Would this be considered shoplifting?

Question

If you go to the store, they normally have a tester "Try me!" product for you totest, and then the product for sale behind it. If you were to leave the store with thetester, would that be considered shoplifting? Technically, it is a free sample......

Answer 1

Yes, to remove anything from a store without paying is shoplifting. You test in the store only.

Answer 2

Did you seriously even have to ask that? It is not a free sample. The only reason it says tester on it is so that people don't start tearing open every package and spraying it on themselves. The store paid for the tester just like it paid for all the other bottles! I work in loss prevention and I've caught so many people stealing testers it's not even funny! It's merchandise, just like the clothes, food, or whatever else is in the store. If you pick it up, pass all the registers and exit without paying for it, you're stealing it. Any court will tell you that and any judge will sentence you for it. By the way, it doesn't even matter if it has a barcode on it or not. If the store can prove you stole it (my job along with dozens of cameras) then you shoplifted. If you walk into the store and leave without paying for it, it's shoplifting. I can't believe you had to ask that. If you steal spoons or forks from the store deli, its shoplifting. It belongs to the store, you stole it, you're busted.

Answer 3

now it depends on what you are talking about.
Of course it isnt shoplifting to take a food sample out the door.
But if the sample is meant to be used over and over for multiple people, like a fragrance bottle, then you would be stealing.
They wouldn't want you to take the whole tray of little sample cheeses. Just one.
Now here's the way around it.
Bring a container that you can transfer multiple samples worth into. And say you are bringing it to a disabled friend.

I know I'm bad.

Answer 4

yes as a store detective I know it is still considered shoplifting the product is considered to be used in the store as a tester not for the customer or employee to just leave with it

Answer 5

If you walk out with the bottle, it is theft. Even though it is not for sale, it is the property of the store. Spray all you want, douse a kleenex, and rub it on later, but the moment you walk out with the bottle, you are a thief. Ask the sales gal for a sealed sample, sometimes they have them in upscale stores, but they don't leave them out in view for the obvious reasons

Answer 6

IT SAYS TEST THE PRODUCT, NOT STEAL IT. DIDN'T YOUR FAMILY TEACH YOU THE DIFFERENCE?....OR ARE YOU TOO YOUNG TOO UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE? DO YOU THINK THE STORE OWNER WOULD HAVE SAID IT WOULD BE OKAY IF YOU ASKED THEM IF YOU COULD TAKE IT AND KEEP IT? I DOUBT IT VERY MUCH....MY MOMMA ALWAYS TOLD ME," IF YOU WANT SOMETHING, ASK FOR IT, IF THEY SAY NO, THEN IT'S NOT YOUR' FOR THE TAKING"....A FUNNY THING ABOUT ME IS, EVERY TIME I EVER STOLE SOMETHING, THE PALMS OF MY HANDS SEEMED TO GET HOT AND BURN....AND MY MOUTH WOULD GET DRY....." MOMMA USED TO SAY THAT ,THAT WAS THE DEVIL'S FIRE!....BURNING MY HANDS AND THE HEAT WOULD BOIL THE LIQUID IN MY MOUTH.." NOW, WHENEVER I;M TEMPTED TO DO ANYTHING ,AND I'M NOT SURE IF IT WOULD BE RIGHT OR WRONG TO DO, I ASK MYSELF TWO QUESTIONS, 1) WOULD MY MOTHER BE PROUD OF ME FOR DOING THIS? 2) WOULD GOD BE PROUD OF ME DOING THIS? AND IF I CAN'T HONESTLY ANSWER YES TO BOTH QUESTIONS, THEN I KNOW THAT WHAT I'M THINKING ABOUT DOING IS WRONG....MORALS ARE WRITTEN IN STONE...THEY NEVER CHANGE .NEITHER TIME NOR CIRCUMSTANCES CAN CHANGE WHAT AND WHEN SOMETHING IS RIGHT OR WRONG....RIGHT WILL ALWAYS BE RIGHT AND WRONG WILL ALWAYS BE WRONG, NO MATTER WHEN ,WHERE, AND WHY......JEFF B HAD THE OPORTUNITY TO HELP SOMEONE GAIN A SENSE OF GOOD MORAL ETHICS BUT FAILED BY TRYING TO JUSTIFY HIS OWN SHORT-COMINGS AND SHOWED THAT HE ,HIMSELF SHOULD NOT BE AN EXAMPLE OF SOME ONE THAT YOU SHOULD TAKE ADVICE FROM.....SORRY JEFF B., BUT LYING TO JUSTIFY WHY YOU ARE STEALING, ISN'T " A WAY AROUND IT" AS YOU SAID, IT'S STILL STEALING...YOU SHOULD TRY AND LEARN SOMETHING ABOUT BEING HONEST,TRUSTWORTHY AND MORAL BEFORE YOU HAND OUT ADVICE TO OTHERS.....I'M SURE YOU ARE A NICE PERSON, BUT THERE ARE STILL MANY LESSONS IN LIFE ,YET TO LEARN....I MEAN NO OFFENCE TO YOU.....

Answer 7

I think it would be considered shop lifting. Everybody pretty much understands it is the store's property and they are letting people have a test sample of the product--thats why its there, its not provided so that people can take it home.

Answer 8

the only way it would not be shoplifting is if the store actually handed it to you and said heres a free sample you may take it with you

Answer 9

yes, i would, and have busted people for taking the testers. you know its not yours and that it is for a trial.
be prepared to be stopped if you take it. although now we keep ours behind the counter. and actually it works out for the better, because the girls i busted admitted to taking the testers, because they 'thought ' they were free. makes my job easier because i don't need to have a nice long interrogation while the cops show up to get you to admit to it.
what they don't know is me and my partner were behind them the whole time listening to what they said and they used the word steal quite a few times.

Answer 10

Most retailers forbid LP from making stops on testers. a "tester" lose sits value once opened therefore the store already willingly sacrificed its profit on that item. If you need more info on shoplifting try this site

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