Thief Identified While Shopping at Store He Stole From

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Eric Lund
Apr 18, 2020 5:00 PM EDT

Be it a stroke of luck, or just the staff finally knowing who to look for, but their thief came back, probably to steal again. This time they were sort of prepared, kind of. What kind of idiot comes back to the same place he already stole from on camera? For a satisfying story of revenge, here's a guy who got sweet padlock revenge on a gym thief.

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    Text - O r/TalesFromRetail - Posted by u/Doctor_Stonks 3 days ago Guy who stole $2,000 worth of equipment from our store comes back to shop the same day we find out what he looked like. Long Hey, all! First time posting on here, so here we go. I work at a relatively new grocery store in a small town in Washington. We've only been open for around nine months now and our customer count has been going up recently, so it gets a bit harder to keep track of customers. I usually work as a cashier most
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    Text - So, in our stockroom, we have four handheld scanners on docks ready to use by employees and managers to check prices, print tags, etc. On Saint Patrick's day, we somehow lost two of them. These things are worth a LOT of money, and at first, we thought two managers had just misplaced them. For the past month, they've been trying to track them with the Tile trackers they put on each device, and they've always shown to be just outside, or even in our parking lot. The owners were obviously co
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    Text - 01: So, we just found out who took our handhelds. It turns out he just walked straight to the back and just took them off the docks and walked right back out. We're pretty sure you were on your break at that point, did you see him? (the break room is just inside of the stockroom, but there aren't any windows or anything besides a slim one-way window on the door) Me: I didn't see him, but he does look familiar... I'll keep an eye out for him. 02: if you see him, let us know. That's very va
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    Text - So, I'm going about my normal shift, I count in my till, I do some facing around the store since there are two cashiers up front, currently Then it happens. 15 minutes after I switch out registers with the opening cashier, THE GUY WALKS RIGHT IN AND GRABS A BASKET. At first, I didn't recognize him. Even on the picture, he just looked like any ordinary guy. Luckily, our front end manager has years of experience so she spotted him no problem. So she goes and "faces" the area he's in (acting
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    Text - Anyways a few minutes later he comes up with a full basket of goodies. As he's talking to me I hear the manager telling O2 he's in my line, and he's being rung up. I freeze for a second because I mean, I couldn't say anything. Luckily I had a mask on so he couldn't see my look of shock come across my face. Anyways, 02 comes up and is acting like he's helping me bag. Then he suddenly starts a conversation with him. (I'll put the customer as I for "thief") 02: Hey, have you gone in this sto
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    Text - 02: okay, cool, cool... Have you been here around March 17th? T: immediately starts acting nervous uh, not that I know of.. 02: alright... stops bagging hang on one second, I'll be right back. 02 went to the front office, I'm guessing to grab the printout they showed me earlier, and T's just sputtering. Suddenly, T just looks up, does a 180, and just starts walking out. In the middle of my transaction. I actually had to shut down my register so I didn't get a line going.
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    Text - SO, I then pull out my radio (the mic remote won't work, probably from the rain) and alert 02 he's trying to walk out, and he just Usain Bolts out the door after him, probably trying to ask him why he stole the handhelds, and then, as 02 is getting the guy's license plate, T TRIED TO RUN O2 OVER WITH HIS CAR!! Probably in view of the front surveillance camera! So the cops are called, charges were pressed, and now they know who he is (he's probably done this before, now that I think about
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    Text - Anyways, let's hope there's an end to that whole deal and we can get our two handhelds back, lol TL;DR: The same day we find out who stole our handhelds, the thief shows up and gets a dose of karma. Update: I forgot to mention that when he stole those handhelds, he did it with no hesitation, and Ilike he knew what he was doing. It was an insane breach of privacy, and no one even noticed..
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