[Budge]

Mom works at one of the affected Wal-Marts. She says most of the people assigned to the doorways ("greeters") do not pay attention to such details. It's usually a case of inexperience, and not wanting to "rock the boat"...

I am a greeter at a Wal-Mart, and we must pay attention to such details, and more. There is a way to handle a situation like that without "rocking the boat," but it takes experience and cooperation with management.

[petuniasevan]

Exactly - but when a store has to hire kids with no experience, well...

It's pretty easy to distract a "newbie" if you know what you're doing. I once attended a loss prevention course that demonstrated some of the techniques used.

Persons working in pairs was a common theme.

I think Wal Mart (the local ones for sure) needs to train the greeters and cart getters in loss prevention techniques. Some practice "real life" situations would help.

I'm sure you've been well-trained and all, and are experienced. But looking at the story, one sees that the perps were doing this 2-person ripoff in a 5-state region, and weren't caught. Not by greeters; not by LP.