tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7973817998334403792.post6556874316431912135..comments2023-10-11T08:45:28.993-05:00Comments on a different kind of same: Thief!Ameliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03336048142717933214noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7973817998334403792.post-41826121306302627242009-08-31T13:35:54.198-05:002009-08-31T13:35:54.198-05:00We always think of things to say after the fact. B...We always think of things to say after the fact. But if it had been me and I had been on my toes I might have said."Hey I really like those key chains too;what color did you get? Can you hand me a red one?"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7973817998334403792.post-20246288482421025772009-08-29T23:04:41.716-05:002009-08-29T23:04:41.716-05:00Nope, I wouldn't say anything to the guy and i...Nope, I wouldn't say anything to the guy and in that situation I wouldn't have bothered mentioning it to the cashier. If I saw someone in a back aisle somewhere stuffing something down their pants I'd probably find someone who worked there and tell them, but in many businesses the staff are told not to confront thieves. I know the companies I've worked for have had a policy that said confronting a thief was optional, because it could be dangerous to confront someone who's already breaking the law. In some cases the police could be called and they could intercept the thief before they left the store if there was time for that.<br /><br />From the accounting side I can tell you that theft is absolutely factored in. It's a cost of doing business. I think we expected 5% "shrink" (inventory that disappears) at the last place I worked. I guess in the grand scheme of things it does affect the cost of your Sprite and everything else, but my experience working with a buyer tells me they always expect to get a certain profit margin on certain types of goods, because there's a threshold for what customers will pay for everything. The margin would maybe be a bit lower if no one in the world had ever stolen anything, but every stolen keychain isn't going to raise the profit margin higher than it is now. If a particular store has a terrible problem with theft then the store's going to look at better security as a way to combat that, rather than just accepting an ever-increasing shrink figure that they would then pass on to their customers.Rachnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7973817998334403792.post-59040034301815985642009-08-29T20:18:22.227-05:002009-08-29T20:18:22.227-05:00This is a tough call, but I think I may have said ...This is a tough call, but I think I may have said something...like, Hey Sir, I think you forgot to pay for that...<br />I actually had a stealing incident happen to me last week- I saw a little girl at Homegoods putting some merchandise in her purse- so the "teacher" in me HAD to redirect her behavior and I said, litttle girl you need to put that back on the shelf- she looked at me, then looked away, then back at me to see if I was still there...she took the item out of her purse, and walked away- I'm sure she stole something else in the store, but I thought we'll hopefully she will remember a strange woman saying something to her and it will be a "teaching moment" for her...who knows, really?Stacihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04204643081128521844noreply@blogger.com