This is from Oakland County MI. Not only all of the electrical wire locked up, but the electric snowblowers at the bottom of the image are cabled, INSIDE THE STORE.
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This is from Oakland County MI. Not only all of the electrical wire locked up, but the electric snowblowers at the bottom of the image are cabled, INSIDE THE STORE.
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New York Times had a opinion piece recently by someone who claimed that stores were over stating the amount of thief because the police reports didn’t support the claims. I guess he was in the know about the number of States where shoplifting is not considered a crime.
They can’t get the offenders arrested in the first place. Assuming they’re caught, which is an assumption. But even when they’re caught, the theft has to be over a specific (several hundred to a grand or more depending on the state) dollar amount, and the cop has to be willing to make the arrest in the first place. The cops have to COME WHEN CALLED in the first place. Not take hours to just show up. The thieves have to be caught by someone legally allowed to catch and hold them.
I’ve personally witnessed people walk out with over $800 worth of power tool batteries shoved down their coats. I’ve personally seen $700+ in power tools get walked right on by the cashier.
The first summer we sold Ego brand battery powered weedwhackers we also had replacement batteries for sale. Each battery sold for $125 (they cost more now, this was several years ago). We couldn’t keep them on the shelf, and not because they were selling either. According to the store records we received in stock 14 batteries that summer. We sold 2. End of the summer we had none in the store. $1500 in batteries that just wandered away. That was 2016 IIRR.
The first year we had Milwaukee branded weedwhackers on the shelf I don’t think we sold more than 1. But we had to send the rest back to the vendor because thieves cut the boxes to steal the batteries out of them. That was 2017 or 18.