cmjfoxfyre

yesterday was as slow as molasses. we did 9 and 12, the days previous...we were barely at 5500, when i left yesterday at 5pm.
apparently, Tuesday was when we got Hit in our womens' section. I came in like a Holy Terror in the morning, and railed about it, for maybe two hrs...
people were like, mehh, we're numb to this...
WTF?
yeah, i can't say i didn't start to feel similarly at AC, since i had a group that LOVED my children's table (growls)...but still. we cannot be jaded. we have to be alert.
oh yeah, and it was just a Stack of sweaters...it was like 4....
3k walked out the front goddamn door.
the entire front table of our Women's section...which was a Valentine's display table.
This Girl came into that section yesterday afternoon...asking for one of the sweaters that Walked...but looked everywhere around me, except at me...and smelled of Pot, and was dressed very Urban---in a nice way, but almost Too Nice...she fit the descript of a few ladies that have been cruising the store, too, within the last week.
we chatted for several minutes...she was really friendly...seemed to want to go the back of the store, but noticed i was not, so she thanked me and left.
i hate being paranoid. She had an odd vibe, but Not exactly like a shoplifter,...she could have been, and then chickened out...especially when she saw that the sweaters she was scoping were gone.

by the by...my mall isn't what i'd call an Urban Mall. You don't get a lot of teens just hanging out for the sake of hanging out...You get a normal amount...but if you go ACROSS town, to Oakridge, at 3pm? you can't walk thru the place without being bombarded with Kids with Nothing To Do.

you are more likely to run into Old White biddies in my mall, who wrinkle their noses if you say hello, and you look like you didn't come over on the Mayflower...

this is especially true for my store.

*sighs* time for work. cheers!