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Locking Up Items to Deter Shoplifting Is Pushing Shoppers Online
- thisislife2 2y agoI am currently watching Mr. Selfridge - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2310212/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2310212/ - a drama about an American who established a department store in London during the Victorian era (I presume). And there's a scene in the first episode where a suggestion to display expensive gloves openly, and to allow the prospective customer to browse through it by themselves, is showcased as an unconventional and scandalous suggestion. Looks like we are coming back full circle to keep things locked up and inaccessible to potential customers again.
- JohnFen 2y agoThat seems unsurprising to me, but all I know is that if I have to get an employee to unlock a case to buy a thing, I'm not buying that thing there. Not out of some sort of principled stance, but just because it's too much bother. On the other hand, I will buy items from stores that have a "take a slip and present to the cashier" system rather than the "find an employee and get them to unlock the case" system because it's less of a hassle.