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Walmart theft problems are the tip of the iceberg. This can happen anywhere. I think about this. Where I live therewith some thieves who stole a television from Walmart. They were caught on camera doing it too. They either had to be very bold, or very stupid. Or they didn't care about the consequences. I live in a tough on crime state.
Theft is rising, and not just with Walmart. Best Buy, Target, Dollar General. This is not just a store problem. It's a societal problem.
Tight controls on who gets in and who doesn't, I would be careful with that. It could turn into "we reserve the right to refuse entry to anyone for any reason". That could get sticky. It could also turn into people getting robbed on the streets. Thiefs stop for no one.
Maybe they should think about putting more staff back in the stores and eliminate the self checkouts. Shop lifting is certainly more likely to occur when nobody is watching.
Well... people watching doesn't seem to make a difference anymore.
Bingo…and it stops scanning when an item is put in the bagging area that hasn’t been scanned.
Why mess with all that, just load up a cart, and push it right out the door...nobody will stop you. Cover your face & license plate so they can't track you down.
Easier yet, put an expensive item into a box containing a cheap product, then scan it as normal.
Why mess with all that, just load up a cart, and push it right out the door...nobody will stop you. Cover your face & license plate so they can't track you down.
Easier yet, put an expensive item into a box containing a cheap product, then scan it as normal.
Thieves have many ways to scam Wal Mart.
You would make a good criminal. Smart, hardworking people always do.
I have always feared smart criminals. They don't get caught. Cops only catch the dumb ones -- which frankly, is most of them. Truth.
The smart ones go into white collar crime where you defraud little old ladies to the tune of a quarter million dollars, pay a $20 million fine and play golf at Club Fed for a year, and then move to the Cayman's free and clearwith your $230 million treasure trove.
Street criminals are pikers. No imagination or work ethic. If you are going to steal and want to go big, do it right and bome a US Senator or Congressman.
Many stores don't even let loss prevention do it anymore. Too much liability if the perp runs, trips and falls and then sues etc.
I keep hoping that the smarter states will start changing the liability laws to address this sort of issue. As they say, stupid should hurt. If a criminal trips and falls while running away, it would serve him right if he got all scaped up.
Maybe they should think about putting more staff back in the stores and eliminate the self checkouts. Shop lifting is certainly more likely to occur when nobody is watching.
They have cameras all over those self checkouts. The problem is the criminals are not being prosecuted.
If the store catches them, they get arrested and then the case is thrown out by some Liberal judge or weak on crime DA.
Isn't it great that we all have to pay the price for a minority of losers that face no repercussions for their criminal ways.
It was funny, I was watching an old movie the other night "Riot in Juvenile Prison" and one of the teens was in for armed robbery but one girl was locked up because her family was poor and she shoplifted some clothes. My how times have changed since 1959 when the movie was released. Today the armed robbery would get a slap on the wrist and the shoplifter would be allowed to steal.
Closing the Walmarts is going to hurt the locals that rely on it and put people out of work.
Since the Democrats have broken the justice system when will we start seeing vigilante justice happen?
Self check out has been around for a long time. The current spike is not due to that.
Used to be 4 self checkouts in a given store. Now I see some stores with mostly self checkouts and maybe one cashier in the front of the store. The point is, there are far fewer staff overall in all the stores. Fewer eyes make thieves more bold. Nobody is watching and the thieves know that.
And let security actually stop them in the act the way they used to.
I have a relative who works in retail that was coming in to start his shift and saw shoplifters walking out with duffle bags full of merchandise. He flagged down a police car that happened to be driving by.
He got reprimanded and came very close to getting fired.
Right. What's with that. Where did this idea come from to just allow thieves to walk out with merchandise?
Why mess with all that, just load up a cart, and push it right out the door...nobody will stop you. Cover your face & license plate so they can't track you down.
Easier yet, put an expensive item into a box containing a cheap product, then scan it as normal.
Thieves have many ways to scam Wal Mart.
Never said otherwise. The poster insists that the loss of revenue is due to self checkout, but has nothing to back it up.
Right. What's with that. Where did this idea come from to just allow thieves to walk out with merchandise?
Because up until recently it made financial sense to not bother.
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