Posted on 05/20/2023 5:50:57 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
1. Funnel all shoppers through a single access point and make them check their bags.
2. Maybe back to cutting off the right hand of a a convicted thief?..
I was in a big box store not long ago.
Four employees were standing around watching long, slow lines at the four self-checkouts.
Those four employees likely could have gotten customers on their way a lot faster.
But instead the retailer was paying them to stand around.
It’s not just the customers retailers don’t trust, is it...
100 Billion — there’s your reparations !!!
Slate clean I say.
That probably won't be any of those worthless thieving lawyers that are in in DC now, they're part of the thieving horde..
It’s not just customers...
Maybe make the punishment more severe? They used to hang horse thieves.
They've collectively and individually lost their minds.
The local Walmart now has someone at the door all the time. If you have items in the cart that are too big to bag, they’ll for sure ask to see your ticket ... I keep my ticket out until I get past the door. I also noticed the employee(s) at the self-checkout are a lot more vigilant than they used to be - it’s obvious they are watching now, rather than just hanging out in the event there’s an issue with ringing up something.
The key is "letting them do their jobs". This is very difficult when prosecutors and the city governments are doing everything they can to *not* prosecute theft.
Blue districts supporting open crime will be abandoned by retail?
I can’t shrug loud enough.
Without too much fanfare, the chain is shuttering locations in urban high-crime areas and focusing on putting the new stores in safer suburban areas.
As we all know, many major retailers are taking this approach to the problem. Those blighted urban areas are turning into retail deserts, with the only stores remaining tending to be immigrant owned, with metal grates covering the storefronts at night. Their merchandise will also tend to be much more expensive than what the chain stores offered.
I refuse to show my receipt. As soon as I pay for the item, it becomes my property and they no longer have any right or title to it.
Our criminal justice system is clear that they must prove me guilty, I don’t have to prove my innocence.
Here’s a better way. Train your staff.
A few months ago at Home Depot, I was at the self checkout with both some personal items and stuff I was buying for my job.
As I completed one purchase, a girl came up and politely said “Sir, I think you missed something on your purchase.”
I told her that it was a separate transaction and thanked her for caring enough to mention it and challenge me.
And the politicians that supported BLM and Antifa rioting are surprised and dismayed, again proving that stupidity is more destructive than malice.
I’ve heard theft happens at self checkout.
Someone will scan their items, but “forget” to scan a few here and there.
We need to enact some serious, maybe even federal law regarding theft. Anything over $100 the up to a year in jail, anything over $100 should be treated as a felony with a year or more minimum sentence. If that were in place, and in Forrest, I bet soft would drop quickly. All it will take is a few good examples.
Even if prosecutors refuse to prosecutors there are many actions stores can take to reduce theft.
They can work to identify thieves and ban them from the location. They can catch them and retrieve the merchandise. Chains can share information about the thieves with their other area stores.
There are hundreds of other tactics that can be used, including identifying items most likely to be stolen and placing them behind security cages.
It would be better if prosecutors went after the thieves, but the stores can do a lot.
I was at a Walmart self-serve check out a couple months ago and walked up to the register as the previous shopper was walking away with bags in her hands. The screen still showed payment due. I called over the Wal-Mart associate, who simply cleared the register for me to make my purchase, did absolutely nothing about the woman walking away with her unpaid bags of items, still in sight. It will take both laws that are enforceable, and retailers who actually want to address the issue to solve this.
More and more stores will go to on-line sales, the local stores will just close down.
I don’t have a problem showing my receipt. It’s not “paid” items they are worried about, it’s people walking out with “unpaid” items and personally, I believe they have a right to look at a receipt and make sure items, particularly large, expensive ones that are obvious in the cart, are all “paid”. Just having someone posted at the door is a deterrent - I wouldn’t want the job because some shoplifters have gotten violent when employees have tried to stop them.
If I buy 100 widgets for $10 apiece and sell them for $20 apiece, my cost is $1,000 and my revenue is $2,000 … so I am taxed on the $1,000 profit.
If 10 of the widgets are stolen, then my cost is still $1,000 but my revenue is only $1,800 … which means I am paying taxes on the $800 profit.
So shrink/theft is only “tax deductible” to the extent that the cost of the merchandise is deductible. The IRS doesn’t distinguish between a widget that is stolen, a widget that is damaged, and a widget that simply doesn’t get sold for any reason.
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