There were the two women in athletic clothing who stole the $329 remote controlled butt plug among other items in February. In April, there were the four men dressed as clowns — we’re talking full-on costumes with enlarged bowties and colorful wigs — who pilfered a 19-inch, double-ended dildo from a Peaches and Cream location. Even an Elvis lookalike has stolen from the store, pocketing a $100 sex toy last October.

And those are only the weirdest thieves who’ve targeted Peaches and Cream. Some of the most unassuming people have also stolen from the shop, nabbing as much as $700 worth of products in one go.

And it’s not just new products people steal. Mel Vogel, a manager at Peaches and Cream who’s been with the company for more than six years, said people will take anything they can get their hands on that’s not pinned down or encased behind glass. Oftentimes, this includes testers.





“I mean, do you really want to take a fake vagina home that has had everybody’s finger touching it and then stick that on the end of your dick? I mean, seriously,” Vogel said.





Another caveat to stealing testers? You won’t have the charger to charge it.

Still, that doesn’t seem to deter people with sticky fingers. Not even broken or used items that have been thrown in the trash seem to turn them off.

“We actually had to start cutting the toys that we threw away in half because people would go through the rubbish bins at least five times a day trying to retrieve stuff,” Vogel added.

As Peaches and Cream’s “Wall of Shame” photos show, anyone can be a thief. Gray-haired men in leather jackets, scholarly types wearing glasses, young women in pink and gold jewelry, surfer bros in board shorts, guys with man buns, people with tattoos, and people without tattoos have all weaseled products out of the store without paying.

In addition to suspicions of drug use, there is one thing, however, that Vogel believed all of the thieves have in common: “They just don’t give a fuck.”

“I think when people rip places off, they don’t actually think that it’s a person they’re doing it to, you know? They just look at it as a business and they don’t see that there are actually lots of people behind it who get affected.”

When the thief is a customer Vogel is familiar with and has grown to trust, or even someone she knows from her personal life (like that time someone she went to high school with shoplifted from her store), she can’t help but get upset.

“It’s like, I was fucking nice to that person and now they’ve ripped me off?” she said. “You do take it a little personally.”