Omg… You fired all the check out people and now your mad that people are stealing from a faceless for profit company!
Will anyone think of the investors?
I don’t personally steal at self-checkout, but if saw anyone stealing I’d just ignore it. As far I’m concerned, they deserve to be stolen from. Zero interest in hearing the crocodile tears of those who were complicit in price gouging.
As the meme goes, if you saw someone stealing food, no, you didn’t. Poor people gotta eat too.
Every dollar stolen from the store gets added to the prices you pay going forward, they absolutely do not let it come out of profits.
then why are they whining about it?
Because now they can’t increase the prices anyway and get better profit margins.
Do you think they’d lower prices if theft stopped?
Nope.
I hear what you’re saying, but we’re not talking about a single-mother sneaking diapers out because she needs them or a Jean Valjean-type taking bread because they’re hungry…
This is OCR (Organized Retail Theft) where a team of 3+ people coordinate with phones, distractions, and a driver, to quickly get as many high-dollar, shelf-stable items out of a store as possible to resell on Facebook marketplace/eBay/etc. It’s typically at least $1000 per store.
If you hate large organizations, you should hate the greed of criminal rings like this, because we all absolutely pay more because of it…
EDIT: I’m just talking about what the article is referring to. I’m not saying companies don’t pass the costs on to consumers, and I’m not casting moral judgement.
We’d pay more anyway, they’re just butthurt that the margins are smaller. You think the prices are going to come down if the theft stops?
i’ve never seen someone steal food and i never will.
I’ll have no choice but to close a store.
Yeah, because hiring staff back and getting rid of self help checkouts is impossible?? How would they even go about that?
Or, and here’s a radical idea, drop your prices so people can actually afford to pay for the food??
Remember kids, if you see someone stealing food,
No you didn’t.
Adapt or die. It’s not really that difficult a concept.
I’m torn on this one. On one hand, fuck the money grubbing corporations that got themselves into this mess. On the other these closures are creating food deserts.
I’ll make it easy for you. It is the money gubbing corporations creating the food deserts.
It’s funny how this wasn’t a problem back in the days before customers were expected to act as unpaid employees.
remembering shit that happened six months ago is so hard you guys
Stealing isn’t OK, but I always found it a bit disjointed how making “mistakes” (minor or large) at self-checkouts basically has zero recourse. They really do need to be reworked