To wonder what a code 99 is?

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I'm in IKEA and there was a staff announcement saying there was a code 99 in the children's department and just now another announcement saying the code 99 had been terminated.

An ideas? DP thinks poop or a rat

I heard code 99 in a main train station not that long ago, it just kept being announced over and over. Made me feel nervous, in case it was a bomb alert or something (probably becuase it was 99, ie. close to 999). Tried googling and got nothing but reading PPs, I was probably trying to search something too precise.

Tesco staff are not allowed to just tackle shoplifting customers 🙄 and they certainly wouldn't tannoy it in case anyone fancied having a go. Mr Robinson is related to payments anyway

In Asda it is code 6 for lost child.

The Mrs Robinson code was to get someone from management to trail that person around the shop, which usually involved them having bizarre conversations with other random workers so they didn't look like they were following suspected shoplifter. And it wasn't Tesco I worked in, so nothing to do with payments, and it was Mrs Robinson, not Mr.

afreshnewname you’ve never been I need my local Tesco then ! About 5 security and floor staff were manhandling what I assume to be a shoplifter 6 months ago. He was getting carried from the checkout area to the back office. He made a break for it On the way and they put him face down on the floor. The woman who he was with was screeching like a banshee and threatening to sue tesco. Most people in the store, including other staff were just standing watching it all.
The police Arrived just after that with a van to take him away.

Code 99 is lost child in Costco.
DS never did it again. Partly because he frightened himself. Partly because he had a week on reins afterwards

Years and years ago I worked at IKEA. Code 15 to xx department was for a first aider and 'Mr IKEA to the checkouts' was all available male staff to head head there asap as there was trouble and staff needed back up!

When I was younger I worked in a shopping centre that used to tannoy for Mr Burns. Mr Burns to McDonald's, essentially meant McDonald's is on fire (again).

Mr Robinson Is an alert on checkouts to do with payment cards, call a supervisor, sometimes its cards that have been reported stolen or fraud alert.

10 years working in Tesco and Iv never heard of Mrs Robinson, maybe some stores don't use 'her'

But LittleCandle said it wasn't Tesco, so Mrs Robinson it is/was....

I can certainly promise you I have seen tesco staff physically restrain a shoplifter. I was the only person at customer services when the Mrs Robinson tannoy went out and my name isn’t Robinson. I asked the customer service woman what was happening and she said shoplifter. Various Tesco staff appeared inc warehouse people and two guys who had been collecting trolleys. They hung about. Two guys left the store and the security bloke stopped one with other Tesco staff backing him up. He went to run and was physically stopped and brought back in the store.

When I worked in a restaurant ours was "Mr Sands is in the building" . It meant there was a fire , only ever used it once and it was pretty scary

I lost a child in Ikea once. The whole place went mad - staff everywhere searching. They were fabulous. She was found sitting on a sofa (unsurprisingly).

I worked at an amusement park place where there was a very famous owner. They had a code for the owner so that the staff knew where they were without the visitors realising. The owner used to wear disguise so that they could walk around and work in their park without constantly being stopped for autograph or photo. The code would change every day, something like 'Mr Grey' or 'Mr Brown'. It was quite funny.

I used to be a bartender and we use codes there. 86 means you've run out of something, 50 (something) means please throw me something.

DD was slightly injured at swimming pool. Code yellow seemed to be the one to call for first aiders :)

Inspector Sands is used on the tube and trains and have heard it a couple of times, apparently can mean anything from fire/alarm/alert to a big threat! Luckily only minor incidents when I heard it. At West Ham’s old stadium ‘Mr Moon is in the stadium’ was an alert to the stewards that there was trouble or a fire alarm and when the people got kicked out/the trouble was sorted it was ‘Mr moon has left the stadium’ which always got a loud cheer!

In morrisons they use Mr Brown for suspected shoplifter, Mr Black for a shoplifter who is attempting to leg it. Maybe all stores use different codes?

That should say, in the Morrisons I shop in!

The whole point of having a code for a lost child is that customers don't know about it. It's to keep the unaccompanied child safe from random strangers who may offer tof help but not actually help, or maybe even abduct the child. I'm not sure giving away codes on the Internet is a good idea.