Florist News

For all you fellow shop owners out there.

Yesterday, Thursday, we had a visit from a group of travellers from the Letterkenny area. 5 in total. One worked as a distraction whilst the others emptied my tilll and store a charity box. The distraction one was in the shop for just over a minute and the shop assistant was only making her way over to him when one of the others came in throguh the exit door ran behidn the till and emptied the takings, helpign himself to the charity box at the same time. (the one who emptied the till was only about 10!). He then jumped into the waiting car where also my shop assistant stuck a foot in the car and was tryign to wrestle the money back from the driver.

The car then proceeded to drive away with my shop assistant hanging out the door (ahe was also giving a blow by blow account to the Garda at the same time on her mobile), they drive about 200 yards before my shop assistant managed to get free. A car was used to block the road in front of them but they proceeded to mount the pavement to escape.

The shop next door managed to catch the guy who acted as a distraction, and the Gards came and took him away.

The car used was a Red and black ford escort DL plate, 4 escaped in the car (one 10 year old boy, the driver was a young male and the two girls int he car were heafty girls (who were laughing as my girl was being driven up the road hanging out the car!).

Keep an eye out for this gang, I belive they were in my shop the day before having a look around. The potential harm they put my shop assistant in when they drove away was emmense, showing a recklessness for the stafety of others, and I warm you all to keep any eye out and take preventative measures where possible.

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Gareth Austin
1800 MyFlorist
www.myflorist.ie
www.flowersinahurry.ie
www.designerflorist.ie

Sorry to hear about that, hope everyone is ok and that the individuals concerned are collared soon!

It is hard to balance being suspicious of everyone whilst not giving the appearance of being suspicious of everyone.

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Sorry to hear about your 'bad day' Gareth.
Unfortunately we're all in the front line with retail shops that have open doors.
Yesterday..working on my own, just happened to look up and noticed this 6' well tanned bloke had walked through the back door and was just about level with the PC, briefcase, mobile phone, etc. When he saw i had spotted him it was.."Oh, I'm looking for Colin, he's a student and he lives upstairs"
Yeah, right...heard that one before. It was probably only because i still had the scissors ijn my hand as i walked towards him that he went into defensive mode with all the crap stories. This morning i discovered that he had also been through the rear doors of other shops.

You just can't be too careful these days!