Your life is in danger and you can't find a way to get 30 miles to an Apple store? Their shit resells for mad money. Put some effort in for christs sake.

I don't like the idea of lifting with a family member. You need to be cold, rational, non-emotional when lifting and going with family or friends doesn't lead itself to that imo. I like solo or with someone else who is an experienced professional and there is no connection between you besides money/profit.

What's your ID situation? You got a driver's license? Passport? Social security #? You can probably bypass needing a bank account with that kind of identification.

Probably not, but I'd be careful regardless.

I think it really depends on if you're attracting any suspicion with what you're doing. If you are, it's probably better to do bigger hauls less frequently. If you're completely invisible and no one ever even glances twice at you, it's probably better to do smaller hauls more often.

I'm in the US so not sure of the exact differences, but based on what you've described, my method would probably be to bring two reusable bags. One gets put in my basket or cart, and filled up with stuff as I'm shopping around the store, then slung over my shoulder (key is to be not too greedy so the bag isn't too heavy/deformed, only fill it up 80% or something) as I go up to the register and buy a few cheap items. The second reusable bag gets handed to the cashier for the couple cheap items I buy, so nothing looks out of the ordinary. Just looks like I have an extra reusable bag that I didn't end up needing for my groceries.

Well done. Keep your head up!

I don't think anyone has ever checked cameras for a missing 4 loko. You should be alright.

Definitely the worst. If you're stealing alcohol definitely put it in your basket and carry it to another aisle to conceal.

Anything you can steal in bulk. Like a whole box of granola bars. Cases of food. Big variety packs of candy. That sort of thing. Non-perishable items.

Nothing really compares to Apple TVs, Airpods. Apple Pencils, Watches, etc. right now in terms of how easy they are to flip and how close to retail price you get for them. All of those items are relatively easy to lift at the right Apple store and you can quickly flip on craigslist or somewhere similar for 80% of original price.

I've been to a Guitar Center before, not with the intention of lifting something though. How do you know it's a gold mine if you don't know how easy it is? Seems like it would be relatively difficult from my brief assessment.

I wouldn't overthink it. Just don't dress like you're poor and don't wear clothes that attract extra attention or showoff tattoos. I usually like to wear something that I'm capable of running in just in case because I'm physically capable of outrunning most employees and security. Always nice to have a backup plan.

Get a fake bar code from an item that costs a few bucks, use some double sided tape or something and stick it over the real bar code on the mixer. Then just scan that bar code and boom. Kitchen Aid mixer for $3.99

Crazy hobos who are talking to themselves and screaming obscenities are nice too. Makes a nice distraction for store employees.

Smoking weed will definitely lower your motivation to go outside and shoplift.

That's awesome.

If it wasn't worth the risk, people wouldn't do it!

Typically yes, although it might be hard not to get noticed. I would advise you to first take the time to go check out the store you might want to lift from. Case the place so to speak. See where the employees are, where the airpods are, if there is security, etc. Usually the best time to try and make a grab and run or conceal and walkout is when the store is most busy, say a Saturday afternoon.

I've never lifted clothes for profit or to resell. The times I have I was just picking up some pants for myself or whatever. My strategy that worked even at places like Target with good LP was pretty simple. Take 5 pants/5 shirts/whatever into the fitting room. Put one pair of pants/shirt on, make sure they're not tagged, then just put your own clothes back on over them and walk out with 4 pants/4 shirts and go put them back on the shelf. Little slower method than walking out with a cart full of stolen clothes, but almost impossible to get caught/very low risk. Even if someone was suspicious of you, still hard to get caught. They'd have to literally ask you to take your pants off or whatever to prove you were concealing stolen clothing underneath them.

Yeah all you need is a construction hardhat, a yellow safety vest and a toolbelt. Low level store employees never hassle you. Just look like some electrician or plumber who's fixing stuff on the night shift. If anyone asks a question about what you're doing, just give them the name of some local construction company and tell them your boss told you to. Even a random made up story is perfectly believable unless someone starts doing serious investigation.

I read an article awhile back about a city in the US where the police stopped responding to shoplifting calls for any theft less than $50. I wanna say it was either Detroit or Dallas, can't remember, but somewhere like that would be ideal. Somewhere where the police are so overloaded that they've made it their public policy to ignore theft under a certain limit because they don't have the time/manpower.

Very nice.

I find VONS to be pretty easy, they're owned by Albertsons so I would assume they're pretty easy also. Usually only have one security guard wandering around the store or standing at one of the doors.

It will be a little harder because you're underage, it looks suspicious for you to be standing in the alcohol aisle. Focus on making sure you do it when no one is in the aisle and also make sure you're in and out as quick as possible. The less time you're in that aisle the less time you look suspicious.

One possible idea is to follow behind an adult walking down the alcohol aisle. Like try and make it look as though you're their child. That way no one will look twice at you being in the alcohol aisle. You can also use that person to create a blind spot to make it easier to conceal.

I'd probably get a shopping bag from the store, toss the bag in there to lower suspicion (even if it doesn't fit completely) and just walkout holding the bag and my receipt. Try and look like you would if you just bought the bag and were leaving as you normally would. If anyone says anything as you're walking out, don't start running, just pretend you can't hear them and keep walking. You'd be surprised how much people ignore you when you look casual.

Wait until clerk is distracted, conceal in a sweater or bag. My advice would be to say a prayer first and keep your fingers crossed, that's a tough lift to pull off.

Seriously though, in my experience grocery stores are 10x better for lifting booze from (even if they have a security guard in store). Usually no one actively watching the inventory under normal circumstances. Really easy to just toss a bottle in a reusable grocery bag in your cart or basket and then walk out. You're also not causing problems for the people working there, unlike when you steal liquor from a small independent convenience store.