This tubby and crafty Walmart shopper took 54 copies of Madden 2012 home with him, saving himself $3,287.84, and he used Walmart's offerings to help him in the theft.
Late last month this shopper was caught being resourceful at Wally World. The video you see above shows him taking several copies of Madden 2012 for both PS3 and Xbox 360, but he didn't leave the store from there. He proceeded to the hardware department, where he used the tools there to pry open the security cases and take the games. Police said that he returned to this display again and again to totally clean it out!
He made a clean getaway by stashing the games on his person. Orange Park, Florida authorities are still looking for this man.
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How on earth was he able to open all 54 cases inside the store without anyone catching him? I don't exactly have high expectations of Walmart, but c'mon...
They will only be worth $35 in a year from now anyway. Which the way the judicial system works in this country, it'll be a misdemeanor and not a felony.
You assume that people who actually work at Wal-mart give 2 shits about the company. Did he take the discs only or full case? If full case, how the hell do you smuggle that on your person?
Of all the games he could've stole 54 copies of, of all the games. Madden 2k12 is going to be obsolete in a year, won't be worth shit by then. He should've stole something of value like a special edition of some game or a niche game.
Having worked at Walmart for 5 years, I can safely say all that the security team could've done about it if they didn't catch him in the act with their own eyes is hold the door open for him on his way out and say "thank you come again".
I have always had this dream where a store just says, "Take all the games you want, they are on us." Never in that dream was a single copy of Madden involved.
The problem with Walmart is they employ dumb managers, I've seen worse. $50 dollar calculators by the exit <- (WTF) of the gardening section with no security on them at all. Let just say they put them out one day and they were gone by the next.
I feel bad for being impressed by this. I also feel disappointed in Wal-Mart for somehow not catching this guy...but then again...this is Wal-Mart we're talking about.
It doesn't work like that. There is a team of jackasses higher up in the chain that looks at sales and the order in which people buy shit. That team of fuckheads then sends something called a 'planogram' to every store in a district. The managers then have the underlings set the store according to planogram, and if they don't, they get fired. I'm not even kidding, they really do have what you buy and the order you buy it in down to a fucking science, and everything you see in almost any corporate store is run this way.
The problem with walmart is that they pay employees like dogshit and the assets protection team is typically teenagers or old, fat people that couldn't make it as cops. It's also worth pointing out that most retailers would rather the employees see the theft and do nothing, and tell their bosses later than confront the thief.
Walmart employees can be fired for "accusing" someone of theft. All you can do as an associate is ask them if you can help them and then contact management and wait for them to put down the softee's donuts and come fucking do their job.
Walmart's security is a joke. Over 50+ copies of Halo Reach and just about every copy of every sports game we had last holiday season were stolen in the blink of an eye.
In my gameing store where i used to work, if the cryminal escaped us, we were sticking his images we printed off from cctv to the window with "this man is a thief" note in capital letters for everyone to know. People loved it btw XD
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1:15 PM on 09.28.2011 | 
I mean, DUMB motherfuckers. Not only the thief, but the retards at Wally who saw this happening and durr-hurr-responded to the herp-derp-dee-doo cops.
Fuck, Florida has some fucking stupids.
You assume that people who actually work at Wal-mart give 2 shits about the company. Did he take the discs only or full case? If full case, how the hell do you smuggle that on your person?
i know. every time i see a news story about some dumb theft or even dumber negligent act, i assume it happened here.
Man, people amaze me.
In a year all of those will be worth nothing.
Whatever, idiots will be idiots.
He did this every month for about a year, until he was sent to juvi for huffing paint (or something).
Dumb managers, indeed.
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It doesn't work like that. There is a team of jackasses higher up in the chain that looks at sales and the order in which people buy shit. That team of fuckheads then sends something called a 'planogram' to every store in a district. The managers then have the underlings set the store according to planogram, and if they don't, they get fired. I'm not even kidding, they really do have what you buy and the order you buy it in down to a fucking science, and everything you see in almost any corporate store is run this way.
The problem with walmart is that they pay employees like dogshit and the assets protection team is typically teenagers or old, fat people that couldn't make it as cops. It's also worth pointing out that most retailers would rather the employees see the theft and do nothing, and tell their bosses later than confront the thief.
I was told this by a manager. No shit.
Walmart employees can be fired for "accusing" someone of theft. All you can do as an associate is ask them if you can help them and then contact management and wait for them to put down the softee's donuts and come fucking do their job.
Shut up jimmyx.