not this again
Weird how Target, home of a corporate-state forensics team, infamous for bootlicking and being attached to the cops at the hip, whose stores are frequently ground zero for new and unprecedented dystopian loss prevention techniques, is the victim of abnormal theft. That's weird isn't it? THAT'S WEIRD HUH
Getting a 6 figure job as a target private forensics investigator and spending 8 hours “enhancing” CCTV footage but clicking the magnifying button
Fast forwarding through 4 hours of footage to try and find the guy that took a TV straight to his car with a shopping cart and finally find him
But he has a covid mask :frothingfash:
I was recently in a Target and they have at least camera screens covering like 95% of the store.
Target ceilings look like boba because there are black dots all over the damn place
Still not down the pillow/comforter aisle :sicko-pog:
:porky-happy: let’s offload the cost of cashiers and make our customers work for us for free
:porky-scared-flipped: MY MERCHANDISE!!
I literally only pretend to pay attention manning the self-checkout. When the machine alerts me that there is a weight disturbance, I mash the security clear button without checking if they were illegally adding or removing items
Soon they’ll just have you scan your own items from the distribution warehouse itself!
That's what burns me. Fuck self-checkout. Why don't I just start working for the store part-time? It's the same thing.
I was at Target the other day grocery shopping and noticed they were having a 60-70% clearance sale on all the winter clothes. Cool, I thought, I'll grab two of these $6 long-sleeves and two pairs of $8 pants, what a steal. Go to self-checkout because I only had like a handful of other things. Scan everything but the clothes without issue. Go to scan the clothes and it freaks the fuck out - just refuses to scan them, no error, no 'hey do this', just beeps and doesn't do anything. "Hm." I think, already ready to just checkout and pretend I scanned them.
White woman with two kids sees me looking puzzled at the tags/screen (i literally tried scanning each piece of clothing individually - all did the same thing) and goes "oh did you grab those from the clearance area?? they won't scan because they're marked down, you need to flag someone over"
At that revelation, I was already like "oh right, I've encountered this before -- what I should do is just put them in my bag and walk out since clearly they've have already written this specific inventory out of their system" but the white mom was watching me as she slowly scanned in her full grocery cart so I sighed and waved the employee - who had been watching the entire time like :shrug-outta-hecks: - over. She scans her badge, enters her code, and goes "how much are they??" when the 'add product price' menu pops up.
"Four dollars each" I said. She nods, cause she isn't paid enough to care, and types it in & makes the quantity 4. It wasn't $0.00 like it should've been, but I'll take the four articles of clothing for $12 instead of $28.
How much is target losing to shit like this though, one has to wonder, because this literally happens everytime I do self-check out with clearance shit
The increased amount of theft has caused retailers to take additional measures, such as hiring more security guards and locking up easy-to-shoplift items, notably household essentials such as toothpaste.
Fuck these people
It's funny because you can totally just ask employees to unlock the cabinet for you, take what you want, and still shoplift it anyways
I have obviously never done this before as it's both illegal and immoral but it's a funny thought
This is two-sided propaganda: first that “we have a theft problem” and second “we’re watching you.” It is itself showing what their deterrence is to this actual or perceived problem. We should know that what CEOs generally say is bullshit because they have to give the shareholders confidence in whatever “challenges” the company is facing.
“we’re watching you.”
We go to flea markets sometimes and they're PLASTERED with "smile you're on camera" "we prosecute all thefts" "we'll put your picture up to shame you dirty thief-customers" etc.
I don't shoplift because I'm a risk averse coward (and now a dad who really can't afford fines or jail time) but if I were to steal from anyone it'd be those jackasses. Gloating about surveillance is so slimy.
My town cops have a stupid surveillance box on a scissor lift trailer that they park in retail parking lots and crank up high, it's got cameras and lights on it and I guess it's to "discourage" theft. The only thing it discourages is me going into those shitty stores when that thing is there.
It probably cost more for a worker to open the toothpaste display case than to manufacture.
it's wasting time for the perpetual skeleton crew so the work will intensify until morale improves
Or until the next round of "nobody wants to work anymore" kicks in.
Didn’t the Walgreens CEO admit that shoplifting had minimal contribution to their losses
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/business/walgreens-shoplifting.amp.html
The grocery store mafia is serious business. Just the other week they pulled off a dastardly heist of watermelons that left 3 dead and 12 hospitalized.
For the year ending Jan. 28, 2022, Target reported: Revenue from sales of $107.59 billion, a rise of 2.8% from the $106.61 billion in the prior year.
"Hundreds of millions" is tenths of a percent for Target. Literally a rounding error.
Shoplifting is jobs program:
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porky has to spend money on loss prevention, instead of just setting cash aflame on a yacht
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has to buy means of safekeeping, providing jobs in metal-box and lock producing businesses
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feeds dozens of auteurs in crime reportage business
Don't forget the job opportunities for honest, hard-working shoplifters!
Don't forget increased metal box production also keeps miners and foundry workers employed!
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The very fact you can read in a "normal" news outlet shit :porky-happy: made up is just just evidence of how much the left has been destroyed.
Eh the source is yahoo finance and generally the audience is LinkedIn psychos, finance nerds and owners. Regular people dgaf except suburban whites who have been addicted to the fear
I'm doing my part! :im-doing-my-part: Consider it operational losses of replacing your cashiers with stupid little robots
Edit: shout-out to Quest Bars, 21g of protein in such a tiny size it's practically beg to be slipped into your pocket
I worked at a restaurant when I was a kid where the owner would get visibly agitated about your drawer being off by 10 cents and I would have to recount it.
Like 95% of small business owners are actually terrible at business and only turn a profit through a combination of luck and underpaying their employees. They tend to be penny wise and pound foolish. Most people in general are awful at cost/benefit analysis and it becomes very apparent if you've ever worked for a small business. They also hate being told they are doing something wrong and will often dig their heels in when you mention something like "forcing your ice cream shop's employees to come in during a blizzard is going to result in a net loss for the day" or "making someone re-count a register over 10 cents is going to cost you a lot more than 10 cents".
The main issue is that every business needs someone to do the math on all of this stuff, but they themselves are too lazy and they are generally too cheap to pay someone to do that.
Target CFO hates competition.
I worked at target for like two months and my manager called me into the office one shift and then showed me a printed out picture of me being sweaty (I was helping install tv’s). I was then told to stop being sweaty (good thing I’m not prescribed lithium) and to get a new shirt :free-real-estate:
This was all because an old lady sweetly said “make sure this man isn’t working himself too hard” :dean-frown:
your manager sounds like a real go-getter. corporate material for sure.
“These highly sophisticated criminal rings jeopardize employee and customer safety and disrupt store operations," Mark Mathews, NRF vice president for research development and industry analysis, wrote in the report.
I think the only ones endangering employee and customer safety are the cops and individuals deputized by :amerikkka: to kill anyone they don't like
It's only a danger to employee safety if you force them to confront shoplifters
Correct but also cops like shooting inside stores and in their parking lots
