Store on alert before CA assemblywoman arrested for shoplifting.

[RandySF]

According to sources close to the case, a week before the Neiman bust, a store saleswoman noticed that a dress was missing after a woman matching Hayashi's description tried it on.

The saleswoman did not know who Hayashi was, but when the Castro Valley Democrat showed up Oct. 25, the clerk alerted store security and they began tracking her with surveillance cameras.

The surveillance tape, now in prosecutors' hands, shows nothing conclusive. But at one point Hayashi took several items into a dressing room - out of the cameras' view - then left 18 minutes later carrying a shopping bag.

When she checked out at the register, she allegedly didn't produce the leather pants, a skirt and a blouse in the bag. Security guards stopped her outside.



http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/26/BA9T1M3IAH.DTL#ixzz1ereMiucz

[Enrique]

1. off-topic, but $2,450 for three items of clothing?

of course stealing them is wrong, but there's something also wrong imo with people spending that kind of money on clothes.

[Ian David]

2. That price also includes the cookie recipe. n/t

[Tom Ripley]

5. LOL!

[csziggy]

3. If the people who actually MAKE the clothes get paid well

And if the clothes have a lot of detail that require extensive hand work, like embroidery or beading, then I could see paying that much for clothes - If I wore that kind of thing.

But we know damn well that even if those clothes took dozens of hours of handstitching, the people doing the work will only get pennies per hour, not the amount that their work deserves.

[REP]

4. It's called "Needless Markups" for a reason

I'm a Bloomingdales fan - GREAT sales (truly excellent prices for very good quality) and the best sales people ever - but Needless Markups has overpriced crap trendy crap that will look ridiculous next year and is staffed by pretentious housewives.

[RandySF]

6. Well...

Assemblywoman Hayahshi agreed with you about the price, but she was determined to have them anyway. :)