Hy-Vee’s buffet is wonderful.
Wonder how much they are paying these team members? Is it enough to go to prison if they dare to detain a suspect?
And when it’s all said and done, the consumer will end up paying for this added cost.
That should help reduce the cost of food. /s
Another example of the ripple effect that Democrat lawlessness has on the cost of things for poor people.
Better off using German shepherds.
So this article says the increase in thefts is due to covid and not bail reform, etc.
And it also fails to mention which 8 states.
There is a small family owned grocery store I loved to shop at - their meats are so fresh and incredibly reasonably priced. Recently, I drove there - it is about 15 miles away - to pick up some filet mignons and was told they stopped selling them.
The ‘amish’ are stealing the fresh meats and have special clothes so that the meats are hidden through their jackets and all the way down their pant legs. They are leaving with hundreds of dollars of meat each trip and the store is helpless as if they stop them, they risk injury to themselves or to the criminals - who will most certainly sue.
My Kroger has one every time I walk in.
I don’t know about when I walk out.
These stores will need to go to the Costco model where only members are allowed in. If a member gets caught stealing, their account is billed and their membership is revoked. If they show up again, they're trespassing.
Thanks BLM and Democrats - you’ve officially turned us into Venezuela.
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.
Shoot em in the back Gomez
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?
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.
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.
Haven’t had an armed security guard stand extremely
close to me at the checkout counter since late night
Baltimore early 80’s. I must have had badness written
all over me.
This act alone is enough to cause the feral thugs to seek softer targets.
And will save the company untold millions.