Beyond just basic lifting tips I can let you in on some observations I’ve made about my stores. 

There is normally an SA stationed right by the entrance. All SA’s communicate through head sets. Lots of the novelty items like instax mini’s have spider wraps on them. UO has totes for things, I would suggest using them to your advantage. My UO’s only have camera’s in the sale section. I like to conceal in home goods because it has the most displays to block me from someone’s line of sight. 

Based on things I have read on hear, some stores have magnet detectors but I have never gotten weird vibes in mine when I walk in with my magnet. So use your judgement and feel out the situation. 

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I worked at Urban Outfitters for 6 months so I’ve got all the info you need on lifting from there. 

Usually I would say “no” to stealing, but I fucking hate this company with all of my being because of the CEO and the sexist/racist/ablist/body shaming shit they sold in the past, not to mention the “vintage fake blood splatter sweater” from a university that had a school shooting. Completely fucked up. Also, they steal independent artist’s designs and put them on their clothes. Do some research on this awful company and the CEO’s strategic intentions selling “pro LBGT+” merchandise, but being anti-gay to take the money from the people he hates. Read up on that here. Their “eat less’ shirt blew my mind. Below is a list of links that will take you to sites exposing all the shit they’ve done.

18 Reasons Why Urban Outfitters Is The Worst (Buzzfeed)

“UO can suck my clitoris” blog post

Why Urban Outfitters Won’t Stop Offending People (TIME Magazine)

14 Urban Outfitters Controversies (The Week Magazine)

A Timeline of the Most Offensive Urban Outfitters Offenses (Styleite Website)

8 Worst Things UO Has Done (Alternet Website)

Ripping Off Artist’s Design (Huffington Post)

Urban Outfitters Stealing Work From Independent Designers AGAIN (Village Voice website)

A mega company like this makes billions, so what does it matter that you stole $500 worth of over-priced clothes that fall apart anyway? My store made $19k average per day. ANYWAY…on to the tips. (:

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My store had zero cameras. Some have them in the sales section or at the registers, but that’s it. Our number one goal (other than guest satisfaction) is loss prevention. We are very strictly trained on LP and get quizzed about it occasionally when working. Managers will pop up and ask an LP question and expect the correct answer because of how well we were trained. 

Best Time To Go: When it’s busy. Duh. If the fitting room has a line, you it’ll be so much easier to get away with your untagging and bag stuffing/clothes switch outs. Winter break is crazy. Summer can either be super slow or to the extreme crazy. My store is in one of the post popular tourist spots in the USA. Tour groups from Brazil practically filled the store during the summer. There was so much going on that we were always running around getting things for people in backstroke or different sizes that LP was so much harder to keep up with.

Tags: All soft tags have sensors IN them. Bend them multiple times in different places and make a half rip down the middle so it’s still connected, but ripped. We have hard tags (magnet censors) on almost all of our clothes except panties. Sunglasses are the easiest things ever. Just slip them out of their paper hangers and drop them in your bag when no SAs are nearby. 

Fitting Rooms and Leaving Fitting Rooms: Sneak some tagged stuff in your purse before going into the fitting room. Bring an empty coffee cup into your fitting room. One that isn’t see through. (A starbucks hot cup.) Use really strong magnets to take them off and put them in the cup. Always have a fuck ton of stuff in the bags given to you at the front of the store. They’ll let you in with 6 items (sometimes 10 if they feel like it), so if you have a bag full of stuff, they’ll count it, but leave it on the back of your door so you can switch clothes out after trying them on. When you decide what you want, manage to put the stuff with tags on that you slipped into your purse earlier into the store bag as you come out with your handful or bumbled clothes and the clothes you want without the tags in your purse. DO NOT LEAVE ANY CENSORS OR TAGS IN THE FITTING ROOMS. EVER. WE CHECK AFTER EVERY CUSTOMER LEAVES THEIR ROOM. Over, under, and around mirrors and we check under the seats. Every. single. time. MAKE SURE THAT YOU GIVE THEM BACK THE NUMBER OF CLOTHES THEY COUNTED AND MAKE SURE IT’S IN THE BAG WITH THE HANGERS SHUFFLED AROUND A BIT. And be the shitty customer that leaves a few hangers in the fitting room. Or give them back a certain number and say you’re “taking these 4″ or whatever. Just put those four or however many on a rack in the sales section and put your coffee in a trash can in the store (if any) as long as it isn’t near the register. If there’s no trash cans, go to the home section, crutch down to look at something on a lower shelve, and shove it in the back. 

Exiting/Bag Checking: Leave immediately. If the censors go off, keep walking and don’t look back. They can’t chase after you. They’ll call the mall security and give them a description to look for you, so I’d suggest just leaving the mall if any of this happens. UO is NOT ALLOWED to look in your bag if you say no. If they insist, tell them that they aren’t allowed by policy and leave before they call a manager over. Usually, when the censors go off, a manager comes over really quickly regardless. So be quick about it. Most people aren’t really smart about that stuff, so they don’t say no to bag checking and they get caught. 

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With this method, you will be successful! Be very careful and chill about it. I would catch 3 people lifting per week, average. LP is top priority with this company, so be smart and extra careful. They watch guests like hawks!

A blonde and a lawyer are seated next to each other on a flight from LA to NY.

The lawyer asks if she would like to play a fun game? The blonde, tired, just wants to take a nap, politely declines and rolls over to the window to catch a few winks. The lawyer persists and explains that the game is easy and a lot of fun.

He explains, “I ask you a question, and if you don’t know the answer, you pay me $5.00, and vice versa.”

Again, she declines and tries to get some sleep. The lawyer, now agitated, says, “Okay, if you don’t know the answer you pay me $5.00, and if I don’t know the answer, I will pay you $500.00.”

This catches the blonde’s attention and, figuring there will be no end to this torment unless she plays, agrees to the game. The lawyer asks the first question. “What’s the distance from the earth to the moon?”

The blonde doesn’t say a word, reaches into her purse, pulls out a $5.00 bill and hands it to the lawyer. “Okay” says the lawyer, “your turn.”

She asks the lawyer, “What goes up a hill with three legs and comes down with four legs?” The lawyer, puzzled, takes out his laptop computer and searches all his references, no answer. He taps into the air phone with his modem and searches the net and the library of congress, no answer. Frustrated, he sends e-mails to all his friends and coworkers, to no avail.

I’ve posted this a bunch of times but I don’t mind reposting it because I’d rather get 100 of the same question than have anyone get caught.

1. Always scope stores out because it really pays off. - while scoping a store check for cameras without being obvious, check if the change rooms are monitored or not, also check if the SA’s leave you alone after greeting you or if they are up your ass, find your blind spots

2. Start out small. Don’t try and lift 1028283737$ in cosmetics from sephora on your first try. If you are starting out with sephora only lift like a lipstick or something small and gradually move up

3. If you think you are being followed by LP or if you think they are onto you, drop everything and leave. It’s better to get out with nothing than to have a criminal record.

4. I like to make a route, lists, and a time frame all in my notes for a store so I know exactly what I’m doing and how long I will be. This helps because if you blank and forget where everything is or if you get super nervous you have a guide. It also helps because you can be quicker

5. Be a bad bitch

Ok guys here is the low down on Shoppers. My sissy works in one in a small town outside of Edmonton so hopefully this can help you guys out! This info might vary from store to store though! Be careful!

- The security cameras are rarely being watched. If they have you concealing on camera they will take a screenshot of the footage and post it in the back room for employees to see and make note of who to watch for. They also have actual pictures of some of the people from facebook and social media!!! (be very careful about your identity guys) My sister said they have about 8 peoples pictures. 

- They tag a lot of their stuff so be careful and make sure you de-tag well

- The employees are told that they must physically see someone conceal something in order to confront you about it. So, if SA’s are watching you like a hawk put down all your goodies and leave. Any SA can confront you, however if an SA is too scared they can go get someone else. SA’s are told that their safety comes first. 

- They only have in house LP in the busy stores. 

If you have any other questions just ask me and I can ask my sister!