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Subject: Re: What is L.P. like these days for beginners?

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Jerry

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Date Posted: 22:14:11 07/22/05 Fri
In reply to: thelimit 's message, "Re: What is L.P. like these days for beginners?" on 11:57:54 07/21/05 Thu

>I am not new to LP, but have been at it for about 6
>years now. When I started it was with an agency, and
>we would go to a variety of different retailers..some
>had cams, some didn't, but it was all about busting
>shoplifters and we were authorized to "do what we
>could" to catch them. This meant chases and some real
>serious fights.
>
>These days I mostly do audits, safety and inventory
>management as an LP. I am encouraged to burn 95% of
>the shoplifters for no other reason than cost
>effectiveness. We are supposed to try an apprehend the
>grab n runners and the fraudsters, but even then we
>are not allowed to go more than 20ft from the door...I
>like it this way, but I am glad that I am not new..I
>am glad that I had 3 solid years of hardcore, no cam,
>shoplift LP because it taught me how to detect them
>and how to deal with them. If I were new and starting
>out in the current environment, I would probably catch
>nothing at all. Indeed, we have newer, younger people
>in the company who have been with us for over 2 years
>and never busted a shoplifter in their life. The
>company doesn't care so long as shrink goes down every
>quarter.
>
>Newbies are a different breed...even not so newbies
>who have made busts but have depended on CCTV. There
>are very few classic floorwalkers left.

It was a whole different ballgame when I started in the 80's

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