How Thieves Target Woman’s Purses When They’re Shopping

Women when you are in a grocery store shopping especially elderly (seniors) women never leave your belongings unattended. I've been in a lot of stores where I see women leave their carriage with their purse inside their carriage while they are 1-3 blocks away from their carriage. I'm often tempted to ask the women if I could watch their carriage while they are away looking at food that they plan on purchasing at the store. People used to ask me to watch their stuff whenever they went to use the restroom, get a drink of water, or buy food. From time to time people still ask me to watch their belongings whenever they have to run out for a little bit. It's common courtesy to watch someone else's belongings whenever they are not going to be in that particular area for little bit. A lot of times, they underestimate a town that they are grocery shopping in because the town where they go to do their grocery shopping at is considered quiet and nothing really happens in that particular town. You can't think that way nowadays because thieves rob the suburbs as well as the inner cities. It's too risky and dangerous to leave your carriage while you look at something that you might think about planning on purchasing. Thieves are even bold enough to steal a woman's purse even if the woman is pushing her carriage and for that split second the woman decides to take her eye off of her purse.


I feel that we all can be helpful to fellow grocery store shoppers. If you see a woman's carriage with her purse in it ask her "Is this your carriage?" If she says "Yes" let her know that she should be close by her carriage because someone could snatch her purse and identification. Even offer to watch her carriage for her when she is a block or in view of who is by her carriage when the woman is planning on purchasing a grocery item. Whenever I see a carriage and it has someone's money, cellphone, or driver's license in it, I'm ready to turn those belongings in to lost and found at the grocery store. Especially elderly (seniors) women, they are more prone to being robbed while they are away from their carriage when they are shopping and leave their belongings. We should look out for each other and let people see that not everyone at a grocery store come there to rob people.