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 was promoted four months later to store detective.

From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2020

Once home, he landed a job as a store detective for the Hecht Co.

From Washington Post • Nov. 19, 2015

That square-cut creature whom he presently discerned following him was undoubtedly the store detective: he smiled to think what a pleasant anecdote this would be when he was admitted to junior partnership.

From Where the Blue Begins by Morley, Christopher