tags •Clothes are counted at the dressing rooms but staff are lazy af

👚NEW LOOK👚 •No tags •Dressing rooms are monitored but at my New Look there’s a unmonitored guys changing room

👚NEXT👚 •unsure about tags

🛒TESCO🛒 •Some items are tagged •Toilets sometimes have towers

🛒ASDA🛒 •Unsure

💎CLAIRES💎 •Fake tags (thank god) •Mirrors so watch out when concealing •They have tiny cameras, so watch your ass

💰M&S💰 •Some things tagged •Toilets are a great place to detag (no towers) •My M&S has three doors and one doesn’t have towers

💰JOHN LEWIS💰 •Unsure about tags •Lots of blind spots beside the beds

👚H&M👚 •Unsure about tags •Unmonitored dressing rooms 🙌🏻🙌🏻

🎨HOBBYCRAFT🎨 •Lots of blind spots •Pretty sure only some things are tagged

👚HOLLISTER👚 •Only cameras in changing rooms •Magnet tags everything •Bodymists and perfumes are untagged

👟JD SPORTS👟 •Lots of teens go there so probably heavily monitored

👑MAC👑 •SA breathe down your neck •Drawers can be difficult to open without no one seeing

💎PANDORA💎 •Unless you’re on a heist impossible

👚RIVER ISLAND👚 •Attentive SA •Changing rooms are monitored (I think)

👚SUPERDRY👚 •Unattended changing rooms •Because it’s so dark there’s a lot of blind spots

👚TK MAXX👚 •Untagged shoes •Not a lot of blind spots

🛁LUSH🛁 •Crowed which is a good thing for concealing from SA but bad for making sure costumers don’t see •Conceal at the back of the shop •No tags •No cameras •I heard the SA can’t chase you, cause they don’t want a law suit

🕯YANKEE CANDLE STORE🕯 •No tags •It’s ok to not buy anything, a lot of people just go there to smell candles lol

✨GENERAL TIPS✨ • If you feel like you look too suspicious, just buy something small. • If you have an uneasy feeling or feel as if you’re being watched, go with your gut. • Be confident, the way you look and act can alert LP • If you’re lifting with friends, make up code words, e.g. For SA a code word could be loiterers or watchers, etc • Appearance is key, if you’re going to lift, go lifting in your most expensive casual clothes, the less common you look, the less suspicious.

Being the OCD person I am, I organized all the tips by store & various topics. I made this as a page yesterday, but the links wouldn’t work, so here’s a post. 

As stated before, this is a role-play blog, & if you attempt any of these, you are doing so at your own risk. Shoplifting is illegal, especially if you’re over 18 (in the US. not sure about other countries) Thanks for playing along! :)

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Cautionary Tales

I got caught in zara (someone else’s story)

Stuff that will get you caught up 

Half Price Book Scare

Security Tag Removal Guide

Tips/Tricks Megapost

Tips/Tricks Masterpost (do NOT do #53 however)

Cellphone trick

Up your sleeves technique

Various store tag/LP/dressing room/methods info  (US store at the top. UK stores below them. Followed by methods.)

Stores:

Victoria’s Secret 1

VS 2

VS 3

VS 4 (tip for bras)

Ulta Masterpost

Walmart

WalMart/Target

Target/Ulta/Beginner tips

Forever 21 Masterpost

Michael’s & Hobby Lobby

American Eagle/Aerie

Urban Outfitters

Express

Sephora (You’re better off going to Ulta)

Wet Seal

Carsons

Books-a-Million/Kohls/Michaels/Hobby Lobby/Joann Fabrics

Lifting clothes when the attendant counts the items

Guide to lifting clothing

Solution to the empty hanger problem

Leaving the fitting room with less that you walked in with

Other:

Magnet video

Split credit card method for gator tags (not sure if this actually works)

Protecting privacy online

Lifting Masterpost

Identifying undercover security

Store LP (loss prevention) info

Your lifting bag/purse

Store policies

Haul Inspiration

People that use magnets have purchased them from AliExpress, Ebay, & Amazon. The most popular one is the N52 neodymium magnet.

Many stores have magnet detectors!!!

Checks for tags EVERYWHERE. Some are hidden in seams of clothing! Some are hidden underneath bar codes! 

Unless you’re a pro, avoid these stores: WalMart, K-Mart, Kohls, JC Penny, Target, Macy’s, Dillards, Belks, Neiman Marcus, & other department stores.

NEVER shoplift at church sales, thift stores (except Salvation Army lmao), & yard sales. NEVER rob people. 

*¨`*•.¸¸.•*¨`*•🍒💖L U S H 💖🍒•*¨`*•.¸¸.•´*¨`* 1) Behavior: • Your behavior could potentially be your number one alibi. Presentation is everything. You will most likely want to do your hair and makeup, wear a cute outfit, look as innocent as possible. The sales associate will ask you what you’re looking for, let them know that you are familiar with lush products, and you know what you came in for.

•Behavior can be a dead giveaway. If you have shaky hands, a worried look on your face, you can’t stop looking behind your back, around the store, and you’re always holding the item you want to take, that is going to stick out to the SA. If you hold onto an avobath bath bomb for 20 minutes the SAs are going to notice if you don’t buy that bath bomb. Be as sneaky and fast as you can. Have steady hands. Don’t stand around waiting for an SA to disappear because chances are they won’t leave you alone.

•Don’t be loud. Don’t be sloppy. And try to avoid taking items to other sections of the store. Don’t fidget be calm. If you act strange or out of place when you’re nervous you shouldn’t be lifting!!!! I promise! Sometimes certain things aren’t meant for everyone.

2) Know your store: • Store size will be the ultimate dealbreaker. As unfortunate as this sounds if your store is tiny, you probably shouldn’t be lifting there. My lush has minimal cameras and lazy SA’s. Most of the time when I go into my lush all of the workers (all twoof them 😂) are just using hand massage bars or scrubs on each other and sampling their products. ^ I once waited at the counter to be checked out for almost 5 minutes. During this time I had my back to the SAs and on a whim (since I had been waiting forever to check out) I stuffed some items in my other bags. So easy when the SAs are lazy.

• Do your research!! Know your stores policy! Even googling your state + shoplifting laws can help you even the slightest bit. I know that my lush has a no chase policy, if they spot suspicious behavior they will customer service you to death. Just cooperate and calm. Don’t lead the SA to believe you feel unsettling.

3) Your purse: • I have a slouchy kind of boho hippie bag that I have used forever. I realized that’s what was a small giveaway in ulta. Walking in with an empty bag, and leaving with a full heavy bag. They knew what was going on. So now I have sleek and structured bag that works so much better. The outside of this bag looks square and fitted and the inside is basically a black hole to say the least.

• With a purse like this, at Lush you can stuff as many bath bombs in your bag as you need with your purse helping you stay discreet. You can also get away with this with a shopping bag. For example hollister has a structured dark bag. With this kind of bag on the crook of your arm and the lush shoppers bag on the crook of your arm (kind of hiding the first bag) you can slip things into your purse instead of the lush bag.

4) Actual tips: • Only conceal an item if you’re positive you’re not being watched. • Its absolutely much better to leave with nothing than to leave with getting caught. Don’t be greedy! Trust your instincts! • Go into Lush on a busier day but at times when the store is somewhat slow. ^ Remember if someone else is shopping most of the time they aren’t paying attention to you. They are too busy shopping! • My fav blind spot in lush is in the back by the foot scrubs. • Don’t spend too much time handling the item you plan on lifting: I brought attention to this once but it needs reiterated. This will give the LP or SA more time to see you with merchandise and more time for them to become suspicious of what you plan on doing with it. Don’t conceal in the same spot more than twice. Don’t go back to the bath bomb display more than twice. Don’t be greedy!!!!! Take your items and conceal as fast as you can! After you conceal in your shopping bag/ purse put any extra items you want back. Most of the SAs are extremely lazy. Grab your phone and pretend you are going to meet up with someone. “yeah I’m in lush. Do you wanna meet here? Yeah. I guess I am. Ok I’ll find you there” and leave. I always take a few of the bath bomb paper baggies and I go into a bathroom and I put the bath bombs in the bags. I always always leave the mall I hit lush. I don’t lift there often. Please make it look like you’re actually shopping you know? Open jars of lotion, smell bath bomb bombs, rub eyeshadow shades on your wrist. Look for prices.