On Saturday, May 31, 2014 9:36:00 AM UTC-4, bob haller wrote:
This occured in pittsburgh area



I wondered why people ALWAYS had HD and lowes cards on craigslists for big bucks, like 500 bucks and up.



This scheme reportedly cost HD and lowes over a million bucks



Walk in store, get a big flat cart, pick up high value items all over the store, push cart to returns desk, conveniently located inside store, no need to go outdoors



If they actually did it that way, then it's the stores
own fault for being so dumb. Lowes here has the returns
area separate from the rest of the store and you couldn't walk into it without going outside first.
It's really pushing it to believe that thieves could
load a whole cart up with stuff inside the store and
then take it straight over to returns without being
noticed.



Return the items you never paid for, since you have no receipt they give you gift cards which you sell later, on craiglist at bargain prices.



Use one of your many fake driver licenses.. since they record who you are.



Get wealthy, stores sees MAJOR shrink, and finally catches the thieves.



Theft ring now get 3 hots and a cot in prison.....

You would think the store would have some limit on
how much they will refund via that mechanism. It seems
reasonable not to require a receipt for $15 worth of
plumbing fittings, a hand tool or two, etc. But when
you're rolling up a car with $500, the store would have
to be nuts not to require a receipt for at least most
of it.