Dollar Tree and Family Dollar Closing 1,000 Stores: “We’re losing too much money from theft.” (wages, regular)
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So people stealing isn’t the problem, it’s that we don’t like the dollar tree business model?
I can tell you the vast majority of the theft is coming from employees not external theft. In any retail operation the majority of the shrink is internal. There are no roving bands of shoplifting crews hitting dollar stores. More than likely their losses are due to them running a bare bones operation with little to no internal controls to prevent loss.
Making this into a political football is weak sauce guys.
Forget the specific store/chain/corporation, and simply ask how long any society, nation, collective lasts, or at the very least, continues to prosper when the government essentially tells the populace that they do not care about the rights of private property and self-defense. Not only will we not secure, protect and defend those rights, we will punish you, the individual, if you dare try to do it yourself.
Name any nation that disregarded BOTH of those fundamental rights and did not suffer dire consequences. Just one. Ever.
Theft is not the issue as much as their ****-poor business plan of miniaturizing & decreasing quality of the product & terrible treatment of employees. There isn't anything worth stealing, thieves would rather steal at Target, Walgreens, Walmart or the local supermarket.
One of the local Dollar Trees went TWO YEARS with no a/c because tweakers ravaged it. The solution? Close the store & send employees home. Many customers including myself contacted L&I, OSHA, etc. Apparently employee health isn't a priority. The a/c was recently replaced & put in tweaker-proof cages, we'll see how that works; probably not that well, b/c NO ONE wants to work there, & why would they?. There was recently a hand-written sign in the door of the other Dollar Tree offering to pay by the day in cash to get people to stock shelves. There was a guy down rhe block with his cardboard begging sign. Why would he stock shelves when he can make more standing with a cardboard sign?
Theft is not the issue as much as their ****-poor business plan of miniaturizing & decreasing quality of the product & terrible treatment of employees. There isn't anything worth stealing, thieves would rather steal at Target, Walgreens, Walmart or the local supermarket.
One of the local Dollar Trees went TWO YEARS with no a/c because tweakers ravaged it. The solution? Close the store & send employees home. Many customers including myself contacted L&I, OSHA, etc. Apparently employee health isn't a priority. The a/c was recently replaced & put in tweaker-proof cages, we'll see how that works; probably not that well, b/c NO ONE wants to work there, & why would they?. There was recently a hand-written sign in the door of the other Dollar Tree offering to pay by the day in cash to get people to stock shelves. There was a guy down rhe block with his cardboard begging sign. Why would he stock shelves when he can make more standing with a cardboard sign?
i like the self check out, but they are taikg them out due to thief. stores are closing due to thief. Lowes are locking up tools due to thief. walmart and others are closing stores because of thief. I have even seen burger joint close. Portland as an example the place in mourrla.
maybe we need to stop the thief, maybe with fear. shop lift, ten years. make the purnishment so bad you fear going to jail
i dont speed because of fear of the ticket. maybe commit a crime with a gun. 45 years. illegal immigration, immediatly deport that day, no green card. get on the bus gus, you got family, not my problem
"Probably because they literally because 9 times outta 10 only put 1 employee to look after the entire store"
In all the times i visited them, I NEVER experienced that.
And I have one around the corner that is almost always like that.
Daughter interviewed with them, they mentioned to her that they couldn't keep staff at that store and mgr was often working alone. She backed away from that real quick, not the kind of situation she wanted to be working in.
Allow the private property owner to defend their property with force, and there'd be less theft. Guarantee.
The root cause of crime is sociopaths who disregard the natural, individual rights of others by initiating force against them. There is no logical or moral justification for initiating force. It is always incorrect, immoral and illogical, always and everywhere.
You cannot rationalize it, you cannot excuse it. You can either defend against it with vigor, or you can roll over and remain its willing victim. Period.
This sums up the situation we all face pretty well.
And of course, the lefties choose the latter on your penultimate sentence: they always roll over and remain a willing victim. And they expect all the rest of us to do the same.
This sums up the situation we all face pretty well.
And of course, the lefties choose the latter on your penultimate sentence: they always roll over and remain a willing victim. And they expect all the rest of us to do the same.
They seek to weaken the populace constantly, and one of the ways to do that is to make the victim feel that their victimization is part of the natural order, that those who harm them did so for a noble purpose thus rendering the initiation of force harmless or forgivable.
The reason they do this is because if too many of us started thinking we could quite easily and properly take care of our own self-defense, we might start asking why we are letting 536 morons rule us with such absolute authority? They cannot have this. Therefore, they set all manner of insane rules for what constitutes harm, what amount of defense the weak individual is allowed, etc.
You have to be pretty much of a lowlife to commit retail theft, but stealing from a Dollar Store? That's bottom-of-the-barrel stuff.
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