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The Complete Guide
to
Kmart and Target
Fun
by:
the Hysterical One
and
Breeon
March 10th, 1988
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Many a person has departed from his employment with
past secrets of the company he worked for. When those
secrets can benefit others, it's logical to pass those on.
As past employees of those incredible culture centers of
flashing blue lights and red vests, we felt it necessary to
let the world know about the information. Have fun!
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/ /
/ Kmart /
/_________/
Kmart, the home of the flashing blue light, provides
much fun and opportunity for financial gain.
TYFSOK (pronounced tife-sock). This cute little acronym is
the little saying that we all get sick of whenever we visit
Kmart. It stands for "Thank you for shopping our Kmart."
If you leave, and are not told TYFSOK by the checkout
individual, immediately go to the service desk and ask for
the manager. Explain to him that the checkout person did
not say the TYFSOK crap, and you will be rewarded with a $10
gift certificate. TYFSOK is a way of life for the Kmart
Checkout operator.
Shoplifting. Kmart has had a large share of shoplifting.
The security systems in all the stores I have visited are
very state-of-the-art. The important lookout for the number
of cameras scanning is to look for large black-plexiglass
covers just above the top level of shelving in the stores.
These "windows" house either a person watching, or a camera
scanning.
Although they don't want you to know it, Kmart very
rarely has the "pseudo-customer." Usually this person is
hired during the Christmas season. Be on the lookout for a
30-40 year old man or woman, dressed in average clothing for
the area you are in. Be watchful for friendliness with
working store clerks, and if you aren't sure, follow that
person around. The average "Kmart psuedo-customer" looks
fairly obvious, when you spend 2 hours in a store and don't
purchase a thing.
The important notation: Say you are in the sporting
goods department, and you just stashed softball glove, or
fishing reel, or something in your jacket and are about to
make a hasty getaway. If you hear the wonderful call
"Three-hundred and a half from sporting goods, three-hundred
and a half from sporting goods..." in a nice calm tone, you
have been spotted. Get out of the store as fast as possible
if you are going to get away. Kmart employees are
instructed to follow you as far as possible. Many Kmarts
are in Mall areas, so that person will usually stash his
name tag in his pocket, and follow you. Be wary, if you
take the risk.
Fires: If you hear over the P.A. system..." Caroline
to the Garden Shop, Caroline to the Garden Shop," there is a
fire alarm going off in the Garden Shop. Almost always it
is a false alarm, usually arising with someone trying to go
out of a door they aren't supposed to.
The Blue Light. The Blue light runs off of a car
battery, is on wheels, is never in storage, and there are
usually 3-4 at most stores, with two being the minimum
number. The blue light charges all night with a 6 amp
trickle charger for car batteries. Generally, someone who
"looks" like a Kmart employee can take one and move it
around without saying anything, although I have yet to meet
anyone with the balls to steal one. Nevertheless, it would
provide a VERY nice addition to the college dorm room
decoration.
Other calls: Using the intercom on an in-store Kmart
phone usually means hitting a button labeled "P.A." A call
of "One-thousand to the xxx department, one-thousand to the
xxx department" is a call for assistance in the xxx
department. The only use of this to you might be for you to
go ahead and call for assistance yourself, or to check and
see if the person on duty in that department is around.
"Three-ten to the xxx department, three-ten to the xxx
department" is a call for the manager to go to whichever
department. This is not and emergency call, it's for
customer asstance, or to void a cash register operation,
etc... All these calls are repeated twice.
Returning merchandise: Although they don't advertise
it, most Kmarts have a no-receipt-necessary refund policy.
They boast about the ease in returning merchandise at any
Kmart, regardless of where it was purchased. What this
means, is that you can pretty much return anything to Kmart,
if it is sold at Kmart. You will receive the current price
in of that merchandise in the store. So, if you return
something that is on sale, you will get the sale price. If
you wait until after the sale, you will get the regular
price. In fact, should you be so lucky as to get into the
Kmart garbage room, you can get broken merchandise (although
it is usually destroyed, sometimes you get lucky), and
return it for a full refund. Refunds mean that you will
have your name and home address and phone number recorded,
but they don't require identification, so you can leave any
kind of data. Exchanges require no recording.
Bogus Credit Card booklets: Every cashier has one of
the booklets issued by credit card companies, listing their
stolen credit cards. The employee or the store gets a $50
bonus for retrieving stolen credit cards. I have found it
quite easy, however, to take off with one of these books,
because they just lie around on top of the cash register
within full reach.
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/ /
/ Target /
/__________/
Target, the land of the red vests, doesn't have as many
opportunities as Kmart, but nevertheless, some.
Shoplifting: Target has on duty at all times at least
one "pseudo-customer." They are of all ages, but most
don't push shopping carts around. The men usually walk
around with a compact disc while the women usually have
clothing of some sort. Frequently the security people are
rotated among the stores in the district, so the Target
employees don't even know who the "pseudo-customers" are.
Of course, there are usually more at Christmas.
If you see someone peeking around the end of an aisle
at you, or following you around, they are watching you. If
you are approaching the door with stolen merchandise, and
you are a person that looks like an obvious trouble maker,
you will hear a "Manager on duty nine nine nine" repeated
twice, you soon see a lot of excited young men in red vests
rapidly approaching the front doors. If you already outside
the doors, you better kick it in the ass; Target employees
will follow you, even pursue you in cars, through swamps,
woods. If you ditch the merchandise, they will hunt that
stuff down too, so they can nail you for it. If you are not
out of the doors yet, leave the merchandise in a cart and
walk out the door without it. You have to have the stuff
out of the door before they can get you for shoplifting.
As far as cameras, their ceiling panels have holes in
them, and the cameras are hidden above. It is nearly
impossible to determine where the cameras are, or where they
are recording. They will watch the employees also; there
are cameras in employee areas. Occasionally, there are
two-way mirros in the store, but they aren't often used and
are less effective than cameras.
Fires: If you run out of a fire door, an alarm will
sound and an employee will be there as soon as possible,
and another employee will either call "Security" if they see
someone running from the door (theft suspicion) or call
"Manager on duty" if the door opening was an accident. If
you hear "Code Red xxx department" repeated 3 or 4 times,
there is a fire in the xxx department. If you want to see
another large group of excited young men in red vests
rapidly approaching a department with fire extinguishers,
just go up to any in-store phone, dial 4 to get the intercom
and say the above page. To dial out on an in-store phone,
dial 9, and if you get another dial tone, you have an
outside line, and if you get a busy signal, then you can not
dial out of that phone.
Returns of merchandise: When returning any merchandise
without a receipt, Target will give you the last sale price
of that merchandise instead of the sale price. If you
return something without a receipt valued over $100, they
will record your name and keep the record for a month, for
comparison purposes (i.e. you are returning a lot of
merchandise). Identification is required if a refund is
issued for an item over $100. Exchanges can be made for the
same item, for any reason (you can't exchange shoes for
bowling balls, etc...).
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/ /
/ In closing /
/______________/
In closing we would like to add several things. Both
of these stores have very good security, and theft and
mischief is a hell of a lot easier in other stores.
Nevertheless, people will try. Of course, this information
will change if too many people know about it. As far as any
personal reasons for making this file, we said "What the
phuck..." Ha ha ha....
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Typed March 10th, 1988 at 8:29:39 pm.
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