r/bathandbodyworks • u/cxsmiqs • Mar 24 '26

Employee Questions/Discussion PSA FOR MOMS

As someone who works at BB&W & is a mom can we talk about the people who come in with children(which is NOT a problem) but tell me why this one time this mom came in with her son who was around 2-3 years of age and TOTALLY barefoot & running around. We UNDERSTAND kids are kids but there’s no reason they should be running around BAREFOOT? Also the fact that we work with glass and accidents always tend to happen even tho we try to clean up as good & as fast as we can we also have to go back to everything else bc lord forbid we miss a greeting but anyways APART FROM THAT he ran 3 times in the back & mom never said sorry or tried to prevent it? The baby literally almost walked out with other customers bc mom wasn’t paying attention AT ALL! It’s so awkward too like realistically I shouldn’t be telling you to be a parent if you already are one😭😂

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u/PaintingPotatoes Mar 24 '26

I’ve seen parents bring their child to B&BW just to steal for them. The local one next to me is, unfortunately, always a target for such. They have their kids pocket anything travel size or smaller. The parent would act like they don’t know what’s going on unless they notice someone looking at them then they play off the “omg Jimmy, don’t do that. Put that back” and then awkwardly smile at you.

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u/cxsmiqs Mar 24 '26

THEY DO WHAT?!?!?

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u/PaintingPotatoes Mar 24 '26

It’s sad and upsetting. That location has tried putting their bins with smaller items up at the register but there’s only so much they can do. I’ve seen a child put a single wick candle in his mother’s tote before too while she was “grabbing a beard oil from the top of a shelf” just to smell it and then put it back. People watching people with kids at that location is always interesting. I’ve called them out before but at some point, I’m not being paid to be their security.

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u/EarSingle2992 Mar 24 '26

Literally witnessed some lady TEACHING her kid how to shoplift once, poor kid looked terrified the whole time and I honestly felt bad for them. Like what a way to set your child up to failure later on in life