So what difference is that going to make when criminals are not prosecuted for theft and stores basically require their employees to just let the thieves walk out the door with the goods?
The honor system will not work when the majority of society is dishonorable.
Makes no difference in California as long as you can steal anything under $1,000.
Truly, CA legislators are morons.
Seems like the retailers could handle this thinking themselves if they chose to, I don’t think this is the kind of laws the retailers were looking for from the governments.
It seems so typical that the government’s action is to tell the business how to run their check out rather than focus on the crime and criminals.
Ultimately you’ll shop from a screen in the store or at home or on your phone and your stuff will be robotically picked and delivered to you. The ratio of floor space between retail and warehouse will be flipped.
Ay, por favor-who writes this stuff? Have they ever heard of checking their grammar, or using an app like grammerly if they can’t proofread? I’m pretty sure “loan workers” are employed at banks and other financial businesses. “Lone workers” at retail stores are the easy targets for theft and violence-because they are “alone” at work-duh! yes, I’m being a grammar cop and that is just fine...
“no more than two self-service checkout stations are monitored by one employee”
Good grief!
It’s not about curbing theft. It’s about securing higher labor costs.
It just means that stores will have to hire thousands of union scale cashiers and baggers.
Which means, long checkout lines, price increases, and..."Sorry, I do not speak English."
I am surprised they haven’t banned self-ordering machines at fast food places and force people to order from a person. A lot of fast-food workers lost their jobs with their recent pay raise.
Another useless feel-good law. How about California and the big cities get SERIOUS about fighting crime? Get rid of Soros DAs, hire tough Law & Order DAs and prosecuting attorneys, get tough police chiefs, expand police presence, get beat cops walking the streets, keep bums moving, hire more police, end no-bail release, hand out LONG sentences to crooks and crime syndicates, automatic deportation for illegal aliens caught stealing.
Stores will stop abandoning cities if you do that. Cities will become livable again. We had a country like that once before and we can have it again.
Problem solved. Easy Peasy.
Who wants to go to a store anyway when 30 seconds of shopping can place the order for the products on Amazon and it will be delivered the same or next day?
I went to buy razor blades yesterday. All of them were locked up. It takes forever to hunt down an employee (floor staffing is still way down), then they need to go find the key.
To get the $6 off on the blades, I had to clip a digital coupon in the Walgreens app on my phone. The iPhone was running out of storage and had offloaded the app, so it had to re-download to my phone. Then I got logged in and had to use the same phone number that is on my Walgreens account. Was it MY mobile? My wife’s mobile? Our old home phone land line? All told, it took about 20 minutes to get the blades and do all that crap with their app. It was the third merchant this week that made me get their app to get their best price.
Shopping has become an enormous PITA.
… Lola Smallwood-Cuevas!
Demonstrates something all wrong about the California way.
if a store doesn’t want its merchandise stolen, the store will remove self-checkouting all on its own
without need of the stupendous wisdom or dictatorial orders from the corrupt politicians
Just 1 woman stole $60,000 from 1 Target using the self checkout.
My Walmart blocks use of the self checkout after 4pm in Porter Ranch, Calif.
The job of a grocery store is to sell groceries. It's not a 'make work' situation.
If California was this stupid a hundred and fifty years ago, we'd still have blacksmiths making horse shoes... need 'em or not, ya gotta keep the blacksmith's job going.
The self checkouts will have to be replaced with employees running the check stands. My question is, is the loss from self checkout theft greater than the pay for check stand operators?
how would this affect theft?
store employees are threatened not to try to stop any shop lifter and will be fired if they do. Police are told, theft below a certain level is not even a crime and prosecutors will not charge them.