Alarm going off when walking out of a store

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I just saw this reply now Joe. Holy smokes, that's brutal considering you'd paid for it. I can imagine how confused and frightened you must have felt.

You're lucky about the instant karma when the shop went bankrupt.

Ironically, the day after I posted my story to you, my mother told me she'd seen a pair of "really comfy, leopard print pyjamas" in the same bloody store, and she wanted me to go get them for her.

Nope. Ain't gonna happen. I won't even go in there or shop online from them. They didn't even apologise to me after detaining me several hours with interrogation, searches, taking my ID, and refusing to let me show them where I'd left it.

I did custodial type stuff instead of ever working a register but more than a few times I've seen employees telling the customers to just go on if the store didn't have anybody stationed by the door to deal with that. I set the alarms off sometimes because I was bringing in a cart that had a tag in it or stuck to it, had a small amount of trash in my shirt pocket that I had picked up off the floor while moping, or a tag was on my shoe because I stepped on it. Noone ever cared about that. There were a few times when I set the alarm off when leaving after my shift & I had checked something out but it was no big deal except waiting for someone to deal with it. I cooperate if anybody ever tries to stop me when leaving because I know those employees are just trying to do their job & are likely more annoyed by the false alarms than I am. I never had a traumatic experience with those alarms or getting accused of theft thankfully. I think if I were to ever have an experience like Joe did where an employee chases after me & grabs my stuff & walks off, I would accuse the employee of robbing me & quickly threaten to call the cops on em. Taking something I just bought & taking off with it without giving me a chance to explain or even really react seems a lot like a they are stealing from me. If I were to grab something in a store & rush out of there without paying I could be in legal trouble from stealing from the store so an employee taking something from a customer who just paid & walked out seems like a giant double standard to me. I've been told more than a few times as a kid that I should be a lawyer when I grow up & similar stuff by adults who were very frustrated with me when I was explaining my side of a situation. Nobody wants to deal with me when I'm getting majorly screwed over & decide to stand up for myself instead of being passive & compliant.

They sometimes test people just to see their reaction.
If you had started running, *that* would be a sure giveaway.
Don't run.

I am serious, btw.
I am very good at body language and I am totally convinced they sometimes just test for a reaction.

Why did it happen to you twice in such a short period of time?
Bad luck, too many shoplifters around, faulty equipment, or you look like a thief.
Probably the last one.

I don't look like a thief. What does a thief actually look like anyway?

Isabella

In some countries, Wrongful Accusation is a really big deal in a courtroom..

However, the petitioner/plaintiff has to pay for a lawyer. Some lawyers charge 600 bucks an hour. Then you have to get subpoena to court. And take off work.

When two parties have a competition, the winner is determined by the one with the most resources (such as cash). Factual accuracy, logic, legality and morality have a smaller impact on the verdict, than resources.

Sometimes the verdict is not correct

A lot of times, someone wrongfully accused me of stealing something. But I had a receipt

This far, nobody has done to me, anything like, what your description says


If they did I would be in panic mode


I would not have been able to think or react clearly


Especially if there were a lot of them and just one of me

And if they were large intimidating men


Sometimes someone is just not worth the energy it takes to interact with them



They can get away with doing anything they want, legal or illegal. The only exception is if you win a civil lawsuit


Sometimes I wonder if my autistic demeanor makes me look like a shoplifter to them


Wearing a hood and slouching is what I usually do, but that might look suspicious


Sketchy


Also some autistics such as myself have an unusual walking gait, which might look suspicious


Anything could be misinterpreted


The security are often just doing their job


Sometimes they are not doing their job


Sometimes they are not just doing their job

I was joking.

Your very right about that. Here in the US businesses tend to have way more rights & freedoms than their individual customers do. They are exceptions thou & when I had orientation at my last job which was a sporting goods store that's a regional chain, they said how we need to tell management if we suspect a customer of theft & let management deal with it. They had a story about how management made a customer strip to his underwear because they were sure he was stealing something & noone could find it on him. They didn't go into more details but they were really wanting to avoid a repeat. I think management had some fallout to deal with from the guy or from corporate higher-ups.

An employee got fired for theft while I was employed there. He worked behind the case that had guns & knives & stuff & he was actually caught stealing a pair of handcuffs that were sold there. I don't really know why they sold handcuffs there but I find the irony hilarious I was off for a couple days when it happened but there was a lot of talk about it when I got back. The other employees who worked that area had suspected him of stealing knives & other small things but they didn't say anything cuz they didn't want to snitch. The employees had to line up when leaving that day & turn their pockets inside out. They had done that a couple days before as well & I was in that 1st line & management told me to just go without checking. I guess I'm too responsible in the workplace to be a thief suspect NOT that I'm complaining of corse