Spotted on the Selling Floor: Junkies, chromers and vomit...oh my!

This week’s Spotted is going to be taking on a different form, as I am not writing about celebrities I have seen, but strange occurrences.

I have said it before; clearance customers are a strange, strange breed and today I bore witness to some prime examples of why.

To say the standard of clientele drops during sale is a grave understatement however until today I never understood HOW low it actually could get.

This afternoon I was hanging out in my section, tidying racks, talking to customers…the usual retail shtick when a young guy shiftily shuffled past me with a cap on (a telltale sign that someone is going to shoplift) and with something in his hand.

It was not what you would be thinking.

You see, his hand was holding glue and it was under his nose while he breathed in quite heavily. Yes my friends, I spotted someone chroming…in my very own section.

While this is quite bad, it wasn’t the worst of our weekend clients. You see earlier that day a lady was spotted stealing a designer handbag on a lower level before walking up to my floor to use the bathroom.

My first issue is why the hell would you go UP a level after stealing something rather than exiting the store? It’s like running upstairs when being chased by a serial killer…or so Sidney Prescott told me. Idiotic. My second issue is that the woman wasn’t using the bathroom to well, use the bathroom. She was however, shooting up.

Needless to say after security tracked her down after a one-minute chase (literally them catching the lift upstairs), the police were called and she was carted away.

What was the only thing that could ice this weekend off? I watched a woman walk of the escalator in front of me and vomit on the shop floor.

Junkies, chromers and vomit...oh my!