How to deal with fitting room policies
Classified from easiest to trickiest.
Disclaimer : iâm not talking here about what will happen if they catch you, iâm talking about what employees and fitting room attendants usually do with your items.
- Unattended fitting roomsÂ
Unattended fitting rooms are Godâs gift to all lifters. No one to see you enter, no one to see you leave. Youâre hella free to do anything as long as you donât come in with 7 shirts and come back with 1.
- Unattended but monitored fitting rooms
Same as above, only difference is the entrance to the fitting rooms have cameras directly filming it. They might not be watched, but in case make sure your items look the same when you exit than when you entered, and donât look directly at the camera.
- Unattended but locked fitting rooms
If you need someone to open the room for you, but no one is actually around, conceal in the blindspot formed by the fitting room corridor and then call an employee. If thereâs a camera, conceal away from it.
- Fitting room attendants that donât count
Take roughly 7 items with you and only conceal one, or if you want to feel more secure double hang items, theyâre more likely to not be noticed.
- Fitting room attendants that count
You can either double hang (make it look flawless), conceal on the floor or lie about the number. I donât recommend that however if they double check your hangers, even discreetly.
- Employees that take items from you while counting
Donât even think about lying or dougle hanging here, better conceal on the floor. If the store is very busy, conceal a small shirt and use it as a decoy to conceal a bigger items that you brought on a hanger.
- Employees that take items from you while youâre still browsing
These are very annoying IMO, even if theyâre just doing their job afterall. Get them to start a room for you, conceal on the floor or slip some items inside the room while theyâre looking away.Â
The leftover rack technique
I didnât know where to put that one so here it is : stores often have a special rack for items you donât want anymore, casually located near the fitting rooms. I found 2 ways to use that to your advantage.
- When no one is watching, quickly grab some items from the rack and use them as decoys, and hand them back as if they were yours all along.
- When browsing, place some items you plan on lifting on the rack. Youâll get them later inside your room when dropping items you donât want. This requires that no employee is gonna empty the rack/ see you, but it works pretty well against attendants that take items from you when youâre still browsing.
Hope this helped, feel free to send me your own store fitting room policies so i can add them here/give more tips. Do not hesitate to correct me either if you think i said something wrong.