A man dressed like an Apple store employee waltzed into the company's New York City SoHo location and used the disguise to make off with 19 iPhones, worth over $16,000.
The suspect was wearing a blue shirt that looked similar enough to actual employees that he blended in on June 1, according to DNA Info. He took the phones right out of a drawer in the store's repair room before passing them to an accomplice who reportedly hid the phones under his shirt.
As Gizmodo points out, thieves used a similar method earlier this year when hitting another NYC Apple store — twice — to steal several dozen iPhones. (There's no indication the two are connected as of yet.)
That location, on the Upper West Side, was known as a training location for workers so new faces wouldn't raise questions.
Gizmodo digs in to Apple's 2015 decision to change from a rotating, seasonal uniform, to a standard year-round uniform — the "Back to Blue" campaign" — as a reason why it might be so easy for these thieves to make off with all the merchandise.
"Back to blue. But all new." Des Apple-Store-Mitarbeiters neue Kleider. — www.newzwrld.com
After all, as The Next Web notes, it's pretty easy to just buy one of the shirts online. And YouTube has a few "prank" videos where the pranksters impersonate Apple store employees with ease.
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