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Could you maybe just restate it? How are stolen items costs that businesses "don't directly pay"?
by core-questions 6y ago
Could you maybe just restate it? How are stolen items costs that businesses "don't directly pay"?
- CharlesHorsey 6y agoOP said: > "Shrink" is of course accounted for in the economics, but not worker and customer safety, which is externalized as violence and loss in the communities. So they're saying that the business does pay the cost of stolen items ("shrink") but not the cost of the violence, which is borne by its victims.
- austhrow743 6y agoThe stolen items are costs. The violence to staff and customers are externalities.