Two words ... “early” ... “retirement”.
It’s creeping into Idaho, now. Our local Ace Hardware store recently put up a big sign at checkout saying “Shoplifters will be prosecuted.” One of the clerks confided to me that the police won’t respond under $1,500. A crook walked out the side door with a $700 tool. The side door was always open to the nursery and you could walk from the nursery back to your car that way. It was always wide open and depended on customer honesty.
Those days just ended here a couple months ago.
The hardware store has hammers and ax handles they can use on the crooks so why do they put up with the stealing?
If law enforcement in this area does not treat theft and robbery as a crime, then pay a couple of large thugs to steal back the merchandise and anything else the thieves have on them except their underpants as they exit the store. Don’t beat them up, which might be a crime. Are the thieves going to call the police? I doubt it. But make sure the security cameras capture only the areas where the thieves are stealing, with a big blind spot at the recovery zone.
If everyone went Bronson on them, we’d take care of the problem nationwide within one week.
I expect that someday soon retailers will go back to the early 1900 business model of the customer pulling their wagon next to the dock and handing their shopping list to a clerk and paying as the merchandise is loaded.
It would be a lot easier than locking up everything in the store and having clerks retrieve items one by one.
When criminals die, they stop committing crimes
Oh, that’s just FUNDAMENTAL TRANSFORMATION.
Effing disgusting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I know it’s bad, zero doubt. But at 700k year, $1800 a day. I gotta call BS on that. No way a family business would still have the doors open short of they have extrapolated out for a recent bad period what the loses will be over a year.
I wouldn’t open a sh** sandwich shoppe in California.