Mayna Myers

I started in retail at a young age, working for Kmart when I was around 16, just doing stocking. I worked my way up and became a store manager in my mid-20s at Harbor Freight. After that, I was a store manager for Ross as well. I got into loss prevention in 2018 with Walmart, where I was an in-store loss prevention manager doing apprehensions and internal investigations. Then I transitioned into a store manager role for Ross again, this time in Washington. Sportsman's called me to be a district manager, and I transitioned back into loss prevention from there because I enjoyed it so much. In my last role as a Loss Prevention District Manager for Bells, I had 28 stores between 4 different states - Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and West Texas. I was tasked with doing everything from auditing to investigations, both internal and external theft investigations. I also did interviewing, or interrogating as I call it, trying to get people to tell me if they actually stole. That was probably the funnest part of my job, and I did very well at it. Last year, I won the Loss Prevention District Manager of the Year runner-up. I did second place for catching internal thieves, and I did the most interviews - over 50 interrogations with 46 cases. My team placed first for external theft and second for internal, and we placed first for combined because the other district for internal didn't have as many external cases. It was a lot of work that was very tangible - you could see the work that we were doing.