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Milord has no choice but to take measures against the other peasants who have been possessed by woke transgender demons to steal from him ๐
I worked in retail for years right up through the pandemic, in grocery and drug stores, and it's really illuminating to experience that environment when you've already been inoculated against these taking points. Because there has been no increase in shoplifting.
Shoplifting has always been easy and commonplace, it happens every single day and it always has. The only thing that has changed is that people who work these jobs are being fed this narrative of a shoplifting crime wave, and have become more paranoid and hostile as a response.
In response to this cultural pressure, this propaganda effort to obscure and deflect awareness of drastically plunging buying power and general impoverishment, petty managers seeking a sense of control over perceived attacks on "their stores" (nonsense serf logic) are chaining everything to the floor. And this of course only worsens their declining sales, because why bother even trying to buy something in the store if you're doing to do so legitimately if you have to ask someone to get it for you? You might as well have it delivered tomorrow by Amazon!
This is were the Judge Dread PUNISHMENT complex just gets in the way of effective business management.
There will always be some amount of shoplifters, and they generally fall into two categories: shoplifters of necessity, and shoplifters of thrill. Shoplifters of necessity tend to only engage in shoplifting for as long as it is the only option. Looking the other way and eating the (marginal, minuscule, rounding error) loss gives customers a chance, albeit as small one, to find their footing and return to normal shopping habits.
Thrill seekers tend to think of about shoplifting tactically; they target small, easily concealable products and mask the theft with another purchase. If you own or manage a shop, you oughta think about it like a [high risk/low reward] loss leader for your customers -- a bonus secret all-the-time sale that, while decreasing inventory, still brings in more money than it looses.
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I know this is preaching to the choir on hexbear, but fuck me if it isn't frustrating that i - an idiot pinko liberal communism believer - have a better business sense about this than most owners/managers
I've heard managers complaining about shit like "every week this lady comes in and steals half the baby section and I'm not allowed to do anything!"
Like, dude, listen to yourself.