Walmart could close because of too much theft?

This is not because of theft there is shrinkage everywhere today it's because they would never say Amazon's name. They just had improving profit margins since COVID lockdown issues have come down. Amazon laying off employees like 100,000 of them and that will improve Amazon's profit margins Walmart closing stores will have pretty much the same effect. Walmart wants to move to an Amazon delivery model and have had decent luck so no doubt this will move on.
 
ferrisjso said:
What you need to live?

Yeah your guareentees don't mean very much.

No I don't know it's wrong. I consider profit to be the root of all evil. Stealing(in this context anyway) mitigates profit thus I consider it be good. Anything a human does to hurt a corporations profit and shareholders is something i support.
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I read this as "I'm poor and jealous of the people who had the ambition to do better for themselves"
 
Be the ball said:
Self checkouts equal lower prices for the consumer.

Let's be honest and address who and where the stealing occurs. That's the problem. It's the same reason that those drugstores end up closing and moving completely out of shit neighborhoods.

Let's point the finger at the piece of shit members of society instead of a store that offers goods at low prices.
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Walmarts are generally frequented by the thieves and scoundrels, so I would expect a store that attracts that group would face a lot of theft. But Walmart closing? I don’t see it happening except for a few isolated locations. What’s really funny is when people really start complaining and bitching at Walmart because one closing in certain areas increases the food desert issues. So with Walmart closing, there are even less places if any, to get fresh veggies and fruits. But who will the critics complain about? Walmart-not the thieves, never the thieves. They will point the finger at Walmart for selfishly closing a store in a (take your pick) impoverished, diverse, urban area.
 
Total bullshit. For Walmart's claim to be believable, they would have have theft occuring contantly in most locations. I've been to many different Walmarts and did not notice this being the case.
 
Imho it is exaggregated stuff.

In retail sales lesser than 5% from calculated losses are cos theft by customers.
Delivery to retail store is more " cool " thing.
Etc....
+ accounting and pricing flowcharts mistakes....

If retail seller is so concerned about " customers - thiefs " then he should close business yes.
Or improve....

Why for example mom and papa type retail shop owner when I had asked him about customers - thiefs told me that during year his customers had stole maybe 30eur worth stuff and main problem he does have are local customers asking to be allowed pay later ......


Also these automatic methods to pay for groceries sometimes are nightmare.

Not Walmart....
Still big chain.
Earlier they had 12 ppl for work with clients in cash etc and 6 self service terminals.
Now this shop ( not walmart ) does have in the same shop 3-5 ppl to work with cash and 8 self service terminals.

If bar code had not been read properly or some mistake with system.... beep.... some live body anyway should come and check this......


Soon maybe internet stores and mom & papa shops will rule the game....

Of course retail sales business might suffer from theft by customers heavily...
While mainly this in cases when item is small and expensive.
Casual groceries doesn't make such losses...

Jewellery shop might suffer heavily, for this reason decent video is used and a salesperson servicing customer in person face to face....

Also expensive alco in small bottles etc might be protected with the same method.

Etc...
 
Amazon deals with shoplifting too, people return shit they've dismantled or excised and get a refund...

I wouldn't steal from any store and half the time I leave Meijer or Walmart the alarms go off and maybe 10% of that time someone tries to stop me...

A solution is to be much much harder on thievery, I'd go as hard as possible but maybe that's too much, or maybe it isn't... This mentality that stealing is ok is about as shameful as it gets and damages the thief as much or more than anyone else...
 
Be the ball said:
Self checkouts equal lower prices for the consumer.

Let's be honest and address who and where the stealing occurs. That's the problem. It's the same reason that those drugstores end up closing and moving completely out of shit neighborhoods.

Let's point the finger at the piece of shit members of society instead of a store that offers goods at low prices.
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No. Walmart is just going to keep the prices of the next cheapest guy. Often since Walmart sets local prices, there isn't any real price competition.
 
Be the ball said:
Self checkouts equal lower prices for the consumer.

Let's be honest and address who and where the stealing occurs. That's the problem. It's the same reason that those drugstores end up closing and moving completely out of shit neighborhoods.

Let's point the finger at the piece of shit members of society instead of a store that offers goods at low prices.
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They tried that.

They used computer statistics to decide which products are the most shoplifted and decided to keep those items under lock and key so that people who wanted to buy them had to ask someone to unlock the case.

it was deemed extremely racist lol
 
Halifax said:
They tried that.

They used computer statistics to decide which products are the most shoplifted and decided to keep those items under lock and key so that people who wanted to buy them had to ask someone to unlock the case.

it was deemed extremely racist lol
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It takes me sooooo long to find someone to open the video game cases for me. I didn't know it was because I'm a damn honky!
 
walmart better not close down shop. where else are we gonna see shit like this?

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Arrest all those thieves! That said is this the same Walmart that ate up all small businesses during the pandemic? And they're threatening shutdowns? FUCK'EM
 
PEB said:
This is not because of theft there is shrinkage everywhere today it's because they would never say Amazon's name. They just had improving profit margins since COVID lockdown issues have come down. Amazon laying off employees like 100,000 of them and that will improve Amazon's profit margins Walmart closing stores will have pretty much the same effect. Walmart wants to move to an Amazon delivery model and have had decent luck so no doubt this will move on.
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I can't believe Walmart would actually try to to pass off theft as a valid reason, but then agains there are lots of people who will fall for it becase it dovetails with the Dems-are-soft-on-crime belief. I've been to several Walmarts recently (in different states) - and never seen an issue with theft, which would be noticeable if it was soo serious that Walmart needed to close all their stores.
 
Two Crows said:
Did you read that article?

A customer and a single non-management employee.

It's not self-checkout.
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"more than 100 Walmart customers and former and current employees have reached out to an Insider reporter to say the retailer must rely less on self-checkout."

"Security experts concur that self-checkouts make it harder to deter theft. Matt Kelley, a loss-prevention expert at the security-solutions company LiveView Technologies, told Insider that it's "definitely very valid" to think self-checkout, which he said most big-box retailers had implemented in some form, had led to more thefts."


 
I used to do asset protection there and caught a lot of folks stealing. The self checkout was touchy, but i always made it plausible. Scan 1 can of peas and bag a shitload of items? No jury will believe it was a mistake, so the company was ok with it.

Then their policy changed...and changed...and changed. Now you can touch them, enlist those that will come back into a program instead of prosecuting, etc.

You hire folks that are paid to protect companys shit and then they dont allow us to or dont allow us to prosecute. They always said wE aRe LoOkInG oUt FoR sAfEtY but fuck that. We werent throwing folks through walls, we just held them. Take that away, then fuck your products.


Imagine opening up a bar and hiring a bouncer, but tell him to card the door.
 
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