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I think when we get this next severe (and permanent) economic downturn, many stores and business will simply shut down due to widespread theft. What's the point of operating a business if you're just going to get picked clean by thieves and robbers? The only place to purchase goods will be the black or underground market.
Post pandemic, I haven't seen any Walmarts go back to being open 24 hours.
Gotta find people to work for that to happen. There’s many businesses that haven’t gone back to regular hours due to staffing issues. Even if the did have the manpower, with the way crime and violent crime has gotten, they’d be fools to be open extended hours in lousy areas.
The Walmarts in my area (Metro Denver, Colorado) haven’t been 24 hours for awhile. The 24-hour King Soopers (Kroger) are gone as well; they mostly close at midnight now.
While my area has experienced an increase in crime due to Democrat “soft on crime” policies, I don’t think the reduction in hours had to do with that. I think it’s due to staffing/not being able to find enough workers.
Yep.
In the Houston metro the few 24 hour Krogers are gone.
The others used to mostly close at 1 am, with some at midnight.
Now all of them that I've seen close at 11pm. Same time as Walmart.
Would you want to take the chance you stopped one and are hospitalized insead of going home after your shift. How about murdered?
You are not aware of this today?
Teen allegedly stabs Wal-Mart employee
A 13-year-old Folsom resident was arrested Thursday night, charged with attempted murder of a Wal-Mart employee. The Wal-Mart store manager, whose name was not released by officials, was stabbed by a shoplifting suspect – later determined to be the teenager.
Because if they are wrong, they can get sued and sometimes they are wrong. Here in Missouri, they cannot even stop and check your receipt on the way out, it is illegal. Except at club stores, like Sam's, you sign an agreement there to allow checking what you bought.
There are also cameras in the ceiling. Just look up sometime.
I've noticed lately that a few Walmarts have moved the crowding of purchasable items away/back from the registers (especially at self checkout), and have installed more ceiling cameras in those areas.
Limit how they can exit. The cashier is behind glass. You go through a door, it locks behind you. The door in front is also locked. Bullet proof. Your purchases are verified and then the door to the outside opens. This would work but if the cops don't come you have a rat trap that can't be emptied. I think it would stop 90% of the run aways however.
Stores need an air chamber. The inner doors open and you enter the air chamber. The inner doors shut. If you didn't pay for the items, the alarm goes off locking the inner and outer doors until the police arrive and the store Manager opens the outer doors for the thieves.
Steel doors with small bulletproof glass windows. Think the old TV show "Get Smart".
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