If you run a business that is so incapable of managing theft that you institute a policy requiring that every customer be accompanied throughout the store by an employee, just shut it down. You gave it your best shot, but you failed. You would be better off finding a job doing something else than doing this.
I've been finding more of these damaged devices discarded within a 0.5 km radius of a #JohnLewis department store. Two in the last week.
They have a CR2450 #lithiumBattery, an inductor+capacitor tank circuit, a strange 3 terminal inductor, and piezo disc. Probably a far less reliable source for harvesting electronic components than disassembing used vape devices.
Wonder what would happen if I carry that LC oscillator component into John Lewis
Watch What People Do, Not What They Say About the Economy.
The fundamental puzzle isn’t that people are unhappy despite favorable macroeconomic indicators. It is that Americans say that things are terrible but behave as if they’re doing pretty well.
For Judd Legum and Tesnim Zekeria, the willingness of major media outlets like Washington Post and CNN to report wildly incorrect misinformation about a non-existent retail crime wave is an act of organized journalistic crime. And even after the erroneous reports on which these stories were based have been retracted, these media outlets remain silent about the misinformation theyve spread.
"The economy is great, stupid" is about yelling at people to ignore our lived experiences for fear Biden will lose because of it -- instead of encouraging Biden and Democrats to do more to help.
Yeah, my wages went up in the past few years. Rent, groceries, insurance, and everything else went up even faster, and while inflation may be slowing, those prices are still sky high.
Maybe there isn't much Biden, et al. can actually do on short notice but telling us we're wrong is just pissing us off.
I think the companies are more afraid of what we might do than what we are currently doing on the shoplifting front and are exaggerating the problem so they can be ready when the actual riots start.
This is a good article about the issue and how it goes back over a hundred years, pretty much as long as there has been retail.
Shrink also includes employee theft, damaged products, administrative errors, vendor fraud and other factors.
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Although shoplifting increased in some cities during the first half of the year compared to pre-pandemic levels, there is no clear national rise in shoplifting, according to a new analysis by the Council on Criminal Justice, a nonpartisan criminal justice policy organization.
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"The overall data doesn't indicate a great shift in the average shoplifting event, but the brazen ransacking incidents, coordinated on social media and captures on video, clearly suggest that there is a sense of lawlessness about," said Adam Belb, The CEO of the Council for Criminal Justice.
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Mentions of "organized retail crime" on companies' earnings calls increased 43% from January through August of this year compared to 2022, the Chamber of Commerce found.
However, the overwhelming majority of shoplifting incidents involve on or two people, not groups. More than 95% of shoplifting incidents in 2019, 2020, and 2021 involved one or two people, and 0.1% involved more than six people, according to a Council for Criminal Justice analysis of shoplifting reports.
Shoplifting incidents involving as assault or other crime constitutes less than 2% of shoplifting incidents, the analysis found.
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"If punishment was the key to public safety, we'd be the safest country in the world," said Jeffrey Butts, the director of the Research and Evaluation Center at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. "You get more public safety by working on underlying problems."
“All these companies that are screaming about theft, they’re kind of complicit in it because they keep reducing staff,” says Steven Rowland, the host of The Retail Warzone podcast and a former retail store manager. “...And then you have store managers who are bleeding out, basically, because they have a lack of payroll, they don’t have enough staff just to get their basic functions done.” #RetailTheft#Shopliftinghttps://www.vox.com/money/23938554/shoplifting-organized-retail-crime-walmart-target-theft-laws
Can anyone recommend a anti-#shoplifting, anti-#theft thingie to secure a smartphone to a table? (it's some Android device, need to measure it)
It's for a local shop lady who got her phone stolen twice this year. She needs it to take pictures of wares that are defective and go back to her supplies, but refuses to wear it around her neck.
I'm thinking of a Kensington lock like solution but for a phone.
"Adding another $4,000 to Dale’s recent losses was a well-dressed woman who left the store pushing a double stroller draped in a blanket decorated with teddy bears. In-store video showed she had stripped bare the store’s 12-foot wall of batteries in less than four minutes, putting her bounty where babies should have been."
#UK#Surveillance#Biometrics#FacialRecognition#ShopLifting: "Home Office officials have drawn up secret plans to lobby the independent privacy regulator in an attempt to push the rollout of controversial facial recognition technology into high street shops and supermarkets, internal government minutes seen by the Observer reveal.
The covert strategy was agreed during a closed-door meeting on 8 March between policing minister Chris Philp, senior Home Office officials and the private firm Facewatch, whose facial recognition cameras have provoked fierce opposition after being installed in shops.
In a development that ignores critics who claim the technology breaches human rights and is biased, particularly against darker-skinned people, minutes of the meeting appear to show Home Office officials agreeing to write to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) advocating the merits of facial recognition technology in tackling “retail crime”."
British merchants are increasingly using the technology to combat shoplifting, raising questions about its spread as artificial intelligence rapidly improves it. #ai#privacy#surveillance
@Brendanjones@peter u should do it.. At least once.. Not in small shops always attacking big multinationals. U will feel degrowth pulsing in your heart when you get out of there safely :02smug: #shoplifting#beGayDoCrime
@Brendanjones@peter u should do it.. At least once.. Not in small shops always attacking big multinationals. U will feel #degrowth pulsing in your heart when you get out of there safely :02smug: #shoplifting#beGayDoCrime