📚 Barnes and Nob.le Tips 📚
!! disclaimer: these are what have worked for me, i say try this after a little bit of lifting experience !!
☁️ okay so, here are some tiny rules for this (and in general for lifting): ☁️
- if they see you carrying a whole bunch of books around the store, they’ll keep their eye on you. stores want to make their daily goal and depending on the location, the b&n may have more attentative employees.
🌱 grab some books you may not want
- this is best if you conceal on the floor instead of the cafe, because they might see you w/ like 4 books but suddenly 0? have like 2 you’re not gonna get and put them back where they belong and leave.
- from the tips ive received any book that is above $40 dollars, is hardcover, or in the medical section, all have rfid tags embedded in them. do not attempt!!! for paperbacks, “read” through them. you might find a rfid sticker in there, just peel it out. you’ll find these more in manga, but always check!!
☁️ now time for blindspot and concealing tips!!: ☁️
- in my opinion the best place to conceal is inside the b&n cafe, you find a table not too close to the cafe register and place your bag and books on the table. then what i do is take out my wallet (leave my bag open), head to the register and order some food, a snack, or a drink. get my receipt and go back to my table. i then put my wallet on one of the books, hold it together and put it in my purse.
- while eating you can read through the books, making sure there’s no rfids, and slowly put them in your purse or shopping bag.
- what ive done once is ask my partner or friend to call me and i fake having to rush and leave, so i stuff the books in my bag and leave while on the phone w them (do this after checking for rfids)
- find your blindspots!! this is a known rule here but it bears repeating, find your blindspots!!! if you’re going to conceal in an aisle, make sure theres no cameras above you or infront of you (there’s bookshelf cameras!!)
- i like to conceal while sitting on the mini sofas because your purse is in your lap and its a quick sleight of hand to put the book in it. find a chair/sofa in a blindspot!!
- and i see teens do this a lot, sit on the floor in the aisles and “read”, its so common to see that at b&n that some SA’s wont bat their eye
- this has its own part because the kids section at b&n usually doesnt have cameras, but they do have: at least one SA walking around (and the kids section isn’t exactly the biggest), and parents and kids who might be able to see you conceal. so be careful here
i haven’t lifted stationary and accessories at b&n yet so please feel free to add more to this!!! and if i missed anything or was wrong in some of these add that too!!! i hope this helps some of y’all!!! 💓💓💓
