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has anyone ever been in a shop and the shop assisstant has followed you around constantly from when you walked in to when you left.
take today, for instance, i was out with my mother and we went into savers. i then went off to look at something and queue shop assistant. she followed me around and when i was looking for something she was getting ready to catch me in the act of shoplifting.
i had absolutely no intention of stealing, but because i'm a teen i obviously want to steal some hair dye etc
has this happened to anyone else?
has anyone ever been in a shop and the shop assisstant has followed you around constantly from when you walked in to when you left.
take today, for instance, i was out with my mother and we went into savers. i then went off to look at something and queue shop assistant. she followed me around and when i was looking for something she was getting ready to catch me in the act of shoplifting.
i had absolutely no intention of stealing, but because i'm a teen i obviously want to steal some hair dye etc
has this happened to anyone else?
It happens to my mum a lot, in any clothes store and she doesn't look like she is going to steal stuff but she gets followed all.. she gets really annoyed and reports them...
it just put me on edge- i couldn't actually pick anything up without the shop assistant getting ready to pounce- did you know that under 16s aren't allowed in savers without their parents?
alkalinetrio
25-10-2005, 17:50
i love pretending to go up close to stuff if someones watching me and pretending to put something in my jacket it haha it confuses them
i get that! they think im gonna slip summin on my pushchair!
Emma-Lou
25-10-2005, 18:18
I get that but my friend gets it all the time when she goes into Boots she has even been chucked out before and she did not even tuch anything.Also another friend of my got chucked out of HMV for just looking at a CD it really annoys me :angry:
xXxJessxXx
25-10-2005, 19:00
it just put me on edge- i couldn't actually pick anything up without the shop assistant getting ready to pounce- did you know that under 16s aren't allowed in savers without their parents?
I know what you mean. i hate it when people start to follow you around shops and stuff and stare at you. its like i have some big sign on my back saying shoplifter. thing is i would dream of doing it. i'd propably too scared! lol. in some cases ive though stuff this im going out of here if they keep looking at me and following me, which at the end of the day isnt gogin to do them any favours. i dont mind where i buy my stuff form i will just go to another shop. i know they are trying to cut down on shoplifting but scaring customers away isnt the way to do it. easpecially i find it more beacuse i'm only 16.
its happend to me a lot in boots. ive been chucked out before for my mates using hairbrushes and make up in there testing them out. which i suppose i can understand as later someone else might ant to buy that stuff but i think its stupid when im only going in there for a look or just genuinally wanted to buy somethign but im being scared off. lol. it actually makes me lagh sometimes (When im not annoyed) beacuse i'll just go into another shop and buy the stuff in there where i can actually go about without people looking at me. lol
That always happens to me, because when i'm shopping i tend to buy laods, so have loads of bags, which i guess them thinki'm going to stick stuff into. Its so irritating, they stereotype everyone.
its happend to me a lot in boots. ive been chucked out before for my mates using hairbrushes and make up in there testing them out. which i suppose i can understand as later someone else might ant to buy that stuff but i think its stupid when im only going in there for a look or just genuinally wanted to buy somethign but im being scared off. lol. it actually makes me lagh sometimes (When im not annoyed) beacuse i'll just go into another shop and buy the stuff in there where i can actually go about without people looking at me. lol
i've never had a problem in boots.
it just put me on edge- i couldn't actually pick anything up without the shop assistant getting ready to pounce- did you know that under 16s aren't allowed in savers without their parents?
I always go in savers by myself. This shop assistant was following a group of teenagers around when I went in, but that's because they hadn't bought anything and at one point they were stting down talking! She said to me that I didn't have to worry, I looked respectable!
I hate it when people eye you up as if you are going to take something. Teenagers get no respect normally. Its like we are all bad. It drives me insane
xXxJessxXx
25-10-2005, 20:52
I hate it when people eye you up as if you are going to take something. Teenagers get no respect normally. Its like we are all bad. It drives me insane
i know i gets on my nevers. and the one thing i alwasy here adults say is repect your elders! it annoys me when people say that because its like kids or teens dont matter, they're just slaves and people stereotype us all the time. its gets a bit annoying.
i know some teens are a bit mischeivious and intimidating and toruble makers but that doesnt mean we all are.
.:SpIcYsPy:.
25-10-2005, 20:55
Once me and my was looking in this hat shop, she was trying on the hats.. which is perfectly allowed as everyone else was. She tried it on and put it back and she was about to pick another one to try on and the lady goes put that hat back please. Don't try them.. well hello you can't but a hat without trying it on. Stupid fish!! We gave her dirty looks as we went.. not once but twice..
i got accused of shop lifting in woolworths once.my son picked a disposible camera up which i put back on the shelf and then carried on shopping,i bought my things and was just about to leave and walk out the door when the security guard asked to look in my bags as he believes i had stolen the camera! i had to show him my receipt and he rummaged through my bags in front of everyone like i was a common thief!
he found nothing of course and i went home and told my other half what had happened,he went ballistic and we drove back in to town where he demanded to see the manager who couldnt apologise eniough and gave me vouchers as way of a apology,he called in the security guard who was made to apologise!
idiots! :angry:
.:SpIcYsPy:.
25-10-2005, 21:14
o0o0o your other half is great!! Go chance's hubby!! :D
i got accused of shop lifting in woolworths once.my son picked a disposible camera up which i put back on the shelf and then carried on shopping,i bought my things and was just about to leave and walk out the door when the security guard asked to look in my bags as he believes i had stolen the camera! i had to show him my receipt and he rummaged through my bags in front of everyone like i was a common thief!
he found nothing of course and i went home and told my other half what had happened,he went ballistic and we drove back in to town where he demanded to see the manager who couldnt apologise eniough and gave me vouchers as way of a apology,he called in the security guard who was made to apologise!
idiots! :angry:
good on him, dave would have done the same, he used to be a security guard and they have to be almost 100% certain that oyu knicked something before going through your bags!! and they not supposed to do it in front of everyone!!
$sTaCeY$
25-10-2005, 22:18
I hate it when the shop assistant follows you around in the shop, I had that happen to me once, it makes you feel like you can not be trusted in any shops! I would never steal anything from a shop and i do not look like the thieving kind :angry:
Most teenagers just get completely ignored or treated like criminals. In shop quesues adults always try to push in front of me, I'm like 'hello I'm here' and then you go into other shops and are flollowed around constantly. Spicy that woman sounds well mean. How can you buy a hat without trying it on. IF you'd been adults she probably wouldn't have said anything.
xxx
o0o0o your other half is great!! Go chance's hubby!! :Dhes embarressing at times though,he was going to go and grab the security guy himself and sort him but thankfully we couldnt see him on the shop floor,even though the guy would have deserved it.my other half takes no s**t from nobody.
good on him, dave would have done the same, he used to be a security guard and they have to be almost 100% certain that oyu knicked something before going through your bags!! and they not supposed to do it in front of everyone!!
think its because he saw me on my own and thought i was a single cash strapped young mother.if hed of only watched me by the till he would have seen i spent over £100 that day,thats what made even more so annoying.
.:SpIcYsPy:.
26-10-2005, 09:51
hes embarressing at times though,he was going to go and grab the security guy himself and sort him but thankfully we couldnt see him on the shop floor,even though the guy would have deserved it.my other half takes no s**t from nobody.
Ouch lol!! :rotfl:
that has happned to me a few times
i hate it when im followed around! dave always laughs at the store guards as they always so weedy looking!!
xsoftladybugx
26-10-2005, 16:34
They follow me around all the time.. I just stare at them end in the end it winds me up sooo much :angry:
Most teenagers just get completely ignored or treated like criminals. In shop quesues adults always try to push in front of me, I'm like 'hello I'm here' and then you go into other shops and are flollowed around constantly. Spicy that woman sounds well mean. How can you buy a hat without trying it on. IF you'd been adults she probably wouldn't have said anything.
xxx
thats happened to me before... i just make sure i can push forward before they get to!
Today one of those car parking attendants was coming and our car didn't have a ticket. I jumped out of the car and raced towards the machine. This woman was walking towards it and she was close but not at the machine, so I raced in front (please note she wasn't actually at the machine just near it) and got my ticket. when I turned around she went "you're a very rude girl" I thought, you weren't at the machine and we're about to get a ticket, I think I have a right to run. If I'd ben an adult she wouldn't have said anything. NO RESPECT FOR TEENAGERS!
xxx
omg. let me guess she was old (not being ageist, but they love to complain about teenagers in our area). all we ever get is lectures on the pavement from older people. even if we aren't doing anything wrong
She wasn't very old, but still quite old (I'm bad at age). It is always the older people that complain in our area. They complained about a McDonalds opening, so it didn't happen. Our town has no fast food resturants or cool clothes shops. The only Cd shop is woolies and teen clothes shop, Peacocks. It's horrible and it's all because older people complain
xxx
omg. where do you live? it isn't that bad here
I live in the midlands in one of the small towns. It is terrible. Maybe that's why we get followed around shops in my town, because it's not a children friendly place!
xxx
yeah, maybe thats why. and maybe thats the case in cheadle aswell- in stockport they don't bat an eye in savers, but in cheadle, lots of older people go there, and its young people argh! they want to steal everything
It's not just teenagers. I've got bright red hair wich is security guard code for "she's a shoplifter" Annoys the $#!t out of me especially when i'm with my son. It's embarrasing more than anything
that must be annoying.
i went into another savers today and they didn't have the no under 16s sign up.... strange
Emma-Lou
27-10-2005, 18:09
I have been into savers without an adult and they didn't mind.I hate the fact that they think all teenagers want to steal things most of us don't and its not like adults don't steal stuff so why just follow the teenagers,ok if someone looks suspicios but not people who are not doing anything wrong
It must be a policy with savers. went into the new store in hammersmith yesterday, and no under sixteens without parents. Plus I was followed around, so I kept picking things up and walking off the going back and putting it back on the shelf. the security guy thought I was mad and left me alone :rotfl:
lol!!!! there wasn't a sign in the stockport one though.... maybe they can't be bothered to put it up- theres hardly any staff in there anyway
.:SpIcYsPy:.
28-10-2005, 15:04
It must be a policy with savers. went into the new store in hammersmith yesterday, and no under sixteens without parents. Plus I was followed around, so I kept picking things up and walking off the going back and putting it back on the shelf. the security guy thought I was mad and left me alone :rotfl:
Lmao!! :rotfl:
i got accused of shop lifting in woolworths once.my son picked a disposible camera up which i put back on the shelf and then carried on shopping,i bought my things and was just about to leave and walk out the door when the security guard asked to look in my bags as he believes i had stolen the camera! i had to show him my receipt and he rummaged through my bags in front of everyone like i was a common thief!
he found nothing of course and i went home and told my other half what had happened,he went ballistic and we drove back in to town where he demanded to see the manager who couldnt apologise eniough and gave me vouchers as way of a apology,he called in the security guard who was made to apologise!
Chance do you know you can take a company to court for that?
I used to work as a security gaurd, and whilst being trained in london, part of the training was that unless you have watched the person for the total amount of time since they "alledgedly" took something, you can not do anything.
You are not allowed to stop them, and even if you do stop them you HAVE to wait untill they have left the shop.
If they walk round a corner and u are not literally behind them you can do nothing.
We had to take out private imdemnity insurance as security gaurds get sued (and lose) on a daily basis.
i got accused of shop lifting in woolworths once.my son picked a disposible camera up which i put back on the shelf and then carried on shopping,i bought my things and was just about to leave and walk out the door when the security guard asked to look in my bags as he believes i had stolen the camera! i had to show him my receipt and he rummaged through my bags in front of everyone like i was a common thief!
he found nothing of course and i went home and told my other half what had happened,he went ballistic and we drove back in to town where he demanded to see the manager who couldnt apologise eniough and gave me vouchers as way of a apology,he called in the security guard who was made to apologise!
Chance do you know you can take a company to court for that?
I used to work as a security gaurd, and whilst being trained in london, part of the training was that unless you have watched the person for the total amount of time since they "alledgedly" took something, you can not do anything.
You are not allowed to stop them, and even if you do stop them you HAVE to wait untill they have left the shop.
If they walk round a corner and u are not literally behind them you can do nothing.
We had to take out private imdemnity insurance as security gaurds get sued (and lose) on a daily basis.
it was ages ago though now
pookie1968uk
19-01-2006, 15:37
i am from the wirral, over the water from liverpool and have a merseyside accent. you wouldnt believe the times i or family or friends have been followed round shops as they think we are scousers and are going to rob their shop! unbelievable!! :angry:
that must be annoying.
i went into another savers today and they didn't have the no under 16s sign up.... strange
Why do they ban under sixteens? It's like we're not humans while we're teenagers.
pookie1968uk
19-01-2006, 16:19
Why do they ban under sixteens? It's like we're not humans while we're teenagers.
you must admit there are a lot of kids/teenagers who just go to the shopping cenrtes to mess around cause trouble. and also they try to keeps kids out the shops mid week to encourage them not to truant.
I've never been followed, the shop assistants just look at me in a funny way. Where I live, some shops have signs saying 'No more that 2 schoolchildren at a time unless accompanied by an adult. Also, the other week some man came to our door asking my Mum to sign this petition to stop a new bus shelter, saying that 'All the teenagers wreck the current one and cause disterbences.' I looked out of the window after he had gone and he must have known the area well because I noticed that he was only going to the houses in which teenagers lived.
you must admit there are a lot of kids/teenagers who just go to the shopping cenrtes to mess around cause trouble. and also they try to keeps kids out the shops mid week to encourage them not to truant.
Yeah, but there's also a lot of kids who care about their education, so as one of them, I feel like I'm being singled out for being a teenager.
being followed in shops sometimes happens to me A security guard once banned me and a mate from the co op saying we were stealing when they found we hadnt he was like well yor not coming back in as you drunk when we werent he just deliberatly wanted us to not go back tothe shop. i think its completly disgriminating against teens as not all teenagers are like that.
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