Ellie

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•never show your face

•have an entire blog dedicated to liftblr (having a normal blog for lifting endangers everyone)

• dont reblog outside the community

Some advice:

• dont give out your location (country is fine but county or state is a bit oof)

• probably shouldnt reblog stuff with 300+ likes, i try not to reblog stuff w more than 100 but sometimes i do oops

•You can pick the trash can (clothes hamper, storage container, anything that’ll fit what you want). Make sure it has a lid!! Just sit the lid on loosely so you don’t have to pry it off when you’re ready to stuff everything.

•Shop like normal and fill your basket until you have everything you want. If you’re getting multiple of something small (I do this for packets and cans of cat food), get a small container/tiny trashcan and put it in the front of the cart. Its normal to casually fill it up b/c it looks like you are conveniently buying it and now using it to keep everything organized in your cart. It’s so annoying to have to pick up handfuls of tiny things out of your basket while making sure no one is looking to put it into the trash can so this really helps!! All you have to do is dump it all into the trash can in one go. BUT, make sure that if whatever you have in the small container will make noise when dropped, place something that’ll lessen the noise (like a bag of nuggets lmaooo). You don’t want to make noise when filling it up! Then put the container back on the shelf ofc. Unless you want the container too, then you could just put the entire thing in the trash can. ☠️

•Find a area that isn’t busy and put all the items in the trash can now. I try to do this as fast as possible in an area with no cameras. But make sure you’re still listening closely for footsteps in case anyone is passing by.

•If you’re like me then you most likely will run out of space and have a few items left that won’t fit. I just take the L and put it on a shelf. I always buy at least one thing that’s cheap so I can have something to bag. I don’t know why but I feel like it’ll look sus to have nothing in your basket but a trash can. I swear people will judge me for not just taking it out the basket b/c a empty trash can weighs nothing.

•If you’re at a place that doesn’t check receipts, you don’t even have to worry about scanning it since self checkout can’t see in your basket. And you can’t “bag” a big trash can so it won’t look suspicious. But if you aren’t sure if they’ll be checking receipts (or just nervous if it’s the first time), you can pay for it or put a cheaper trash can tag on it so you’ll be good.

•Put on your Hercules costume b/c it’ll take some strength to pick the trash can out of the basket AND into your vehicle. I try to look casual but sometimes it’s so heavy that I’m sweating and struggling LMAOOO. The last time it was SO heavy that I literally thought I wouldn’t be able to get it out. I almost had a breakdown as I sat in my car staring at it 😂sooo if you’re weak asf (like me) that’s just a heads up. Maybe you have someone to help you but they have to know you 🏋️‍♀️ or will have some questions. ☠️

DISCLAIMER: This is a post I created for my own personal use that I'm now sharing to help others. This means that you may recognize some of this information from other posts (or your own!), because I like to compile and rephrase any information I find helpful. I don't list sources for everyone's safety, but that is in no way because I want to pass off some of this information as my own. Feel free to comment or message me if you think someone should be credited and I will gladly do so <3 Any additional info is always appreciated!

General Tips & Tricks:

Remember, no ID, no case. Avoid using your credit/debit card whenever possible, as they can ID you this way and case build. You can either pay with cash, load up a V1sa credit card, or don’t pay at all ;)

Park away from camera view in the parking lot.

Act like a normal shopper. Browse, look at prices, and don’t look around at other people.

Avoid looking at the doors if there is beeping, most normal people wouldn’t notice or pay attention.

Always do your research before hitting a store. Scope out the location ahead of time, check out the cameras in the parking lot and in the store, get an idea of how vigilant they are about checking receipts, find out when they’re the busiest, check for LP and security.

On weekdays when it’s slower some stores won’t have security, but will bring them in on the weekends. This is true for stores like Tom Finger and Kroh-ger.

Self Checkout:

Use reusable bags. Place the less expensive items/the ones you plan on actually paying for at the top of the bags. Scan those and “forget” the items at the bottom.

Bring a new looking receipt, or create a fake receipt of the items you’re taking (buy a receipt printer and print your shopping list using the store's template/format for receipts)

Create fake label stickers at home. Take a picture on your phone for barcodes and get a label sticker. Make your code for whatever dollar amount you want (like $1 each).

Scan things quickly and cover the barcode with your hand on “accident” when scanning. This is riskier because sometimes the camera or machine will catch this and stop your checkout process to replay video of you skipping an item (which is so embarrassing lmao).

Get a packet of dressing or gravy (which runs .30 to .50 cents) and hold it under the item you're scanning. This is also a little more on the riskier side just because an employee or cameras can physically see the price of the item scanned versus the item you’re holding.

If you’re satisfied with a nice self-given discount, it’s lower risk to tear the tag off a cheaper item similar to the one you’re getting. For example you can hold the barcode for a cheaper pillow against the actual tag for a more expensive pillow.

A good rule of thumb for self checkout is to act as quickly as possible. Your actions will be much harder to catch if you’re hard to keep up with. Don’t come off as frantic or worried though, just look like you’re busy and have someplace to be.

Place smaller items underneath cheaper bigger items or underneath the cart and “forget” to scan them at self checkout. This created very realistic plausible deniability. One good example is playing a pack of toilet paper on top of a dozen sheets of pimple patches or face masks. It’s not going to occur to anyone to look underneath such a big item.

Likewise, you can place smaller items into bigger items and buy that one bigger item. For example, buying a large plastic bin or laundry hamper and placing items inside. This is higher risk though, because you will have to conceal the smaller items on the floor. Finding blindspots can be difficult, and hidden cameras are a thing. If you are seen doing this, it will be obvious what you are attempting to do so be sure you are being tactful. This may also draw attention because this is a common and well known thing that people do, even if they are not experienced lifters.

To create more plausible deniability, wear earbuds/headphones and play music. If you're caught you can pretend you didn't hear that the scanner didn't beep on the item.

Pretend you’re shopping for 2 people and need to do 2 different orders. If you're caught trying to leave without paying for something, just say the rest of the items are for someone else. Scan them, take the L, and move on.

Buy bulk. If you have multiples of items, it's easier to make it less obvious you stole something. So if you have 5 bottles of the same soda and only scanned 3, it looks less suspicious than if you only had 1 and it never left your cart.

Body Concealing:

Go to the freezer section, as you are “looking for ice cream” have your bag of choice situated on the side of your body where the door is blocking you; the condensation should block your actions. The items you want to conceal should be in your hand, so then just drop it in. Make sure no one’s on your other side.

Get two meat packs and have them facing each other for easy concealment.

The makeup aisle is highly monitored, for the love of god don’t try to conceal until you’re in another section. Don’t get too much makeup at one time either, try to grab moderate amounts like someone spending their own money would.

Carside Pickup:

Tell them that you have store credit, most will never check and as long as it’s less than like $50 they’ll probably give it to you. It might be more believable if you say “last time I picked up you guys forgot to give me my “xyz”, and I didn’t want to come back to pick it up so you said you’d take the $10.99 (or whatever amount) off this order”. 

You most likely will not get ID'd at carside.

Walkouts:

Find a store with a Stardollars inside. Have a drink and have your bag already filled and leave after you’re finished. This works for smaller hauls, don’t attempt with a whole cart, it will be more obvious. To my knowledge, this is a well known method by employees so in some situations this might be higher risk.

Don’t stop if they ask you to. Wave them off (as if you couldn’t be bothered and you find them an inconvenience), pretend not to hear, quickly flash a receipt, etc.

Be patient and fight your window of opportunity. Don’t rush out, wait and see when no one is paying attention to the doors. 

You can have someone watch your back as you leave. Meaning, they can stay back to see if anyone notices and follow you out after or if it’s a high risk situation, they can block the exit with a shopping cart and tell you to run.

The best approach is to do walkouts when no one will notice. This means going when it’s busiest (the weekends, specifically Sunday afternoon) and at higher income areas where they will not be on high alert.

Do not double dip too often at the same stores, rotate the stores you hit unless you are going in disguise. The same logic applies with lifting anywhere, dress nice and blend in. Face masks are preferable. 

Some stores have shopping carts with wheels that will lock up for one of these two reasons: 

You attempt to leave without paying (meaning the wheels will lock at the store doors). This is meant to prevent theft known as “pushout” or “walkout” theft.

You can get around this by either walking out with a basket or reusable bags instead, or by going through the point of sale areas to deactivate the locking mechanism. Either walk through an empty cashier aisle so it appears you paid, or through self checkout.

You attempt to leave the premises. This is meant to prevent shopping carts from being taken off the lot, so unless you’re trying to steal the cart too or you parked far from the store it shouldn’t be an issue.

Usually there will be signs throughout the store notifying shoppers of this, or you can tell by looking at the carts’ wheels. There will be two out of the four wheels either on the front or the back that look different from the others, like there is some sort of clunky shield on them.

You can learn more about how this works at:

***This is a new idea I have not tested yet, but I will edit this portion of the post when I do. Wear a F@/vor or insta-nt-cart shirt/cap and bring the company bags to fill up (you can probably find these items online on eB@/y, etc). Routinely check your phone as you shop like you are collecting an order for a customer that already paid online. Walking out will raise less questions when you seem like a mere worker carrying out someone else’s order. That way you can also claim the items have already been paid for online if you are stopped. You could go as far as to have a fake item pulled up on the app or create a fake picture/screenshot.

Best places to go grocery shopping:

Trade Joey's (best for body concealing as there are few, if any, cameras)

Sproots

Worst places to go grocery shopping:

Fuckin’ T@/rget. I’d only attempt low risk methods if there’s something you REALLY want.

W@/m@/rt, unless you’re only occasionally skipping items at self checkout.

Kroh-ger. They’re known to case build.

Stores that have locking carts (this will not apply to every location):

@/di

W@/m@/rt

there’s been a lot of new/returning activity in the community, and though i’m somewhat new to DNAing myself, i thought i’d make a very basic overview, since i’ve seen a lot of lifters asking questions about it.

feel free to reblog with additions/your own experiences!

ik my blog is still very small, but if anyone can see this, its well worth it. Also this is somewhat common sense but whatever

Don’t start trying hard lifts until you have perfected your method.

I didn’t even take any tagged items/attempt detagging until i had been lifting for 7 months (still not long but oh well)

This is how antis find us.

lmaooo we've all been there😖

hmm, these are only my opinions (and some pet peeves), so they won't be one size fits all tips. but yeah

don't over-act and draw any attention - i've seen people make a big show out of checking their phone and having a loud fake phone conversation in order to seem natural in a store. i've also seen posts where the op recommends pretending that someone called you to say that a loved one got in a car accident so you can exclaim in horror and rush out of the store. or another post where someone wanted to see if the security towers worked so they "accidentally" took an item too close to the towers to set them off, then ran back into the store like 'omg sorry!!' like, most customers are quiet and minding their own business as they shop, so drawing attention to yourself will only make you memorable and sus imo. it seems to be a newbie thing to overdo the customer act out of nerves

acting too chummy with the SAs. where i live, shoppers are usually silent on their own and only interact with the SAs when approached or if they're having trouble finding something. if an SA greets you at the doorway (rare), they might get a smile or a mumbled hi, but not much more. if you're in a place like this then too much interaction is a bit sus, especially if your nerves make you chirpy. i had a newbie lifter friend who said 'hiiiii!!!!!' every time she entered a store near an SA and it ALWAYS got us sussed😭😭 btw this isn't to say don't be nice to the SAs, but there is such thing as acting too familiar. mimic the customers around you

i guess leaving packaging behind. this ties into the barcode thing, but every newbie lifter does it at some point. it's a red flag that your store has a thief, and we don't want to tip a store off to that

the art of casual lifting and misdirection. i worked at a topshop once and the number one red flag for spotting potential lifters was seeing someone touching merch with their hands but looking everywhere else. i get why ppl do this - when you're stuffing merch into your bag you don't want to be looking straight at it since that's a big tip off. but then you get into the habit of doing that while you're scoping the place out and it looks super sus. look at what your hands are examining like a shopper would, don't let those eyes wander so obviously. if your other hand is busy stuffing merch into your bag that's fine, but your eyes need to be fixed on the decoy merchandise for the misdirection to work

rfids, cut them down the middle to deactivate them. they've got that metal circle, right? they only work when the circle is complete, so slicing them down the middle will stop them from working. it's easy to remember that way imo, but newbies get paranoid and slice the shit out of them, which i totally get. but just breaking the circle will work just as well, and it's less time-consuming

booster bags don't keep magnet detectors from detecting magnets. booster bags work as faraday cages - they block electromagnetic signals from escaping, which is why they work on rfids and hard tags. but magnet detectors can sense magnetic signals, not electromagnetic, so a faraday cage won't shield your magnet from detection. neither will a metal box or burying the magnet in clothing - i don't think there's anything that will keep a magnet detector from sensing the magnetic signals. if you're scared of your magnet being detected, don't bring the magnet

also, magnet detectors are a lot rarer than you think. you won't find them everywhere. the way i used to measure it was 1/15 urban outfitters had them based on my own experiences😂 you can spot them pretty easily - they're slim glass towers installed alongside regular ones. if you accidentally go into a store that has them with your magnet, body conceal your magnet and leave after a brief time browsing to avoid looking sus. you can also enter and exit the store in a group if you know of the towers but want to use your magnet anyway. newbies seem very scared of these towers, which i get, but they're not common at all

you don't have to stop for an SA or LP at the doors. obviously this depends on your country's laws. i think newbies in particular become paralysed by fear and consent to a search when they don't have to. the authority that SAs and LP hold isn't as powerful as you think, and they don't have the lawful right to make you consent to a search. you could go full Karen to avoid this if you're old enough, but sometimes a simple "no" or "no thanks" will suffice. don't get sucked into an argument either, just refuse or ignore them and exit as fast as you can without running. again, leaving in a group is helpful for this since you can feign ignorance and leave without responding (don't make eye contact lol)

you can't physically lift items out of the reach of security towers. towers detect things an equal distance around the towers. if two towers are a metre apart, that is the extent of their reach all around, above, and below them. if the merch is a metre away from the towers at the entrance, that is the extent the towers can detect tag signals. just saying this bc i've seen newbies suggest putting tags/a magnet in their bun, or pretending to stretch as they exit the store with an item in their fist to avoid setting off the towers. that won't work sadly

don't over-explain yourself, it's a signifier of nerves. if an SA approaches you to see if you need help, a simple 'no thanks' or 'no thank you i'm just browsing' is fine. nip it in the bud and don't provide more detail than necessary. it feels curt when you're nervous but most customers don't want to chat imo

make sure not to react physically to things around you. if someone sets off the security towers while you're browsing don't look around, continue as you are. ignore people who walk by you, don't glance at everyone who comes your way. this is because LP know that lifters are twitchy so sometimes they'll set up nearby distractions to see if you're keeping an eye on your surroundings

i tried to do close ups of everything lol but these r kinda bad lol i am sorry

târget:

flamingo razor refills- $16

vital proteins apple cider vinegar- $15

good girl probiotics- $ 25

bybi eye plump- $19

sugar bear hair- $30

okay body wash x2- $16

revlon dryer brush- $56

shark wandvac- $120

mighty patch green (not pictured)- $13

blue mighty patch- $8

tree hut scrub- $7

dove dry spray x2- $14

quip smart electric toothbrush- $60

wet n wild eyeliner- $1

hairspray- $9

mascara- $9

hims- $30

brita- $30.50

bâth n bödy:

fragrance mist- $16.50

room freshener x3- $22.50

candle x3- $76.5

room spray x5- $42.50

fragrance mist- $15.50

rilêy röse:

boscia cleansing oil- $32

peripera airy ink- $16

lime crime lip liner- $16

winky lux dirty love- $15

winky lux call me- $16

venus mini palette x2- $76

blur face primer- $15

winky lux lip liner x2- $28

winky lux lipstick x2- $16

winky lux lipstick- $15

venus xl palette- $58

bliss butter- $5

facemasks x2- $10

facemasks x3- $24

clåirēs:

earrings x2- $18

earrings- $19

earrings x2- $16

earrings x2- $19

earrings- $13

victôriås sēcret:

underwear- $16.50

underwear x2- $21

tease perfume- $25

random lol:

calico critters set- $12

total: $1,182.50 🛍

PHEW i think i got it all, i was so happy for this haul my fave thing was the mini vac LOL

ray-ban ($157.30): full refund over email no investigation.

5.11 tactical ($176.76): full refund over email after 1-2 day investigation.

amazon ($259.36): full refund over chat no investigation for me but sometimes they will investigate.

nike ($773.98): full refund over chat, sometimes will do a 1-2 day investigation but I've always been refunded.

abercrombie & fitch ($1,179.50): full refund over chat, but also a hit or miss. sometimes I've been refused refunds from here so be careful.

urban outfitters ($105.44): full refund over chat but I had a tough time getting my refund and had to ask for it twice. I've seen some other people on here have success with it so it could've just been me.

free people ($125.67): full refund over chat. I don't remember if they investigate or not

victorias secret ($1,838.68): full refund over chat and never investigates me. soooo easy.

american eagle ($708.03): full refund over chat but I don't remember if they investigate or not. hit or miss but I've had the best luck on orders under $300.

The “I just shoved 85 pencils down my pants” haul

I went to a new Micheals today and my dumbass forgot my bag to conceal in so I had to work with concealing on body. I also noticed that the security in this micheals was fucking crazy. They had cams in almost every isle, towers and rfids on most things, and all the pencil or marker sets had the little cardboard thing that you had to bring to checkout for them to give it to you. All the markers were also locked up and I’m pretty sure there was a plainclothes lp. Has anyone else seen a Micheals with this much security cause all the other ones I’ve been to have been easy as fuck.