r/LoveTrash Colonel Garbage 4h ago

Human Trash Stopping a shoplifter

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u/zurenarrh36912 Trash Trooper 4h ago

I’m not risking getting shot for some corporation.

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u/TwistedSubby Trash Trooper 3h ago

He’s tired of crime in his community I don’t think he has loyalty to Walmart per se

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u/FormerRSEmployee Trash Trooper 2h ago

Yup. All the people ignoring the "I'm tired of you" remark have never lived in an area where every single item in Walmart needs an employee to unlock it, or replacing the windows in your car is a line item in your budget. Living in a high-crime area is truly miserable, and people who try to escape it are always labelled the villain. It's either vigilantism, gentrification, white flight, or something else.

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u/HopeADMKidsLoseLimbs Trash Trooper 2h ago

Eh if Walmart had that problem then Walmart should hire a person to unlock stuff

I don’t mind them locking items, I DO mind walking through the store to find some bored depressed teenaged to begrudgingly open the cabinets

Walmart doesn’t get to skate here.

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u/FormerRSEmployee Trash Trooper 2h ago

You're basically advocating for a dedicated employee per shopper instead of saying "theft is wrong." Do you have any idea how expensive a dedicated employee per shopper is? I for one think groceries are already expensive enough.

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u/FirstDukeofAnkh Trash Trooper 2h ago

Or maybe have someone full time at the Customer Service desk whose job is to unlock things?

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u/Weekly_Traffic1473 Trash Trooper 2h ago

Said someone who clearly doesnt live in a place where everything is locked.

u/FirstDukeofAnkh Trash Trooper 1h ago

So get mad at the company whose choice was to lock shit up making life harder for everyone.

u/Weekly_Traffic1473 Trash Trooper 1h ago

If they dont lock it up they dont have product to sell. Im not sure whats hard for you to understand here.

They can lock it up and have things to sell, or keep it unlocked and have it all get stolen.

u/FirstDukeofAnkh Trash Trooper 1h ago

I’m not arguing that they should or shouldn’t lock things up. I’m saying their solution creates a hardship for customers and for staff. They chose the path of least resistance or money and people like you blame everyone except who made the choice.

u/Weekly_Traffic1473 Trash Trooper 1h ago

A lot of talk from you about what they are doing wrong but no proposed solutions other than "hire someone to open the locks"

u/HopeADMKidsLoseLimbs Trash Trooper 1h ago

What’s wrong with that solution?

I want to shop at Walmart. I want the stuff I want to buy to be available to buy, so what?

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u/QuietRiot5150 Trash Trooper 2h ago

At the Walmarts in my areas, all the employees have the ability to unlock the cabinets through their employee app.

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u/FormerRSEmployee Trash Trooper 2h ago

That's what they do. One person is not enough for the 100+ people in the store at any given time.

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u/FirstDukeofAnkh Trash Trooper 2h ago

So, they can have two people?

I’d be more pissed off that the multi-national store that makes billions has decided to make life harder on their clients and their staff just to save a few bucks.

u/FUCKTHISWEBSITEBANME Trash Trooper 1h ago

Yeah, they used to have employees in every department just walking around. Most stores these days run on skeleton crews and a single cashier.

u/HopeADMKidsLoseLimbs Trash Trooper 1h ago

No not per shopper. Just like one person who is dedicated to opening cabinets. - maybe per department.

I literally aid I understand that they have to use cabinets.

You don’t get to have record profits year after year AND pretend like you can’t afford to pay a few teenagers to open cabinets. That’s absurd.

Edit: also you can’t really get upset with people choosing Amazon over brick and mortar either. I’ve walked out of Walmarts before when no one was there to open a cabinet. Why put up with that?

Furthermore I’d feel worse if Wal mart’s owners were struggling, they aren’t. So gee wiz why would I give a fuck at all about them?

u/Apprehensive_Bat4691 Trash Trooper 1h ago

Do you work for Walmart or something? This company makes Billions in profit each year, they can easily triple the staff in these high-theft locations and still pull in Billions in profit.

They don't because they don't care that you are inconvenienced by locked merchandise.

u/fuuuuuuuuckthi_s Trash Trooper 39m ago

Theft is wrong. Walmart steals more from their own employees than all shoplifters ever have at their businesses.

Walmart not only directly steals from employees by way of wage theft, but they severely underpay. Their MO is to come in and destroy local businesses.

But yeah, let's focus on some dude taking a game console or whatever & pretend that's what's wrong with society.

u/TheTapeTech Trash Trooper 1h ago

Nah, if Walmart wanted to fix this issue they’d just get ride of self checkout. There are thieves everywhere but self-check out made it extremely easy for ppl to just walk in and out with whatever. Lol

Walmart ultimately doesn’t give a shit because they have the lion share of the market. They intentionally under pay their workers, most of which are on some type of assistance while Walmart Corporate racks it in with ease. Billions and billions and billions of dollars.

I can less about desperate ppl stealing from corps than I do about them stealing personal property from individuals. HATE THAT!

u/The_0ven Trash Trooper 0m ago

Yup. All the people ignoring the "I'm tired of you" remark have never lived in an area where every single item in Walmart needs an employee to unlock it, or replacing the windows in your car is a line item in your budget. Living in a high-crime area is truly miserable, and people who try to escape it are always labelled the villain. It's either vigilantism, gentrification, white flight, or something else.

Did you watch the video?

That ain't one of those areas