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[quote=Anonymous]DD15 and her friends stopped at a well-known store on their way home from school, one of her friends needed to purchase something. DD was stupidly fooling around in her backpack when she was approached by undercover/plain clothed security, and accused of stealing. They asked to see inside of her backpack, she stood her ground and said no, then they threatened to call security, to which she told them fine, go ahead, and that she wasn’t stealing. At that, they let her go and told them to leave?

Obviously, lesson learned: don’t fool around in your bag at a store, I guess? (I wouldn’t say it’s unusual or even inappropriate for a woman to access the inside of her bag inside of a store? I know I have in the past, for various and sundry reasons. But I digress.)

I’m a little fired up. If this was an employee of the store, clearly they had no proof of shoplifting (she didn’t, and I trust her) or they would have detained her or at the very least, called security as they had threatened to do, and it feels somehow like ageism and harassment. At worst, this wasn’t even an employee, but some random person following around 15yo girls.

I’m considering escalating and speaking to a manager, at minimum to find out if this person following the girls was, in fact, and employee, and if so, where they get off accosting them needlessly and without clear proof. Thoughts? Do I need to take a breath and step back, or would you be upset, too?[/quote]

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