People stealing clothes straight out of the trial rooms is not uncommon. Most of the time, these expert thieves leave behind their old clothes, wear new ones and escape cleverly while averting the gaze of the security in retail stores. A similar incident was recorded by a TikTok user @the_shayburs and the footage quickly went viral on the platform. The TikTok user allegedly found a pair of jeans in the women's clothing section which was possibly swapped out by a shoplifter.

The TikTok user named Olivia shared the viral clip which showed her checking out jeans in the women's section of Walmart. She focuses her camera on the clearance jeans rack where one suspicious pair of pants grabbed her attention. “So, I’m at Walmart and someone left their jeans here and walked out with a pair,” she says. Olivia then proceeds to show the viewers why she thinks those jeans are used.

“Because they’re worn to sh*t,” Olivia continues. The jeans in question appear to be faded and worn out with creases on them probably due to it being used for a long time. The woman also exposes the signs of worn-out fabric between the crotch area which appears due to rubbing. Gaining over 1 million views as of now, the video continues to attract the attention of netizens who are expressing their thoughts in the comment section. 

Some netizens joked that the thief "must have been availing the exchange policy" whereas some others confessed that "they have done these kinds of petty theft as well." Retail workers poured in to reveal that these things keep happening all the time in various stores despite security cameras and watchful staff. Well, this isn't the first case of petty thieves showing their audacity to take things out for free from famous retail chains.

According to CBS News, in May 2023, a shoplifter who nicked thousands of dollar worth of merch from a Target store in San Ramon was arrested. Afterward, the San Ramon Police Department shared on their Facebook page that the cops discovered more than $3000 in merchandise upon conducting a search. The suspect was booked at Martinez Jail on felony theft charges. Recently, another thief's boneheaded move became a laughing stock in the news headlines. A cardboardbox-wearing thief landed himself in jail as his "master disguise" fell off his face and revealed his identity while he tried to steal mobile phones from the Florida store counter. Looks like these petty thieves need to come up with cleverer ways of stealing goods from stores and malls with surveillance cameras and Tiktok video reveals around.