store detective

Example Sentences

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She said she spoke to the store detective and the managers in both shops but did not feel she got through to them.

From BBC • Sep. 30, 2023

Tony Sheppard, an executive at Canadian loss prevention software company ThinkLP, received his first exposure to the issue as a store detective at a Montgomery Ward store in the Boston area in the 1990s.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2021

She lost her job as a store detective at Macy’s in Herald Square and her $550 weekly paycheck.

From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2020

When the girl’s disappearance becomes public knowledge, we follow an ex-cop, Francis Bacon, who works security at the carnival in the summer and serves as a department store detective in winter.

From Washington Post • Oct. 10, 2019

She made another effort to elude her accusers by a quick movement, but Dorothy kept close to one side and the store detective followed at the other.

From Dorothy Dale in the City by Penrose, Margaret