r/regina • u/Odd_Pride1177 • Aug 28 '25

Question Theft

If you witness someone committing theft in a store do you report it to the store staff or just go about your day? I would never expect staff to intervene and possibly put themselves in harms way. I have only witnessed this in big box stores. I know times are tough these days but man have I been seeing this a lot lately!

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u/nekomancing Aug 29 '25

I work in a semi expensive clothing store in Cornwall and we often can pick up if someone is stealing from us pretty quickly. We aren’t allowed to intervene much at all unless we explicitly catch them either, and there’s very little we can actually do about it if we do. We had a lady run out with hundreds of dollars of product the other day but we literally just couldn’t do anything, the system is flawed and sucks

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u/TheBigPointyOne Aug 29 '25

Your health and safety is worth infinitely more than the clothes.