K Mart accusation of shop lifting St.petersburg Florida

The plainclothes loss prevention agents in the old K-Marts in Irving, Texas had a quota system whereby you had to stop so many alleged shoplifters and get a certain number of arrests so people would know that you meant business.

Sounds like Barney Fife there was a little too enthuiastic about busting an innocent customer.

YOU NEED TO FILE A LAWSUIT ON THESE PEOPLE-- that is, if you haven't already.

I never worked for K-Mart. I was just a contract security company employee who patrolled the parking lot of the shopping center where they were located. And their "loss prevention" people were desperate to come to work for a PRIVATE SECURITY GUARD CONTRACTOR!!!!! We talked for a long time about how K-Mart cheated their employees! And their half-a*s security policies and procedures...

THAT'S how bad K-Mart treated their employees in the Dallas - Fort Worth Metroplex back in the 1980s!

You were expected to treat all K-MART employees, even managers like SHOPLIFTERS and people who if they had not stolen were going to steal...

K-Mart was supposed to have been managed in the 1980s by a CEO with ALLEGED Organized Crime connections who drained the profits so bad that the store went BANKRUPT. The most recent time it went bankrupt, I believe they had run that individual off and they brought in another guy --probably another loser, hopefully an honest one.

They started closing stores like crazy --including the one in Irving, Texas that I worked at and ALL of the ones in Austin , Texas. SEEMS that in a few stores, the in-house security was ALLEGEDLY HELPING their relatives, friends and family remove merchandise without paying for it. K-Mart was treating them like garbage, even worse than employees in Texas are usually treated...So they got their revenge!

Me, I never wanted to go into another K-Mart because the way they treated their employees MADE ME SICK! I heard they didn't pay the hospital bill for the security agent who saw loading dock employees allegedly taking out toys for their children because they had no money on K Mart wages to BUY toys otherwise and the Security agent got a major a*s kicking --broken jaw and legs and one arm and a kneecap. K-mart refused to pay a dime, said that the behavior "provoked" they guys on the dock. And that the security agent was a "malingerer!" The guy was in a WHEELCHAIR!They did not pay his emergency room bill,his medications, rehabilitation or ZIP!

So much for doing a good job.

I met this guy who was in a wheelchair and dispatching for another private security company where I worked and he claimed that is what happened to him when he worked for K Mart in loss control. This was back in the early 1980s.The store was in such a rough neighborhood that they eventually had to close it anyway.

Somebody even shoplifted the "Blue Light" that the employees would put on the aisle where the "Blue Light Special" was located! THAT'S what some people thought about K-Mart.

Now K-Mart has been merged with Sears and we have TWO losers! I talked with some of the loss prevention people and employees are STILL being treated like dirt --at least in the stores in Texas before I had to leave...

If you EVER get treated like THAT again --ESPECIALLY if you are member of an ethnic group:

SUE,SUE,SUE,SUE!

Or encourage "certain types" of people to "shop" in K Marts....

I am an american citizen and and free in this country to do what I please Peter Pony or who ever you are so you sir can kiss my a*s. I can shop and look at any d**n thing I please and am doing NO wrong at doing so. So mind your own bussiness, no one asked you sir for your opinion.

Don't listen to Peter. Just do a search for 'Pony, Alabama' and you will what I meen.

This was obviously a mix-up on the store's part. However, I cannot help but wonder, why would you stop to try on a pair of shoes identical to the pair you just purchased and were wearing at the time? That not only makes no sense, but was the root of the mix-up that caused all the drama that day.