Woolworth’s anti-shoplifting in the late 1970ies / early 1980ies were not very effective.
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Replacement bulbs for Christmas Tree Lights. They were the only place that ever did them on the high street. When they sold out, you missed the window of opportunity for fixing your lights for the whole year.
For our younger readers: it was like a LED but it was a pointy glass tube with a bit of hot wire in. When one of the bits of hot wire got too hot, then all the lights went out, and you had to find the broken one and screw in another. Yes, I can be nostalgic for rubbish things, so what?
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You are Clark Griswold, and I claim my £5!
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Botany 500?!
Botany bay?
Botany bay??
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Very interesting and detailed analysis! Do prevalent and super cheap digital surveillance cameras help at all with theft, you did not mention them at all?
Once at the liquor store checkout. The guy that entered the checkout line just before me, just walked past the person paying and held up the two bottles in his hands as he gave the teller a nod and kept walking out the front door without paying. No worries about cameras or employees. Teller casually walked over to the door and made note of the car the guy got into and then asked another employee to report the theft. All of us in line were clutching our pearls but the teller just shrugged and said it happened and he wasn’t supposed to engage. This was back when all the liquor stores in Wa. were state owned fwiw.
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What kind of world do we live in now where Nancy Griffith only gets one like! Bunch of philistines!
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Agree on everything you wrote! Came here to post: paying your help jack squat and expecting them to also act as guards is a complete joke. And fucking stupid as hell.
In my experience prominently displayed security cameras can act as a deterrent, especially in blind spots, but recorded video is usually only moderately useful after the fact unless you have a monitor by the till (again understaffing, attend to the till or the shop) If you have a significant stock loss, say high value items, and need to report it to the police due to company policy, the police will ask for a copy (and then send you an email providing a crime number for insurance purposes and saying thank you for helping us with our statistics but we are unable to prosecute in this instance).
It can be somewhat valuable as a staff training aid as in the OP but only in the sense of raising awareness of the kind of shit that shoplifters pull.
As I said earlier though, most shoplifters are desperate and are just going to do their thing anyway.
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You started strong, but then you lost me.
- The police will not be of any help unless violence has been involved.
What do you mean? The security guard detects and catches the thief. The police are called, and they write up the report.
- Also, shoplifters, for the most part are only stealing because they need to.
Uh… You sure about that? You worked at a liquor store: all those distilled spirits thefts were “needful”? And, aside from the professional “gypsy” theft-rings who do so because their “job” is criminality, the freelancers seem to do it, to be able to have done it. They are not stealing things they need and cannot afford. I mean, if you worked at a grocery store, and you catch people boosting food staples, it would be a different matter.
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They were in my city. I used to go to find the occasional (relatively) hard to find cut-out in the cheap cassette rack.
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Hey I just saw the post now. Still should have more likes though.
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What can I say, this BBS is full of philistines! 
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