Listen to Scott Adams.
As a Lowes customer, I give Lowes one (1) chance to remedy this quickly, or lose me to the competition (Home Depot).
I really think a form of hysteria has taken over the nation and much of the world.
A form of insanity.
Why risk getting injured or killed over $2k?
The formula is quite simple.
Dead employees, dead customers and even dead shoplifters are far more expensive than stolen merchandise.
But if you want to risk your life so that your employer does not lose a hundred bucks to shoplifters, I guess they can’t stop you from making that ultimate sacrifice.
At best, they will honor your with 30 seconds of silence at the next employee meeting.
But I wonder.... what if the store's paging system had a function that could make the loud sound of a gun firing. It's pretty unmistakable, and given the distribution of speakers throughout the store, it would not be obvious where it was coming from. So instead of an employee engaging physically with the thief or thieves, the employee hollers "Stop thief!" and hits a button that makes the sound of a gun firing. Might make the perp drop their booty and run.
OTOH, it also might make the perp pull out their own gun and fire it at the nearest person. So maybe not so great an idea after all...
Anyone know if a GoFundMe is up for these two ladies?
Stay out of Lowe’s. You are not safe there.
Lowe’s management fired her because she is 68.
Because of potential healthcare costs. If we had free medical care here in the USA instead of socialized costs would be far less and people could buy their own medical insurance and stay employed as they get older.
The reason they are firing her is because they don’t want to talk about the perpetrators. None of the stories say anything about the perpetrators. It might not look good if the perpetrators are teens.
Rincon, Ga, pronounced ringkin, is a small town. Just saying.
No society can continue when theft at this scale is tolerated.
This story is more evidence the USA is disintegrating into anarchy.
This is national advertising for more thieves to show up and steal everything they can get their hands on. Nobody will stop them.
This turns America into a land in which those who are honest and who pay for merchandise are fools and suckers.
she should have helped them load their car with loot
employee of the month!
It’s a liability issue. An employee liability issue more than a perp liability issue. Hire a security force to do that work. I’ve seen literal security squads at big box stores in heavy neighborhoods.
The cops aren’t going to do it. They’ll haul the trash away though. The courts will have to change their belived catch and tekease programs to have the desired effect.
lemme guess..the perps are black and she’s not, so it was okay.
this is getting ridiculous.
Added to the list of dont go, dont shop!
Can customers stop shop lifters? Are they going to fire cutomers?
Takyah and jarmar. I guess joseph’s mom was too lazy to use the scrabble box to name him.
If the store policy is I don’t have to pay for anything if I don’t want to pay, then everyone should go to that store and simply load up a cart and walk out the front door.
Management won’t stop it, so it is then allowed by default.
Empty the store out before they close it down.
It's only loss of money.
It's only going out of business!
Way to go, Corporate Scum!