That "theft rings" bullshit was thoroughly debunked and retracted and we all still have to live like this anyway. This is why I'm over fact checking
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Phil Hornshaw
The locking stuff up at Target is officially dumb as hell. They got the socks under glass.
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Yeah, makes no sense to me either
Capitalism: What if EVERYTHING was illegal?
Instead of focusing strengths (home, lifestyle, misc.) the corporate assholes spent money on a losing gambit then blamed it on “thieves” instead of massive mismanagement 😑 2/2
The corporate police-state panopticon is there watching to make sure what’s in your cart is scanned and paid for before they let you walk away with it.
Whenever some MAGA turns up in my feed, I block & don't see another for a good while.
TBF, I liked those stores!!
That's plenty of places to shop.
Social media created oth sides of this situation.
What makes your or any individual opinion matter than another?
When did I ever state my opinion matters more?
Seems you have a misunderstanding of society, language, opinion, and social media.
Get over yourself
thanks phone
Giant vending machines throughout the store that can monitor inventory much better than any employee ever could.
The future sucks.
But also that definitely isn't why they actually did it and they will never admit it if it is.
You order some socks online, we go out to the floor to find it for you, but it's impossible to find because we're on a timer and no one ever organizes ("brands") the mens basics because it's such a pita and we lose the sale.
instead they've made everybodies' experience worse to prevent people from moving underwear around.
https://www.historyassociates.com/automat/
you go in and tell the clerk what you want, they go in the back and get it for you. the store is just a small storefront and the rest is warehouse.
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But they aren’t locking up all the socks. Just the ones that can be easily resold.
literally no one is stealing the socks from target to sell on ebay, there are other things worth far more that are easier to sell
Read the rest of my comments. I come in peace.
I apologize for the snark, but this is an area where I have domain expertise, not just headlines to hang on.
Eventually we will be moving toward the “automat” world another commenter mentioned (ask me how I know, and I can DM you), but this all begs the question…
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My handle is the same everywhere I’m active though.
Last year Target moved a bunch of departments around in the org-chart so a lot of previously clothes-employees started working like appliances and towels and stuff. But they never got trained on how to fix anything.
Training in general has gone to shit since the "modernization process" but christ.
Most of the shrink I saw was a mix of external and internal theft.
It was a consumer electronics store vs a general merch store so that can also play a part in this.
Also, the entire country is experiencing the lowest unemployment rates of probably anyone alive and it's hard to staff stores. Plus, most are shifting to online pickup, shifting staffing
"Oh, darn, we have to blame the poors!"
Now we’re making it someone’s job to run back and forth opening glass doors for eight hours? Because of make-believe crimes?
From the Smithsonian Natural History Museum
https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/health-hygiene-and-beauty/alleviating-body-odors
Hilarious.
To see you specifically say that is a tragedy.
I worked at an Ulta by an international airport...it was unpleasant.
I really hate this whole...commerce...thing.
This smells like a garbage-in-garbage-out kind of study.
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/shoplifting-cases-soar-in-los-angeles/
https://xtown.la/2024/02/12/shoplifting-in-city-of-los-angeles-soars-81-in-2023/
Turns out a lot of people bought it.
And honestly tho I have never contributed to shrinkage I have found scanning to be so frustrating it has crossed my mind for that reason alone
He asked if stores were just constantly getting raided or what.
I was like, no, i have never seen this happen and i am pretty sure they're making it up.
And my local Gucci property had to lock up their bags, man. Their BAGS!
It can't possibly work, but it sure does make everyone's day worse.
I feel like that'll probably cost them more than their pretend theft rings ever did.
Hard to feel like there's a good option here though.
That dosnt seem worth the risk of committing crime. They'd much rather take the expensive wines or some sht, if anything, but probably nothing at all from convenience stoes.
Locking is now the only way to ensure
In person transactions may continue in future as restraint in logic exists.
If you witness a theft in progress
Understand this is a direct assault upon you the witness.
You will suffer increased prices
You will suffer less items to purchase
The rest wasn’t worth a comment.
“How ironic”
Unless it was done
By a policeman
Or an aristocrat
Oh, know your rights
And number two
You have the right to food money
Providing of course
You don't mind a little
Investigation, humiliation
And if you cross your fingers
Rehabilitation
Know your rights
These are your rights
Intelligence Quotient
Emotional regulation Quotient
Skill set Quotient
Experience Quotient
Working uniformly in tandem within the sphere of each their own human experience of consciousness.
Not taking anything, just "fuck this shit" going around unlocking
You'd probably get a "get out and never return" but is there any immediate tort or crime?
https://archive.is/rk9Sc
No sock theft rings. No toothpaste rings. No organized theft of tweezers.
This is about shedding employees, but it makes the customers have to track them down to buy stuff! :(
Source: Target’s Assets Protection department, from back when I worked at HQ
I'm so tired...
I worked retail for a decade and a half. I have seen some crazy shit even just being bottom rung management.
My work history has made me decide I will become a buddhist nun in my twilight years. I'm tired of the world.
And Walmart's even worse
idk if racism-based decision making is any better.
It’s not about theft. It’s about security theater to push a narrative that loss is impacting their margins.
socks, deodorant, shaving products, electronics/video games/phone stuff
imagine a grocery store doing this so you have to ask a shelf stocker or a security guard to get a donut