if they spent a little on security and let them do their jobs, they’d have more $$ in the long run.
Hmmm.., I smell a deliberate move to kill the ability to go to a shop and instead have only shipping… and digital cureency and control of people from their home through social media becoming a jail…
Amazon-postal conspiracy v 3.0?
V 1.0 Trump points the special Amazon postal privileged rates
V 2.0 Covid lockdowns keep big retailers affloat and punish small shops
V 3.0 Now rampant traditional facilities based police goes down in favor of social media control and military like shopping via shipping…
I have several solutions to this from having grown up overseas, married into the Mexican culture and world travels. When some of you get tired of the theft, contact me for consultation.
It’s going to get worse. I never understood why thieves run out of stores today with stolen property. Keep the theft under $1000 and stroll out at your leisure. Go sit under a tree and try the stuff on. No one will stop you.
I wonder how much copycat behavior goes on here.
Here’s what I mean. Some guy is kinda, sorta honest. He’ll stand in line. He’ll pay for his goods. But then he sees - and hears of - other people getting away with not paying.
So maybe he decides he’s a sucker for paying.
Shrink is tax deductible.
Maybe if that was ended Big Retail would push prosecutors to get medieval on the heinies of thieves...
Who fences all of this stuff and where can I get it for pennys on the dollar?
One of my favorite quotes. It could not have been said any better.
Sounds like the boyz already took their “reparations” with their smash and grabs.
It's easy to fix if retailers have the guts to stand up to the Woke Movement and the enabling political establishment.
Turning retail establishments into clubs is one way. Paying money for a club membership and adopting in-store strategies to discourage shoplifting works (like at Costco).
Someday someone smart will start a retail chain with only sabotaged display models that you can handle. If you want a real (whatever), you pay, then an employee in a walled-off warehouse behind the display area sends a working model out.
These businesses do nothing to stop the thugs from ripping them off. Nor do they call out RAT DA’s who do not do their duty to prosecute.
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..
Maybe make the punishment more severe? They used to hang horse thieves.
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.
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.
And the politicians that supported BLM and Antifa rioting are surprised and dismayed, again proving that stupidity is more destructive than malice.