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Speaker 1: So, uh, yesterday I stopped off to go get some
Speaker 1: stuff at the store. And it's interesting because I saw
Speaker 1: a story over the weekend about how grocery stores are
Speaker 1: getting rid of self checkout, Like they're talking about the
Speaker 1: reason they're getting rid of this is and this is
Speaker 1: interesting because you know, you never seem to find anybody
Speaker 1: working at grocery stores that much anymore. But they're saying
Speaker 1: that they're getting a lot of theft because people are
Speaker 1: just leaving because the prices of things are so high.
Speaker 1: They're just like shoplifting. So they're talking about eliminating as
Speaker 1: many of the self checkouts, which is wild because I
Speaker 1: feel like everything got self automated over the last you know,
Speaker 1: five ten years. So I have a problem. I must
Speaker 1: look like a thief. And it's funny because I look
Speaker 1: at myself as a guy that doesn't seem like he
Speaker 1: would rob things. You look like that, like I look
Speaker 1: like I think I'm somewhat together. But also I look
Speaker 1: at thieves sometimes as being people that might.
Speaker 2: Be a little faster than me. I don't.
Speaker 1: I'm going a little faster. I'm a little slow. So
Speaker 1: I'm doing the self checkout. And when I self check out,
Speaker 1: I like to to fist the self checkout two hand.
Speaker 1: It I like to have if I had, like if
Speaker 1: I have groceries in my cart, I like to grab
Speaker 1: with two hands, you know, an item in each and
Speaker 1: I like to swipe, swipe, and then.
Speaker 2: Throw it into whatever the bags that we have there.
Speaker 1: And so I was doing this yesterday and the machine
Speaker 1: must have detected that I'm doing this, and the machine
Speaker 1: detected it to a point that they had the woman
Speaker 1: who was working the self checkout, and then a person
Speaker 1: that looked like they were actually security for the entire
Speaker 1: store that came over and they kept talking to me
Speaker 1: or kept hovering around me. And there's a lot of
Speaker 1: people at the store at this time, Like there wasn't
Speaker 1: one of those things where I was the only person
Speaker 1: in the store. There were a bunch of people that
Speaker 1: were there. They could have been talking or looking at anybody.
Speaker 1: So it got me to a point where I felt
Speaker 1: like they maybe they were trying to finger me and.
Speaker 2: Say that I was.
Speaker 1: None of you guys can get by. It used to
Speaker 1: be just Kevin nowas Anna too, trying to say that
Speaker 1: that's a term, a term that is a police officer term.
Speaker 3: At first, you're double fisted at the founder you're getting fingered, So.
Speaker 2: So I I.
Speaker 1: Kind of stopped for a second and I said, I
Speaker 1: swear to you guys, I'm not going to rob you,
Speaker 1: and they're like, oh no, no, that's okay.
Speaker 2: They keep on kind of like looking around.
Speaker 1: It got me thinking, who are these people that are
Speaker 1: shoplifting from the store, And have you ever shoplifted on purpose,
Speaker 1: like where you actually were robbing, And if you're a shoplifter,
Speaker 1: would you be willing to call us up? I promise
Speaker 1: you We're not going to trace your call or turn
Speaker 1: you in. I'm not going to do any of that
Speaker 1: because I want to. I want to just see how
Speaker 1: you're doing it. How do you shoplift and get away
Speaker 1: with it? What is it that you're stealing and what
Speaker 1: have you stolen? And how do you do it?
Speaker 4: And I think the self checkout I have never shoplifted.
Speaker 4: The self checkout does make it easy though if you
Speaker 4: think about it, We're like you could even do it,
Speaker 4: not double fisting with one hand and just put two
Speaker 4: things in and put them in the bag. Did you
Speaker 4: notice what Target did, like maybe a year ago where
Speaker 4: they have the cameras.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you which.
Speaker 4: Always makes me feel like I'm a thief even though
Speaker 4: I'm not, because I want to like really make sure
Speaker 4: they see me scan everything and put it in. But
Speaker 4: it like, I see how it is very easy for
Speaker 4: people to just take a few things here and there.
Speaker 1: Listen, there's a story this morning where home Depot and
Speaker 1: Lows are under fire.
Speaker 2: Are you gonna do that? In a dirty story.
Speaker 4: I'll do it yet.
Speaker 1: Oh there's so home depot and lows are on a
Speaker 1: lot of people are upset because they have license plate
Speaker 1: readers in their cars because they've had so much theft
Speaker 1: that they're saying, Hey, we don't care about your personal
Speaker 1: business or you feeling like you're being violated personally. We're
Speaker 1: having people rip us off and we want to see
Speaker 1: who's going into each car, and they track your license
Speaker 1: plates and what are you.
Speaker 2: Taking from home?
Speaker 3: Deep on and lows that you can just take out
Speaker 3: the store, drywall, toilets, walk out.
Speaker 2: I mean people steal anything from anywhere.
Speaker 3: There was a guy that I knew, I don't know
Speaker 3: who he was when I was younger, stole a jacket
Speaker 3: out of a Myers and it was a high time
Speaker 3: in their life. It was crazy things happening, and they
Speaker 3: put on like one of those camouflage jackets and just
Speaker 3: walked right out the store.
Speaker 1: Oh so they actually put the actual jacket they were stealing.
Speaker 1: You didn't have a tag or anything.
Speaker 2: I guess it didn't.
Speaker 4: I think a lot of those stores. I used to
Speaker 4: have so many friends in college who worked in retail,
Speaker 4: and one of my girlfriends worked a girl in our
Speaker 4: hallway worked at Express, and she was like, they have
Speaker 4: the things, so it looks like if you walk out,
Speaker 4: it will make a noise, but they really are never on.
Speaker 4: So then another girl in our hallway, another one of
Speaker 4: my friends, went into that same Express one time, went
Speaker 4: in the dressing room, put a bunch of stuff on
Speaker 4: underneath her normal clothes and just walks out.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 1: Crazy, Hannah, tell us about your shoplifting experience.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Good.
Speaker 6: Morning, first time caller. So, I personally did not shoplift,
Speaker 6: but when I was in college, all of my sorority
Speaker 6: sisters shoplifted like all the time from like walm Art
Speaker 6: and Target and stuff whenever we would go. And what
Speaker 6: they would do is they would always like like get
Speaker 6: two of an item or multiple of items, and it
Speaker 6: would stack them when you did the self checkout and
Speaker 6: just scan the ones. So like like pizza boxes or something,
Speaker 6: they would get like three pizzas, but they would stack
Speaker 6: them together and just scan the bottom of the one piece.
Speaker 2: But doesn't it waits.
Speaker 4: Oh really, not the scale, but like where the bags are,
Speaker 4: because it knows if you haven't put something in.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you're saying this was like before that though, because
Speaker 6: I know that at like Walmart, like it didn't used
Speaker 6: to do that. I don't. It's probably because of people.
Speaker 2: Like that, Hannah, stop lying. Everybody stole except for you.
Speaker 7: I swear it was not me.
Speaker 1: Uh initial d on with us right now we're talking
Speaker 1: about shoplifting.
Speaker 2: What's going on? Hi, guys, what's up?
Speaker 8: So really quickly, I don't do it anymore because I'm
Speaker 8: a changed person, and you know I'm better than that.
Speaker 8: But my baby was smaller and he used to sit
Speaker 8: in front of a car. I used to put stuff
Speaker 8: behind him. And now that he's a little older, he'll
Speaker 8: be going to grade school. Now he's like, Mama, you
Speaker 8: forgot this.
Speaker 6: You forgot this.
Speaker 8: I'm like, oh my god.
Speaker 2: So he does it.
Speaker 1: You're saying, no, she doesn't, come on, No, he's holding
Speaker 1: her accomments.
Speaker 8: She was okay, understood, Hey mama, you have this behind.
Speaker 1: Me in d were you what were you stealing? What
Speaker 1: were you what were some of the things?
Speaker 8: You know, listen so hard. It's like the six dollars
Speaker 8: carry gold butter or just yeah, you know, just the
Speaker 8: random stuff.
Speaker 1: It's not honestly, I got to tell you, like I
Speaker 1: I'm not going to pass judgment. I said I wasn't
Speaker 1: gonna pas judgement, but I will definitely not pass judgment
Speaker 1: if I see a mom stealing formula or stealing medical
Speaker 1: stuff like like, I don't obviously, I don't want to
Speaker 1: see that happen. I'd almost rather you say, hey, I
Speaker 1: don't have the money because there's somebody that can help
Speaker 1: me with this one. But that'd be embarrassing, you know,
Speaker 1: for many to do. But I ain't gonna lie. You go, girl,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you if you're stealing something, but
Speaker 1: I I know that it sounds bad to do this,
Speaker 1: but uh to say.
Speaker 2: What what you're doing?
Speaker 3: But if you got kids and you can't afford it
Speaker 3: and d ain't change her son just got older.
Speaker 1: Now she's stealing bigger things too old? Eat Tiffany, what
Speaker 1: did what did you steal?
Speaker 7: Diapers?
Speaker 5: And food?
Speaker 7: Because food is so expensive. I go to my er
Speaker 7: with my niece all the time. I mean, I'm buying stuff.
Speaker 7: I buy a lot of stuff, but it's just so
Speaker 7: easy to do it. And my niece always puts the
Speaker 7: diapers on the bottom of the cart. They don't even
Speaker 7: say anything to her.
Speaker 4: Wow, oh like underneath h what about the food though
Speaker 4: the cart?
Speaker 9: I thought I heard, like, steal a certain amount of
Speaker 9: money before they actually come after you.
Speaker 1: Stores know that before they press charges, they'll stop you,
Speaker 1: but they'll bang you from the store.
Speaker 2: How would you steal food?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Uh, it's it's so easy. Like you can scan one
Speaker 7: pack and like okay, let's say taco shells. You put
Speaker 7: them together, scan one and you got like two. You
Speaker 7: know what I'm saying, Scan one, buy one. I do.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I get nervous though, but my knee. She has no
Speaker 7: shame in her game. Man. She has twin boys and
Speaker 7: it's hard for her to work. She has no one
Speaker 7: to watch the kids, so she has to go in
Speaker 7: there and steal diapers and food for them sometimes.
Speaker 1: And it makes me so sad. It makes me really
Speaker 1: really sad.
Speaker 7: I know it is. And like sometimes I you know,
Speaker 7: I'll if we have money, we buy them. But if
Speaker 7: you don't have money, what are you gonna do? You know?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Kay on with us this morning. God, this is
Speaker 1: a depressing topic here. Look at all these people for stealing.
Speaker 1: Although I am taking notes.
Speaker 2: What's going on? Kay? How you doing?
Speaker 7: Hi?
Speaker 3: I'm good?
Speaker 4: Oh first time, long time?
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Talking about shoplifting is brought out the first time longtimers.
Speaker 7: So I shoplifted for.
Speaker 5: Three bags of chicken to juices.
Speaker 9: It was kind of easy because I already like bought
Speaker 9: things from it, and so like I just walked back
Speaker 9: through the aisle and.
Speaker 7: Like just massed the tips up and like shove them
Speaker 7: in my bag. And I think you caught you this all.
Speaker 5: I walked out a free woman.
Speaker 1: Now you should go to jail. You don't need those chips.
Speaker 1: You know where the chips go. Chips go to your hips. Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh you don't need them.
Speaker 5: I'm having it.
Speaker 2: I'm having I'm having you arrested. O. Kay.
Speaker 1: Police are on their way over to your house right now.
Speaker 1: Hold on a second, here's somebody that you know. I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't condone what you're doing, Ashley. This is crazy.
Speaker 1: What did you and your your man steal?
Speaker 9: We stilled a washer from home Deeple. She would we
Speaker 9: would look in like the garbage cans at home Deeple
Speaker 9: or like Walmart wherever, whichever we see tag cash receipts.
Speaker 9: So the washer was like four hundred dollars. So we
Speaker 9: even had the guy take it down off of the
Speaker 9: like thing.
Speaker 5: And put it on to like rack for us.
Speaker 9: And when I went right.
Speaker 7: To check out, and we got our cash back.
Speaker 5: We returned it.
Speaker 1: She would take seats out of the garbage that people
Speaker 1: would just leave and then go in and return.
Speaker 2: That's amazing.
Speaker 3: How much how much do you think you've gotten over
Speaker 3: time doing this?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 9: I don't even know.
Speaker 5: A lot.
Speaker 9: Well, I was, that was in my addiction. I've been
Speaker 9: cleaning for two years and I don't know anymore.
Speaker 7: Heroin and math.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, hey two years sober, baby, I love it. Congratulations, No,
Speaker 3: thank you.
Speaker 1: You want to hear a guy that's like a total
Speaker 1: crime ring here, Jimmy on the phone with us.
Speaker 4: Right now, Jimmy, Jimmy Jack and.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Jimmy calls himself a professional shoplifter.
Speaker 2: And what would you do?
Speaker 5: Well? I had several ways of you know, finding uh
Speaker 5: a way to make money, and one way was to
Speaker 5: counterfeit bar codes. So I would actually purchase an item
Speaker 5: that had even the name of the like at Walmart.
Speaker 5: You see them standing around there. Actually they can see
Speaker 5: what you're purchasing and the prices. But I would actually
Speaker 5: buy like a Queeze in art or a Ninja blender
Speaker 5: that's three hundred dollars for thirty dollars.
Speaker 4: Oh, you just bar code before you scan it.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, And that's one way. That's one way. And
Speaker 5: then you can, like sleight of hand, you can actually
Speaker 5: blue a barcode to your palm and when you're swiping,
Speaker 5: when you're swiping, you're not swiping the item, you're just
Speaker 5: swipe in your hand with a barcode.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 5: Yes, So the barcode.
Speaker 4: Would be for like a three dollars item, but you're
Speaker 4: getting all these big.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't go that crazy because then they would be like,
Speaker 5: wait a minute, you know we don't have uh something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jimmy, I'm gonna get you.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get you. Like when's the last time you
Speaker 2: did this, Jimmy.
Speaker 5: Oh long time ago. I mean I watched the movie.
Speaker 5: I watched the movie To Live and Die in l A.
Speaker 5: And I'm like, that's me. I'm a that's I'm that's
Speaker 5: me right there. I'm gonna figure out how to be
Speaker 5: a counterfeitter. And I even took trade school. I was
Speaker 5: a turn five graphic artists and off that printer. I
Speaker 5: worked in the printing shop. I caught what you got?
Speaker 2: How'd you get caught.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because I was making money that was nowhere close
Speaker 5: to being a finished product. And you know, and what
Speaker 5: do you do now? I mean, oh, I have my
Speaker 5: own business now, but.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what would you do if somebody stole from you
Speaker 1: and your business?
Speaker 2: Jimmy question?
Speaker 7: Why you know what?
Speaker 5: I look at places like Walmart and Myer. They they're
Speaker 5: ripping us up anyway.
Speaker 1: So Jimmy, Uh, Jimmy, Jammy, Jimmy, ever.
Speaker 5: Ever contemplate like breaking into somebody's house or something that's.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you are robin Hood. You're the robin Hood. You
Speaker 1: steal from the and you give it to the poor,
Speaker 1: and it's Jimmy.
Speaker 2: That's the poor.
Speaker 1: Uh all right, Jimmy, taking take care yourself.
Speaker 2: I feel dirty even doing that topic
Speaker 4: That one even see that it's real.