Last week I wrote about a friend who was approached by a woman who needed help reading the ingredients in bags of salad in the produce aisle at an Indianapolis grocery.
My friend, of course, helped.
While my friend read salad bag labels to the woman, an accomplice efficiently and quietly rifled through my friend’s purse, extracted her wallet, and quickly disappeared.
Within two hours, the diabolical duo cleaned out my friend’s bank account and tried to charge $800 to her Discover card.
A number of women, both saddened and angered by the grocery scam, reached out to me and shared ways in which they keep their purses safe while shopping.
A few women shared they wear cross body purses, the ones that go around the shoulder with the purse hanging on the other side of the body, usually sitting right on the hip or lower.
But Patti Coy Ortiz shared that she is part of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Crime Watch group in Indianapolis, where, sadly, some of the police officers no longer recommend wearing cross body purses because thieves will cut the strap.
I have worn a cross body purse for many years.
A thief, I am sure, could without a doubt unzip such a purse, which is why I keep the purse more in front of my body as opposed to my side while shopping. Now I will be on the lookout for suspicious people with scissors.
One woman shared…
