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Cruyff14 said:
Not hard to spot the idiots or selfish people at a shopping centre.

Today, three women thought it would be a wonderful idea to have a conversation in the middle of a walkway with their trollies.

Then at Aldi two old biddies were walking side by side with a trolley each occupying the width of the aisle. FFS.

Please, do share.
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Think you probably need to get out a bit more mate. Very boring thread idea.
 
TheEscapeClub said:
I'll get to it when I get home from work today. I worked at Coles in Corio Village, Geelong in the mid to late 80s.

There's a few I can think of.
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You survived to tell the stories ....well 👍 done ...
 
TheEscapeClub said:
At least one of our customers didn't, we put him on a trolley and wheeled him into the fruit and vege cold store until the coromer arrived.
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Heard a guy poured petrol over another guy car at a different place .
Unsure if he lit it or not.

And the other guy broke both his legs because he ride his motorbike drunk.
 
We had a heap of different security calls at Coles and three of us used to take turns in sitting in with shoplifters, it was a good bludge, the coppers didn't care about them so they could take up to 3 hours to show up and we'd just sit there with them and the store detective.

We get the call over the loudspeaker one day around lunchtime when the store is dead, the three of us bolt for the front of the store to nab the offender. We get there and all the checkout chicks are telling us they ran out the electronic doors to the carpark so we take off in that direction.

We're now out in a little side carpark and customers outside point in the direction the perps were running. We come around the corner and an elderly couple point out a car and say they jumped in it.

We keep bolting after the car as it takes off, it's exiting the carpark at a t-intersection so we catch up on it before it moves off. Since we're working hard for this one, as the fastest runner, I say if I get them, I'm the one sitting in with them.

The car turns left and heads up for another t-intersection onto a busy main road, Bacchus Marsh Rd. Again it gets held up as we get closer, it's sitting behind 4 or 5 other cars and a bus. I get about 2 car lengths away and the back window comes down and a sawn-off shotgun slides out the window and points in my direction.

Woops, I come to a screaming halt, I hear a voice tell me to **** off and then the traffic starts to move off and they get going. The other two catch up and we all just look at each other and laugh. We walk up to the intersection just in time to see the car turn left onto Harpur Rd. As we turn around to walk back to the store, we see a cop car come screaming down from the brand new Corio copshop on Bacchus Marsh. We're waving and pointing, the coppers stop and look at us and then continue on their way into the shopping centre carpark.

We get back to the store, the manager calls us in a tears strips off us then I walk out and see the coppers, I know both of them as my brother was a copper in Geelong at the time and they asked me what we were doing. I told them we were pointing in the direction the crooks went. A short time later they find the car abandoned behind the Detroit Crescent shops.

Chubb used to come in and pick our money up each day, they'd have two armed guards, they'd take the money in a tin and exchange it for a cheque. The armed robbers, walked up behind them with the sawn off shotties told them to get on the floor, relieved them of their sidearms and the tin with $100,000 in it. On the way out, one of the managers walked out of another office and he got the twin barrels smashed into his scrawny chest and left a perfect bruise in the shape of said barrels.
 

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Mothers in hysterics because their little kid has gone missing, wailing and hyperventilating on the floor. We'd put a call out and call centre management to put it out across the whole centre. A few minutes later someone would walk up with the kid at which point the mother would start screeching at the kid and then hold them up by one arm and give them the hiding of their life in front of everyone. This was a regular occurrence.
 
Was going to the footy on the train 🚆 last year.

Group of guys talking crap.then one bumps into a older soild guy as train was packed people stand up ...thought hear we go ..
Then this older goes to the young guys I though my mates were the king of shite talking but you guys take the cake the whole cake..
What do you guys do ...young feller goes we work at Cole's 😂.
Over heard them talking about eating frozen cookies etc from the freezer area cool room maybe.
 
TheEscapeClub said:
We had a heap of different security calls at Coles and three of us used to take turns in sitting in with shoplifters, it was a good bludge, the coppers didn't care about them so they could take up to 3 hours to show up and we'd just sit there with them and the store detective.

We get the call over the loudspeaker one day around lunchtime when the store is dead, the three of us bolt for the front of the store to nab the offender. We get there and all the checkout chicks are telling us they ran out the electronic doors to the carpark so we take off in that direction.

We're now out in a little side carpark and customers outside point in the direction the perps were running. We come around the corner and an elderly couple point out a car and say they jumped in it.

We keep bolting after the car as it takes off, it's exiting the carpark at a t-intersection so we catch up on it before it moves off. Since we're working hard for this one, as the fastest runner, I say if I get them, I'm the one sitting in with them.

The car turns left and heads up for another t-intersection onto a busy main road, Bacchus Marsh Rd. Again it gets held up as we get closer, it's sitting behind 4 or 5 other cars and a bus. I get about 2 car lengths away and the back window comes down and a sawn-off shotgun slides out the window and points in my direction.

Woops, I come to a screaming halt, I hear a voice tell me to **** off and then the traffic starts to move off and they get going. The other two catch up and we all just look at each other and laugh. We walk up to the intersection just in time to see the car turn left onto Harpur Rd. As we turn around to walk back to the store, we see a cop car come screaming down from the brand new Corio copshop on Bacchus Marsh. We're waving and pointing, the coppers stop and look at us and then continue on their way into the shopping centre carpark.

We get back to the store, the manager calls us in a tears strips off us then I walk out and see the coppers, I know both of them as my brother was a copper in Geelong at the time and they asked me what we were doing. I told them we were pointing in the direction the crooks went. A short time later they find the car abandoned behind the Detroit Crescent shops.

Chubb used to come in and pick our money up each day, they'd have two armed guards, they'd take the money in a tin and exchange it for a cheque. The armed robbers, walked up behind them with the sawn off shotties told them to get on the floor, relieved them of their sidearms and the tin with $100,000 in it. On the way out, one of the managers walked out of another office and he got the twin barrels smashed into his scrawny chest and left a perfect bruise in the shape of said barrels.
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It seems a bit extreme to steal a car and point a shottie for a bit of shoplifting but that's Corio for you.
 
TheEscapeClub said:
We had a heap of different security calls at Coles and three of us used to take turns in sitting in with shoplifters, it was a good bludge, the coppers didn't care about them so they could take up to 3 hours to show up and we'd just sit there with them and the store detective.

We get the call over the loudspeaker one day around lunchtime when the store is dead, the three of us bolt for the front of the store to nab the offender. We get there and all the checkout chicks are telling us they ran out the electronic doors to the carpark so we take off in that direction.

We're now out in a little side carpark and customers outside point in the direction the perps were running. We come around the corner and an elderly couple point out a car and say they jumped in it.

We keep bolting after the car as it takes off, it's exiting the carpark at a t-intersection so we catch up on it before it moves off. Since we're working hard for this one, as the fastest runner, I say if I get them, I'm the one sitting in with them.

The car turns left and heads up for another t-intersection onto a busy main road, Bacchus Marsh Rd. Again it gets held up as we get closer, it's sitting behind 4 or 5 other cars and a bus. I get about 2 car lengths away and the back window comes down and a sawn-off shotgun slides out the window and points in my direction.

Woops, I come to a screaming halt, I hear a voice tell me to **** off and then the traffic starts to move off and they get going. The other two catch up and we all just look at each other and laugh. We walk up to the intersection just in time to see the car turn left onto Harpur Rd. As we turn around to walk back to the store, we see a cop car come screaming down from the brand new Corio copshop on Bacchus Marsh. We're waving and pointing, the coppers stop and look at us and then continue on their way into the shopping centre carpark.

We get back to the store, the manager calls us in a tears strips off us then I walk out and see the coppers, I know both of them as my brother was a copper in Geelong at the time and they asked me what we were doing. I told them we were pointing in the direction the crooks went. A short time later they find the car abandoned behind the Detroit Crescent shops.

Chubb used to come in and pick our money up each day, they'd have two armed guards, they'd take the money in a tin and exchange it for a cheque. The armed robbers, walked up behind them with the sawn off shotties told them to get on the floor, relieved them of their sidearms and the tin with $100,000 in it. On the way out, one of the managers walked out of another office and he got the twin barrels smashed into his scrawny chest and left a perfect bruise in the shape of said barrels.
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Do you know if the guys were caught?
 
Cruyff14 said:
Do you know if the guys were caught?
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Never caught.

Jeez we used to take some cash in that store. For a time in the mid to later 70s it was the number one store in Australia and when I started as an afterschool casual in December '83 it was number 5 or 6 in Victoria.

Easter Saturday was always our busiest day of the year, we'd be clearing $100k an hour out of the registers. We'd walk along with either me or another male staff member pushing a little metal trolley with a couple of concrete pavers in the bottom of it, the office chick would open each register (22 of them plus 2 in the smoke kiosk and take all the excess 20s and 50s out of them) then we'd take it back to the cash office and count it all by hand.

One day leading into Christmas we were running out of coins, I was 16, they gave me one of those cloth bank bags with $20k in it to take around to the State Bank branch, right at the other end of the shopping centre to get change. I'd grab a trolley just before I got into the bank and they'd load it up. Once it was under weight, there always ended up being a dodgy wheel on the ****er. This was prior to $2 coins being introduced and just after the $1 coin was introduced, we were still using 1 and 2 cent coins. Bloody heavy work pushing it back.
 
rocker_oz33 said:
Was going to the footy on the train 🚆 last year.

Group of guys talking crap.then one bumps into a older soild guy as train was packed people stand up ...thought hear we go ..
Then this older goes to the young guys I though my mates were the king of shite talking but you guys take the cake the whole cake..
What do you guys do ...young feller goes we work at Cole's 😂.
Over heard them talking about eating frozen cookies etc from the freezer area cool room maybe.
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Jeez that is a long bow to make that fairly mediocre story related to shopping centres!
 
Sometimes I use to go to the shopping centre so that I can run the down escalator as a travelator from Gladiators
 
Passed a woman pushing a trolley with a toddler sitting in the little chair bit. Thought nothing of it because why would you?

Some older bloke (60s tops, so not old and senile, just older than the woman in her 20s or 30s) asked her about the headphones her kid was wearing and if they are to block out noise. She was like "yep" and I was thinking "No, he's listening to NWA and doesn't want to disrupt other customers...". He then proceeded to ask her did she get them there, then where she got them from, how much they cost, do they run on batteries... before telling her about the ones his brother bought and how he wants to buy some for himself and then his eventual life story. Poor woman must've tried to escape the conversation half a dozen times and he kept going. How do people not get social cues?
 

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