It's a real old-school store just FILLED with everything you could ever need. I bought whatever we needed for the apartment there. It's a real treat just wandering through the place, but it sounds like those days are over.
cries of racism in 4...3...2...
This might actually speed things up as they will know exactly where everything is and people won’t spend the majority of their time hunting down items or an employee who doesn’t know where the item is either.
Those ole timey grocery stores, where they bring the product to the front after you have paid for it is going to come back.
” attempt to stop “
Yup ...that’s what I want to see ...
do you think some of those folks will care if there is an employee beside them?
What are they going to do? Ask them nicely to stop?
crazy times....
When each and every customer needs a one to one Babysitter (during certain hours), it’s time for this store to consider closing or moving to a better location. One of these two choices, whether you have to break the property lease or not
It's a real old-school store just FILLED with everything you could ever need. I bought whatever we needed for the apartment there. It's a real treat just wandering through the place, but it sounds like those days are over.
This is what San Fransicko gets for decriminalizing shoplifting and defunding the police.
I just looked up the demographics of Cow Hollow. It doesn’t look like it has changed that much since I lived there 50 years ago:
White - 74%
Hispanic - 11%
Asian - 9%
Other - 5%
Black - 1%
It looks like maybe the Hispanic population gas grown a bit, but not a huge amount.
“Hey, these plastic ties are too tight.” “Sorry, I’m new at this shopper’s escort job. I used to work at a juvenile lockup across town.”
Big question: A supermarkets like Korger’s in this region they often have totally empty full service checkouts and long lines of people doing U-scans. Not enough employees or the company is too cheap to schedule them.
So how can you serve more than a half dozen escorted customers an hour, if that?
The store could be made appointment only. Require customers to download and use an iPhone-only app to make the appointment. The app should not be free but cost $5, be English only, and use big words to navigate the appointment making process. All purchases must be made with a credit card, with no cash, debit, or EBT accepted. While initially annoying, customers could be offered free Pumpkin spice lattes and would soon come to appreciate the new retail shopping experience.
This changes nothing. Since in the end the customer can still push the cart right out the door without paying.
When we visited Russia several years ago, went shopping with the family ... at a candy store we went in door with security guard. All the goods were behind counter. Picked out what we wanted, clerk weighed it out and gave us a ticket then clerk walked it up to the front where we paid for it. Only then did we have the goods in our hands.
Would be sorry to see US stores end up like that. Every store and restaurant had security.
Punishing the 99% for the acts of the 1%.
So I walk around a store, supervised, and then just walk out with my items without paying.
What are they going to do? It’s what people are doing anyway.
It’s a lawless town.
This won’t end well.
But of course, given Frisco, I suppose that’s a given.