To think they could have done this in the office not the shop floor?

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Walked down aisle of supermarket today where a small group of girls were gathered. The police were there and a few staff.
Everything was taking place in the aisle where people could hear.
Phonecard was being made to a parent to ask them to come and pick their daughter up as she's been shoplifting.
Another girls mother arrived and said what did she steal?
Daughter said its not me, I didn't do anything and the mum hugged her and said you've got nothing to worry about then.
My question is should all this have been carried out in the aisle.
Didn't people used to get taken to the office years ago.
I thought there was domething funny about conducting all this in the aisle while shoppers going up and down?
Did the girls deserve privacy or who cares, their own fault?

I thought you just meant somewhere fancier like Next 😂

We had store security (uniformed and casual dress) plus shopping centre security. They usually brought them to us and then left them with the store employees while security contacted police and stuff. I was only a teenager and it was just a weekend job so I felt really outta my depth the first time 😂 I think they didn’t trust us and that’s why we couldn’t speak to them as it was well known that staff stole stuff a lot too.

I expect they get banned from the store.

Yes thats one option. We used to do it back then too. Not that the professionals were ever bothered!

No, I promise I wasn’t being snobby about where I worked. Actually, Next turned me down when I applied for a Christmas temp job

I was offered a Christmas temp job in USC and they told me “we would expect staff to wear our clothes while working but we know you couldn’t afford them on primark wages so maybe just black trousers and a t shirt would be best to start off with” - I didn’t turn up and decided just to stay at primark instead. This was about 15 years ago so I’d imagine a lot has changed.

When the fruit of our loins was 15, she and a friend were caught shoplifting in the Birmingham Bullring. They were taken into a backroom where the assistant manager (female) and security guard (male) held them and gave them a dressing down. When me and the missus turned up, daughter was very sheepish, and tearful. In our presence, she was spoken to further by the assistant manager and given an exclusion order for a number of shops in the Bullring. We were also told that there was the possibility of the police being informed. I was impressed by tone of the assistant manager and the way she handled it. It was pitched at just the right level. Daughter was contrite. Subsequently, the police weren't informed and apart from the exclusion, that was the end of it. Daughter is now 25 and currently a civil servant working for the treasury. Am tempted to ring Whitehall and advise them to count their staplers.

Wow, what a shitty attitude! I bet they weren’t even paying much more than Primark.

My retail experience is all a few years back now but I would hope everybody is being treated much better than back then.

They weren’t! It was a few extra pounds per hour but it was a nil hour contract whereas I was contracted in primark for 16 hours, which was a decent contract while still in school!

I feel we were treated fairly well considering the reputation the shop has, to be honest.