Can a Store I Stole From Track Me Through My Debit Card

[PandorasBox]

I think it is safe to say you will not be shoplifting again....

Keep your nose clean. Continue to avoid those stores for a while longer.

Believe me - I did it 1 time, got caught, and 18 months later....I'll be sound asleep and remember "Miss, come with us please". Then how it felt to be escorted back into the store and their security room. To be photographed. To have the cops called. To have to withdraw $2000 from my bank account to pay for the Civil Demand, Court Costs and Fines, and an attorney. The humiliation of being escorted to my car by the police officer, and having to report to the police post for a MugShot and Fingerprints.

I'm lucky, the store allowed me to return after I wrote them. But I hate shopping in the one I was caught in, I just feel like everyone is staring at me.

[bluepurse09]

No, I absolutely will not. Getting caught one time was enough for me. I stressed about it to the point I made myself sick earlier this year because I was so worried about getting caught for the other two times. It's a huge regret. And I hate myself for doing it because I really want to use my debit card It's just... I don't even know what I was thinking. I guess I got caught up in the moment.

I'm just still worried that I'll get caught.

[cbg]

Look.

If the police knew you were the shoplifter, they wouldn't need to wait for you to use a debit card to come arrest you, they'd just do it.

And if they don't know you were the shoplifter, how would your using a debit card indentify you as such?

[bluepurse09]

I guess you have a point there. I just get worried about the littlest things and I didn't know if they could track me somehow even though I've never had a debit card before.