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CW: (Child killing, Racism) Cops fired on a family car when called about someone shoplifting diapers.
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this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2026
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Fun fact, if you're attentive at Walmart you can minimize your risk for getting caught in a "price dispute".
The sensory experience of being there is awful. The basic-ass radio has tons of ads and is interrupted all the time by the intercom. If you hear "Code Spark" on the intercom it means they are slammed at the checkout aisles and it's probably easier to get away with stuff. This happens often during or right before/after rush hour. If you hear them calling one single specific associate with an obscure job (like "Stockman") to the place where you are or to the checkout you're headed to, that's a loss-prevention alert. Change your route or drop off the stuff in a random aisle.
The people they have as incognito security guards do not wear vests or nametags, but they pace around. There are usually 1 or 2 of them per store at a time. If you see someone without a cart or basket or merch, and you pass by them more than once, that's probably in-store security.
There are usually multiple places where you can check out, and according to company policy, the people at the door do not check anything that is already in a Walmart shopping bag.
If you wanted to get a good deal on diapers (or anything that doesn't fit in a shopping bag) it would be VERY easy to print out a barcode for a cheaper diaper box, slap it on, and scan that during checkout. A plausible receipt is your best defense. Their greeters are usually not canny enough (nor do they have time) to discern whether the code on the receipt is really the right one or not. And if they dispute something that you can claim is a line item on your receipt, be exasperated but polite and tell them you don't want to waste your time arguing, and walk out.
You do not hurt the store employees by taking things. The biggest night-and-day difference in lost merchandise translates to about a $0.05 per hour difference in their annual raise.
Save Money, Live Better. Shoplift.
One thing to add: if you can manage to project confidence you will almost never be questioned on your way out if you strike up a conversation with the greeter or a uniformed security guard on your way out. Unless you're being tailed like I'm the example above, of course.
I cannot possibly stress enough to anyone i talk to about these things the importance of your vibe. Many people, especially people raised in a strict home, operate under the assumption that society operates on a basis of rules, when in reality it operates far more on a basis of vibes, with the rules existing on top of that foundation as a way of codifying and modulating the vibes. If your vibes are good and you don't stick out to them, you'll just be a forgettable part of their expected boring work flow. I watch a guy on youtube who used to be a homeless addict, and he said this about blending in: most people want to believe what they see. So if you show them what they want to believe, that's what they'll see.
I think about this frequently when i think about mental illness, the mentally ill, etc. I frequently think of Robert Pirsig speaking about how insanity is viewed
In a way it's an admission of the speaker that they're unable to understand the thinking of the person they're seeing as insane. They feel their own confusion towards what the other thinks and call it the other person's insanity. I see it as people essentially saying "I do not understand you, and I don't respect you enough to try." Whereas the same person confronted by the same behaviors or thinking patterns in individuals they are socially conditioned to respect would be more likely to think of them as eccentric instead, just weird, but perhaps worth figuring out rather than pathologizing
Anyway I'm thinking about getting a haircut before i see a new doctor tomorrow for unrelated reasons, i should probably shave too
Interesting, thank you for this. Do you have a link to Pirsig's speech or do you know the title so I can look it up?
It's part of zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
Ooooh my dad kept suggesting I read that. Haven't picked it up yet
Good luck if you look even slightly out of the ordinary though.
So fuck me still wearing a mask
I have an outstanding shape, a musculoskeletal thing that often makes me walk funny, and I mask. Hopefully I help draw eyes away from those who need it
Lmao did this the other day. Went to the salad bar at a whole foods. Rang up a fat salad while weighing my wallet, had a beer in each of my inside jacket pockets. Smiled at the security guard and told him to have a good afternoon. Bam free lunch and a couple cold ones to go with it.
Hell yeah.
I like the ones where they have the option of paying for the hot food bar at the deli counter. Just walk out life i already paid
Yeah they don't have that at the place by me, but I also wanted to look innocuous paying and leaving since I had like $14 worth of craft beers in my coat too lol
Yeah idk i think i'm out of the game, cameras are getting too good and i wouldn't put them past being able to use AI to tell who's actively pocketing stuff soon if they can't do that accurately already
Me and my friends, we call it anarchist calisthenics. I walked out of a Wallyworld a few weeks ago with about $100 worth of stuff that I'd paid for, and when we got back to the car, we magically had $150 worth of stuff. God truly works in mysterious ways 🙏
It's always a cost-benefit analysis, and the benefits are moderate while the costs are high. It is not uncommon for a big box store to have 2% of their inventory lost to non-sales. As for AI, it misidentifies people more often than not, and you can always use a designated outfit, face-obscuring makeup to throw off the facial recognition, and a chip in your shoe to confound gait analysis.
Now if you appropriate hundreds of dollars at once, or thousands at the same store within a year, they have an incentive to catch you. But if it's piecemeal stuff, it's not worth their time.