re: Dick's Sporting Goods stock tanks as retail thieves snatch profits

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elevated inventory shrink

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It’s theft you damn idiot, theft!

Any idiot in business that says this probably also says circle back, team, reach out, new normal, champion and whatever other buzzword they can think of.

And that’s no one I’d want to work for.

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Too many pieces of shite in this country unfortunately. And they are being allowed to act how they want more than ever.

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What would help is some sort of organized citizen's movement dedicated to stemming this tide of lawlessness... a secret society of sorts to counterbalance the tendencies of a faraway federal government that despises us.

The members would have to keep their identities secret. Some sort of ad hoc, face-concealing uniform would have to be used for their activities... nothing too fancy, just something improvised from commonly available household goods.

They could appropriate Protestant imagery to make their benevolent purpose clear to the lawful citizens of rural America.

You'd want to avoid relying on technology too much in this enterprise, to keep it clandestine. You know what doesn't have a GPS receiver? A horse.

I'm really just throwing out ideas here, but if such a group were to organize and do the job I've outlined, I think it would receive (almost) universal acclaim. Entire counties might be named after its founders, for example.

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As far as organized stealing, you can pay to stop that too. Hire a cheap security guard.

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Yeah, every time you see video of people stealing, the employees just take their phones out and record it (like handing that over to the cops is going to result in anything). The stores have instructed their people not to get involved, so I don't care if they're losing money. It's literally their own fault.

Need to hire some Sikhs and give them big clubs. And then some rooftop Koreans.

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"Honestly Officer I wasn't stealing! I was just elevating inventory shrink."

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Last Week the Zachary Police were looking for men accused of "Failure to render payment for goods." when leaving the Zachary Home Depot.

It's absurd how they have to word this shite these days to avoid cocksucker attorneys to get their clients off on 'technicalities'.

Doesn't their insurance make up for that?

My ex GF (no pics) ran the Nordstrom in Galleria Houston for years and had enough and got out of the industry because they told her not to fight shoplifters and then would ding her for loss prevention.

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Dick's Sporting Goods stock tanks as retail thieves snatch profits

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I dont feel sorry for them one bit.

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Most of these stores’ policies wouldn’t allow a security guard to do anything about it… they are so afraid of lawsuits they fire employees who try to stop it.

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Yeah, I’ve seen security guards just standing around in several of those videos, presumably because of store policy. I reckon they are the human equivalent of this:


Had a storage unit for a few weeks a while back, and they had multiple of those owls to scare away pigeons. Nonetheless, there was still pigeon shite everywhere, which also fits this analogy.

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At some point litigation will be cheaper than the shrinkage.

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I’ve represented several large, cost-conscious, public companies who have brought money-losing suits to make a point or set a precedent. An example of this is media companies suing people who download music or videos. (I’ve never been involved in this litigation, and I’m not saying whether I agree with their tactics—just using as an example of litigation motivated by something other than direct money recovery.)

I agree that at some point they will overcome their fear of defending ridiculous lawsuits if backed into a corner. But I wish they would take it one step further and countersue the would-be thief. Go scorched earth, take everything they have, garnish their wages if possible, etc. Woke policies aside, there are probably good business reasons not to do this (e.g., optics, perhaps), but I’m a vindictive bastard when it comes to stuff like this.