Yeah. It's a predominately wealthy area, so this is new. There's another Walmart around me that I take full credit for them having locked up the external hard drives. lmao. It was a not-so-wealthy area, but I would regularly clear them out of the small 1-4TB Seagate drives every month or so. One day I went in and they were behind glass. Haven't lifted from that one in a while.

They've started using greeters randomly now, but it's usually just on one door. Majority of the time there isn't one. I always go mid-day or in the afternoon when it's busy. I truly don't think my store even employs LP every day. I've never seen a cop car there once in five years.

I'll rarely go after hours. I feel it's easier to be caught.

Fill up a cart and walk out. I do it a bit differently though. I'll usually go from the grocery section to the front restrooms. Once you're past the registers, nobody gives you a second look. Since my store doesn't have cameras in grocery or at the registers, it's super easy. I just walk from the restrooms to the opposite doors and leave. I'll switch it up though and sometimes I'll just walk through closed registers to the restrooms.

The one and only.

Nah, I organized my cart in such a way that the larger non-baggable stuff covers the rest of it. For to list the pack of water I got. That is crucial to my setup.

Water up front, Fresca on one side stacked up, paper towels on the other. The small stuff goes in the middle and the toilet paper goes on top of it all to block it. The trash can just went on the bottom rack.

I always walk from one side to the front restrooms and then go out the other doors. It always appears to people that I've paid, so they don't even give it a second thought.

Yeah it had been a while since I did a big haul. I've done some small things here and there, but it was getting to be too long since something like this. I even held off during Black Friday weekend this year!

Don't do it often. If you don't, then it's essentially impossible to get caught. I do this all the time with Easystores from Best Buy.

I grabbed from Best Buy like four times in a row. Two kits of RAM, a pair of PowerBeats, and a 8TB Easystore hard drive.

It's easy af.

Apple employs a lot of plain clothes LP. They will investigate if they notice they're gone, but it depends on how good the camera angle is and if they catch your face. Of all places, I'm too nervous to lift from the Apple Store.

Check again. These numbers are pulled from current State laws with links to verify it.

"Retail theft of merchandise with a combined retail value of up to $2,500" - Class A Misdemeanor

OP you need to get a lawyer now.

https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/criminal-defense/misdemeanor-offense/shoplifting-charges-north-carolina

NC felony's are only charged for items totaling over $1,000, if you tried to use an emergency exit, or if you used a tool to bypass security devices.

Otherwise those two felony charges should be misdemeanors.

EDIT: I see your other comment now saying you had a magnet on you. Sorry OP. RIP

Yup. I called my store pretending to be applying and they blatantly told me there was no lp after 10PM.

Me. Never been caught. I’ve stolen things from small little chargers to desktop computers from Walmart. Even got a 144hz 1440p monitor.

Just put it on the bottom of your cart and push out through the outdoor section.