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re: Shoplifting at Whole Foods
Posted on 7/22/19 at 11:56 am to VernonPLSUfan
Posted on 7/22/19 at 11:56 am to VernonPLSUfan
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Why not post somebody at the door to check receipts like Sams. With a cop on their flank.
probably because it would cost more than what they are losing
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Posted on 7/22/19 at 12:00 pm to PumpkinPatchKid
My uncle owns some Piggly Wigglys in Alabama. He definitely intervenes. Last month he could tell a guy was putting steaks up his shirt. When the thief started running, my uncle got to the front door and locked it so he couldn't escape. The guy got form tackled and had a boot on his chest until the cops showed up. Margins are too small to put up with the rampant thievery in Greene County, AL
Posted on 7/22/19 at 12:02 pm to VernonPLSUfan
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Why not post somebody at the door to check receipts like Sams. With a cop on their flank.
For a store open 7AM - 10 PM (13 hours), it would cost them $169 a day(Google says security guards make on average $13/hour).
That's about $61k a year for 1 security guard. Much more than they take out in theft losses.
Posted on 7/22/19 at 12:05 pm to CaptainsWafer
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Why not just pay a cop to stand at the door?
Because someone would eventually give him a chair.
Posted on 7/22/19 at 12:15 pm to bbap
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Same thing happens all day everyday at Academy. People walk in and fill their arms up with clothes and then just walk right out to the car waiting on them at the front.
Watched the Sheriff dept. make a guy open a big box containing a grill. It was full of clothes, shoes and boxes of Titleist Pro-Vs.
Posted on 7/22/19 at 12:22 pm to TH03
Might also have overtime pay and benefits at a place like Whole Foods, or if your are contracting it out it will probably be double the $13/hour the actual guard takes home
TLDR: security probably would cost $100k a year for one guy at the entrance
TLDR: security probably would cost $100k a year for one guy at the entrance
Posted on 7/22/19 at 12:29 pm to VolsOut4Harambe
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Every retail business has a no-intervention policy. This is nothing new. The losses from stolen inventory are nothing compared to a potential lawsuit or PR hit that would result from someone stopping a thief who would then in return cry racism and media outrage ensues. Best to just let them off with the stolen inventory.
My area must not have gotten the memo. I see 3-5 shoplifting arrests in the local daily police report. Wal-Mart, Dollar General, and Kohls seem to be the most popular place to get arrested for shoplifting.
Posted on 7/22/19 at 12:33 pm to Cocotheape
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Might also have overtime pay and benefits at a place like Whole Foods, or if your are contracting it out it will probably be double the $13/hour the actual guard takes home
TLDR: security probably would cost $100k a year for one guy at the entrance
Yep, mine was a very low end estimate. It would be costly and much more than what they lose in theft.
Posted on 7/22/19 at 12:37 pm to PumpkinPatchKid
They need to just have a cop there...it's honestly not that expensive compared to the cost of losing a ton of product.
Publix on main street in Gainesville usually has a cop on premises at all time because of the high amount of poor and homeless in the area. Guarantee their loss prevention numbers are amazing compared to the Wal Mart near it on Waldo.
Publix on main street in Gainesville usually has a cop on premises at all time because of the high amount of poor and homeless in the area. Guarantee their loss prevention numbers are amazing compared to the Wal Mart near it on Waldo.
Posted on 7/22/19 at 12:40 pm to VeniVidiVici
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Early 90s Albertson's we'd tackle the frickers. If they swung we swung back.
Different time.....this stuff really happened:
Koreans and OJ Riots
ETA: Rodney King riots......sorry.
This post was edited on 7/22/19 at 12:43 pm
Posted on 7/22/19 at 12:41 pm to celltech1981
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Wait they don't even call the cops?
under $500 the police aren't going to do shite to investigate. It's a waste of time to call them.
Posted on 7/22/19 at 12:42 pm to Gatorbait2008
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Guarantee their loss prevention numbers are amazing compared to the Wal Mart near it on Waldo.
I'd take that bet.
Walmart has staff in a room near the front of each store staring at monitors fed by each camera in the store. They can track anyone they want through the entire store then apprehend whenever they want. They have detention rooms where they hold you and wait until the cops come.
Posted on 7/22/19 at 12:47 pm to MLCLyons
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under $500 the police aren't going to do shite to investigate. It's a waste of time to call them.
Saturday's Police Report
A West Main Walmart employee said a man entered the store around 7 a.m. and bought a chicken biscuit. He then walked around for about an hour. At one point, he picked up a $3 Red Bull, opened the can and started to drink. When the employee asked him to pay for it, he said he didn't have any money. He was detained for police and charged with shoplifting.
A West Main Walmart employee said a man was detained around 3:30 p.m. after he tried to steal porterhouse steaks, a T-bone steak and a Miller High Life beer, worth a total of $37. After arresting the 41-year-old man, police discovered he also had a felony arrest warrant.
Posted on 7/22/19 at 12:55 pm to Gatorbait2008
I think most high volume stores probably could save some money if they had security but:
-you still won’t stop everything
-the risk of lawsuits, bad PR and just the overall disruption that is wrestling some person to the ground at the front of your store still makes it not worth it for a lot of places.
Like it or not, Whole Foods wants a certain atmosphere in their stores and having physical confrontations at the front of the store, cops arresting people, etc makes for an unpleasant experience for their customers. The local IGA probably doesn’t have these same concerns
-you still won’t stop everything
-the risk of lawsuits, bad PR and just the overall disruption that is wrestling some person to the ground at the front of your store still makes it not worth it for a lot of places.
Like it or not, Whole Foods wants a certain atmosphere in their stores and having physical confrontations at the front of the store, cops arresting people, etc makes for an unpleasant experience for their customers. The local IGA probably doesn’t have these same concerns
Posted on 7/22/19 at 12:59 pm to VolsOut4Harambe
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stopping a thief who would then in return cry racism
close your eyes
picture a shoplifter stealing from whole foods
his hat is on backwards, he says somethign like 'for shizzle dude'
now open your eyes
what do you see, a black man?
no..that was a white woman
Posted on 7/22/19 at 1:17 pm to PumpkinPatchKid
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they told me that there is a no intervention policy for shoplifting at Whole Foods. If you suspect it, kill them with kindness but do not stop them or follow them out. Definitely can’t call the police.
Posted on 7/22/19 at 1:33 pm to TH03
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saving $100 worth of groceries.
You don't shop at Whole Foods, do you?
Posted on 7/22/19 at 1:47 pm to PumpkinPatchKid
When I was a bagger at Delchamps in the early 80s, part of our job was running down shoplifters. The best part.
Posted on 7/22/19 at 1:50 pm to PumpkinPatchKid
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kill them with kindness but do not stop them or follow them out. Definitely can’t call the police. I feel like this is just encouraging the local trash to help themselves to the free grocery give away. Is this how stores operate
I think you may have just come across an employee that doesnt understand the policy.
Posted on 7/22/19 at 1:51 pm to ruzil
100 dollars at Whole Foods is like ONE bag of groceries 
Asking my brother about Wal Mart policy. He runs the Houma store.
Asking my brother about Wal Mart policy. He runs the Houma store.
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