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Old 02-11-2024, 08:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Remembergoldenrule View Post
They have closed stores in my home town when theft gets too high. Laying off hundreds of working people. Other stores then raise their prices due to no competition from Walmart. I know Walmart prosecutes in states where DA will prosecute. Shop lifting is not a harmless crime. Shop lifters need face plastered everywhere and jail time. If people need money to buy things they can get a job at Walmart. They are always hiring.
They are that.

Interesting, though...Wal-mart loses more to employee theft than it does to shoplifters. This, from gitnux dot org...

Employee theft accounts for an estimated 43% of Walmart's inventory shrinkage. Shoplifting accounts for 36% of Walmart's inventory shrinkage. Vendor fraud accounts for 5.4% of Walmart's inventory shrinkage. In a recent study, Walmart's average shrink rate was considered “medium” at 1.01%-1.99% of sales.

We rarely see articles in v i l l a g e s - n e w s (which publishes every negative thing about TV that they can find, chase down or dig up) about employee theft at the local Wal-Marts. They do publish the articles about shoplifting and shoplifters at Wal-Mart though. Does that mean that Wal-Marts in TV just take care of things internally when an employee is caught shoplifting? Or does it mean that the Wal-Marts here are just really really good at screening potential employees before they hire them?