Living Car Free - Bringing bags into stores

You all seem so keen to shoplift :lol:
Yep, we gotta have our backpacks. They can always tell when people try to walk out of the store with frozen fish in their knickers.

Yep, we gotta have our backpacks. They can always tell when people try to walk out of the store with frozen fish in their knickers.

:roflmao:

Yep, we gotta have our backpacks. They can always tell when people try to walk out of the store with frozen fish in their knickers.

You should see where I stash away celery:eek:

In all seriousness I just put my bag in the trolly. I never carry much of value in there anyway and I must look like an upstanding citizen (that or I'm just plainly dressed and white) so they don't seem to mind.

I live in L.A. so I have lots of stores to chose from.I'm 6-2,200lbs,hair down to my waist and a beard to match.Most people are afraid to talk to me,let alone confront me...LOL!That being said,I have been asked to leave my bags(panniers) with them.I said sure,as soon as you go around the store and collect all of the ladies purses,that usually ends the debate.If they insist,I have the option of shopping elsewhere.

They're saying to themselves "Who is the poor guy with the tool belt? I wasn't expecting maintenance."

Gosh, I hope not!! I did have my helmet and was wearing shorts. I guess it was to my advantage that nobody knew what my trunk was, so they didn't know if they should take it away or not....or middle-aged women don't fit the shoplifting profile?

Now if only I could pack the thing so it wasn't so dang heavy! It didn't affect handling on my Target special, but it does on my Fuji Newest.

SECURITY GUARD OR MANAGER: You can't have that bag in here. You have to leave it with us.

ME: Are you going to give me a receipt for the bag?

SECURITY GUARD OR MANAGER: No, we don't give you a receipt.

ME: Oh. So you don't trust me not to steal from you, but I'm supposed to trust you not to steal from me?

SECURITY GUARD OR MANAGER: (*sighs*) Fine...you're fine, go ahead.

This actually works for me. When it doesn't (and I'm not desperate at the moment for what the store has), I just pull some money from my pocket and inform them that I'm going to go spend it somewhere else.

I live in L.A. so I have lots of stores to chose from.I'm 6-2,200lbs,hair down to my waist and a beard to match.Most people are afraid to talk to me,let alone confront me...LOL!That being said,I have been asked to leave my bags(panniers) with them.I said sure,as soon as you go around the store and collect all of the ladies purses,that usually ends the debate.If they insist,I have the option of shopping elsewhere.

Here in Little Rock, Kroger has a monopoly. Their only competition is Harvest Foods, a wholly owned subsidiary of Kroger. When I use the ladies purses line, I get an offer to choose between surrendering the pack or having the cops called. And since the security officers are actually off-duty but uniformed LR police officers, you have to take them at their word.

So I do what the ladies with their purses do. I put it in the cart.