Anyone work in shops on The Moor? getting so fed up of shoplifters:help:

I used to be the manager of a shop on the moor, or should i say just off the moor, and sadly due to the shoplifters it hurt our bottom line and we closed down!!!

I remember going in to wollies and seeing several people filling rucksacks with choclates and just walking out.

The police and everyone on the city centre 'ccrak' radio group do there best to catch em and do. But its a hardcore 'drug' group that are out everyday

thanks for the reply :) - it's a daily battle with them - I spend most of my day stuck at front of shop - it's the same offenders time and time again - they should all be banned from city centre

Which shop do you work in emanjay? I used to work in Sinsbury's and there were at least 3/4 shoplifters every day.

Boots has a reputation for shoplifters too I hear. :)

Why do shoplifters feel they have the right to steal things rather than work hard and buy them like everyone else?

They disgust me.

I saw some little scrote nick a game from Gamestation the other day. I was tempted to collar him, but thought better of it. Couldn't be bothered to get arrested for 'attacking a minor' or whatever rights child thieves have these days.

The majority of these shoplifters are stealing for drugs money and you need to be very careful.I was the manager of shop at the other end of the city centre which ended up closing down due to these 'ongoing problems'.The difference is I barred these scumbags from my premises and used to literally stand on the door with the keys and lock it in their faces.This caused them a huge problem as they had 'orders' for my stock,taken at nearby pubs where people used to go and order whatever they wanted and the druggies would nick it for a fraction of the price...bargain! Ended up with death threats made directly to me,I was followed out of work,the shop was set alight one night and,at one point,I was gaurded by 4 plain clothes CID while I was at work. I was told to keep away from the area for a while and had to go on extended leave.Eventually the shop closed due to all this crap and 7 people lost their jobs.
My advice...don't get too involved :(

Me and others in our circle refer to the Moor as the netto ghetto. My friend Claire made the observation that there is a gentle slope from town and that makes the descent into the bowels of the Moor quite noticable.

I'm off there now for cheap razors and screen wash from poundland and to watch the vermin scrat about trying to get their next fix.

Me and others in our circle refer to the Moor as the netto ghetto. My friend Claire made the observation that there is a gentle slope from town and that makes the descent into the bowels of the Moor quite noticable.

I'm off there now for cheap razors and screen wash from poundland and to watch the vermin scrat about trying to get their next fix.

Thats why those of us with a certain class prefer to stroll down the chav free aisles of Waitrose rather than risk encountering any such unpleasantness on the Moor.

Now where did I put my caviar..........:hihi:

This is going to make Moor haters snort. :hihi: My parents love The Moor and want to go shopping there every time they are in Sheffield! :o They have no pound shops at all where they live, and they end up buying piles of stuff in Poundland that normally would cost them a lot more money. They've not seen the 99p shop yet...

The Moor's a weird place; it seems to represent the two extremes of Sheffield. It's either bargain hunters seeking out the cheapest stuff they can find or super-rich senior civil servants mowing down the elderly in their determined rush to buy up all the Low GI lunches in Sainsbury's!

Hello to all the peeps working on the Moor :love:

I was once in woolworths on the moor, and i saw 3 teenagers filling there bags with sweet from the pick n mix section, i went up to an assistant and told him that 3 charming young men were helping themselves to the sweets, at which point i do have to question "are woolies staff bred in a special farm or something" because the young man in question just stared at me with glassy eyes and said "OH".

I did as I said and went to the moor and got my cheap razors. I also came out with a bite to my face from genus unknown, it now looks like I have a face hugger trying to make a break for freedom through my left cheek.

Coincidence? I think not. The moor: a grotty smeg hole infested with things that bite your face.

I was once in woolworths on the moor, and i saw 3 teenagers filling there bags with sweet from the pick n mix section, i went up to an assistant and told him that 3 charming young men were helping themselves to the sweets, at which point i do have to question "are woolies staff bred in a special farm or something" because the young man in question just stared at me with glassy eyes and said "OH".

My Missus works there, you'd probably get a similar response from her, which keeps me happy. Why should she risk getting a needle in her from some worthless smackhead just because Woolies are too tight to hire security?

My Missus works there, you'd probably get a similar response from her, which keeps me happy. Why should she risk getting a needle in her from some worthless smackhead just because Woolies are too tight to hire security?

Having worked in retail for almost 20 years, and having been threatened more times than i care to remember, including with needles, bats, fists, and frozen legs of lamb (thats another story), and even though the company i work for only employs 1 security guard, i will still tackle a shoplifter. if the store that i work for has a bad stock then its us thats gets the blame, i enjoy my job, and i wouldnt like to lose it just cos some little bugger thinks that just cos they cant afford to pay for it they should take it anyway.

Having worked in retail for almost 20 years, and having been threatened more times than i care to remember, including with needles, bats, fists, and frozen legs of lamb (thats another story), and even though the company i work for only employs 1 security guard, i will still tackle a shoplifter. if the store that i work for has a bad stock then its us thats gets the blame, i enjoy my job, and i wouldnt like to lose it just cos some little bugger thinks that just cos they cant afford to pay for it they should take it anyway.

Fair point, I had the same experience when I worked in retail. Death threats, assurances that they'd be waiting for me outside at the end of my shift (neither of which came to anything), shouted arguments in the middle of the shop, ejecting junkies from the shop, and perhaps worst - having to retreive stock that junkies would often stuff down their trousers. I confronted them too, it really wound me up that there was a hard core of them, same faces every single day, trying the same pathetic methods every time to take our stock, right under our noses like we were effing stupid. It's frustrating having to keep one eye on the door so you can shout 'Out!' as soon as one of the regulars walks in, or to have to go through the same old argument when one slips past and starts helping themselves.
I stand by my original point though, some Woolies staff are bred in a special farm i'm sure, but my girlfriend doesn't think the risk of confrontation is worth the reward and I back her all the way.

segasonic i entirely see your point, when a customer threatened to shoot me for refusing to serve him alcohol, my husband wanted to go out find him and belt the living daylights out of him, i had to physcially restrain him from doing so, pointing out that its not worth the punishment he would recieve from doing it.

I was once in woolworths on the moor, and i saw 3 teenagers filling there bags with sweet from the pick n mix section, i went up to an assistant and told him that 3 charming young men were helping themselves to the sweets, at which point i do have to question "are woolies staff bred in a special farm or something" because the young man in question just stared at me with glassy eyes and said "OH".

The staff at woolies are NOT bred in a special farm!!!!!, They work damned hard in that place against an endless stream of shoplifters!, for some reason the place just seems to be a magnet for all the fruit-loops, nutters and downright wierdo's from all over sheffield who wanna help themselves to the stock.
There's not a lot you can do really, most of the staff won't approach shoplifters and i can't say's i blame them, they're not paid to do it, i do it anyways, there's no way some scruffy moron's gonna walk out of that place wiv stuff if i see it happenin, chased no end of people out of there, even stopped people bagging up stock in binliners/holdalls/jackets/shoving it up clothing etc...
I know it's a risk, am sure some of them are on drugs when they come in but someone's gotta stop 'em, an i'm just damn fed up of the lot of them!!!!!!!!!

sorry if i'm ranting but this is a very sore issue for me!!!

:rant: ~Aaaarrrrgggghhhhh :rant:

The moor: a grotty smeg hole infested with things that bite your face.


True.It used to be so nice once, up until the late 1980's it was a classy shopping area....then the charity shops and pound shops arrived....DISASTER. Flies for the scumbags of Sheffield, the rotting meat for those inbred CHAV tossers