Fashion Merchandising Degrees

Did Al Bundy ever have to worry about people shoplifting shoes in the store he worked in?  As if smelly feet weren’t annoying enough shoe sales people have to worry about shoplifting.  Every day people are coming up with new ways to steal shoes.  Check out this list of the Top 10 Ways People Shoplift Shoes.

1. Exchange their old shoes for the new ones and wear them out the door.  This is the most common way people shoplift shoes.
2. Display grabbing where they grab two display shoes closest to the door and run out the door with them.  Then they take them to another store and complain that they got two right shoes.
3. Concealment is when a customer finds a pair of shoes that they want and wait until no one is looking and hide it on their person.
4. Stuffing a variation of concealment when the customer wears special clothes to allow them to hide a larger number of items.  One woman was caught with 17 pair of infant shoes in her bra.
5. Distraction used with two people, one person keeps the clerk busy while the other person takes the shoes they want.
6. Flooding involves a large group of people that all want helped at the same time and there aren’t enough sales people to watch all of them at the same time.  Whoever isn’t being helped/watched takes as many shoes as they can carry.
7. Find a friend and get him hired at the shoe store.  Then the friend looks the other way while you steal as many shoes as you want or the friend leaves the shoes in the dumpster for their friend to find.
8. Fake baby in a stroller.  The shoplifter hides the shoes under a baby blanket in the stroller and walks out the door.
9. Backroom sneak where the shoplifter asks to use the restroom and while in the back takes a pair of shoes from the back stock.
10. Split the pair, as many states won’t charge the shoplifter with a crime since they didn’t steal a complete pair of shoes and one shoe is considered to have no value they aren’t charged with a crime.

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