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By Anonymous - 28/06/2012 02:28 - United States - Lakewood

Today, while walking around the local thrift store, I noticed an attractive guy watching me and following me through the aisles. As he followed me to my car I was sure I would get his number. He then asks me to bring my purse inside as I had been tagged as a shoplifter. I work at the store. FML

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By Bucks9 - 07/05/2009 23:43 - United States

Today, I was shopping in the mall. A cute store worker kept checking me out, so after I picked a few things I went up to her and started flirting. After a few seconds, she cut me off and said, "Actually I was watching you because you look like someone who would shoplift." FML

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By lonelyheart4ever - 13/08/2016 01:58 - United States - Norman Park

Today, a man finally was flirting with me in a supermarket checkout lane, even offering to help unload my groceries onto the conveyor. Turns out he was just distracting everyone so his partner in crime could steal $200 from the cash register. I had to give a witness statement to the manager. FML

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The cat's out of the bag

By Anonymous - 26/03/2024 14:00 - United States - Milwaukee

Today, I was shopping with my husband. At the self-checkout, one of the items I was buying for him as a gift didn’t register. As we were walking out, I get stopped and escorted to the loss prevention office, where I was accused of stealing. FML

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By what_the_hell - 20/06/2013 08:35 - Finland - Helsinki

Today, while bagging my groceries at a store, a lady came over to me, took a good look at the food I'd bought, picked out an item and put it in her bag. When I confronted her, she called security on me and told them I wanted to steal her stuff. I got thrown out and she walked away with a smirk. FML

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By Gitana - 22/04/2012 19:08 - Spain - Tafalla

Today, I was trying on some clothes in the store's changing room, when someone reached under the door and grabbed my purse, shoes, and pants. FML

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By anonynomi - 19/11/2015 17:26 - United States - San Francisco

Today, I was accused of shoplifting, after the alarm started beeping as I walked into the store. FML

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Thick as thieves

By blovesg - 07/04/2009 00:41 - United States

Today, I was at the mall shoplifting when a girl who looked my age pointed to a shirt I had in my bag. "Stole that, huh?" she asked smiling. She looked pretty cool, so I nodded and asked if she stole the jeans she was wearing, which were from the same store. Turns out she didn't, she's the manager. FML

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Help!

By clip_kate - 01/07/2016 02:36

Today, I went to the store, but after I'd selected my items, I saw that I'd forgotten my wallet. When I tried to explain to the cashier, he thought that I was trying to steal and called the cops. My roommate had to come to the store to save me. FML

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Don't bother

By NoticeTheLackOfNumbers - 12/08/2009 22:43 - United States

Today, I was at the store when I saw that a cart in the checkout line next to me was starting to roll away and the owner hadn't noticed. I tried to help by reaching out to stop the cart from moving, but when the owner saw me with the cart, she began to hit me for trying to steal her purse. FML

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It's a match!

By Ren - This FML is from back in 2012 but it's good stuff - United States - Medina

Today, I went shopping. At the counter, the cashier started flirting with me and asked me for my number. He was cute, so I gave it to him. After walking out of the store, I got a text that said, "I didn't want to say it out loud, but your pants are unzipped." FML

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AugustBurnsToast 14

Thursday 28 June 2012 8:56

So what did you steal...his heart?

jkmartinjk 16

Thursday 28 June 2012 8:55

Seems like a strange thing for some guy to do... Going around accusing others of shoplifting. Especially if he doesn't work there.

Comments

perdix 29

Thursday 28 June 2012 14:36

Tell him if he buys you a few drinks, he can do a cavity search. Rawr!

jaredofmo 22

Thursday 28 June 2012 14:56

Man, I hate being "ghosted." I remember when it happened while I was grocery shopping because I had a gym bag with me (which I kept in the bottom of the cart the entire time). The security guard was terrible at being being subtle, and even prevented store employees from assisting me. Needless to say, I never went back to that store. He may have been cute, girl, but seriously, his type suck.

Levvy 22

Thursday 28 June 2012 16:01

Of course, had it been an unattractive guy, it would have been "creepy" and the OP would have feared for her (well, or possibly his, it's not specified) safety. Beauty = goodness, after all.

livelobster123 14

Thursday 28 June 2012 23:13

Well, that's always what tends to happen here on FML....

firefighterjohn 9

Thursday 28 June 2012 16:16

so employees steal stuff too. just bc you work there doesn't mean you can get out of it. fail excuse if u did steal it

hellryu 20

Thursday 28 June 2012 16:21

Just letting you know, if you went back into the store with him and they searched your belongings and you DID NOT steal, you CAN sue. It's about a $10,000 lawsuit.

mattorama 15

Thursday 28 June 2012 21:39

Why would she go back into the store in the first place? They aren't police, they don't have any legal authority.

eccentrix 12

Friday 29 June 2012 3:21

Because then they could call the police with her plate number.

grannygruber 6

Friday 29 June 2012 3:35

Legally they can't stop you from leaving. Even if the door alarms at wal mart goes off all they can legally do is ask you to come back in or take down you plate number and call the cops. It's called illegal detention, and if they grab you, it's third degree assault.

noisebox 1

Thursday 28 June 2012 18:25

The guy sounds like a retard on the loose, in a thrift store, who's gonna steal used underware with skid marks?

FML_14u2c 14

Thursday 28 June 2012 20:32

You work there and don't know who the loss-prevention people are? YDI...

LittleDevil01 4

Thursday 28 June 2012 23:12

well i have no sympathy..

Needafarm 22

Friday 29 June 2012 3:22

I use to work at a Home Depot years ago and they decided to test the whole store by asking ALL the guys from RECEIVING to come in on one of their days off one weekend and told them to walk out of the store with large or noticeable items. The objective was for all of us day and evening workers to stop the night shift workers and ask for a receipt. Well the whole store failed because we were told to behave as a family which means you don't think suspicious thoughts about your co-workers. If the jackass suspected you of stealing he should have stopped you in the store.