70 and 7 aren't so different after all.

Today I was doing my own thing; folding pants, clearing out the fitting room when my Loss Prevention officer calls me through the radio to head to his office. I love getting those calls because I know there's going to be action! I go into his office and he shows me the camera "you see this man?" It was an old man, about mid 70's in my mind I was like "what could that poor old man be doing?" He said, "he grabbed about 7 chocolates and I'm afraid he's going to take them." They weren't just any type of chocolates, they were Godiva chocolate bars which round to $3 each. We kept following him for about 30 minutes, in a moment he hid the chocolate under some pants, to meet with his wife, then he went back for it. You have to wait until the suspect walks out of the store in order to consider it a crime. Finally, his wife paid and he walked out. My LP rushed outside, while I stayed in the camera room. He was calling the man to stop, but the man was running around some bushes, it was hilarious. My LP directed the man to the office, and he said, "I will give you a chance to put in the table everything you took without paying." He took out 8 chocolate bars, and a belt (we hadn't seen the belt). The man was more scared about what his wife would think that actually getting the cops involved. Turns out it wasn't the first man had shoplifted, he said he tends to take candy from Wal-Mart because he's diabetic. His wife wasn't aware of all this going on. The police wasn't involved but it is necessary to do paperwork for the crime, and only that is the "criminal" can no longer step foot in any Kohls. After the man left my LP said, "I feel bad, because I can imagine my dad doing the same. Old people are just like kids, sometimes they don't even know what they're doing."