store detectives
Retail security staff
Store detectives are plainclothes security personnel who monitor retail establishments for shoplifting and other theft.
Unlike uniformed guards, they blend in with regular customers to observe suspicious behavior: The store detective followed him through three departments before confronting him at the exit.
Also called loss prevention officers.
- loss preventionProtecting store inventory
- shopliftingStealing store merchandise
- sticky fingersHabitual inclination to pilfer
- surveillanceSystematic observation of subjects
- eye in the skyAerial observation platform
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store detectivesshoplifters
Those who steal merchandise
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