Posted on 05/28/2023 10:30:40 AM PDT by lowbridge
Two Georgia women — including an assistant manager — are blasting Lululemon for sacking them from their jobs after they called the police while three masked men pillaged the store.
Shocking video shows the brazen thieves burst into the Peachtree Corners store in metro Atlanta earlier this month to grab as many fistfuls of athletic clothing as possible.
The women follow the group outside and watch as they pile into their getaway car, but notably do not try to physically stop the thieves — which has caused workers to lose their jobs or face charges in the past.
Instead, they reported the robbery to the Gwinnett Police Department, who later tracked down the thieves and charged them with felony robbery charges.
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The looters — who had allegedly struck the store nearly a dozen times prior — momentarily stood in the store doorway and stared at the women before jumping back inside to snatch several more pairs of leggings.
“Seriously? Get out,” the frustrated retail worker says to the men.
“Chill, b–tch, shut your ass up,” one of the thieves can be heard responding.
“We are not supposed to get in the way. You kind of clear path for whatever they’re going to do,” Ferguson told 11Alive.
“And then, after it’s over, you scan a QR code. And that’s that. We’ve been told not to put it in any notes, because that might scare other people. We’re not supposed to call the police, not really supposed to talk about it.”
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According to Jason, the women were told it would “look bad for Lululemon to be the company calling the police.”
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They’re getting it good and hard, aren’t they?
“Chill, b–tch, shut your ass up,” one of the thieves can be heard responding.
“We are not supposed to get in the way. You kind of clear path for whatever they’re going to do,” Ferguson told 11Alive.
“And then, after it’s over, you scan a QR code. And that’s that. We’ve been told not to put it in any notes, because that might scare other people. We’re not supposed to call the police, not really supposed to talk about it.”
So why is Luluemon in business?
This sounds unbelievable.
The company has some policy to not call police in case of theft or robbery?
I know they said, they are not to intervene when criminals come in. But the company says they were wrong to call police to report the crime??? Can this be right?
What am I missing??
“...Two Georgia women — including an assistant manager ...” So did they fire two or 3 former employees? 😁👍
Athletic clothing = see through yoga pants
“The company has some policy to not call police in case of theft or robbery?”
Sounds like it’s a policy of the mall owners (just guessing), who would rather have the thefts, which relatively few people see, than have publicity, which many, many, more people see.
For the shop owners, they have to decide whether they can tolerate the cost of Amish freedom to steal, whereas the cost of moving is very high, as their customers will think they’re out of business (rather than checking on Google Maps).
Additionally, when they signed the contracts, it’s possible that the Amish weren’t as active.
(again, just speculation, as nothing else makes sense, especially when the police and politicians are willing to allow prosecutions)
This is nothing new. My first job as a teenager (decades ago) at a fast-food restaurant, on my first day of training, the Manager told me if someone tries to rob the place, just give them whatever they want.
Dead employees are a lot more expensive than stolen merchandise.
I assume that if they can get away with charging $150 for a pair of longjohns, they just build shrinkage into the cost of doing business. This will break when the assistant manager or other employees decide to get confederates to cash in on it instead of outside hoods.
So the management has been getting a payoff somehow and the thieves know it. Follow the money.
“This also includes leaving the store to pursue a guest or gather additional information about the suspected or observed theft,” an excerpt states.”
When policy refers to a thief as a guest, that should have been the first clue.
Like perhaps child trafficking, or illegal drug trafficking would be my guesses off the top of my head.
My wife worked alone in a suburban retail shop, and confronted a couple of shoplifters, who more of less left, looking for an easier mark. I would have felt better if she had ignored them. It wasn’t her money. Needless to say, she has a strong sense of right and wrong, and not nearly enough fear.
The thieves might come back and shoot the employees.
Might failing to report the crime leave the employees open to being charged as some sort of accessories to the crime? I really don’t know.
People don’t realize how precious a high-trust society is, until it is gone.
Woke corporations are realizing it too.
It may be necessary to federally outlaw the sale of an item with say the chain store trademark outside of the chain of stores unless the item is sold for say less than 20% of its original store price.
Certain model numbers [say 100F] or sizes [say 8F] or combination brands [Walgreens(R) TIDE(R)] might be federally barred by being sold by non-authorized sellers.
If retail theft costs $95 billion a year, it is worthwhile to start locking retail thieves up.
“I assume that if they can get away with charging $150 for a pair of longjohns, they just build shrinkage into the cost of doing business.”
Miss Chinese Designer Girl, please write down 20 ideas for longjohn design.
Number 15 looks promising, expand upon your design idea.
A little more work is needed on 15C.
That will do quite nicely.
How much can you make these for?
about 100 yuan each in quantity
Decades ago, NYC created the Stakeout Squad to deal with a surge of armed robberies.
Police would hang out in the back room of a place that had frequently been robbed, waiting for the next robbery.
Then they would blow the robbers away.
It worked, but too many black bodies, so it was disbanded.
https://americanpolicenews.com/2021/10/14/the-nypd-stakeout-squad/
“they sound like they have something to hide”
I say put one of Joe’s 80,000 IRS goons on the case.
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