They basically look like lifters too..

They’re not checking the price of what they’re looking at.

They seem overly friendly towards staff.

Meaninglessly walking around looking disinterested/lingering.

Looking out for other customers, where they are and what they’re doing.

They look out of place in general and don’t seem like they match whatever they’re looking at.

They walk around the store in patterns. In some shops, it’s in a figure of eight, looking out for people who seem suspicious.

They seem like they’re casually talking to security. they can just be standing next to security by the gates having a conversation; Don’t assume it’s just a friendly customer.

Suspicious age for the average customer. Are you in the women’s section looking at dresses surrounded by mostly girls aged 14-19? If so, take note of the woman in her 40’s at the end of the aisle “looking at shoes”.

1.) Are you Unique? Better cut that shit right out.

Seriously, though, when you go lifting you want to disappear into the crowd and be totally unmemorable. Dark, neutral colors in simple, well fitting styles with maybe a statement piece. It doesn’t have to be fancy to make you look rich. Leave your crop tops and shorts at home, avoid clothes with prominent brand names, bright colors or anything you’d see on TikTok. While the majority of staff might be Gen Z and young Millennials, most LP is going to be older and instantly suspicious of style they don’t understand or deem “too loud”. Classy, modest, and timeless is your goal.

2.) In the same vein of thought, if you have things in your closet that you wear daily, do NOT wear them to lift. The one and only time I got caught as a teen was because I used a very unique, memorable bag. Leave your vintage backpack at home, don’t wear your daily driver Doc Marten’s, and forget about taking that sweater you wear to work. Anything that is memorable and/or unique needs to stay out of a store you plan to steal from.

3.) You have great hair, you should chop it off.

Okay, not really. You don’t need to shave your head or anything, but if your hair is anything other than standard issue you should definitely hide it. Hoodies will make you suspicious, but a fashionable hat, scarf, hijab, or wig are all great options. If your hair is simply out of the ordinary because it’s very long/short/curly, you’re probably fine to simply style it differently each time, but if you have colored hair you MUST cover it. Not only is it VERY identifiable, but I’ve read multiple sources where LP intentionally target, track and profile young people with pink/blue/unnatural hair colors.

4.) It’s always good to dress in the style of the store you plan to lift from, but dressing rich is best. Seriously. A rich person can go almost anywhere, shop almost anywhere, and never look out of place. Well fitted clothes in neutral colors, resisting the urge to give into micro trends in clothes, hair and makeup, and an attitude of utter, nearly unethical confidence goes a long, long way.

“But Mama!” I hear you cry; “That’s not my style! I like my dyed hair and orange pants and I have the confidence of a sea slug!”

And to that I say GOOD.

The less you look like yourself when you lift the better. Play the part of a 30 something soccer mom that drives a BMW. March into that Aeropostale like you’re shopping for an obnoxious teenaged daughter, pursue Whole Food’s butcher like you have $300 to spend on lobster and filet, because if the cops are looking for Karen they’re not going to find you.

5.) On the subject of makeup, here’s another great chance to become someone else. Do you have acne? Big, bushy brows? A scar on your chin? All of that needs to disappear. You know those “clean girl makeup routines,” that are going around right now? That is what you want. Simple, clean, completely forgettable yet still put together.

Remember, our goal is classy, timeless and bland. We want to look wealthy and presentable, but also like a background character.

6.) If you’re not wearing a mask you’re dead to me. Not only are we still in the midst of a poorly handled pandemic that threatens the lives of disabled, immunocompromized, and chronicly ill people across the world, but masks are the PERFECT excuse to hide 3/4 of your face. Lift a few in plain neutrals, but also a few in bold colors for a pop in otherwise plain outfits.

7.) confidence is everything. It’s probably the number one tip on liftblr, but for real, that whole pretending you’re a 30-something soccer mom with an Amex in her purse is precious advice. Be warm to all staff but also act like you own the place. Back straight, chest out and eyes steady, even if you’re losing your shit inside.

TL;DR: Cover and remove any identifiable clothing items, facial features, hair colors. Wear plain, well-fitted clothes in neutral colors and pretend you’re a rich white woman.

Magnet detectors:

Most likely to be at the entrance/exit of the store or near/in the fitting rooms. Basically just look out for black or otherwise seemingly random/useless boxes mounted near those areas.

Booster Bag detectors:

Usually used in conjunction with the regular alarm towers, and these usually will be next to or beside them.

Detects both magnets and booster bags:

^ this one also detects AM jammers

Please keep in mind hidden security measures might be present, so check for these on the ceiling as well as the floor and doorframe. Detectors might also be disguised with fabric or displays etc. so keep an eye open for anything that’s out of place or seems unnecessary, assume everything has a purpose!

since theres a 50/50 chance we might get deleted or flagged or whatever, yall should move to PEACH!!!

Think they’re into you? Pretty sure you’re gonna get it? Not sure how to leave? Can’t do jail?

My friend was being followed by LP the other day and she had about $450+ worth of merch. She was being sussed HARD. And would have been caught if she wasnt a crazy bitch.

She had a pocket knife in her pants pocket and needed to get rid if some tags. Bathroom. But how????

This crazy bitch cuts her hand in her pocket and brings it up to her face, making sure to make the blood VERY visible, and makes it look like her nose is bleeding badly. She does this in from of cameras view so that if someone was watching her, they’d be confused. She cut deep enough to need stitches.

She went up to the nearest SA and asked where the bathrooms were, making sure she was in full view of the cameras, and mentioning being out of it and dizzy right before hand. She says “this happens right before I get migraines, I have a brain disorder. Nothing I can do, but I need some tissues and might need to go to the hospital soon.” SA freaks out a little and leads her to the bathroom. She says, “Thanks! I’ll be fine, haha. Just need to clean up and I’ll be out if your hair. Promise I will try my best not to bleed on anything!” SA says something about blood freaking her out. SA asks if she needs an ambulance lol. Friend assures her that its cool, her boyfriend is in the store near by and shes gonna call him to pick her up. SA wishes her well.

For pizzazz she fakes a call to her boyfriend while in the bathroom.

Friend grabs some toilet paper (not paper towels because she wanted people to stay the fuck away and see the blood), walks out with her head tilted and bloody. A few ask if shes ok and she just waves them off saying shes going to the doctor and she has a ride. No worries!“

The LP is nowhere to be found and isnt anywhere in the front of the store like they were earlier.

Friend speed walks out and to her car where she drives 5 miles away and parks in this fast food place where she bandages her hand tightly, drives home, dumps her shit, then heads to the hospital.

Holy mother of fuck. This was at the notorious K0H1#5 a few towns away. Bwahahahahaha!

But seriously, dont do something like this unless you have no other way out. Dont go with any associates. Dont let anyone CARRY anything for you. Be urgent that you need to get care but are ok consciously. Ensure you have someone in the car who can drive you. Dont go overboard, and stay calm as to not draw too much attention. Have clothes in hand that you “intended to pay for” , maybe even offer to pay for an item you “accidentally” got blood on. (Most will just let you go). Apologize and look embarrassed. Do not smile unless trying to reassure someone. Have insurance if you’re gonna fuck something up on yourself. Honestly? I’d rather break my arm than face jail time or a criminal record. Remember what we do is CRIME and you must choose the lesser of two evils if it boils down.

And you better be a great gotdamn actor. Stay safe. Stay out of trouble.

Be trouble.

hey liftblr!

if you remember this post i made a little while back, you might be aware that i recently purchased a “faraday bag” meant for protecting your mobile phone/tablet (product linked here) from radio signals used to extract/plant data. my intent was to use it as a booster bag, and i figured i would give you all a little update on how that’s worked out for me, since a few people seem interested & i think it could help other lifters!

first things first, here are the dimensions of the bag:

(the bag itself, with a regular hook tag for scale)

(here it is when it’s folded—it’s about 1.5” thick. i fold it and usually shove it down the back of my jeans so it rests against my back. paired with a loose sweater over it, it’s actually pretty hard to spot.)

you can fit a REALLY decent amount of tags inside this thing, though it does get harder to fold the more are inside. i would estimate, while folded, it can comfortably fit 10-15 tags without getting too bulky. if you stuffed the thing with disregard for bulkiness, i’d approximate you could easily fit 40-50+ tags inside, maybe more. i got the tablet size* for 70 USD, and while it is pricey, i’m really pleased!

*they also sell a cell phone size for 50 USD, which is a good deal smaller, but i’m sure you could still fit a few tags inside, and it would also be easier to conceal on-person.

i’ve tested it at the following stores, and been able to pass through the entrance* (with tags inside) incident free:

- although not a store, it worked on my iphone, lol. putting it inside makes it unable for calls or texts to get through, and when you bring the phone out, there are a few seconds before the phone “pings” with a tower that you can see it still reads “no cellular service available.”

- forever 21

- pacsun

- lululemon

- sephora**

- urban outfitters

- h&m**

- aerie

- aeropostale

- victoria’s secret/PINK***

*while i can’t concretely verify that all these stores actually had towers/working towers at that, i know for certain that the towers at urban outfitters worked, as well as the ones at VS/PINK. i did my testing at a relatively upscale mall, so i would assume all stores would be adequately prepared with LP measures like working towers.

**i did not conceal tags directly from these stores, but the tags i had on my person from other stores did not create an incident at these places.

***this one is a bit of a special case. i walked into the VS side of the store with tags concealed in my booster bag and the towers did NOT go off—i know for a fact they were working, however, because a woman beeped on her way out (and subsequently, an SA searched her bag). however, upon leaving the PINK side of the store with tags from PINK/VS inside my bag, i did beep. more on this down below.

here are the types of tags i’ve found success with concealing in my bag & walking out with:

top left: clam tag from UO

top right: ink tag from F21/pacsun

bottom left: hook tag from lululemon

bottom right: hook tag from A&F

now, here are the tags that may have given me a problem:

i believe all of these are from VS/PINK, though i’m not entirely certain on the tag with the wire. these tags were the ones i added to my bag while inside of the VS/PINK, and subsequentially the ones that must have made me beep. upon entering a kate spade store with the same assortment of tags in my bag, i also beeped on both entry and exit.

my lifter friend (who was there at the time) and i tried to brainstorm reasons why these tags might have made me beep. note that we made sure i hadn’t left any tags/hidden RFIDs in my purse or on the merchandise i had concealed on my person. here’s what we were able to come up with (keep in mind that neither of us know jack shit about the science behind radio signals and whatnot):

- it’s possible that one or more of the tags in the picture above uses a frequency that was not blocked by the bag? i believe this would be possible if one of the tags used a radio frequency <600MHz or >5 GHZ. just gonna put it out there that i have no ideas what those numbers mean, but on the website, that‘s the range of frequencies the bag claims to block. the same case could be made with other kinds of signals the website lists that have some kind of range associated with them.

- again, just putting it out there that i have NO IDEA how radio signals or otherwise work, but maybe the amount of tags in my bag created a combined signal strength that overwhelmed the bag? i don’t even know if signals can do that, but if they can that might be an explanation. after i started beeping, we went back to my lifter friend’s car and ditched all of the tags inside the bag before continuing (cautiously) lifting. for the rest of the day, we were careful to ditch tags as frequently as possible to limit the number inside the bag, just in case this theory had any connection to why i beeped.

that’s all the information i can give you about my bag. overall, i’m SUPER pleased with how it’s working out for me—i’ve been able to steal upwards of $1300 worth of merchandise with it so far, so the cost of the bag was money well-spent. even with the rouge beep at VS, i would say i have confidence in the bag for use while lifting. although i do still have to stay vigilant whenever i pass through towers, you should ALWAYS be alert, booster bag or not, when you leave a store, and never assume that you won’t beep.

i hope this post could help some people out—and if anyone has some kind of knowledge that could concretely explain the beeping incident at VS/PINK, it would be much appreciated (for me, and anyone else who uses any kind of booster bag).

To make their return policy clear. They accept in store refunds or exchanges if you have a receipt even if you just don’t like your item and it’s opened. If you don’t have your receipt you can only exchange it for something of that value or receive a gift card.

So I did not know if they weighed their boxes (I don’t think they do) etc but I know their carrier (Hermes) takes photos as proof of delivery.

So ordered 4 items, around £35 worth of stuff. For this test I picked my most expensive item which was £20. I went onto my account on their page into the chat with an operator section and told them that the item i ordered didn’t arrive. After a few minutes they gave me an option to receive another one, and that’s now arriving in a few days so yay.

After browsing lifting blogs for a month or so I haven’t seen much info regarding lifting in the uk so I thought I’d make a post of all my experiences lifting in various shops as well as working in topshop previously

TOPSHOP -always someone placed at the entrance of the store (unless it’s a very small store with 3 SA’s) this is called ‘front cover’ and the job is to call back anyone who beeps and to pace up and down looking down into the shop also, to check for anyone suspicious. They have a radio on them and I’m not sure what the law/official rules are but we were told to ask to check customers bags if they beeped, regardless of if the bag was a topshop carrier bag or the customers own handbag. Our towers also detect magnets by flashing a blue light on the ceiling above the towers. We’re told to smile and say hi to customers including anyone we deem suspicious in order to scare off anyone intending to lift -THERE IS A ROLE CALLED ‘RED ROUTE’ this role is specifically for catching out lifters! The task is to walk a figure of 8 around the store touching a few items but mainly watching and observing the behaviour of customers. This person has a radio but is plain clothed, so no topshop staff lanyard. -recently stores around me ditched the number cards in the fitting rooms and instead counted your items (maximum 7/8) and walked you to the fitting room. We were told to remember faces and items, take jewellery or pants off you and return on your way out. Fitti rooms are checked every 15 minutes and ticked off on a sheet, taking note of hangers tags or stickers in each cubicle. A way to avoid over attentive staff in fitting rooms would be to conceal then detag in the fitting room ( although we were hot on double tagging, told to feel clothes for double tags when customers gave them back) or before closing the person on the fitting rooms is told to tidy the store near the fitting room, then it’d be easy to stroll in with your items -socks and makeup were never tagged or stickered when I worked here but I know this isn’t the case for bigger stores such as London. Jewellery have stickers on but are easy to hide behind your phone then just pick up another item that you don’t want and slip your phone and wanted item into your pocket. Same with wallet -bras are meant to be tagged but honestly due to laziness it’s quite rare -I’ve never see anyone lift even though it’s very certainly happened, we’re only told to keep an eye on suspicious looking people e.g chavvy looking people or big groups of girls -can’t think of any other tips ATM so ask any questions!

H&M -so lazy and unobservant, bras will be un tagged and I always find items of clothing not tagged -fitting rooms rarely manned-If no ones there I take some unwanted clothes in too and just come out with them and make a big deal of putting the unwanted clothes on their table when leaving the fitting room

PRIMARK -one of my favourites!! No tags whatsoever, busy SA’s, big stores and fitting rooms you can work around -they count your items at the fitting room and give you a numbered card, but don’t take the items from your hands or thoroughly check, when going in I normally pretend to slowly count like errrm then they count for me and always miscount as I have tops under tops on my arms. I then conceal these extra items in the fitting room -you can also walk in with say 6 items, conceal 2 in the fitting room and walk out with 4 messy items on your arm. The shop assistants don’t count your items on the way out, they don’t care like at topshop, just say they are good thanks then slip them back around the shop floor while browsing. Easy way to gain 2 pieces of clothing

PAPERCHASE -no cameras, 2/3 staff per store -friendly SA’s just say hello and browse

THE BODY SHOP -a few cameras covering pretty much the entire shop floor due to its open-ness, maybe ½ SA’s helping then 2 on the tills. Recently concealed when there was only 1 SA on the floor and she was busy helping someone, turned my back to the camera walking to look at something on a shelf

IKEA -only tried once messily and the security guard actually helped me out hahaha. Went in with my friend so she could buy her secret Santa, took a shopper bag and filled it with wanted items (was unsure if method would work so also concealed a few small bits in my own bag, plenty of blind spots and opportunities) and went to self checkout. My friend bought her items and I kind of just out the shopper bag on my shoulder while she was paying like I had already just bought it all and was waiting for her. Only problem is the shopper bags they give u to browse with are YELLOW and the bags you buy at the checkouts are BLUE. So on the way out he kind security guard told me I had the wrong bag and would need to buy a reusable bag for my items, went bag and bought one! Walk out method would work as busy and people buy so much stuff in there, next time I would take my blue reusable bag in and fill it up a bit but not so its bulky, then buy some candles and put them in my bag at the checkout. Like when you bring your own empty bags to the supermarket to save the world lol.

TESCO/ASDA -similar to ikea, I can conceal on the shop floor by putting my own bag in the trolley with my food and items, occasionally putting small things in my own bag -I also conceal at self checkout, paying for a few items then bagging the rest -cameras down most Aisles but I either conceal when turning a corner or walking down an aisle with my back to a camera

RIVER ISLAND -very strict and observant -only attempted small jewellery behind my phone or in my palm

BOOTS -notorious for teenage shop lifters, they involve police -some higher priced makeup sticker tagged

hey!

i’m from the uk where we don’t really have thrift stores, we only have charity shops where all profits go to charity (so in the uk, no it’s not alright), but i really don’t know enough about us thrift stores to comment.

if any of my followers wanna answer this then pls do, but personally i’d say if you want something from a thrift store maybe try boosting lifted goods or returning items etc. and using that money to buy it rather than lift?