Posted on 09/02/2023 2:28:15 PM PDT by grundle
In the coming weeks, a Giant Food market in D.C. will clear its beauty and health aisles of all national labels. No more Tide, Colgate or Advil, only store brands. Shoppers also will have to present their receipts to an employee before exiting the store.
It’s the regional supermarket chain’s most overt gambit against the rampant theft that’s plaguing retailers of all sizes. It’s also a potential last-ditch effort to avoid shutting down the unprofitable store on Alabama Avenue — the only major grocer east of the Anacostia River in Ward 8.
“We want to continue to be able to serve the community, but we can’t do so at the level of significant loss or risk to our associates that we have today,” said Giant president Ira Kress.
Shoplifting, organized crime and violence have become significant concerns for regional and national retailers. Home Depot, Target, Lowe’s, Dollar Tree, Dick’s Sporting Goods and Ulta are among those that flagged shrink — the depletion of inventory caused by something other than sales — during their second-quarter earnings calls. Growing losses have spurred giants like Walmart to shutter locations.
“Our team continues to face an unacceptable amount of retail theft and organized retail crime,” Target chief executive Brian Cornell told investors last month. “During the first five months of this year, our stores saw a 120 percent increase in theft incidents involving violence or threats of violence.”
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
“Shoppers also will have to present their receipts to an employee before exiting the store.”
Shoplifters, on the other hand, won’t.
If they just hung the first shoplifter of the week in front of the store and left them there for a week, it wouldn’t take long before there weren’t any shoplifters.
Yes it will be a food desert. And activists will complain that it’s racist to shut down the store.
Yet we know they can’t sustain huge inventory shrink indefinitely and still stay in business.
“Shoplifters, on the other hand, won’t.”
As a law-abiding person, I HATE having my receipt checked at the exit moments after I just paid the cashier. So I just walk right by the person doing the checking. They don’t do anything.
Lot of good checking receipts will do. Talk about a feel-good, useless nostrum.
Much like with illegal immigration, we as a society simply do not have the will to do what it would take to stop the many social dysfunctions plaguing us.
On the plus side, many of our new immigrants are coming from societies where every crime carries the death penalty, to be meted out by the angry mob.
I refuse to show my receipt on constitutional grounds. 4th Amendment recognizes my right to be secure in my property and papers.
Legal title to my groceries transfers to me when I purchase it, not when I leave the store.
The Store Chains need to STEP IT UP.
What they need to do is simply say that they are shutting down ALL STORES in which there is a Soros Prosecutor, and until that Soros Prosecutor is REPLACED by someone willing to press charges, they will not re-open.
This crap, in the early days, saying ‘some of our locations are not performing at year-over-year sales figures that meet our goal to a World Class retail outlet’ simply DOES NOT CUT IT.
They need to PLAY HARD. If there is a Walmart in a red county here in Texas, put up a sign that tells Obama’s sons that “They will be Prosecuted”, but also provide a carrot, and tell them if they go 10 miles south, they’ll be in Soros Jurisdiction, and they can take whatever they please from the Walmart down there (assuming it is still open, of course).
Convert inner city stores to order and pay online, pickup at store upon presentation of receipt.
When the inner city street thugs complain, tell them it’s their own fault.
I’m guessing it’s easier to resell national brands? I’ll admit I don’t have experience with this sort of thing.
That’s pathetic. Shoppers have to show a receipt while shoplifters do indeed walk out unscathed. If I was a “shopper” there, I’d tell them to blow it out their arse.
Free stuff for the “gimme dat” class.
“As a law-abiding person, I HATE having my receipt checked at the exit moments after I just paid the cashier. So I just walk right by the person doing the checking. They don’t do anything.”
A friend of mine tries that at Sams - wound up having his membership canceled. Makes sense, though, since everyone there has to scan-in their membership card to check out.
“Security employee” should = armed Marine, with overwatch from a secure vantage point.
Rumor has that they may close all of their stores due to theft. The store chain has been around forever.
With live ammo.
Who will be the first delivery only big box store?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.