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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.
Stores with a membership basis and tight admission will be more popular if the state and local prosecutors won't do their jobs.
A number of areas have decriminalized theft below a certain amount.
So, they just go in and steal it, someone then lists it up for sale on-line.
Illinois raised the amount for "felony theft" from 300 to 1,000.
Just walk right on out the door with it.
Why don't these stores have Security watching the door? And by Security, I mean someone with the authority to stop and hold a thief until the police can be called. Seems paying that extra salary would be cheaper than the cost of all that shoplifted merchandise.
Stores used to have many more employees and safeguards... many eyes always watching. Until they decided that live employees cost too much. Now they wonder why shoplifting has increased. SMH.
There’s workers in the scanner areas, and there’s video of the person doing the scanning. It’s quite simple
So simple that people are walking out the door with stolen merchandise and nobody there to stop them. The system you describe is obviously not working.
Who is watching the video that the scanner is recording? Evidently nobody.
So simple that people are walking out the door with stolen merchandise and nobody there to stop them. The system you describe is obviously not working.
Who is watching the video that the scanner is recording? Evidently nobody.
Lol. Those people aren’t going to the scanners which you blamed for the huge losses due to shoplifting…but do tell how much money is being lost due to self checkout crime?
They’re filling their carts, bypassing the checkouts, and leaving the stores due to being the loser criminals that they are.
Most cities don’t rely on Wal-Mart. I’ve only seen like 1 or 2 Wal-Marts in the entire city of Los Angeles. In the suburbs there’s more.
Wal-Marts are infamous for killing small towns by undercutting local businesses and then when they start losing g money they close. Thus destroying the town’s main source of income and necessities.
Like a parasite.
And the residents of these small towns are/were utterly complicit in this. They sold out their towns for "bargain shopping!" LOL.
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