There is nothing makes me leave a store quicker than having to wait on a worker for a basic item that shouldn't be locked away.
this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2025
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Deodorant at CVS/walgreens 🙄
Even if their claim of "organized theft" is true, that itself would be a self-correcting market force. Your price point should exist somewhere between the extreme of "lock it up so tight nobody can buy it" and "it's cheaper for people to shoplift it en masse". If you can't manage that, maybe you deserve to go out of business (also I think you'll find that it would also help to increase the number of staff to actually unlock the damn shelves). Perhaps in the long run the market will self correct, but this is absolutely idiotic right now. And the real consequences for people that have lost their local pharmacy are catastrophic.
Don't forget that there is always online shopping out there as well.
I learned this from the "Black Market" episode of Battlestar Galactica
Those are not two extremes of a "price point", you describe two scenarios on the high end with no sweet spot in between. Good job confusing me trying to read your sentence correctly :p
Keep stealing then
Some report said the claim of organized theft was not true or greatly exaggerated
It wasn't true. It was used to disguise crumbling profits as American shopping habits changed out of necessity.
that's my understanding as well
I honestly do not get how thick these people can be, yet get so well paid in these high up positions.
The corporate world doesn't promote people based on ability, it promotes based on how much ass you kiss and what college your parents could afford to send you.
If the CEO of Bob's Store hired Senator John's son then suddenly zoning issues disappear for his new space. The CEO of Bob's even donates to several fundraisers for Senator John and makes donations to charities he knows John is a part of. John uses this information to inform his decision on who gets a cushy position position at the charity and if Bob's competitor will be allowed to expand.
No shit its so annoying having to ask a worker to unlock the damn glass door just for $5-$10 item.
Especially when you can usually just walk across the parking lot to another retailer and pick up that $3 deodorant without bothering anybody.
At my Walgreens there are usually some people in the pharmacy, one person on the registers and maybe one person in cosmetics. I'm not bugging the only cashier to unlock toothpaste that costs double what it does anywhere else.
We went to Walmart to print something we needed since the staples near us was having issues with their machine. Pet cleaning spray $6-$15 dollars? Behind one of those locked cabinets of course.
There was a worker near by stacking some other items, but we didn’t bother since from what we could remember of Walmart, they never have the keys on them and have to chase someone down.
Lock everything up then understaff your stores so there's no one to ask to unlock an item even if you were so inclined to go to the trouble. Great success.
My favorite is home depot locking up stuff but not locking up the bolt cutters
I think with the advent of cordless angle grinders, we've moved on from bolt cutters, haven't we?
Certainly makes my visits to National Trust properties a lot more interesting
Bolt cutters are much quieter, and still get the point across. Hell, when I see shit like that it makes me want to pop some locks just to prove a point. Like don’t even steal anything, just crack some shackles and leave Loss Prevention scratching their heads.
When I worked on the ambulance, we once needed after hours access to a small electric company park to land a helicopter (mountainous area, not many flat spaces). That was the night I learned that the fire department keeps a "universal key" (bolt cutters) on hand for just such an occasion.
It's less destructive than taking the gate down with the jaws of life.
But the power tools are locked up and make noise. Bolt cutters are silent and not locked up in store.
Useful on sites that require hot works permits also.
Is that some kind of porn studio?
MILF- Machinist I'd Like To...
Nah, if I want to use a grinder in a situation where it’s not a daily thing I need to have a permit to do that. It doesn’t achieve much, it’s just an insurance thing that says that they know what I’m doing and makes me aware to do things like make sure whatever I’ve worked on cools down safely.
The permit to do work in an electric cabinet without turning off the power used to also be called a hot work permit, mainly because it was the same from.
Now work near live power more than 24VDC is banned unless the power is keeping someone alive, or the person performing the work is a contractor.
To us hot work is work that creates heat.
What you call “hot work” we call “working live”. I don’t think that there’s a limit on what you can work on live, I think everyone or most isolate first.
Christ on a bike I'd fucking hate to live in an oppressive regime like that
Where are you, North Korea or somewhere like that?
U.K., it’s an insurance thing, I think.
"But it does impact how sales work through the store because when you lock things up," he added, "for example, you don’t sell as many of them. We’ve kind of proven that pretty conclusively."
wow, check out the brains on this guy
Remember: You get a business degree because you're not talented enough for the arts and not smart enough for engineering or medicine.
I’ve always heard “what do you call a failed med student? The hospital administrator.”
Lol. I'm guessing they earned this discovery after an agile data driven pivot away from keeping the front doors of the store locked all day...
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Yeah turns out people don’t like:
- Being treated like criminals
- Having their time wasted
Walgreens’ inventory shrinkage is not my problem. Locking everything up rather than paying loss prevention staff is just going to piss everyone off.
Yeah, they've been steadily reducing the number of staff in the stores to save money. I'd say look, you have that savings, just accept some shrinkage. Or you can hire more staff, your choice.
Being treated like criminals
I've been followed around a store. Guess what store I've never bought from and won't be back to.
Buttplugs R Us?
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Well in Walgreens: if you see someone shoplifting...
ask how they can help you open up the thing locked up because I pushed that god damn button and it's been 15 minutes and I haven't seen a god damn employee yet Jesus Christ I came here for a quick trip like wtf I could have ordered this online you fucking morons
I was at a store the other day, eeddd usb-c pd cables.
The 5ft 10 dollar cables were locked up, the 10 ft 14 dollar cables weren’t.
If it's locked up, I won't buy it. I don't have time for that nonsense and large companies only understand money (or a lack of) before they will make a change.
I don't buy locked up stuff because I don't want to talk to people.
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