WAIT!
They had time to push carts out, unload them, and drive off.
Doesn't Walmart have security guards?
I see one in a car at the East Naples Walmart all of the times I have gone there.

Another carload of thugs from Miami, I'll bet.

The security at walmart cant do anything. Their job is to observe and report to the police. Also, think about it... if you were a security guard at walmart... and some guy with a knife was stealing... would you try and stop him... i mean... you are a security guard at WALMART... would you even take the chance of getting hurt for $9.00 an hour?

I missed the part where it told what they look like. Were they young, old, Hispanic, white, black, fat, slim.
When you ask for help you need to post a description of what you have already.

That easy,like take a candy from a kid???just take the goods and go home??

What also is weird is that they must have watched them take down the luggage, start to load it, fill plastic bags, and that still didn't send out a BIG red flag to at least confront them and ask them what they were doing, instead of waiting for them to fill up the carts and THEN leave the store? Otherwise, how would they have known that information?

Doesn't Walmart have security cameras throughout the store?

It's like an open invitation for others to try the same thing.

Some of these theft stories are really suspicious, particularly the Victoria Secret's bra theft, where they had a full description of the thief and yet let him walk through the door.

Hmmmm.....

There are too many unknowns. I have to believe the descriptions are omitted for a reason. We don't want to profile ow do we?

According to the signs in the parking lot, there are cameras everywhere.

vinnylinx:
Good point.

Let's see how situations like these increase now.

So many people are so poor, they probably figure that they have nothing to lose by trying a stunt like this.

When I was a security guard in Chicago many years back, we had badges, received extensive training, summoned help from the burly guys in receiving by using a code over the intercom, and surrounded the thief when he got to the door. No one tried to escape of fight when surrounded by these big muscular guys who worked loading and unloading merchandise all day.
Then we held him for the police, who were there within minutes.
But I was never threatened with a weapon.

Times have really changed.

Maybe instead of arresting people for HAVING a suspended license in their possession, the CCSO will move on to bigger and better crimes like people who rob stores, etc.......

Poor? I guess they needed to sell the stuff they stole to put gas in their Expedition.

They may also have been in a stolen vehicle.

I went down the shoe isle in walmart to pick up a cheap pair of sandles . I found worned , dirty shoes in boxes , no wonder prices are so high.The theifs make it hard on us that actually were brought up to pay for our items and not to steal!

Usta wuz that a Wal-Mart employee actually had a share of the company. So they had a direct stake in seeing that the company did well. Then old man Sam up and died.

They should have called back to Sporting goods and told them to load up on base ball bats and "come a-runnin'"

They have cameras all over, both inside and out, but they don't like to tell you that because of the litegious time we live in. The cameras are more for their protection (by their I mean Wal Mart) than for the publics' safety.

Inside cameras watch the thieving employees, and outside cameras are used to defend themselves from slip-and-fall setups and the likes. I really don't like Wal Marts...it felt like I was on an alien (no pun here) planet the last visit I made there.

Post immigration at the front door and demand to see passports/id's as the customers enter. All joking aside, this is a complete break down of the in store security staff that every Wal-Mart has. Time to fire the entire loss prevention staff that was on the clock!

CutThroatLiberal, the secret is just to keep using it over and over and over and eventually it will become the norm.

And the "proper" term is "more harderer".

Whut? Isya ig'nant?

I wonder if the CCSO will catch these 3 burglars before they arrest 10 more people for carrying a suspended license in their wallet. My money would be on the later.

What's ridiculous is they watched and no one called the cops so they could be there when they tried to get away? Or was it like a shopping spree and they were in and out in 10 minutes? Very weird.

mt348
"Then again they are Walmart employees."

To MT348. Pretty condescending comment about the employees. Are you somehow better than they are?

vinnylinx2 is right...one of my relatives works at a local Wal-Mart as a greeter. Management forbids employees from chasing shoplifters beyond the threshold of the store and the parking lot.

It's probably easier and cheaper for Wal-Mart to just take the loss than to deal with the lawsuits brought by a employee who might chase a shoplifter and get injured or killed when a weapon gets drawn.

Not that I'd blame an employee for thinking it wasn't worth the risk to chase after a possibly dangerous shoplifting thug. After everything I've learned about Wal-Mart from my relative who works there, throwing your life away for that company would be about the most wasteful thing you could possibly do.

I agree with Pontiaction. There are MANY employers that will not allow employees to chase people who rob their stores. The companies would end up shelling out more money for law suits if that employee got shot compared to a cart full of goods just taken from their store.

Re: Post #7-the person got through the door at Victoria Secret's because the CCSO were too worried about arresting people for carrying a suspended license in their wallet. That's whats important to them, not criminals. Don't believe me? Go to the arrest log on CCSO website and look at all of the arrests for possession of a suspended license, not driving with it, just having it in your wallet. Makes you really wonder.........

You may already know this, but the price of an article in any store like Publix, Wal-Mart, etc., already has an amount added for theft. So if you pay for an item, you are also paying for one that was stolen. It is all figured in the cost.

So why bother to chase a thief. It is not worth the cost of litigation.

I dunno blueblood...I'm not buying your idea of paying for stolen goods every time you shop.

What bothers me most is the way they didn't notice his license plate.

Or the fact they didn't stop him at the truck.

Or call the police sometime in the shoplifting adventure.

This store is too big for me, and I feel like I'm going to be mugged any time I try to shop there.

There's obviously no control from store security either.

floridagirlforever:
Just curious, and please don't take this as sarcasm, but were you recently arrested for having a suspended license in your wallet?
I agree, it's ludicrous, but this matter seems to really have you bugged.

To Floridagirl4forever,
Sorry to hear about your suspended license, guess you did not know that driving with one was illegal????

Beetlejuice Don't take my word for it, check around. It is a known fact that the price charged for an item includes a percentage for spoiled or stolen product.

I agree about the license plate and the lack of a description of the perps.

To all that have inquired: No I haven't recently got arrested for driving on a suspended license, I just think it's ludacris reading through the arrest reports and seeing all of the people getting arrested by just HAVING a suspended license in their possession. There are soooooooooo many other crimes to be solved and this is what our tax money is going to, not to mention its jamming up the court system, when there are so many other crimes out there that need attending to. Thats all I have to say about this. Wake up Collier County and realize that this hideous type of arrest is not really a crime. It just compansates for the numerous amount of tax money WE ALL pay to keep the NUMEROUS amount of police in Collier County. WHAT A WASTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We're awake from your nonsense...and I can't sleep anyway.

So Ms. Ignorant Flgirl, this non-crime costs taxpayers big bucks in the long run.

The police are investigating, they are driving around in their expensive, gas guzzling old police cruisers looking for these robbers.

These robbers may have been caught if Walmart ever decides to hire, and PAY more for more qualified employees who can stop thieves in their tracks.

Write down the license plate number instead of trying to grab the goods back from the robbers next time.

But to you floridagirl, it's not really a crime.

It is just another day in the life of ignorance.

Just keep them away from the donuts!

Then you would be talking serious crime!