Posted on 06/16/2023 8:13:17 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
How about a business model where you shop online, pre-pay for your product, and the retailer delivers the product to your door the next day?
they should look in the mirror....they have stood by while the animals have ransacked these places....they will not report...they will not identify the animals....
Yep.
Far more people are shoplifting now because of the big guy’s spectacular economy.
Things are so grim that if I knew how to sneak cans of dog food out, I’d be half tempted myself.
Instead, I just don’t buy things I might want or need because he needs his food more.
/Thanks Joe.
The local Walmarts are getting like this and good luck ever finding the keeper of the keys.
2. Tell the man who answers what you want.
3. Slide the money in the peephole.
4. Wait for him to retrieve the item.
As a shopper it’s amazing to be in one location with endless security tv screens and locked down items and going deeper into the suburbs and seeing none of that. That tells me what I need to know about an area. We should all be able to live in places where theft is low and inconvenience is low which means prices should be low. Unfortunately these stores probably subsidize high theft ones. Seeing grocery stores with shops inside is another clue where you are. The mini mall within a grocery store means an attempt to offset operating losses through rent. This is fairly common at Walmart now so I don’t know if it’s a hedge on losses there as much as walking into a grocery store with a salon, nail shop, phone store, etc.
Only intolerance of petty theft will change this situation. The community has to address the issue it faces. It’s not about money. Not in SF.
Here’s a radical idea, lock up the thieves instead of the merchandise. I can’t believe no one’s thought of this before.
“Here’s a radical idea, lock up the thieves instead of the merchandise.”
SOOO radical! Well said. You could make some bumper stickers and tee shirts.
When we left CA,a lot of the stuff in Walmart was in locked glass cabinets, e.g., printer cartridges, small electronics. We thought that was normal.
When we got to TN, at Walmart nothing was locked. It seems a small thing, but it made shopping so much easier.
Service was an interesting concept. My brother worked at one of those stores for a long time.
It really would cut down on the overhead for businesses — employees, retail floor space vs warehouse space, etc.
“Products should have microchips set to trigger alarms if they have not been purchased. Any person leaving the store would have to go through detection zones.”
I remember when K-Mart did that. SO embarrassing when bells and sirens went off as you walked out of the store — with stuff you had paid for. Someone would have to check your stuff against your receipt, and neutralize the chip thingy before you could leave.
Haven’t seen that setup in a long time. I wonder why it stopped.
Ingenious! I’ll bet a person could get RICH starting that kind of business. LOL!
They would have never liked shopping at Service Merchandise!
Prop 47 was passed 8 years ago (legalize theft up to $950 per store). I’m surprised it took this long to see the effects …
You mean like these animals? I ahve to admit they may be lousy at life but they are hard working criminals.
But - once the merchandise is released, what’s to stop the person from stealing it anyway? Do they have folks escorting them all the way to the registers?
The retailer has the alternative of abandoning the store location. Somebody will come up this or something similar in order to keep retail available in bad neighborhoods with high theft rates. And this could be used for groceries as well as toothpaste, so it could be the answer to food deserts.
Pissed because it makes it harder to steal.
There is a solution for Target. Have a secure window with bullet proof glass like a Bodega. Walk up window. No more open browsing.
What a lovely world this liberal utopia we were promised is.
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