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It becomes political, depending on whom is committing the crime. Over the past year, we have been treated to more and more voices from the media and academia instructing us to "stop calling the police on black people."
It becomes political, depending on whom is committing the crime. Over the past year, we have been treated to more and more voices from the media and academia instructing us to "stop calling the police on black people."
I'd be happy to post the articles, by the way.
It's unfortunate that you missed the point of that.
I work for a large gas station/ convenience store chain, we have ALOT of shoplifting, but the company did a study on this years ago and found it does not effect P&L that significantly, which made them change their policy on busting shoplifters, now, all a manager can do is ask the thief to leave the store, cannot call police on them, even with fuel drive offs, they can only take down the plate number and refuse to serve them if they come in again.
Then again, for us, the things that are shoplifted are low cost items, chips, soda, cigarettes, cigars, etc. I could see how this would be a larger problem when its more expensive products.
Plus, we have different contracts with vendors that supply our products, many of the contracts factor in SHRINK/LOSS, and the vendor agrees to 'eat' a percentage of this, like with Altria (Marlboro), the contract we have with them covers a certain percentage of stolen packs, so it doesnt effect the store at all.
The problem with changing your policy is that shoplifters know this and target stores where they know they will not be arrested. That will increase shoplifting in your companies stores.
I was talking to a security person at a chain store whose job took him to all the locations in my town. They also changed their policy a couple years back where they let the shoplifters go once they exit the front door. And the same shoplifters go to each store in the chain with little fear. And shoplifting has increased sharply.
This guy was confronted by employees of the supermarket, for stealing a full cart full of meat.
He looks like he is addicted to food!! and cannot pay for his habit!
Great video all I can say is too bad fat boy did not hit his head when fat boy hit the ground.
Sooo you load up your cart with groceries, walk out the door in broad daylight and expect to not be confronted?
That is pretty brazen.
By the looks of the guy he has probably been a bully his entire life that likes to throw his weight around.
It was funny when he fell.
I do wonder what happened next. Were the Police called? Did the employees get reprimanded for confronting the guy?
Did the fat guy file a slip and fall law suit against the grocer and the parking lot owner?
The kid who pushed him didn't look like an employee. He looked more like a bystander (possibly a store customer) to me.
Watch closely. The young guy just observed the goings-on for a second, saw the employees were in trouble, and did something to help them. And then left.
It didn't take much of a push to knock the wind out of that fat guy, for sure.
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