Thieves in employee uniforms raid Apple stores
10 Jun 2016
Two thieves dressed like Apple employees walked into the company's store in Manhattan on 1 June. They headed straight to the store's storage drawers and walked away with 19 iPhones.
Earlier in March, a store on the Upper West Side was targeted by fake personnel twice in which Apple lost 67 iPhones, worth almost $50,000.
According to DNAInfo, the modus operandi used by thieves was to dress up as employees to get into the backroom and nab $16,130 whack devices. The man and his accomplice simply stuffed the phones in their shirts and walked out.
According to Gizmodo, Apple's new uniforms might be to blame. Apple store personnel used to wear themed shirts for every new product launch or for every season.
However, this changed with retail chief Angela Ahrendt introducing permanent blue shirts with tiny Apple logos, which were easy to dupe or to buy online.
According to commentators, while Apple's smaller stores would obviously be harder to infiltrate, the company's larger locations could remain susceptible to the same scheme until it implemented tougher security measures.
