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I kept seeing lists like this for USA/ UK/ Canada & Australia but never for Europe. Like whole Europe, so here we go. Keep in mind that every shop is different, this is based on my OWN personal experience. Scoop your local shops before. 

also. i’m still a baby lifter so lol

rating based again on my own experience and my local shops.

1- very easy

10- very hard

Super/ Hypermarkets

AUCHAN 2/10 - cameras only in electronics part. Love to lift make up from there, i conceal while walking towards beverages/ snacks. RFID tags on some make-up, but can easily be peeled and eventually be stick to a random carton box somewhere. Can’t do walkouts. 

Carrefour 3/10 if you don’t go for make-up. - in my local one, the make up section has its own towers and checkout. It’s good for non-make-up small items. Cameras only in electronic section. Can’t walkout.

Kaufland - 5-6/10 pumped up with cameras everywhere, I did not try to lift from there.

LIDL - 5-6/10 same as above.

Make-up/ drugstores

D&M - 4/10 I didn’t lift from there, but someone i know did. Plenty of cameras, didn’t spot a blindspot, I’d conceal while walking.

Douglas - 6/10 I got sussed so fucking hard years before I started lifting. I assume it’s pumped with cameras. I woudn’t try if I woudn’t have experience.

Sephora - 8/10 My local Sephora is pumped with cameras and LP. I woudn’t.

Clothing

H&M - 2-3/10 if you have magnet. magnet tags. Unattended changing rooms, the changing rooms have a lot of clothes in it. I’d go when it’s busy. 

Berska - 3/10 hook tags. Same as above.

Stradivarius - 4/10 hook tags. LP is quite insistent.

Pull & Bear - 3/10 hook tags.  

Sinsay - 1/10. Guys, I can’t tell you how grateful I am for Sinsay. My first lift was there. My local sinsays have carton tags with “alarm security” and that’s all. No RFIDs. No hard tags. No LP. Even not cameras my dudes. If you know when to go (my favorite time is Friday - Sunday afternoons.) you will find busy SAs, unattended changing rooms full of clothes! It’s basically all you can eat in lifting form!

TerraNova - 2/10 hook tags. The SAs seemed pretty uninterested.

Zara - 4/10 hook tags. LP walking IN the shop.

LC Waikiki - 3/10 hook tags. The shop is quite big, the changing rooms are unattended.

Special category for

Jumbo - 1/10. Carton tags with “alarm security”, nothing else. Go when busy, conceal while walking

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Yeah, you'll have to scope out the store in order to find the blind spots. I suggest that you do this during a couple of trips to the store where you don't lift. It's especially easy to do this in mall stores, where it's common to wander in and out without buying anything. You can even sit on a rest area in the mall and secretly take a pic of a store's ceiling from afar to get an idea of where the cameras are.

In my town, I only have a few choices for stores. I am seen regularly and known by many store employees. For this reason, I ALWAYS half-shop, half-lift. It's kept up the guise that I'm an innocent shopper for years.

In a big-box store like Walmart, Target, Meijer etc, blind spots are typically in low-theft areas like seasonal goods, home goods, and outdoor/gardening. This is not a hard and fast rule, though. Never, ever conceal in makeup, health and beauty, books, or electronics.

Next time you're in the grocery store, gaze around and look for cameras. If you're not lifting that day, it's not suspicious really. But keep in mind that many cameras nowadays have the ability to zoom in and can even read your phone screen. Never have your phone connected to WiFi in a store.

During the pandemic, most DEFINITELY wear a mask. This is excellent for hiding facial expressions, and completely normal during coronavirus panic.

I WILL NOT walk out of a store with something in my bag if I can help it! SAs and LPs can check your bag and WILL check your bag if they think you’re sus.

You can fit so much on your person; more than you think. Get yourself a waist trainer. I always wear a waist trainer and leggings under a pair of jeans and a sports bra under my top. I always have a jacket on me just in case I’m a bit lumpy, and the jacket ALWAYS has inside pockets.

Bonus if your top is a turtle neck, bc then you can wear other tops/ dresses underneath and they won’t peak from over the top.

I also try to avoid concealing on floor, but obvs that’s not always possible. That’s what the jacket is for!

My inside pockets are LARGE! I sewed them in myself so I know exactly how much they fit. AND YOU SHOULD TOO!

- the founder of ikea, ingvar kamprad, was a nazi sympathizer

- ikea is owned by charities, all run by ingvar kamprad, therefore none of its profits are taxed, making the ingka foundation (the charity that runs ikea) the largest charity in the world, with a net worth of $36 billion dollars. it is one of the most elaborate tax evasion schemes by a company to date.

- ikea partners with lumberers that do illegal logging in romania, russia, and many other european countries. they cut into virgin forests and green belt areas which destroy ecosystems and kill native animals. they also leave these forests a mess after they’re finished logging.

- ikea chooses not to adhere to cpsc (consumer product safety commission) guidelines and knowingly produce furniture that risks consumer’s health and safety in order to retain profit. well known cases of these risks include the malm dresser recall, where eight children had died from tip overs due ikea’s neglect in removing an unsafe product from the market.

- their meatballs and weiner sausages contained horse meat in several european countries amid the horse meat scandal. also, their chocolate cake was contaminated with coliform bacteria, which is found in fecal matter.

- ikea used cuban political prisoners as well as forced labor camps in germany to assemble and manufacture furniture to sell in the 1980s.

- furniture is poor quality and made to break in roughly two years, forcing consumers to return to buy more.

So Christmas has just passed. You probably went crazy, panic-lifting tons of presents, then chilled out over the few holiday days. Now big Boxing Day/New Years sales are up, stores are going to be BUSY. Lifting could be easy. Here’s some stuff to keep in mind.

1. Order of importance; so I’m not going to preach to only lift what you need, because that’s blurry territory. But take the time to list what you need and get those items before more luxury items- pressure will be off and you don’t have to focus on it anymore, you can lift freely. In short, try to get food and basic stuff before pricey skincare and excess clothes and makeup.

2. Disguise; make subtle changes to yourself. This can be hard to pull off so observe your usual style, what you’d pull out of your closet and put on your face and do to your hair on any normal shopping day. Change everything you can. Clip the bangs up, dot freckles on, wear the contact lenses over the glasses or vice versa. Wear the pale jeans and nude boots over the black cargos and combat boots and goth coat. I hate to say it being a goth girl at heart, but individuality and alternativity (is that a word?) doesn’t have a place in lifting. It will get you caught very fast. Get as close to looking like just another kind and agreeable yet kind of spoilt and rich average gal/dude. Be wary of looking too rich somewhere more expensive, though - they may see dollar signs and harass you for a sale.

3. Your rights; NOBODY except loss prevention and police can stop you, and nobody but police can search your bag without permission. Stay calm, cool and polite. Collected. You understand why they stop people, shoplifting does happen and you’ve seen it a few times - but you don’t really get it. You have a job and work hard and spend your hard earned money here. Be co operative but know your right to privacy. Don’t let them dance around the topic, ask politely if there’s a problem. If you have a bad feeling then get out of there, say no thank you to the request for a bag check, if it comes to it then say you don’t like being accused of something. Hell, even pull the ‘you’re a forty something year old guy, I’m a young lady, I feel threatened, I heard about that pr!m@rk nonce security guard scandal you know!!!’ card if you must. But never, ever fall for their shit. Don’t get taken to a back room and wait for police to show up. Get out of there.

4. Organisation; carefully think before you head out to lift what you’re going to do with your haul items. Do you have a car to drop goods in between stores? A big bag? I recently started tightly folding up plastic reusable bags in my purse and it’s been AMAZING. It’s eco friendly, it just makes you look like a nice conscious shopper, and it’s extra room. Loads of it. Practice at home folding up or squeezing in the type of things you’ll be lifting, make sure you can pull off a type of conceal before you do it. As long as everything looks alright, your bags aren’t lumpy and misshapen and merchandise isn’t spilling out everywhere, you’re golden.

5. Awareness; it does no good to be inconsolably paranoid while lifting but do assume every camera is being watched closely, you are being observed, plainclothes LP are here somewhere, any shoppers that see you conceal or have suspicion will rat you out, workers are aware of lifting activity and are communicating and most of all assume everyone in the damn shop is aware you are there. You cannot sneak a whole human in and out of a store! You’re there and that’s okay, take up the necessary space. You’re just a shopper and it’s okay to take interest in everything, talk on the phone, have normal conversations and laugh with a friend you’re with. You are a normal person, you don’t turn into an alien when you lift though it may feel like it.

Retail alarms aren’t limited to towers. A more common EAS system now is a floor pad, shown here:

Avoiding any employees

Not looking at prices and if it’s a big sale or coupon/money saving store - the signs or ads

Thinking just because you have turned your back you have automatically made a makeshift blindspot

Getting things that aren’t clothing and putting them under a pile of clothes like people wobt notice

Trying 20 things on and carrying around 5 other items and buying absolutely nothing

Shifty eyes - good cameras and good lp pick up on it.

Noticing every single person who walks by you. people who aren’t sus dont notice other shoppers.

Literally the most stupid and most common way I personally notice people: walking quickly past every single isle looking for a blind spot and no people.

Coming in with a semi structured bag that is flat on the sides and obviously empty and leaving (attempting to) with it bulging.

Thinking babies and children in strollers dont make you sus. We watch and follow automatically esp if you put your coat over it and items in it.

Literally carrying you coat over your purse and putting items in that hand and making them “disappear”

Last updated: 22.06.18

New stores will be added eventually. Those are MY personal experiences, stores may vary in different countries.

EASY: H&M - there’s always 1-2 uniformed LP per store, they use ink tags, SAs usually dont give a shit about customers. Unattended dressing rooms.

Forever 21 - Every single shit is tagged but they mostly use only small pencil tags on small stuff like lingerie, bags and acessories, on clothing mostly ink tags. No LP. No counting

New yorker - basic golf tags on everyhing, usually 1 uniformed LP per store, never count at fitting rooms

Intersport - cheap ass square tags - can be removed with neodymiums, no LP.

Cropp - golf tags on clothing, no LP, SAs not giving a fuck about customers

MEDIUM: ZARA - hook tags on clothes,RFIDS on accessories, They usually dont count when busy, lots of blindspots, 1 uniformed LP per store usually standing by the doors and watching cameras.

PULL&BEAR - hook tags on clothes , RFIDs sewn inside shoes and some purses - no way to find/remove it. 1 uniformed and 1 plainclothed LP per store

ADIDAS - easy during busy hours they use cheap ass tags you can literally break with a knife on everyhing. When you can sneak in a fitting room without SAs noticing - take anything you want. No LP.

VANS - SAs are mostly some cool kidz in thrasher shirts that are too busy with texting. basic golf tags , unattended fitting rooms, no LP.

SPORTS DIRECT - golf tags on clothes 1-2 uniformed LP per store Unattended fitting rooms

BERSHKA - hook tags on clothes, hidden RFIDs inside shoes, 1 uniformed LP usually by the doors watching the cameras. Unattended fitting rooms, busy SAs

Terranova - golf tags and sometimes hook tags, they count and scan on the way in but not always on the way out, it depends on each store tho so make sure to scope before HARD:

Peek&Cloppenburg - MAGNET DETECTORS! RFIDs on designer clothes, usually 1-2 uniformed LP per store, unattended fitting rooms

DECATHLON - RFIDs everywhere! I lifted the most ridiculous shit from there but you have to be really and i mean really careful about every sticker you see just peel/cut it off. Dont lift shoes, they have RFIDs sewn inside.

DRUGSTORES:

DM - RFIDs often on perfumes and 10€+ products, all makeup is untagged, items like razors, UV lamps, hair straighteners etc. are locked in clear boxes, usually one good blindspot per store.

DOUGLAS - don’t fuck with those guys. Just don’t. RFIDs inside and outside packaging + hidden somewhere in the product (under the lid usually) Cameras everywhere, 1-2 LP per store, Learned the hard way

GROCERY / DEPARTMENT

TESCO - spider wraps on almost all electronics, high end skincare locked in boxes, they dont use RFIDs on anything. You can easily conceal groceries and cosmetics in clothing department (fitting room) just by walking in with full basket and some clothes. All €20+ alcohol is tagged.

Kaufland Only tags alcohol and some electronics, they dont use RFIDS, 1-2 uniformed LP. Billa RFIDS on alcohol/razors/cosmetics/laundry stuff, 1-2 LP, usually has a lot of good blindspots