I stashed a couple of things behind the baby safe. There were also some rather large stashes hidden in the ceiling tiles. :)

i foolishly moved my stuff from a box disguised as cd keepers to the fire extinguishers. it was surprisingly found in there but the keeper stack remained untouched till the last 6 hrs. I totally should have gone w/ my gut and left them in the original spot i picked

You know in the back room how they had those giant metal lockers where the circuit breakers were kept? Well if you happen to have a screw driver you can open them up, remove some panels, and place large quantities of product behind them before putting everything back in place.

Also the ceiling tiles right above our liquidator's desk might have also been in use since this little employee figured ground zero would be the last place they should look.

I hid something on an upper shelf in the sort room. Since no more product was coming in no one ever went in there and saw it, even though it was clearly visible.

We used the coffins beneath the music section. I even covered up the little windows with bits of paper. They didn't really sell with the fixtures so we could use those until the end. Our liquidator actually started checking some ceiling panels, saying he had found stashes before this way. He never checked out coffins though!

I know this comment will be super popular:
I know it went on, and I can accept that, but listening to you guys (ok, well, 5 of you) discuss it with pride when you got away with it, and dismay when you got caught is a little sickening. It's still stealing.

Here is my honest question for anyone who stashed things:
Didn't anyone question you when you went to buy the stuff? One commenter said he had stuff 6 hours before the store shut down. Didn't anyone question that you were buying shit at 80 or 90% off that otherwise would have sold at 40 to 50% off? I can understand saying that you 'found' one item and got lucky, but a stash would raise eyebrows.

"oh, I know we close our doors for good in 2 hours, and that the only things on the shelf are some christmas books and some 4 month old magazines, but I would like to purchase this Harry Potter Blu Ray box set, this $75 computer book, and the Beatles Mono box set."

Or was it just a wink and a nod between you and the cashier?

Most things are not as obviously popular as the Beatles and Harry Potter.

I stashed a lot of stuff in my purse, this way I was able to get the full 100% off discount.

Everyone (managers on down) just boxed stuff up and went out the trash door. Then we erased and sold the camera system as part of the liquidation before anyone looked at the recordings.

Who would want to bother anyway. Taking out shelves is kind of risky considering the store has cameras.

The threat of being fired doesn't seem to have as much weight when everyone is about to lose their jobs anyway.

As for cameras, they did not cover the entire store and there were numerous blind spots.

I walked out the front door with my bonus check and the I-Pad the company bought me.

Thanks guys. It's been real.

Mike

I threw everything onto the damaged cart. And bought them before they decided to throw out the lot.

Our "stashes" were in the hold area right behind the counter. The hold cabinets had doors on them, so the hold piles were out of sight. Our liquidator didn't bother to look until we were getting ready to go 80-90 and he wasn't even looking for stashes when he found them, just looking to see how much more we had to clean up. The only thing he said about it was "this doesn't happen, everyone has til friday to buy it, then they go back on the floor"

Hid mine in plain sight- right behind the cashier counter. We had a few cubbies there with no doors. Most of the stuff I was buying looked like it just needed to be reshelved but the lot of us were all on each other's sides and knew we were hoarding stuff. A lot of my colleagues hid theirs in the CD/DVD shelf drawers. We also had a separate closet for our Paperchase section that didn't have a camera, so there was a lot of stuff in there. The liquidator didn't know the code to that closet so he never bothered to go in there and check. Even if he had, we had a pretty nice liquidator that in the end was really appreciative of us sticking around.

And to those saying it's stealing: I spent my fair share of money at Borders, and when the product went up to 80-90% off, I was still buying. I can't say I was completely faithful the whole time I worked at Borders, but the majority of the time I was.

By the time they announced the closing of our store, there wasn't a damn thing there worth buying ---- which is probably one of the biggest reasons our sales dropped off so much in recent years.

The selection in the store sucked!

You idiots actually bought things during the liquidation? Five finger discount, baby! We took thousands of dollars of stuff from our store. Who cares? LP was already all fired, same with James Nathan and the DM's. There was NO ONE watching.

you say LP was fired. Does that mean Doug Best is out of a job? that fucking fear-instilling, fake 'man of the people' cocksucker. special place in hell for him.