Posted on 01/09/2005 8:46:26 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
A Salt Lake City mother and daughter teamed up to steal more than $1,000 worth of merchandise from a Super Target, according to charges filed Tuesday in 3rd District Court. The 18-year-old daughter and her 38-year-old mother were each charged with a felony count of retail theft. The mother was observed by store personnel switching price tags and then paying for them at a register staffed by her daughter, according to court documents.
Two loss prevention officers at a Salt Lake County Super Target watched as the mother placed a DVD player and other items into a shopping cart on Dec. 9. The mother walked over to the dollar isle, removed a tag for a 99-cent item and put it on the DVD player, state the charges. The mother also removed tags from other items and placed them on more expensive merchandise, according to court documents. The daughter told police that she knew her mother had switched the tags and had rung up as many as 25 items at prices lower than their actual cost, the charges state. - Justin Hill
I miss the good ol' days when we hung rustlers and thieves in the middle of town.
Dumb@ss Domestic Divas Done-in by Deep Discounts
If a person were going to be stealing from a retail store like Target, I would expect fraudulently validated gift-cards or something like that. Show some imagination if you're out to be a felon, lady.
The punishment ought to include some public service. If
convicted, the women should be compelled to work as bell-
ringers for the Salvation Army at Christmas in front of the
same Target store. Oh, wait, Target doesn't allow the Sal-
vation Army to solicit in front of their stores. Nevermind.
Almost all major retailers barcode their gift certificates and credit vouchers now, which has cut waaaaaay down on that kind of fraud. Its probably easier to pass counterfeit money. A cashier is more likely to make a mistake than the registers are.
Yep, I kind of figured. Gift cards are a large part of revenues, so it makes sense that their fraud control people would be taking steps to make sure that shoplifters or crooked employees can't just walk off with them and use them later.
But you still make a good point. I don't know how you could expect to get away with only paying 99 cents for a DVD player. Even if the lady had gotten out the door, the daughter would have been on the hook for the stuff when it was inevitably caught. Pretty stupid.
I feel sorry for the kid, growing up with a worthless mom and all. Being that kind of example to a daughter is downright criminal in itself.
Apparently I didn't read closely enough. Still, I don't see how they could expect to get away with it in this age of advanced scanner and barcode technology. I'm sure there is some program in the software that would pick up that a DVD player's coded price was overridden and sold for a dollar.
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