Of course the fortune tellers are not all Gypsies. My late aunt used to give "readings" for pay, but she wasn't really a "fortune teller". Also, some fortune tellers may want to appear Gypsy to project more "credibility" when they are not.
My wife told me they used to have Gypsies come into Nordstrom all the time to shoplift. That and other stories show that there has been some Gypsy problems here, just not the way it has been in other areas. The same holds true for the Mafia, for whatever reasons, and they are many I think.
"Gypsy" has become a generic term for professional thieves who float around from place to place using well practiced tricks to walk off with the loot.
I assure you that if "real" Gypsies grounded in the art of deceptive theft had hit Nordstroms, no one there would have noticed it.
One afternoon I was with the inlaws at a major department store in San Diego when three semi-pro thieves hit the area where we were shopping. One thief was "bolder" than the others ~ her job was to distract the security people. The other two began putting on clothing.
The decoy was quite successful. She ended up with several security people following her around the store and out of that area. As they left, the other two left, with the loot.
These thieves were not Roma. Else I wouldn't have noticed them at work.