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willzyx01 t1_j25r0bh wrote

Employees are forbidden from doing anything. Some companies will literally fire employees if they do anything when they get robbed.

Besides, who wants get to murdered over a can of Red Bull?

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man2010 t1_j25rtyp wrote

What do you expect the employees to do? Stopping someone from shoplifting is way above the pay grade of a cashier, never mind it being against the policy of virtually every retail store

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Efficient_Art_1144 t1_j25slt5 wrote

Take a look at their latest 10-is and see if their leakage or lost inventories are moving in the wrong direction or even showing up in their financials. It’s not a new thing.

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Local_Judge t1_j25sov1 wrote

Ok i se get hat but what about upper management these stores are closing all over the city due to the massive theft problem

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Local_Judge t1_j25tmzz wrote

Replying to Efficient_Art_1144 (#1,158,713)

Well they are now closing stores everywhere and not in just boston due to this high petty theft problem… so I’m not cheering on the big cooperations .. there are many of us hardworking taxpaying people that actually get in line to pay for shit.. that get kinda pissed

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Ironofmaiden t1_j25vbav wrote

The people shoplifting are probably struggling too… CVS is probably going to be ok.

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_lainan t1_j25vpnq wrote

if it's a chain, it's free rein.

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Local_Judge t1_j25vqj7 wrote

Ya let’s not give fuck it seems to be working out just fine

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Stronkowski t1_j25wbu8 wrote

The dollar sign goes before the number.

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michael_scarn_21 t1_j25wjeg wrote

They'll just write off the shrinkage as business losses of course. Sucks when half the customers are on the nick but I'd rather we as a society dealt with the cost of living crisis rather than targeting petty theft.

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TheTr7nity t1_j25wtzy wrote

They should stop being cheap and just hire a police or security detail. The store down the street use to get hit up by shoplifters on the regular, all that stopped when they started hiring police details for the front door.

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riski_click t1_j25xpjc wrote

Replying to Local_Judge (#1,159,408)

their stock price took a hit during the pandemic, but it's made a comeback. It's up 20% over the past 5 years. I'm guessing the shareholders would tell you not giving a fuck is working just fine.

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riski_click t1_j25y0u0 wrote

Replying to Local_Judge (#1,158,734)

I haven't seen anything about closing stores because of theft, I have seen that they are opening more "stores" in target. They just opened one in Kendall a few months ago that seems to be doing fine.

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pillbinge t1_j25yi2l wrote

They can't do anything. We've become a managerial society, and managers hate taking action. Even the police don't respond to basic things anymore. It turns out you can just steal stuff now.

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Local_Judge t1_j25yiz1 wrote

Just noticing a trend .. not on a mission.. just have seen several stores close down for this one reason . Hey let’s not let’s not give a fuck sounds like a plan

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pillbinge t1_j25yp3o wrote

Replying to Ironofmaiden (#1,159,305)

Everyone's struggling these days, including people who are trying to fire on all cylinders to get that last brain cell working where they defend shoplifting things they don't need - like Red Bull.

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DBLJ33 t1_j25z6n6 wrote

Why would they care. Thanks to Rachel Rollins, Suffolk County doesn’t prosecute for shoplifting. There’s no point in arresting these people.

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Proof-Variation7005 t1_j25z8xc wrote

Replying to willzyx01 (#1,158,413)

Years ago, my brother worked in a Strawberries in Randolph and the inventory alarm thing went off. He walked out to say "Excuse me, I think we forgot to deactivate the security tag", as was the policy of theirs at the time.

Dude turned around, pulled out a knife and said something to the effect of "maybe this set it off."

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My brother then promptly went back into the store.

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Local_Judge t1_j25zlcj wrote

Replying to riski_click (#1,159,915)

CVS on albany … Walgreens Washington.. Cumberland farm’s albany and mass ave..CVS Mecca plaza will probably close within the next year from what I saw .. hey whatever billion dollar companies but again.. some of us pay and then we pay again

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riski_click t1_j2603cs wrote

Replying to Local_Judge (#1,160,235)

lol. If someone told you Walgreens on Washington closed because of theft, they're just in denial that it was a shit store that was directly across the street from a CVS that is easily three times the size.. There was literally nothing done right with that store. The Walgreens that used to be a Borders is less than a mile away and doing fine.

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DistinctBook t1_j260634 wrote

I worked in a 7X24 hour quickie mart. People used to steal all the time. They didnt pay me enough to care

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Whiplash92123 t1_j2606c8 wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#1,159,939)

Security won’t be able to do anything either. I worked Loss Prevention in the past and there are industry standards that need to be followed to the letter in order for you to make a “stop” for shoplifting. Vast majority of companies that have in house LP aren’t allowing them to make stops for external shoplifting anymore, it’s a liability and opens the company up to lawsuits/workers comp injury claims.

The more profitable/damaging losses are from internal theft, those are still pursued by LP, since the company has more control over what can be done and is able to actually hand out punishment to the person stealing.

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Competitive_Bat4000 t1_j260yj3 wrote

As someone that worked at cvs and other retail stores 15-20 yrs ago, even back then, we’d call the cops after stopping shoplifters, they’d show up 5-6 hours after the call. You’d just sit there awkwardly waiting for a bit until you just let them go.

Not worth the hassle and head office didn’t want employees getting involved.

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DoubIeDryHop t1_j2613pm wrote

Replying to Local_Judge (#1,160,024)

You don’t honestly believe a company that size would close stores simply because some people are stealing energy drinks. Store closures are a strategic decision, regardless of the retailer, and CVS announced a few years ago it’d close roughly 9% of their 10,000 stores (or 900) - beginning in 2022 - to accommodate shifts in consumer behavior.

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SparkDBowles t1_j26220g wrote

And yet they keep installing more add checkouts. Less jobs, less oversight of these machines. Sounds like a compounding problem they’re helping to cause.

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Alphatron1 t1_j263bpc wrote

Replying to willzyx01 (#1,158,413)

I’ll tell my story from Best Buy in Leominster. We had some junky girl walk in with poop all over her sweatpants. They were filthy. She cleaned out an entire display of fire sticks because no one wanted to contact her.

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Stronkowski t1_j263m9d wrote

Replying to DistinctBook (#1,160,351)

I worked in a grocery store in high school. One guy came in and stole like 6 times in row (before they had enough video footage to get the cops to find/arrest him). They actively told us not to care.

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Local_Judge t1_j264fp0 wrote

No motive here just noticing a trend between theft and sore closures ..

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