Comment on Remember when Target blamed theft for closing stores? It's all lies.
DaCrazyJamez@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I have a close friend who used to work loss-prevention for Target. They ABSOLUTLEY closed stores due to excess theft. Anti-union may be icing on the cake for them, but I am certain they legitimately have a problem with organized retail crime.
But think how much money was saved by implementing self checkout! Some executives got a cushy bonus.
And now some different executives are going to get a cushy bonus by proposing that employee checkout could save money.
These executive decisions only ever save money!
jeanofthedead@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Police records apparently don’t match up in Portland. https://www.kfyrtv.com/2023/10/20/target-says-3-stores-closing-portland-oregon-due-crime-police-records-dont-match-up/
Pasta4u@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You only report a crime when it’s happening. If someone successfully takes a lipstick without getting caught then it would take until the next inventory for them to catch that it’s missing. The inventory discrepancies are sent in to insurance. Cops wouldn’t be involved because no one is going to sit through dozens of camera feeds woth hundreds of not thousands of hours of footage between inventories to figure out who stole it.
jeanofthedead@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Every big block store experiences petty theft, though. The real reason the 3 Target stores in Portland closed is because they were all in absolutely horrific locations. One was in a reclaimed bowling alley. Another was off a freeway and took ages to actually get to a parking lot. Just super inaccessible.
Pasta4u@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Lol what dies a bowling ally have to do with anything ? Who cares what it was previously. A shop rite opened up in a dead abandoned mall by me and its user popular and always busy.
Petty theft is one thing but of you get hit enough it adds up. Bot every shop lifter fills a car full high end items and leaves. Some take a small amount if items and come back dozens of times a week. Sometimes multiple times a day. I was a store fixer for toys r us about 20 years ago. This one woman would come in a few days a week and pocket magic the gathering cards packs and other card game packs. While I was there we caught her in camera taking $200 worth of packs each trip. That was a single person doing it.