re: Help with riddle - How Much Money Did The Store Lose?

All depends on how much the store paid for the item(s) stolen.

In fact, the thief may have been doing the company a favor by “buying” an item depending on manufacturer’s retail incentives to the seller.

That $70 item retailed, no matter how ill gotten, could have theoretically pushed the retailer over a volume incentive threshold and could mean thousands of extra dollars in discounts on other wholesale goods and year end awards.

If there are any young career or college people reading this- business is not as straight up transactional as people think.

The sooner you quit being tactical and become strategic to look at the overall view and health of the company, instead of “someone stole something from us” is the sooner they let you run the place.

The whole point if this exercise was to teach the team here that things aren’t always what they seem.

These are great ways to see how people react in different arenas- they are also super low risk on deciding how promotable people are. Remember- at work, you are always on an interview.

Signed,
<- A guy who they let run the place and owns the place now.