Many stores around the country accept returns without a receipt. Some have date restrictions, or a credit transaction look up if you do not have the receipt, but others let you exchange or return merchandise with only an id. Wal-marts’ policy time restriction is 90 days with some exceptions with electronics, otherwise you can get a cash refund for purchases under $25 dollars or store credit for purchases of over $25. Target, office Depot, Lowes, Kohl’s and other stores do not require a receipt, although they can look up the transaction with your membership or credit card transaction. Making your policy clear on purchases this holiday season can save your business money and avoid the confusion with your employees about the return policy of the store. For more information about shoplifting, follow the links below.
Shoplifting suspect arrested after running out of gas during chase
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Snellville police nabbed a suspected serial shoplifter earlier this week after a harrowing chase through five jurisdictions that ended when the suspect ran out of gas.
Carl Ashley Thompson, 30, of Ball Ground, was taken into custody Tuesday. He faces a slew of traffic violation charges, along with three counts of felony theft by shoplifting, fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer, criminal trespass and for possessing drug-related objects.
No one was injured during the chase, which began when an officer tried to stop Thompson around 3:40 a.m. for speeding – going 51 mph in a 35 mph zone. The officer also noticed that the car had no license plate.
Shoplifting leads to drug discovery
COOKEVILLE — A reported shoplifting led to more trouble for one Cookeville woman.
According to a police report filed by Cookeville Police Officer Kenneth Frye, it began with a reported shoplifting around 3 p.m. Friday at Kohl’s department store on Jackson. A female was reported to have left the location without paying for some items.
Dispatch gave him a description of the vehicle and the tag, which he located traveling south on South Willow Avenue. He stopped the vehicle in the area of 851 S. Willow Ave. and came into contact with the driver, identified as Fawn Price of Top Road, Cookeville.
“During a consent search of her person, I located a black “straw” with white residue,” Frye’s report states. “Price told me that she used it to ‘snort’ Hydrocodone.”
Addicts target Wal-Mart in shoplifting scheme
INDIANAPOLIS – Feeding a heroin addiction often means addicts resort to stealing – from friends, family and businesses.
For former heroin addict Ashley Milburn, it meant a shoplifting scheme involving a group of women earning hundreds of dollars a day illicitly by scamming Wal-Mart.
Milburn, now serving time behind bars, spoke to Call 6 Investigator Rafael Sanchez about how she used to steal from the big box retailer – and how she’s sure her fellow heroin users are still going about it.
The key to the scam: Wal-Mart’s no-receipt policy for returns.
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