Posted on 12/31/2021 5:47:47 AM PST by blam
> The criminal element tend to be overly frightened and wary of canines. <
This is true. A friend of mine is an amusement park police officer (he has police powers within the park). About an hour before the park closes, the PA system tells patrons to start heading toward the exits. But some people refuse to leave.
So about 10 minutes after closing time the PA system announces, “Please exit the park now. We are going to release the dogs.” That always clears the park.
There aren’t any dogs, by the way.
followed the link trail
https://www.kansascity.com/news/business/article256930642.html
“Potthoff said the employees will be fitted with tools you would usually see on a police officer. She also said the company’s aim is to have security personnel who work the stores on a regular basis rather than a rotating group currently offered through private security services.
Rollout of the security team planned to begin in Wisconsin, South Dakota and Minnesota before working south, Potthoff said. She added that it’s safe to bet the program will be put in place for Kansas City area customers sometime in 2022.”
This is the result of *justice reform*.
Implementation of a virtual police state, without if actually being the government being obviously the bad guys, although it is all the direct result of their doing.
Apparently management thinks the security forces will save more money than they cost. Some studies show that police are the most cost effective government expenditure. For every dollar spent on police, there is about two dollars returned to the public in decreased cost of crime. One serial criminal can be very, very expensive to the public. That doesn't even take into account the intangibles.
Shoot em in the back Gomez
IF the cost is a wash, it still accomplishes 2 things:
Stores will have more stock on hand to sell
The PUNKS will not be able to loot so easily & will likely get caught.
NEW EMPLOYMENT for those officers that were ‘defunded’.
Also the military members who didn’t get vaxxed & got shoved out-—with NO VA benefits.
Nice doggy. My Shep has been gone for 36 years now. I still miss him.
The future belongs to Aldi(s). 3 people can run a store. There are more employees in a Hy-Vee bakery than any Aldi have seen.
As others have said the cost of this security will add costs.
In addition so will the legal costs when the looters are stopped and then sue.
And then when the race riot starts and burns down the store it will be gone all together.
Is the increase in theft from the shoppers or the employees?
They can detain people under shopkeepers laws. Using deadly force is something different altogether.
It won’t work unless they kill at least one person and nothing bad happens to the guard.
Having worked at facilities with guards, I’m not impressed. They are not going to risk getting hurt and if they’re enthusiastic they’ll make mistakes that will lead to litigation.
I was working at a Honeywell facility. A cucolded husband showed up at midnight with a pump 12 ga and asked the unarmed guard where his wife was. The guard said, “Beam 13J.” When the man stomped off on his way up the alphabet in this million square foot facility, the guard hot-footed it to the next building and called the sheriff. The wife was out in another man’s van getting plowed. The deputies conducted an arrest without incident. The moral of the story...the guard didn’t even lie about the beam number, is, an unarmed guard is only good for giving directions.
Out behind the loading docks?
The paying customers either pay for it with employed security guards or watch it walk out the store in full grocery carts. There have been reports in CA of thieves loading carts and walking out without paying. The stores do nothing since the value is less than the $950 the courts will bother with.
Costco model ...
When we visited Russia a few years ago, one of the stores still had the old Soviet style ticket system ... you picked out your stuff, the clerk on the other side of the counter weighed it for you and gave you a ticket ... you walked up to the front and paid. You never touched your purchase until it was paid for.
You did this at every store selling different items because the idea of a super market was still very new.
Of course the Communists had outlawed religion years before so 2 or 3 generations never heard “thou shalt not steal.”
It’s not only the clothes they hide things in to steal. In 2008 we were in Tampa to visit Busch Gardens. During our stay, we stopped in at a very nice grocery store for some snacks and beverages to take back to the hotel.
When we were exiting the store, a woman in front of us was stopped by security. She was pushing a baby stroller with a canopy on top. When the security guard pulled back the canopy there was no baby. The stroller was filled to the top with packages of large shrimp.
We were horrified when the woman that was detained started screaming. “Those are my damn skrimps! Let me go. Dose are my skrimps! Let me outta here!”. Obviously she had no receipt.
My son, to this day calls shrimp, ‘skrimps’ when in private. It impressed upon him, even 14 years later, the audacity of these shoplifters.
They are shameless.
I was responding to a poster who mentioned “detaining” them.
Only been in a Hy-Vee once, but I was impressed.
Just like Publix in Florida.
If they are not willing to PROSECUTE those found stealing, the “armed guards” will be just for show.
This happened in Tulsa years ago when a store owner hired off duty police to stop shoplifting. When shoplifters were caught, he refused to prosecute them. He simply wanted his hired policemen to “STOP” the shoplifting without prosecuting them.
Needless to say, the company who supplied the off duty police guards pulled them from the store.
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