The Deodorant Thieves
 

I just ran to the pharmacy for beer (like you do) and thought I'd better pick up some deodorant for beest while I was there, and every damn stick had at least one and mostly two labels saying "CVS only" "call this number if you are not buying this from the Carpenter Road CVS". And when I checked out, she had to deactivate a security tag. It was a $9 two pack of deodorant! No security tag on the beer.....

So I asked her only half seriously, "so, is there a lot of deodorant theft that goes one?" Oh yes, she says, almost every night by the shelfload Then she goes on to produce a photo album of suspects taken by the security camera. Apparently it's easily resellable and highly desirable. Who'd a thunk it? You learn something new every day.

psssst.... wanna buy some deodorant? I got gel, solid or are you after some roll-on?

I've seen a few people selling things like deodorant from baskets around town. And I've noticed that the ones SELLING it are never the ones USING it.

That was one of my first thoughts too. But I've never seen it being sold from a basket around town. Although, mostly the hippies round here grow their pit hair and go au naturel, so I'm guessing they're selling it in the next town.....

Its an organised gang, I tells ya.

sol.

Not so much resellable as small and returnable. Steal it, return it for cash at the next store down the block.

That how you're makin ends meet nowadays, huh?

That's small time stuff... to really be a hustler takes computers and internets and shit

Actually, I've had a small business idea that I might as well throw at you...

Down Under, there are 3 or 4 companies offering wireless/mobile internet. They all make roughly the same claim about performance ("UP TO" 7.2 Mbps, actual performance may vary depending on blah blah blah.) One may be technically faster, but have so many subscribers in my area that it is overloaded. How can I tell?
So I just had to take a guess at which would would work best where I actually live (and any other places I frequent with my computer, which are few).

I would have given a goodly sum to have some techie bring one (or maybe four identical) computers to my house and simultaneously test all four rival networks and give me the data, so I can make an educated choice.

Just throwing the idea up, AFAIK you might not even have rival wireles internet providers or something. The business costs would be a few standardised computers, and subscriptions to the rival providers.
Hell, to be really smart, you work as an agent for all the rival providers and sign people up then and there. Install it for them. watch 'em surf.

Ok, you may now think of all the reasons it won't work.

not here. No cash returns without receipt. Also, these stickers will render the label unreturnable when removed. But maybe store credit? To swap it for something really useable? the police told the store they were good resale items though. And the store down the street is not going to accept a shelf-full of returns

[nelson] "Smell ya later!" [/nelson]

Yes, small-time theft and item return is a staple of drug addicts. Another popular target: the hanging plants displayed out in front of a store.

How does one go about that? You steal the hanging plant and then go to...? Is there a black market for hanging plants?

You steal it from one Wal Mart/Home Depot etc. and then you go a few miles down the road to the next identical store of the same namebrand.

And return it?

"I, uh, I decided that this plant didn't go with my drapes..." WTF?


No wonder my local Wal-mart (which I refuse to go to) treats their customers more like criminals. They want to do a colonoscopy on you before you leave the store.

damn page rolled over
 

Yes, that's exactly why.

UNDERTOAD COULD YOU FIX THE DAMN PAGES WITH THE SHENANIGANS EVERY DAMN TIME YOU TRY TO DO A THING?!

ƒuckin' IT guys

Theres a big racket of theft going on in Lowe's stores. Anything small and expensive (electrical stuff and plumbing fittings are hot right now) is stolen from one store and returned at another store for store credit (given on a gift card). Then the card is sold, but where and to whom, I don't know.

Flint, change your preferences to display more posts per page.

Whenever I see this thread title, I think it's about an Italian neorealism film.

Underware gnomes.

a quick perusal of the news shows that deodorant theft is On The Rise.

Makes me think there must be some drug use for it. Sniffing aluminum?

Carrots in the Hood?
 

This week the campus cafeteria has been its own little Romper Room, with a bunch of HS kids running around: there's some kind of pre-college thing going on.

Almost EVERY SINGLE kid gets a few carrots from the salad bar to go with their meal. Doesn't matter if they pizza or a burger or soup or chinese food...they always go over to the salad bar and get about 5 or 6 carrots. Seriously, almost all of them. And there are about a hundred of them.

It could be that whoever is in charge makes them get at least one vegetable, and that is their choice. However, i wonder if there are uses for carrots (the small little pre-peeled ones that look like fingers) that I am not yet hip to.

"You kids and your Dan Fogelberg and your carrots..."

Just wondering.

edit: crud, meant to make this a thread but wasn't paying close enough attention to what I was doing.

:lol: I was wondering if I'd been sniffing too much deodorant as I couldn't follow the thread drift to carrots.....

Just for the record, they don't sell beer at the pharmacy in Texas. New Mexico, yes, Texas -- too dry.

I saw a documentary on one of the news channels about this (either MSNBC or ID) the other day. They had the loss-prevention specialist from Walgreens on explaining the problem. In some areas all of the store's products are behind plexiglas and you have to have a clerk unlock it and hand you your items. Kind of harks back to the old general store days when you'd tell Old Clem behind the counter what you wanted and he'd hand it to you.

But ... what ARE they doing with all those carrots????

:eyebrow:

Oh, you know kids and their carrot sex...

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