Thieves on prowl in malls
Visitors to the country’s popular shopping destinations should be vigilant and beware of thieves. Several cases of theft have been reported in city’s malls recently.
An Arab woman yesterday lost her handbag containing cash, mobile phone, credit cards, Qatari ID card, and three passports among other things from her baby cart which also carried her two young children.
A source said the lady could notice her bag missing only when she approached the cash counter for making the payment for her purchases. The bag contained about QR700 in cash.
Her husband said when he called her on her mobile from his office, someone else answered but then the phone was switched off instantaneously.
Later, he took up the matter with the security at the mall and on their instructions filed a complaint with the Al Saad
police station.
While receiving the complaint, the police made an appeal to the complainant to be more cautious while shopping at crowded places. The police also promised to look into the matter seriously.
The other day, a Western expatriate woman who shopped at a leading hypermarket in the city ended up losing a trolley full of goods costing more than a
thousand riyals.
According to eyewitnesses, the lady found her trolley missing when she came out of a retail outlet inside the shopping
complex.
“After completing her purchase and paying for it at the hypermarket’s cash counter, this customer parked her trolley in front of another shop in the mall and went inside for purchasing something. Moments later, the lady had a big shock awaiting her as she found not only the goods missing from her trolley but the entire trolley itself has vanished from the place,” the source said.
When contacted, an employee at the mall’s management office denied any knowledge of the
incident.
Thieves on prowl in malls
Visitors to the country’s popular shopping destinations should be vigilant and beware of thieves. Several cases of theft have been reported in city’s malls recently.
An Arab woman yesterday lost her handbag containing cash, mobile phone, credit cards, Qatari ID card, and three passports among other things from her baby cart which also carried her two young children.
A source said the lady could notice her bag missing only when she approached the cash counter for making the payment for her purchases. The bag contained about QR700 in cash.
Her husband said when he called her on her mobile from his office, someone else answered but then the phone was switched off instantaneously.
Later, he took up the matter with the security at the mall and on their instructions filed a complaint with the Al Saad
police station.
While receiving the complaint, the police made an appeal to the complainant to be more cautious while shopping at crowded places. The police also promised to look into the matter seriously.
The other day, a Western expatriate woman who shopped at a leading hypermarket in the city ended up losing a trolley full of goods costing more than a
thousand riyals.
According to eyewitnesses, the lady found her trolley missing when she came out of a retail outlet inside the shopping
complex.
“After completing her purchase and paying for it at the hypermarket’s cash counter, this customer parked her trolley in front of another shop in the mall and went inside for purchasing something. Moments later, the lady had a big shock awaiting her as she found not only the goods missing from her trolley but the entire trolley itself has vanished from the place,” the source said.
When contacted, an employee at the mall’s management office denied any knowledge of the
incident.