Great recent article on how Walmart maintains security to an absolute MINIMUM and simply rely on constant POLICE CALLS in order to catch petty thievery —it’s more economical that way.
A lot of rural PD’s indulge it, too, cuz while the total volume of crime is roughly the same, they don’t have to DRIVE AROUND ALL DAY —all the thieves are in the same spot, more or less.
So the medical care for their workers will be OBAMACARE and their security is simply DA COPS.
So their production costs are outsourced to CHINA, and most of their biz costs are outsourced onto the backs of the taxpayer
Hole in one. And don’t get me started on the ‘self service’ machines which are a shoplifter’s wet dream come to life. A local manager here boasted that they were theft-proof until someone put up a Youtube video of them walking out with over $100 of stuff either stolen or rung at lower prices.
It was pitifully easy. Swipe two thin things on top of the other and you just got a buy-one-get-one sale. You can swap the label of a can of $6 flaked crab meat with the label a can of .99 store-brand corn that is the same approximate weight; I’m told the ‘career lifters’ come with pre-peeled labels in bags. The machine has no way to tell if you’re really weighing a bag of peaches or a bag full of condoms and saying its peaches. And finally they usually have one or maybe two underpaid semi-slaves babysitting 8-12 machines that are used constantly for hours at a time in a crowded small area - even Batman couldn’t catch all the funny business.
The very EXISTENCE of a Wal-Mart is an absolute theft magnet now.