“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
Bonus points for first bringing all your points of sale down to skeleton crews first.
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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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.
Personally I LOVE having my time wasted!
Only if it’s in fun and/or interesting ways, though, not waiting for some underpaid and overworked employee getting a key for the toilet paper safe or whatever.
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.
i’m starting to worry we’ll never find out which store it is. the suspense is killing me
Well you didn’t tell us which store so we don’t know
They told you to guess!
Radio Shack?
Everyone who ever entered a Radio Shack was followed around the store.
Then I’m not wrong.
At self-checkout in a lot of stores employees stand behind me because I move fast. Apparently that means I’m stealing rather than I move faster than a snail when there’s a huge line of people waiting.
God the ones here don’t let you. The scales have to match so you can only pick up one item at a time, scan it, put it in the bag, and wait for the scales to read.
I stopped going to Kroger grocery stores mostly over price but honestly even if they lowered prices I wouldn’t go back specifically because of this feature. It’s more pleasant to shop at Walmart or Safeway as they don’t use this kind of system.
If a store has an intentionally terrible interface like this, or displays a video feed of you using it, I’m not touching self checkout. Going through a cashier’s line is fine, and walking away from my cart and never coming back is fine if that’s not an option.
Red Door?
Hot Topic?
Jimboys Tacos
Toys R Us?
Maybe if there were like 2 employees in the store, people would feel less comfortable stealing shit.
The Joann fabric near us has these speakers that will say something like “ask an associate if you need anything” when you walk near them. They put them near the expensive shit.
Clearly, it’s an attempt to alert staff when someone is walking near the expensive stuff, but like…the store has 2 employees and when they’re not checking people out, they’re trying desperately to keep up with the boxes of unloaded freight clogging up the aisles.
Nobody is watching you steal stuff.
The only thing worse than shaming your customer is inconveniencing them.
Walgreens is why I joined Dollar shave club years ago. Nothing like needing to flag down an employee to fetch another employee who can unlock the razorblades.
It’s really simple: either you accept shrink, or you hire enough people with keys to handle your anti-theft shit.
I don’t go to target anymore, CVS, or Walgreens if it’s at all avoidable because it’s going to take an hour to get in, buy a few things, and leave.
They want to lock shit up, but then only have one employee covering the whole damn store that can unlock shit, meaning if you want some laundry detergent, it’s going to take you half an hour.
Of course, the local grocery stores, Walmart, Amazon, and various other retailers don’t lock shit up, so yeah, I just go there and don’t have to deal with stupid bullshit pushed by morons who haven’t gone shopping in one of the stores they run.
Walmarts definitely also lock stuff up.
Its regional. The Walgreen’s by me doesnt lock stuff up, nor the walmarts, but if I go about 10 miles south then they do.
In the Bay Area, I saw stores with gates and turnstiles which are presumably intended to make running out of the store harder, especially for someone holding a lot of stuff. I wonder if they work any better.
One store I went to there even had a guy letting people in one by one after looking them over, like a bouncer.
Edit: This sort of thing frustrates me.
these claims were unfounded, with a mere 23 shoplifting incidents occurring between 2018 and 2021, according to police records
That’s less than one shoplifter a month, which is obviously not an accurate count.
The police barely even respond to shootings. Are they going to do anything if you call them and report someone stealing a box of shaving supplies? Why bother even trying to report that?
If bet thats 23 incidents reported to police. There are absolutely people out there that make a living stealing from box stores. Kroger specifically won’t do much besides glare at you and ask if you’d kindly not steal that.
Uh, where y’all live that this is a thing? I’ll stay out the major cities, thanks.
Putting the actual issue aside for a moment, the lock pictured is pretty stupid. It would be so easy to simply unscrew the screws.
Walgreens is God awful, 25 min In line for a prescription yesterday and everything is locked up.
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God damn they even stole the damn comment. Can’t have nothing
Shoulda locked it up
Yeah, but then you’d have to wait like 30 minutes for a mod with the key to unlock it.
