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As with self-checkout theft, cry me a river. This isn't all that logically hard to figure out, it's just not profitable. Big chains, almost by definition as t
by jrm4 3y ago
As with self-checkout theft, cry me a river.
This isn't all that logically hard to figure out, it's just not profitable.
Big chains, almost by definition as they operate, don't care about their workers.
Alternatively, if your store figures out how to take care and value your workers, your workers will care about your store and the locality in which the store exists, and they will work towards solving this problem.
- idopmstuff 3y ago> Alternatively, if your store figures out how to take care and value your workers, your workers will care about your store and the locality in which the store exists, and they will work towards solving this problem. This is a pretty backwards view of this situation. The workers should not be the one solving this problem, and the store should not be putting them in a position to do so. Locking up goods deters theft at a cost to the store. A worker confronting a thief deters theft but at a potential significant cost of the worker being assaulted (or charged with a crime for assaulting the thief). The way this should work is that if the workers see the theft and call the police, who intervene appropriately.
- riehwvfbk 3y agoForget about confronting a thief, I've had workers at Walmart steal my purchases. Yes, in the Bay Area. Presumably they return the items for store credit afterwards. I don't even feel too bad about it because I can't imagine surviving here on a Walmart salary. They needed that money more than I did. I did, however, stop going to Walmart. But honestly Bay Area shopping is now worse than what you'll see in developing countries. Stores are rundown and dirty, many things are perpetually out of stock, homeless roam the aisles. I'm sure all the profit-related metrics are optimized to death though.
- mensetmanusman 3y agoIt has little to do with the chains and much to do with society. Big chains tell workers never to confront theft, because the insurance risks are not worth it. Society says that thefts are also not worth dealing with.
- s1artibartfast 3y agoWhat do you think workers can do about it, and why do you think it has anything at all to do with how they are treated. Take any locked up chain in the bay area, and you can drive 2 hours out of the metro and find the same stores, with the same employees, but no theft problem. What have those employees figured out?