Cameroon: Concierge Services - Periodic Stealing in Supermarkets

By Brenda Yufeh

Those shopping from superstores risk having their items missing at concierge services.

Last Saturday, Beryl Yamak, a resident of Yaounde went shopping in one of the popular supermarkets around the Yaounde Central market. Before entering the supermarket, she kept her plastic bag of items she had brought from another supermarket at the doorkeeper service, where she was given a ticket which carried the number (26)of the locker in which her things where kept. After shopping for close to 45 minutes, Beryl forgot to collect the items she had kept at the doorkeeper service and went home alongside the ticket of the locker which contained her things. After the weekend, Beryl rushed to the supermarket with the ticket number to indicate that she had forgotten her items at the concierge service. To her greatest dismay, the doorkeeper did not seem worried over the fact that she had the ticket of items that he could not trace at his keeping. The doorkeeper impolitely told her that there was no item like what she was looking after and began accusing her of having collected the items but forgot to drop the ticket.

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