Omg… You fired all the check out people and now your mad that people are stealing from a faceless for profit company!
Will anyone think of the investors?
People stealing food? That’s not a crime problem thats a poverty problem.
One jump ahead of the breadline One swing ahead of the sword I steal only what I can’t afford And that’s everything!
One jump ahead of the lawmen That’s all, and that’s no joke These guys don’t appreciate I’m broke
This
Ah yes because it stops being a crime if you’re hungry.
I don’t personally steal at self-checkout, but if saw anyone stealing I’d just ignore it. As far I’m concerned, they deserve to be stolen from. Zero interest in hearing the crocodile tears of those who were complicit in price gouging.
Every dollar stolen from the store gets added to the prices you pay going forward, they absolutely do not let it come out of profits.
then why are they whining about it?
Because now they can’t increase the prices anyway and get better profit margins.
Do you think they’d lower prices if theft stopped?
Nope.
As the meme goes, if you saw someone stealing food, no, you didn’t. Poor people gotta eat too.
This. Zero sympathy. And people need food to live.
I hear what you’re saying, but we’re not talking about a single-mother sneaking diapers out because she needs them or a Jean Valjean-type taking bread because they’re hungry…
This is OCR (Organized Retail Theft) where a team of 3+ people coordinate with phones, distractions, and a driver, to quickly get as many high-dollar, shelf-stable items out of a store as possible to resell on Facebook marketplace/eBay/etc. It’s typically at least $1000 per store.
If you hate large organizations, you should hate the greed of criminal rings like this, because we all absolutely pay more because of it…
EDIT: I’m just talking about what the article is referring to. I’m not saying companies don’t pass the costs on to consumers, and I’m not casting moral judgement.
We’d pay more anyway, they’re just butthurt that the margins are smaller. You think the prices are going to come down if the theft stops?
i’ve never seen someone steal food and i never will.
Remember kids, if you see someone stealing food,
No you didn’t.
I’ll have no choice but to close a store.
Yeah, because hiring staff back and getting rid of self help checkouts is impossible?? How would they even go about that?
Or, and here’s a radical idea, drop your prices so people can actually afford to pay for the food??
I’m torn on this one. On one hand, fuck the money grubbing corporations that got themselves into this mess. On the other these closures are creating food deserts.
I’ll make it easy for you. It is the money gubbing corporations creating the food deserts.
Adapt or die. It’s not really that difficult a concept.
Yeah it’s not the customers at fault here. Nobody asked for the cashiers to be cut down to 1 or 2(ever) and replaced with self checkouts.
I was at one such shitty grocery store the other day. Well call it Roger but with the letter ‘K’ omitted. They have these large self checkouts with conveyors. Up until about 2 weeks ago, you could scan your items at a normal rate like the regular cashiers do. It was convenient, and it was glorious.
Then they “cranked up the security” as one employee told me as he came over for the third time because the self checkout kept calling for backup. You can only scan items once every 3 seconds and have to wait for it every time. Ive got a cart full of groceries and they expect me to scan them at a snail’s pace. If you scan too many items (5 apparently?), you have to walk to the end and bag them even though there’s plenty of goddamned room on the conveyor. Then walk back and scan a few more.
I was absolutely livid, grabbed what few groceries I’d already bagged, and waited in line for one of the human cashiers.
She was confused because some of my stuff was already bagged. Told her why and just sighed and said yeah. I jokingly said I’d like to give the manager an earfull and she said I should, but it won’t do any good. And she was likely right because this reeks of corporate heavy handedness.
Needless to say, I’m never going back to Roger (with a K) anymore. I only went there for the fuel points, but it’s no longer worth it.
It’s funny how this wasn’t a problem back in the days before customers were expected to act as unpaid employees.
Stealing isn’t OK, but I always found it a bit disjointed how making “mistakes” (minor or large) at self-checkouts basically has zero recourse. They really do need to be reworked
remembering shit that happened six months ago is so hard you guys
Hire humans then! If theft is that bad then you can afford to pay real people a real wage! Cry me a river.
