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What the heck????

What?! It's like she acted as if it were no big deal...from the sounds of it. Wow, that's horrible.

i don't want to know what else that mom is teaching her. or what their home life must be like.

@blackbird: how did he stop them? i assume it's usually safer not to use any force. which is why i'm guessing the stride rite guy just stood behind the car, instead of yelling at the mom or something more active.

@softcream: I worked in retail and legally we could do NOTHING. We couldn't hold/detain them, we couldn't blatantly accuse them of shoplifting (even if we knew they did it), we couldn't go through their bag and we couldn't follow them out of the store. Crazy right?! Our only option was to call mall security. That's why my company stressed amazing customer service so much: employees who are constantly tending to the needs of the customers supposedly keeps people from stealing.

I worked for Victoria's Secret and they don't prosecute, so we werent allowed to do anything, like @Mrs. Pen: said. We saw the "professionals" come in with kids all the time. They'd have the kids steal things, have the kids create a distraction so they could steal, etc. Once we got a little more power from the company, we found ways to deny them returning merchandise if we knew it was stolen. We had a couple instances where they would find teenage girls in the mall and con them into buying the merchandise from them by telling them they could return it for more. (Like, here's a bag of bras. You give me $40 and then you can go return them for whatever you want in the store.)

It's disgusting. I wish you could call CPS on people for shady crap like that.

I worked in the mall my senior year of high school. The day after 9/11 the whole place was empty. I mean, no one felt like shopping, so we had virtually no customers. A young girl with a baby in a stroller came into the store, and proceeded to stuff as many things as she could into her diaper bag. We saw her, called her out on it, and she turned and ran with the stroller and stolen items. The guy I was working with, called the cops while chasing her and they grabbed her outside. She was 16, and had been arrested multiple times for shoplifting with her kid. She had picked over a bunch of stores that day. Who steals with get child the day after 9/11?!

it's so sad! a lot of ppl use their kids to steal because until you're over the age of 7 you can't commit be charged with a crime, at least i believe that is the law around here.

That is awful. I know of someone who had their child steal a diaper bag from a mall kiosk. I was so disgusted after hearing about it! The kid was only 7 or 8. The bag was even monogrammed with a random name!