Posted on 01/29/2019 8:25:23 AM PST by oh8eleven
The BB policy was written to stop the apprehension of store patrons turned thief, not passer-bys running from the law. He should seek legal advice and sue for a small sum!
Guards at Best Buy are nothing more than tattle tails. Paul Blart does a great job in explaining this.
Well, I don’t go to places where the burger patties are compressed until they are as thin as the french fries anyway. I want meat that looks and tastes like meat.
The security of the store was not in qestion or in jeprody.
The officer in effect deserted his post.
The question becomes can our guard desert his post to perform a public service?
I think we are saying the same thing. I can add in Mervyns, Big Lots, and target in my daughters employers (she’s at Disney now) they were told to not get physical, bit some of the employees do.
Maybe the Broward County Sherriff’s Office should offer him a job - someone who would actually DO something in response to a crime.
They don’t want to pay to train or hire qualified people...Bottom line..End of story.
I think because Best Buy is the only big decent quality electronics store left. Sears, Circuit City all the independent HiFi Stereo stores are out of business. So, you have the cheap discount stores like Walmart and Target or Amazon.
Where else do you go to buy a TV these days?
Another employee was marking up the price of that electric saw you went in to purchase.
Crazy. Why have security if they are instructed to let you walk away with merchandise?
Crazy. Why have security if they are instructed to let you walk away with merchandise?
English are spoken here, much?
The guard is insured under worker’s compensation. The thief may sue if he is injured. But as someone wrote upthread if the policy is not to touch or pursue thieves, then a well organized group could clean them out.
I used to shop at Fry’s electronics back when it was better to build a computer to your own specs than buy off the shelf. But the store was pretty much double-walled in. You couldn’t leave without going through the checkout line, and then having your receipt examined in the exit line.
I think you misunderstood me my friend. My fault no doubt. I was commenting on the “hands off” policy these business have with the people who steal from them.
You meant, you saw a guy?
I understand, but my point is due to layers of security banks have nowadays, there is no need for a teller to jump the counter and tackle a bank robbery suspect.
Including hundreds of parents in Broward County, FL...
You must be recently retired
Yes, but you liked that policy when it allowed your illiterate butt to run off with a laptop.
You KNOW you’re too dumb to have a job that pays enough to afford a computer.
You can’t even write English, be glad they let you steal a computer.
Corporations are there to make a profit, that is all. They have, and cannot have any morals, be ‘brave’ or ‘cowardly’ or any such. If a policy is likely to incur more costs than benefits they won’t allow it. At least amongst most of the huge ones with many big box stores, in my observation.
I’m not really sure what your point is with the reference to your post 36 beyond that. I don’t expect a corporation to be anything other than utterly craven and opportunistic; the rare exceptions are great, but for every Dillon there are a hundred Best Buys
Actually, my comment regarded their competitor (at the time) Circuit City, as far as rent-a-cop getting me mixed up with someone else, and the financial damage that could ensue from such a sitution- sadly even if they did get the right person.
Personally, yeah, it would be great to see shoplifters and grafitti ‘artists’ get the crap beat out of them, right then and there.
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