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

When Tony Sheppard started as a store detective for Montgomery Ward in Detroit in the 1990s, he carried handcuffs with him and had the authority to detain thieves.

From New York Times • Jun. 28, 2022

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

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

"What would you have done?" flashed out Dora Lockwood, for the twins had become strong partisans of the absent Billy since talking with Alice Long, "if that store detective had come and bullied you?"

From The Girls of Central High on Lake Luna or, The Crew That Won by Morrison, Gertrude W.