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Here is a great blog post describing the crime problems of an inner city grocery market: http://www.detroitblog.org/?p=604 http://www.detroitblog.org/?p=604 Fr

Here is a great blog post describing the crime problems of an inner city grocery market: http://www.detroitblog.org/?p=604 http://www.detroitblog.org/?p=604 From the post: A day in the life of Tom Boy Super Market consists partly of stopping people from robbing the place blind. "There’s so many days when I don’t do nothing," Jitu says. "My main job is to run the office and I don’t have to be here, but I have to come anyway. You don't want to have, like, one person here, and then half the store is gone. We have to have so many people. They don’t have to do nothing, but they have to be here."

wallflower 17y ago
"Most grocery stores have a razor thin profit margin on the merchandise they sell therefore it is imperative for shrinkage to be kept to a minimum. For example with a profit margin of 5% a store must sell 500 dollars in merchandise just to cover the cost of a 25.00 dollar item. In one year a store with merely twenty five dollars of losses a day must increase sales by 175,000 dollars to break even. Keep in mind that for many supermarkets 5% profit margin is high" http://www.evancarmichael.com/Retail/3869/Grocery-industry-at-high-risk-of-theft.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Retail/3869/Grocery-industry-a...