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not many comments yet, but i suppose people don’t understand the point of the bag search isn’t to reduce customer shoplifting, it’s to prevent employee theft. e
by techslave 7y ago
not many comments yet, but i suppose people don’t understand the point of the bag search isn’t to reduce customer shoplifting, it’s to prevent employee theft. employees not ringing items is a super trivial way inventory shrinks.
it’s sad that the pain is borne by the customer. but, on the bright side, it means prices are lower than they would be otherwise.
- analog31 7y agoIndeed. I used to work in a business that was peripherally related to the security industry, and the conventional wisdom was that shoplifting was typically either an inside job, or an inside job with a customer as a confederate. Most of the security products (20+ years ago) were oriented towards monitoring employees, such as a gadget that superimposed the register transactions on the security video tape. That's why big stores have the highest concentration of security cameras above the checkout lanes, exactly where a customer is least likely to try and hide something.