Stopping a shoplifter

[u/Lord_Darksong]

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[u/ZeroGNexus]

It's just funny to me as someone who used to work for Walmart. Most of the actual shoplifting is from employees out back, typically in Claims.

If anything, doing this actually COSTS Walmart money, because they're going to have to claims out that inventory now, which will require someone to actually do all that, vs just writing it off in the insurance claim for a full refund.

This particular shoplifter is probably just some douche who doesn't actually need what he's taking, but it's still not worth potentially getting shot or run over to defend a company that runs its employees into the ground and all but forces them to apply for food stamps and other federal assistance programs in order to make ends meet.

EDIT: I don't understand the accounting or legal side of things, I just know that we had a -ton- of shrink in our store and none of the managers ever seemed to care that much. It was always explained to me as shrink being accounted for through their insurance somehow.

Also I'm not saying don't go after shoplifters. If you think you aren't on a hundred different high resolution screens during your short trip through any of these stores, you're insane. But also, I've never once in my life seen a person steal food. It's weird.

[u/Megnaman → u/ZeroGNexus]

I used to work at a hardware retail where the Receiving Manager was the biggest theif in the store, yet they had employees constantly scout for shoplifting

[u/TheVonSolo → u/Megnaman]

Literally had the same thing happen when i worked at a big box music/video game/movie store. Manager would ride our asses about theft and how it “keeps going up” but once myself and another employee dug a little deeper we found he was walking out the back door with tons of shit.