Safety Tips for Shoppers at  Shopping Centre’s and Retail Stores (Safety Blogs)

Retail Security: Important Warning

Welcome to our blog! Today we would like to educate you on how to safely navigate around  shopping centre, no matter how unsafe on dangerous it is.

Please feel free to read  all our shopping centre safety blogs; this will help you know the deep inner working of shopping centre’s and also help you have a great shopping experience!

Unruly Teenagers: Just as the shopping centre attracts senior citizens, it also attracts teenagers, but not all teens who patronise shopping centres are ‘unruly.’ Only a few of them hang around shopping centres and consistently cause trouble.

You can quickly identify these teens, they usually hang around the centre’s main entries, or if the shopping centre has a bus bay, you will find them hanging around there.

You will find them mostly under 18, and they are always asking passing patrons for smokes, a lighter or even begging for money, and other times you will see them provoking passers-by to a fight.

Warning: When you see a tiny teen trying to provoke you into a fight in the shopping centre, I will advise you to continue walking away, even if you think you can insert the teen in your wallet. The reason is that ‘tiny teen’ is not always acting alone, he has other ‘gang members’ waiting to pounce on you as soon as you give in to the fight bait and make a name for themselves.

Another shopping centre retail security tip: If you no longer feel safe because of the teens or someone else, walk into the nearest retail store and ask a staff member to assist you with the retail security guards phone number, so they can escort you to your car or the bus stop, or call the Police while you are in there.

Weird People: The shopping centre is like a magnet that attracts all kinds of people, often it draws the best of our community, and other times it also attracts few sick people, some creepy and weird. I won’t go into much details about the odd people in this article today.

Some of these people are harmless, but other times you find some to be misbehaving, you wouldn’t want them close to you or your child.

Vigilant: While out and about shopping, my advice is to keep a close watch of your bag, wallet, mobile phones or any other valuable you’ve got with you, I have seen incidents where an offender snatches a purse that was left on the dining table while the victim was busy eating. The majority of people that go to the shopping centres are good and decent citizens, but some individuals only frequent the centre to steal, shoplift and cause trouble.

Though the shopping centre might look beautiful, and the sale prices are too good to be true, always shop smart and shop safe, always keep an eye on your kids, phone, wallet, purse, car, shopping trolley, etc.

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Written by Job Moses