The problem is cookie cutter stores. Same location for the same product in every store. They don't have to look. You may be saving customers time, but you're making it dead-assed simple for the criminals.
@doggovision8765 I mean that won't stop it either. You could institute a death penalty but your back to a wage spiral at that point or out right hunting season on the rich.
I worked at Target and we were being robbed blind day in and day out. Then they can't "afford" to have more cashier's working. Our store would have literally zero checkers and self-check only. Customers would be awful because of it (the frustration IS understandable) and they'd ask why our shelves were empty. Eventually I just told them the truth. I don't understand how lying about what's happening is going to help anything..
It's bad in south fla. Some stores more than others. Long check out lines ten sales people hearding customers towards self checkout. Saw that and left no thanks. Went home ordered on line it's delivered today.
@@jamesberry7150 We had people be rightfully enraged because they were disabled etc. and it was a violation of their rights to not have access to a regular check stand. Some people can't lift their groceries or whatever the case may be. I would "self-check" their groceries for them when I was babysitting self-check. It was heartbreaking to see and entirely demoralizing to be simultaneously berated by other customers who were upset. Quite simply, the juice wasn't worth the squeeze. Don't work at 🎯
The MAJOR reason this is happening is that theft is not punished heavily or treated as a serious crime, retail security officers are NOT allowed to physically intervene, police departments have stopped caring, and people throw temper tantrums when they're stopped at the doors to show their receipts.
Not true. This is happening because we need to pay reparations to those harmed by slavery and injustices of the past. This is happening due to systemic racism in our system.
You know and n e wayz, shopping just isn't what it used to be anymore. It's no longer the cheery teenager as your cashier, it's an old, disgruntled adult who hates their job and takes it out on their customers. There's no customer service anymore. The whole thing has gotten gross, so much to the point where I just use Instacart. Maybe we all should. Just have our stuff delivered right from the warehouses, that way, no more thefts.
The Left, which I also am or was, care more about the rights of criminals than stopping crime. Until the Left stops reducing minimum sentencing, outlawing the death penalty, and prosecuting citizens who defend themselves and other from criminals this crime surge will continue.
In America only the middle class has to follow the rules. For everyone else is a free for all. In my city they don't even bother investigating or prosecuting car thefts unless someone is injured.
@@latinoheateddieguerrero7644 Portland, OR. They claim to prosecute 2/3 of car theives that they catch but that number is nonsense. They don't prosecute them unless it turns into some kind of news story.
False, most poor do follow the rules, and corporate America does not. Theft isn't new, all that stuff should have been locked up a long time ago, but Depot profits by putting stacks of expensive stuff near their doors. They created this problem and then make us pay for it. They even put merch outside, and it is silly to think you should be able to put piles of cash on the sidewalk and nobody ever touches it.
@@biggtrux Yes, bring in the career source people and the therapists or maybe the clergy as well. And maybe they have gender dysphoria and need some surgery so they are better oriented to the world. Let's search for their authentic self. Inside that criminal mind is a hard working trans person who was hungry and needed some bread and water and a pair of work boots. Oh, the poor victim.
@@soberanisfam1323 Then let's find a new home for them on an island. We can send them some of the war money being spent on the proxy war with Russia. For pennies those people could have a new home. Or simply drop them off in another country. Resettle them the way Biden flies future Democrats/illegal migrants. Fly them away in the night. Problem solved. Money saved. Constitutional rights forfeited forever. Let them try this shite in another country and see how it works out for them.
I am a store manager in a Liquor store here in Canada. We have to deal with this problem several times a day. It is very frustrating. We were told just to let it happen because even if you call the police they won't do anything unless someone gets physically attacked or injured. 2 of my co-managers were fired after they tried to stop the thieves which resulted into altercations. I spoke to a police officer and a head warden about it, even themselves they don't know what would be the solution. They said said they only arrest thieves who stole $5000 worth of items but most likely they will be released after a week or so if they are not voilent. Smh!
You know why that is..........the laxed laws of this will always be an issue for.......REFORM. I say to you that the criminals are pertected by this bleeding hear liberalist thinking groverment of.......DOOM! Their more for the criminals of crime and not the victims of crime.
They need extra security measures there, maybe facial recognition tech cameras like they have in China. Also maybe they need to train employees with radios/walkie talkies and how to do incident reports. Or Perhaps they need to be like Costco and require a membership card to shop there,this will deter them a bit.
I was in a Wal Mart the other day and decided to buy some new t shirts. I went to that section of store only to find T SHIRTS behind locked cages. T SHIRTS??!!! I had to go find an employee to unlock the cage to then get the pack I wanted. Unbelievable.
Just a couple days ago, my contractor went to Home Depot and his truck got broken into and stole all his equipment. The store camera has a video of them but the nice SUV had all tinted windows and no license plate. The SUV parked next to his truck and opened their doors to block the cameras. They had masks on as well. It's crazy nowadays!
I’m a contractor who frequently visits Home Depot/ lowe’s & Menards I have seen 5 contractors have their trucks broken into over the past month . I decided last week to just start going to the supply house instead. After the last guy I seen get his stuff stolen and the cops wouldn’t even come out to take the report witnesses seen the guy trying to steal from the store when he had no luck he went to the parking lot .
@@edwardjoy6003 You're lucky.. feel bad for the other folks. This Home Depot even said they've had a lot of vehicles broken into. Yeah, smart to go to the supply house instead. Stay safe!
Here's a thought - Let's pay taxes to fund police, prosecutors, jails, and probation officers. On second thought, we want incredibly low taxes and prefer crime over paying for necessary things like police, prosecutors, jails, and probation officers.
This is why I stopped working at home Depot. They simply allow the people to pilfer while most customers pick up the costs. I liked working for them but my gosh; they don't care about loss prevention!
No, if homeowners can't stop people from stealing (anytime they do they end up charged, see the father-and-son duo from Phoenix who tried detaining a cat converter suspect), then stores shouldn't be able to either
Or just lock up stuff like they should have to begin with. Home Depot just passes it on to the customer and cashes in by warehousing where they sell and having piles of expensive merch near the doors so customers are drawn to it and they sell more. They create their own problem, then make us pay for it, while they profit either way.
These stores will eventually go out of business and people will have to order everything online. There will be more empty storefronts and abandoned malls. The remaining neighborhood Mom and Pop shops will close because of the violence and livelihoods will be lost. Sometimes I think the government actually wants this...the apocalypse.
No, online stores like Amazon want this. Not the government but private companies who are paying the government to keep these laws lenient so the shift can happen.
@@greenelephant1231 It's gotten increasingly worse each year and is now at crisis level. How do you get used to something that negatively impacts your quality of life ?
I don't understand why employees risk their lives to protect replaceable merchandise. Do they really think Home Depot cares about them? I worked retail in the past. Robbers are often armed and violent. You want that merchandise that badly go ahead. Retail stores need to hire professional security guards who have been trained to deal with robbers. It's not the cashier's job or the greeter's job or anyone else's job but security - especially when the robbers are that bold and brazen.
Amen. Theft isn't new, all that stuff should have been locked up a long time ago, but Depot profits by putting stacks of expensive stuff near their doors. Depot created their problem and then make us pay for it.
Not really. Here's why? Because if the business owners raise their prices to compensate for theft, they'll just be out of business soon because their nearby competition will have cheaper prices that consumers will buy from.
@@sterlthepearl1000 thats stupid...because your scenario only applies if u think thieves will leave that store alone... If someone is robbing home depot... they robbin lowes as well
I wish this was true, because colonizers should be have been dealt with already, but they still around enjoying and benefiting from their forced slavery. Its only when they can't make others miserable is when they start to complain.
It's not the laws. You have to start asking the question: what is the police doing to try to stop these crimes? We keep giving the police millions of $$$ to fight crime, and yet crime keeps going up. So what are the police actually doing? People want to keep blaming laws and politicians, but, what exactly is the police doing?
The REAL problem is that these multi billion dollar corporations do not want to spend the money to employee the appropriate security. Home Depot could afford armed and unarmed security but it cuts into thier quarterly earnings.
Thieves? No! those are robbers. thief is defined as “a person who steals another person's property, especially by stealth and without using force or violence”
I'm honestly confused about the people acting like theft isn't punished. It is! But employees aren't responsible for dying over merchandise. So very few people are caught. And, well, locking up a person is $150,000+ per year in most states. That's makes it bad business to put people in jail for stealing $700 of stuff. So we need a solution that isn't wasting my tax dollars, but still disincentivizes crime.
They are doing this because they know the law/justice system arent doing nothing about it. They allow these thieves to retaliate against people/employees that try to stop them.
Makes it easy to understand why people are so into vigilante tropes in comics and on TV. See some person actually holding bad guys accountable because the law doesn't. Of course that is fantasy, in the real world we are supposed to stand idly by and do nothing. Kind of like the laws were written by the criminals to protect themselves from society.
@@murraymadness4674 So you are one of those people who knows nothing about the subject but insists and jumping into the conversation. Yes the store lets them walk out, because they cannot legally detain them [Unlawful Confinement]. The law favors the criminal. Trying to detain them with force becomes an even larger problem and should the thief get hurt, the thief may have grounds to sue the company. It is a no win scenario for the company and the thieves know it.
@@CorporateCornholio LOL, who knows nothing here. It is not illegal to hold someone stealing. That is how jewelry stores stop thief. Learn something. My local grocery store stops people and gang tackles them onto the ground until the police arrive.
@@SgtJoeSmith Changing laws will do nothing and you know it. Quit playing politics, this problem isn’t going away anytime soon so stop with the “you voted for it bullshit”
Exactly, theft isn't new, all that stuff should have been locked up a long time ago, but Depot profits by putting stacks of expensive stuff near their doors. They created this problem and then make us pay for it. Depot even puts merch outside.
Every time I go to a Home Depot or other such store and I need to ask a question, it's already a nightmare to get an employee who doesn't already have a person or two waiting. Now, you need an employee to put most things in your cart??? Speaking only for myself, that's just going to drive an older-generation brick & mortar shopper like me to online shopping. If no one puts these people in jail, there will be an ever-growing snowball of consequences throughout society and the economy, as the popularity of in-person shopping was already waning. These dirtbags should be locked-up and law enforcement has already let things slide past the tipping point.
Theft isn't new, all that stuff should have been locked up a long time ago, but Depot profits by putting stacks of expensive stuff near their doors. They created this problem and then make us pay for it.
To put into perspective, shop owners cannot stop thief because the law / insurance does not allow store personals to be actively interfere with robbers. Yet US is trying to pass laws to allow teachers (whose job is to teach kids by the way) to be actively involved with a killer with gun by shooting them?
There use to be a store here in winnipeg a long time ago. Everything was behind the counter in the warehouse section closed off to the public. High price items shouldn't be left out in the open. You want a high price item you go to pull the item ticket and they bring it up after purchase. Easy system
I remember place in the states like the Service Merchandise, late 70's early 80's. Everything was on a display Got some of my BB guns there you pulled the ticket took it to counter and they would go back and get item you payed and walked out was a great system.
The stockers, checkers, and "customer service associates" aren't paid enough to risk injury to stop those thieves. The corporations are too scared of the profits that any amount of ill press, ill will, or insurance liability for someone injured stopping a thief would cost them. The companies "offload" (read "socialize") the cost of "shrinkage" (read "theft") onto the tax system as losses and onto the insurance systems as loss claims (potentially repaing more than they lost). Then the companies wait for certain threshholds to get passed so they can offload (socialize) the cost of anti-shrinkage (anti-theft) enforcement onto actual law enforcement and the criminal penal system. And then they can legally justify offloading (socializing) the legal and medical cost for anybody injured protecting the company's assets (peons) onto the people themselves because "it violates company policy," even if there's a conflicting company policy, or, alternately, onto the law enforcement previously mentioned (the companies don't pay their wages or insurance). Subsequently, any negative press from any such incidents are offloaded (socialized) onto the criminals themselves, onto any employees who may have "violated policy" to protect the company's assets, and/or law enforcement. And following that, companies use these incidents to justify price hikes on products that are already too expensive relative to the general public's purchasing power. There usually is NO incentive for underpaid employees (including contractors like Security Guards) to put themselves in harms way for a company that's going to "win" regardless of the outcome. At most, they are incentivized to stand aside, document it, and let the pencil pushers upstairs decide on when and how to act. Those are the people supposedly paid to make those decisions.
And those stores wasted a LOT more money on crime scene cleaners as what would happen was a shoplifter got fed up, defended themselves, and the police had to arrive to clean up the aftermath...and this led to scared employees, upset customers, and ended up costing the store WAY more than just letting the police detain them. You act like people didn't shoplift in the 1990s, oh no, they did. There have been COUNTLESS times when the entire loss prevention office had to be cleaned out by crime-scene-cleaners because a suspected shoplifter panicked and tried escaping. So don't act like the 1990s was a perfect time period, it wasn't, and it was a headache from an upper management point of view. Because what would happen would be that the injured security guard or loss prevention staffer would file a lawsuit for creating a dangerous work environment, the shoplifter would sue for injury, customers who FELL down trying to avoid the LP and shoplifter tussling would also sue, and this cost stores too much. Why do you think Mervyns went out of business? Or Frys Electronics? Because of that.
@@greenelephant1231 LOL...no. I was listening to a podcast a few months back from a guy who used to both steal AND work security back in the 90s. He said that there were some locations where the guards were just waiting for you to steal something so they could beat you senseless. Not surprisingly, the rate of theft was much lower at those stores.
We had lawyers in the 90s too and that's why we have these policies. Home Depot just passes it on to the customer and cashes in by warehousing where they sell and having piles of expensive merch near the doors so you are drawn to it and they sell more. They create their own problem, then make us pay for it, while they profit either way.
@@gregfalco4528 A podcast compared to decades of case law, I'd trust case law. As I said before, guards who do stuff like that ended up injured, either on the clock or off the clock. Many had their vehicles vandalized, were followed home, point being that the 90s weren't as pleasant for the guards as you may think.
And that is why now in days everything should be in hidden storage, only display one through three models of the product, scan for purchase, get items when pay when bouts to leave.
I haven't been to a Brandsmart in years but it used to be you would go in and look at store display items and once you decided what you wanted to purchase a salesperson would ring up the item on a computer, then you'd pay and pick up the item at the exit AFTER paying. Seems this way of selling would cut down on this rampant theft if only display items were on shelves.
Well, when you don't keep criminals in jail and you let the rest off with a slap in the wrist, they have lots of time to organized and become better criminals. That's just a fact.
What is it like to be blind? Or are you under the impression that America doesn't have the largest number of incarcerated people in the world? (on record)
@@0shadowgrace0 So.. you're saying that the justice system in America is fine based on the number of incarcerated people? Well obivously the number should be even higher.
@Joe The whole point of the original comment was that these people are going to jail for ticky-tack things and learning from other criminals in jail. Then they get out and apply the skills they learned. We need to separate prisons based on severity of the crime, instead of for-profit-private-prisons (legitimately stealing our tax money), or putting stoners with serial killers bc weed is still schedule 1. Do you want the stoner to stay a stoner or do you want him to quit and learn how do be a serial killer? (One thing I disagree with is the slap on the wrist. A slap on the wrist is still a good chunk of your life spent in prison. Jail for a couple years should be more of a rehabilitation center than a prison.) The system doesn't think the human experience down to the detail. It's almost like the system was made by an ai or a human lacking in sympathy.
Currently, I am working in the retail industry and one of those businesses in this video. I was told that these people knew the store policy and they would even remove the security wraps of the expensive items before taking them. We look for people who push a shopping cart filled with expensive merchandise. But we try to avoid getting physical with these criminals. The government should know how to control and avoid downfall of society.
@@shirleyefting5194 wrong, this has been growing for decades with every administration being involved to some degree. Screw up education, make people afraid to correct their childrens behavior, do not police the police no matter how bad they are. Qualified immunity was given to cops in 1982 while Reagan was in office. No party in congress has ever tried to stop it. Since then qualified immunity has been applied to all government officials. There is one party, in government, the party of greed and power.
It's not really just organized retail crime, it's a form of terrorism and looting. Maybe these stores can have something like Stand your Ground when they're being picked clean by these criminals.
Ain’t nobody standing ground for a bunch of goods that don’t belong to them. Let the store handle that by hiring QUALIFIED authority TRAINED and PAID to stand ground.
The threat of imprisonment is NOT a deterrent. These are people who have already come to terms with the fact that they will be spending a good portion of their lives in prison.
Right but now we have an absence of punishment so their is no deterrent at all. At least they chose freedom or prison now its just… “why not no one gonna stop me”
It's only a certain group that are committing the majority of these crimes. Won't be long before all these big box stores close their retail addresses and focus on larger, secured fulfillment centers with gated entrances, etc. This is a bunch of BS. It's disgusting.
Retailers treat their employees more like criminals rather than handles the retail theft. Retailers would rather lose thousands of dollars than hire private security to handle dangerous criminals.
Private security can't do much which is why they don't hire private security. It's not to their benefit to be stolen from. Stores are closing down left and right leaving some places "retail deserts" because of this. It's more on the law makers who are too easy on crime due to racial optics and class warfare tactics.
Why would people hire private security when they can just use sworn law enforcement instead? Law enforcement has more authority, doesn't cost money, and is less of a liability than private security. The only thing private security should do is serve as a store greeter and observe and report.
@@greenelephant1231 Well, for one thing, law enforcement cannot work for private enterprises while they're on the job, since they have a job of their own. That's why.
Dear @Dean Martin: I agree: Occurring on this brazen scale since then, partially inspired by the BLM-Floyd situation, subtly springing forth stupidity and stultification to branch out; destroy, teef, and rob.
Time to impose harsher sentencing. Lower the threshold for felony retail theft, and make the police actually investigate and go after these people. Instead of just sitting around in their patrol cars waiting to catch someone speeding.
True police usually ignore those calls hence why so many people are doing it. No punishment why not steal? All they gotta do is get the license plates and watch the video feed. Everything is on camera now.
Used to work loss prevention at Lowes. This happened all the time. We apprehended a lot of them though. It was frustrating they wouldn’t let us lock up high theft items. It was always bad customer service they said. I heard in the years after I left that job they did away with LP staff.
They are back now. I worked at Lowes for a while and basically everything is locked up now that is a high theft item. The crooks know what to take that will fetch the highest dollar so they usually hit stores that have those items freely available and in stock. They’ll send scouts into the store to check it out beforehand.
Yeah, because they did the math and all this "billion dollars worth of goods" wasn't really worth a billion dollars and it's even more wasteful to hire people to protect it.
In Japan, shoplifting an item for as little as $1 will result in the offender being taken to the police. The police believe that if small crimes are left unchecked, they will eventually cascade into bigger crimes.
This is an easy fix. Close the stores to customers. You buy what you want on an app, drive up and have your merchandise brought to you. No need to close the store, keeps people employed and safe.
Way back in the good old days of the 1980's, we had a BEST Products store that had merchandise on the floor as a model only. The buyer would put their order in and it would come down a large conveyer belt where one would have to pay for the product before receiving it. It was a slower and more inefficient transactional method of business, but it virtually eliminated all possibilities of theft, at least within the public (internal theft may still have occurred). They really should go back to that.
if you have armed security then you will have shootings, death and law suits. I don't have the answer to stop this craziness but armed security for sure is not the answer.
Not really. All merchandise are insured or the can get it back during tax time. My man's mom worked in a hospital and she said what bills aren't paid gets written off and they get it back during tax time. I knew someone who worked in retail and it's the same thing. They're not "losing" money. They get it back. Even grocery stores where food items have expire or don't get sold, they get the cost back. This is just an excuse to raise price, so they don't look like greedy bastards.
I worked for home Depot until very recently. They have to keep everything under lock and key.. even the bolt cutters because they will use them to cut the locks, and cables meant to prevent theft. Also cannot leave an orange ladder staircase on any aisle with power tools in the overhead shelves... It's really bad in Memphis and surrounding areas. 3:40
Many large retail chains have been pushing to have all online shopping with local distribution warehouses with few employees, as places for pick up and deliveries. Thefts like this will expedite it.
Why don’t they invest those billions they’re losing in products into hiring more workers that prevent theft/ can assist customers in getting items that are locked up.
We had an LPS when our first store in Norfolk VA opened. He’d be the one to confront the thieves if the situation seemed non threatening for the most part. Police were called especially on repeat offenders. That was the late 90’s. Roundup products and lumber were the main products being stolen.
I would set up all the expensive items to be sold in the way the store Service Merchandise sold them (before they changed to jewelry sales only). You choose, paid and wait for your order to come out to you. Unless laws are toughened up big time this is going to be hard to stop. Criminals are brazen, it’s shocking that it’s gone this far.
That's how B&H Photo Video is down in NYC, you go to the counter and pick out what you want from a catalog and pay for it then they go in the warehouse and get it for you..
I dont think people understand just how bad it is. People come into stores with spotters looking for the best things to steal, and where to hide them while distracting employees so a buddy can pick up the item
I used to work in retail and we were told to allow the thief to walk off, don't even bother with reporting it to the cops. We used to hire a security guard but then the company got cheap when the mim wage hit $15 hourly. They had the money, just refused to spend more and rather apply things frugally, leading to shoplifters. There needs to be a better check and balance system with bought and stolen goods. We could use a special coding system that verifies a product was legitimately bought off or at least create a better tracking system so that if something was stolen and sold into an auction space, we can tell was it stolen or not.
I blame lawyers, that's why we have these policies. Home Depot just passes it on to the customer and cashes by warehousing where they sell and having piles of expensive merch near the doors so you are drawn to it and they sell more. They create their own problem, then make us pay for it, while they profit either way.
@K O That's not 100% true, we have upper management that is concerned about this because if we come off easy, thieving increases. There was a period we just let people off and that encouraged more thieves; we had to create our own lost prevention methods like placing goods in locked bins or confront the thief by locking the doors. When the thieves realize we're giving them a hard time, the thefts started to drop. Sadly, it wasn't enough to prevent my store getting closed.
Tool manufactures could provide safety locks on their tools that keep the tool from working until activated by the store after purchase. Or, the store puts a code on the receipt that's used online to get a code that unlocks the tool. Or, just resume prosecuting shoplifting as it was once prosecuted.
Same. I worked retail about 20 years ago and when/if people came in and tried to steal something, was just told to "let them do it." I was like "Why am I working here for a 50% discount when I could just come in and steal whatever I wanted with zero consequences?" They didn't have an answer for that.
@@DJJahTThe big companies don't care. They make enough money off the squeezed middle class. Walmart puts unsold new seasonal merch in shredders and crushers rather than donating, clearancing, or otherwise. Grocery stores have locked chutes leading out of their back rooms so they can dispose of items rather than donating to shelters, or allow people to scavenge useable items. GameStop deliberately smashes and destroys items before tossing them in their dumpster, rather than marking them down for clearance.
They make getting out the the store with the merch too easy that's why it happens so often. Every store that has been hit with a large amount of stuff just carted away have ONE thing in common, SLIDING DOORS. It's almost like welcoming them when they are leaving. They don't even have to open a door.
Although not an option for the younger shop lifter, my method works well for senior shop lifters. I have an young accomplice who drives me around to various retail locations and waits in the parking lot while I shop lift inside. Whenever I'm caught, she runs inside pretendeing to be my grand daughter and explains to the store manager that I have dementia and just forgot to pay. She promises the manager that she will never bring me back to that store and they let me go every time.
As a customer who always pays, I am sickened when I have to wait 30 minutes to browse razors, or electronics, etc, all high theft items. It’s usually because I have to find an employee. Now since it’s taking so long to browse, I just shop online and I doubt I am alone. Soon large retail stores will be closed or very $$$ to offset being open, like convenience stores. I hate it, as I enjoy the shopping experience, or used to. I understand we have to stop thieves, but not at the suffering of those who don’t commit crimes. Between self checkout and now this, I shop everything except groceries online, I would do that too if they people picking items weren’t feckless and dirty. Maybe allow dogs in stores for LP, what about giving more pay and tasers to LP, what about arming law abiding citizens and making theft a crime worthy of lethal force. All great options if you ask me.
Not gonna be able to have stores anymore, they gonna have to start carding people as they come in and have a card on file, so when they pick something up it gets charged
Surely the big retail chains can afford some innovations to prevent organized theft of expensive items. Potentially they could ask customers to prepay, enter a key in their receipt, and a machine would provide their items, like an ATM machine inside a room. If something sets off an alarm, then the room would lock so people would be trapped and trap them in there until the police arrive.
I do not understand why people call this a problem? This is exactly why people voted for politicians to Defund The Police and for DA's not to prosecute crime. People vote and this is what they voted for so they should not complain. I guess the ones stealing are not complaining but than again, they are "owed" these items and the retailers should be giving the people these items for free since profits are a bad thing. Profits from hard work for example should be given away as taxes so others can have that money they actually earned not the person doing the work.
Online stores and retail shops including auto shops MUST show proof of where they bought their items for sale. Inspect them and fine them and remove all stolen items they can't prove they bought!
It's crazy. During FIFA in Qatar, visitors were shocked to see how safe it was in Doha even in the night. Someone left their cell phone in public for hours, and nobody even touched it. And we all know why.
Stores need to stop stocking items out on the floor. They should just setup floor space with display items only that are locked down by cables. You can go into store, look at the items, do your comparison shopping then once decided step up to a terminal where you put in what item(s) you want to buy. Pay and then pick up at the exit. And everything is stocked in a locked down warehouse space behind the store. This will stop the rampant walking out with carts full of items. Maybe just do this for the higher priced items like anything over $100. They need to think of ways to minimize the opportunity for theft.
Self checkout, scan and go, and locking up merchandise. The self checkout push and now the scan and go doesn't really help deter criminals from stepping up their game. I wonder how much of an increase of "oops that didn't get scanned" occurs nowadays. It is becoming easier to order online, just not always timely.
I heard from someone who is a normal middle class person that when using the self check out about 25% of his items 'accidentally' don't get scanned. It's crazy.
I WOULD PERSONALLY BE INCLINED TO UNDERGO A PRE-SCREENING AND OBTAIN A VERIFICATION CODE AS A PREREQUISITE FOR ACCESSING THE STORE. WHILE THIS APPROACH MAY BE DEEMED OFFENSIVE BY CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS, ITS IMPLENTATION WOULD EFFECTIVELY MITIGATE PRICE FLUCTUATIONS AND MINIMIZE CONFLICTS OR DISTURBANCES.
Hmmm I wonder if the increase in self-checkout automation replacing workers has anything to do with people stealing more, since the threshold is lower. Saving billions while losing billions.... I'd be interested to see if that's a net loss on retailers or if they are making more now comparatively.
I went to Lowes close to our home. There were two workers, one at the self checkout and one on the regular checkout. And two workers at the service and return. The place is almost 50,000 SF and a lot of cameras. If they get a lot of thieves, then it is their fault. Your worker is not going to try to stop a group of criminals rushing out the door. Big businesses need to revise how they operate their store and stop cutting workers and cost. You might as well walk into an Amazon store and ring yourself out. No Service, No Money.
Amen. Theft isn't new, all that stuff should have been locked up a long time ago, but Depot profits by putting stacks of expensive stuff near their doors. Depot created their problem and then make us pay for it.
lock the doors, and only let in people who get their drivers license scanned and credit card.... and after they pay politely escort them to their car and help them load .... zero theft can be replaced with great service no one is steeling shopping carts of stuff at costco .... they have to change business plans, because of the dumb ass government its easy to fix, but they don't want to be called RACIST they would rather just close the store in the GHETTOs but the GHETTO crumbs will just drive to the next store .....
more of some parents are same class include grandpa and grandma ,need work hard for forgiving on themselves . their brain thoughts are very uncomfortable and fighting to get free from own ego desires , need practice on pleasant relationship within themselves ,look at your heart(THE HEART SAYS NO ) not to stuffs . more you giving they will taking more on all stuffs so, stop donations
Pretty soon we are going to have to make an appointment to go shopping. And when we arrive at our shopping destination, retailers will ask us for our identification and they will log our personal information into their computers before we can do any shopping. Merchandise will be locked up and store clerks will need to retrieve our items.
@@bully61 how is supporting the police a scam? I want to know,I came from the ghetto streets of Oakland somewhere you'd probably be shot In the head just for standing around. So yeah sure goofy.
I have seen many HD employees fired on the spot for even tlking to a thief as they walk out of the store. The only solution is to have armed security and to actually drop them at the outside of the door. The message will spread quickly, trust me.
I wish there was a way to see a pattern or maybe find something in common with all these types of thieving events. It’s difficult to figure out. Can we just refer to these events as “wealth transfer opportunists” so we dont hurt feelings?
I have no problem with stores locking up the merchandise. Just make sure there are enough employees available to get me what I need.
How about locking up the thieves, instead of treating everyday citizens like criminals. Did you vote Democrat or Republican? 🤔 #SeekGod 😌🙏🏽🌟🕊
In California a Home Depot employee was shot to death. Shooter looking at just 5 years max. Not worth it to send my kids to work for Home Depot.
The problem is cookie cutter stores. Same location for the same product in every store.
They don't have to look. You may be saving customers time, but you're making it dead-assed simple for the criminals.
@@jeretso . Not true. it's not manslaughter. There's a weapon involved too.
if it takes longer than 2 minutes to get an employee to unlock the cage don't need it.
This will continue until theft is treated as a serious crime.
Like Singapore
Cops dont care
@@mrch33sehed93 Yes! When fingers get chopped, the shoplifting stops.
If you only do that it won't stop and will only temporarily slow it. It'll escalate 10x after that.
@doggovision8765 I mean that won't stop it either. You could institute a death penalty but your back to a wage spiral at that point or out right hunting season on the rich.
The sad and scary part about all of this is the lack of basic human decency. And we live amongst these people.
"People"
@@JediTiga”animals”
Cowards of............DOOM!!!
Why are they hiding the faces.
Same reason you're hiding yours
@@tonywhite4476 what are you talking about?
@@tonywhite4476dumb n
Why can't we see the faces of the criminals so we know what they look like for future reference?😮
Because they aren't white
I worked at Target and we were being robbed blind day in and day out. Then they can't "afford" to have more cashier's working. Our store would have literally zero checkers and self-check only. Customers would be awful because of it (the frustration IS understandable) and they'd ask why our shelves were empty. Eventually I just told them the truth. I don't understand how lying about what's happening is going to help anything..
It's bad in south fla. Some stores more than others. Long check out lines ten sales people hearding customers towards self checkout. Saw that and left no thanks. Went home ordered on line it's delivered today.
Because hurting feelings = bad
@@jamesberry7150 We had people be rightfully enraged because they were disabled etc. and it was a violation of their rights to not have access to a regular check stand. Some people can't lift their groceries or whatever the case may be. I would "self-check" their groceries for them when I was babysitting self-check. It was heartbreaking to see and entirely demoralizing to be simultaneously berated by other customers who were upset. Quite simply, the juice wasn't worth the squeeze. Don't work at 🎯
I bet nobody stole that gay crap at Target🤣
@@iamwill3561 Except your Dad.
The MAJOR reason this is happening is that theft is not punished heavily or treated as a serious crime, retail security officers are NOT allowed to physically intervene, police departments have stopped caring, and people throw temper tantrums when they're stopped at the doors to show their receipts.
I know. There was a time when many places had 'store detectives', armed and with arrest powers to combat this behavior.
Because they want to kill retail. "You will own nothing and be happy" They have an agenda and its not for you.
Security officers are told not to intervene for concern for their safety. Thieves are more violent than before.
@@TheDriftwoodlover Store detectives carried revolvers and blackjacks when I was young for exactly this reason.
Not true. This is happening because we need to pay reparations to those harmed by slavery and injustices of the past. This is happening due to systemic racism in our system.
I wonder if there could be a connection between choosing not to prosecute theives and an increase in theft... lol
That's sooo stupid to think that. 😉
who do you think is selling all this stuff? It isn't the people stealing it. Prosecuting them does very, very little.
Maybe the fact you can't live on minimum wage makes people steal. 🤔
Correlation between states and where this is targeted.
The left allows this to continue .
This could be stopped in a minute, but they choose not too
The lefts voter base
You know and n e wayz, shopping just isn't what it used to be anymore. It's no longer the cheery teenager as your cashier, it's an old, disgruntled adult who hates their job and takes it out on their customers. There's no customer service anymore. The whole thing has gotten gross, so much to the point where I just use Instacart. Maybe we all should. Just have our stuff delivered right from the warehouses, that way, no more thefts.
@@ipfreely8920 I'm a proud leftie. WTF does this have to do with the price of bananas?
The Left, which I also am or was, care more about the rights of criminals than stopping crime. Until the Left stops reducing minimum sentencing, outlawing the death penalty, and prosecuting citizens who defend themselves and other from criminals this crime surge will continue.
@J C if your stealing the bananas 🍌 it don't have anything to do with the price.......obviously
In America only the middle class has to follow the rules. For everyone else is a free for all. In my city they don't even bother investigating or prosecuting car thefts unless someone is injured.
You must live in a Liberal cesspool area
Wtf? What city do you live in?
@@latinoheateddieguerrero7644 Portland, OR. They claim to prosecute 2/3 of car theives that they catch but that number is nonsense. They don't prosecute them unless it turns into some kind of news story.
False, most poor do follow the rules, and corporate America does not. Theft isn't new, all that stuff should have been locked up a long time ago, but Depot profits by putting stacks of expensive stuff near their doors. They created this problem and then make us pay for it. They even put merch outside, and it is silly to think you should be able to put piles of cash on the sidewalk and nobody ever touches it.
@@rerun3283 portland? Sorry, but yikes. How’s the homeless population?
STOP LETTING THEM OUT WHEN THEY GET CAUGHT!!!!
Or find out where they need help so they don't have to do this.
@@biggtrux that’s just stupid thinking. No one should ever resort to stealing no matter the situation. They deserve to be treated as serious criminals
@@biggtrux Yes, bring in the career source people and the therapists or maybe the clergy as well. And maybe they have gender dysphoria and need some surgery so they are better oriented to the world. Let's search for their authentic self. Inside that criminal mind is a hard working trans person who was hungry and needed some bread and water and a pair of work boots. Oh, the poor victim.
but then we spend more on incarcerating them than the value of what the stole.
@@soberanisfam1323 Then let's find a new home for them on an island. We can send them some of the war money being spent on the proxy war with Russia. For pennies those people could have a new home. Or simply drop them off in another country. Resettle them the way Biden flies future Democrats/illegal migrants. Fly them away in the night. Problem solved. Money saved. Constitutional rights forfeited forever. Let them try this shite in another country and see how it works out for them.
I am a store manager in a Liquor store here in Canada. We have to deal with this problem several times a day. It is very frustrating. We were told just to let it happen because even if you call the police they won't do anything unless someone gets physically attacked or injured. 2 of my co-managers were fired after they tried to stop the thieves which resulted into altercations. I spoke to a police officer and a head warden about it, even themselves they don't know what would be the solution. They said said they only arrest thieves who stole $5000 worth of items but most likely they will be released after a week or so if they are not voilent. Smh!
Maybe you should vote better.
@@secondarycontainment4727 agree, what do they expect voting a president like the one of Canada??
The authorities are in on it and "allow" this to bankrupt all small businesses.
They can stop this anytime.
Seems to be happening internationally
You know why that is..........the laxed laws of this will always be an issue for.......REFORM. I say to you that the criminals are pertected by this bleeding hear liberalist thinking groverment of.......DOOM! Their more for the criminals of crime and not the victims of crime.
They let thieves out the store in HOMe Depot but the employees are told to provide receipts when they leave the store . Unbelievable.
?????? they do not give receipts to the thieves, what are you talking about
They need extra security measures there, maybe facial recognition tech cameras like they have in China.
Also maybe they need to train employees with radios/walkie talkies and how to do incident reports.
Or Perhaps they need to be like Costco and require a membership card to shop there,this will deter them a bit.
@Jack same applied to the cops, they love to give me traffic infraction tickets and they let the undocumented go freely.
Better the remove the door, so the elderly, family with kids, PWD's, and thieves (with their loots) can go in and out easy.
You're thinking of Costco. I've never been asked to show a receipt when leaving Home Depot.
I was in a Wal Mart the other day and decided to buy some new t shirts. I went to that section of store only to find T SHIRTS behind locked cages. T SHIRTS??!!! I had to go find an employee to unlock the cage to then get the pack I wanted. Unbelievable.
I hope you have good security because that's not a standard thing and says something about your neighborhood.
@@schris413 My "world" I live in is safe but it's pathetic that stores have to do that due to people who so little regard for rules.
Dude the target I live by, they have toothpaste locked
@@lulux9795 woah you guys live in some crazy places ? We don't have anything locked except electronics.
this country needs to respond like they did in the wild west days
Just a couple days ago, my contractor went to Home Depot and his truck got broken into and stole all his equipment. The store camera has a video of them but the nice SUV had all tinted windows and no license plate. The SUV parked next to his truck and opened their doors to block the cameras. They had masks on as well. It's crazy nowadays!
I’m a contractor who frequently visits Home Depot/ lowe’s & Menards I have seen 5 contractors have their trucks broken into over the past month . I decided last week to just start going to the supply house instead. After the last guy I seen get his stuff stolen and the cops wouldn’t even come out to take the report witnesses seen the guy trying to steal from the store when he had no luck he went to the parking lot .
@@edwardjoy6003 What state(s) is this happening in? 😮
I just saw a couple guys last week run out with a couple small bags of stuff at Walmart. Never have seen this happen where I live before. Just crazy.
@@edwardjoy6003 You're lucky.. feel bad for the other folks. This Home Depot even said they've had a lot of vehicles broken into. Yeah, smart to go to the supply house instead. Stay safe!
Here's a thought...try prosecution for the crime. Thieves should have no rights.
They're not going to do that because they know most of the people they prosecute will be minorities.
Here's a thought - Let's pay taxes to fund police, prosecutors, jails, and probation officers.
On second thought, we want incredibly low taxes and prefer crime over paying for necessary things like police, prosecutors, jails, and probation officers.
@@antennaandy6893 Exactly. It's so frustrating. It's like certain group of people want to destroy this country.
Cutting hands off would be effective
@1990758 yeah and it's mainly certain minority I can't mention here who commits 95% of the crime 🙄
Ultimately the stores will not allow any customers in their store. You will have to order things online and pick them up at the door.
Yes, this is what I say…
They steal stuff from your door
This is why I stopped working at home Depot. They simply allow the people to pilfer while most customers pick up the costs. I liked working for them but my gosh; they don't care about loss prevention!
They have to pass a law if the thieves get killed at a store, everyone that was involved in taking out that thrash is not liable, not even the store.
No, if homeowners can't stop people from stealing (anytime they do they end up charged, see the father-and-son duo from Phoenix who tried detaining a cat converter suspect), then stores shouldn't be able to either
Or just lock up stuff like they should have to begin with. Home Depot just passes it on to the customer and cashes in by warehousing where they sell and having piles of expensive merch near the doors so customers are drawn to it and they sell more. They create their own problem, then make us pay for it, while they profit either way.
@@DJJahT yeah, put an undue burden and expense on the store because worthless clowns can't act right. Do you even listen to yourself?
These stores will eventually go out of business and people will have to order everything online. There will be more empty storefronts and abandoned malls. The remaining neighborhood Mom and Pop shops will close because of the violence and livelihoods will be lost. Sometimes I think the government actually wants this...the apocalypse.
Except...they want you to pay taxes. How does that happen if they force the shutdown of commerce?
Joe Biden and the Demon-crats are causing this. Trump warned us this would happen!
You act like that's any different from 2020, 2021, and early 2022. We're sorta used to that
No, online stores like Amazon want this. Not the government but private companies who are paying the government to keep these laws lenient so the shift can happen.
@@greenelephant1231 It's gotten increasingly worse each year and is now at crisis level. How do you get used to something that negatively impacts your quality of life ?
I don't understand why employees risk their lives to protect replaceable merchandise. Do they really think Home Depot cares about them? I worked retail in the past. Robbers are often armed and violent. You want that merchandise that badly go ahead. Retail stores need to hire professional security guards who have been trained to deal with robbers. It's not the cashier's job or the greeter's job or anyone else's job but security - especially when the robbers are that bold and brazen.
Complete Madness ! Every person who shops at these stores is paying for this theft one way or another.
Amen. Theft isn't new, all that stuff should have been locked up a long time ago, but Depot profits by putting stacks of expensive stuff near their doors. Depot created their problem and then make us pay for it.
Not really. Here's why? Because if the business owners raise their prices to compensate for theft, they'll just be out of business soon because their nearby competition will have cheaper prices that consumers will buy from.
@Florida Violets CEO does not take pay cuts; only workers. Theft has been around for ages; all they do is right it off
@@sterlthepearl1000 thats stupid...because your scenario only applies if u think thieves will leave that store alone... If someone is robbing home depot... they robbin lowes as well
The store's should go after the prosecutors and DA'S that are letting these ppl go free
Up until about the last century people knew exactly how to treat thieves
One finger first offense...two fingers second offense...the rest of the entire hand third offense. Lmfao!!
@@ryanhale1654 I was going to say!! Things would change REAL QUICK once hands started getting chopped off instead of wrists being slapped.
Seems like 2020
@@subarcticelectronic9885 Sounds like an awesome plan to implement nationwide. 🙄
I wish this was true, because colonizers should be have been dealt with already, but they still around enjoying and benefiting from their forced slavery. Its only when they can't make others miserable is when they start to complain.
Ever notice how almost all the people in these videos have something in common? Stereotypes can be times savers.
It's Atlanta what do you think they are going to look like lol....
@@megclifton6692 it's everywhere. We all know it, but it's not politically correct to say it.
Lol, you fool.
@@megclifton6692 13/60
dont know what your getting at... pretty sure those were white people stealing out of the home depot smh
The problem is our laws PROTECT the criminal so they will keep on doing it til OUR LAWS are CHANGED !
People voted for this so don’t cry now
It's not the laws. You have to start asking the question: what is the police doing to try to stop these crimes? We keep giving the police millions of $$$ to fight crime, and yet crime keeps going up. So what are the police actually doing? People want to keep blaming laws and politicians, but, what exactly is the police doing?
The REAL problem is that these multi billion dollar corporations do not want to spend the money to employee the appropriate security. Home Depot could afford armed and unarmed security but it cuts into thier quarterly earnings.
And yet no one will address the elephant in the room. Most of the people committing this crime are young African Americans.
Thieves? No! those are robbers. thief is defined as “a person who steals another person's property, especially by stealth and without using force or violence”
And yet people will still throw a fit when asked to show a receipt.
Everyone loses with theft. That 300 milwaukee drill I just bought, the price is made worse by the people who steal
start stealing then.
@metsrus dumbest thing I've heard. No I believe in doing good upon society
Unfortunately, it’s not just Home Depot. It’s also all supermarkets and other retailers out there.
Looks who’s doing it? Is it not obvious why they are also the ones who wanted to defund the police?
I'm honestly confused about the people acting like theft isn't punished. It is! But employees aren't responsible for dying over merchandise. So very few people are caught. And, well, locking up a person is $150,000+ per year in most states. That's makes it bad business to put people in jail for stealing $700 of stuff. So we need a solution that isn't wasting my tax dollars, but still disincentivizes crime.
They are doing this because they know the law/justice system arent doing nothing about it. They allow these thieves to retaliate against people/employees that try to stop them.
Makes it easy to understand why people are so into vigilante tropes in comics and on TV. See some person actually holding bad guys accountable because the law doesn't. Of course that is fantasy, in the real world we are supposed to stand idly by and do nothing. Kind of like the laws were written by the criminals to protect themselves from society.
It is the STORE that doesn't care dummy. Think. The STORE let's them walk right out. The Law/Justice has little to do with it.
@@murraymadness4674 So you are one of those people who knows nothing about the subject but insists and jumping into the conversation.
Yes the store lets them walk out, because they cannot legally detain them [Unlawful Confinement]. The law favors the criminal. Trying to detain them with force becomes an even larger problem and should the thief get hurt, the thief may have grounds to sue the company. It is a no win scenario for the company and the thieves know it.
@@CorporateCornholio LOL, who knows nothing here. It is not illegal to hold someone stealing. That is how jewelry stores stop thief. Learn something. My local grocery store stops people and gang tackles them onto the ground until the police arrive.
Add more effective security with more leeway to arrest . This is ridiculous
security cant arrest or pull a gun unless shoplifter pulls a gun and starts shooting first. its the law you voted for!
Time to change laws . I didn’t vote for it !
@@SgtJoeSmith Changing laws will do nothing and you know it. Quit playing politics, this problem isn’t going away anytime soon so stop with the “you voted for it bullshit”
@@BearPapa49 Why? Security isn't the police.
Exactly, theft isn't new, all that stuff should have been locked up a long time ago, but Depot profits by putting stacks of expensive stuff near their doors. They created this problem and then make us pay for it. Depot even puts merch outside.
Retail shops should have armed guards at the doors...
As per usual, it's the honest, hardworking, decent people who are footing the bill for this crap
Every time I go to a Home Depot or other such store and I need to ask a question, it's already a nightmare to get an employee who doesn't already have a person or two waiting. Now, you need an employee to put most things in your cart??? Speaking only for myself, that's just going to drive an older-generation brick & mortar shopper like me to online shopping. If no one puts these people in jail, there will be an ever-growing snowball of consequences throughout society and the economy, as the popularity of in-person shopping was already waning. These dirtbags should be locked-up and law enforcement has already let things slide past the tipping point.
Exactly same thing. Customer service and retail is to the toilet.
There're few guys watching you, to steal your tools as you roll the parking lot.
Then they steal packages at your front door. That idea won’t work long.
Theft isn't new, all that stuff should have been locked up a long time ago, but Depot profits by putting stacks of expensive stuff near their doors. They created this problem and then make us pay for it.
Eh for stores like home depot I don't think they need to just have their more expensive items freely on display. It already doesn't make sense to me.
To put into perspective, shop owners cannot stop thief because the law / insurance does not allow store personals to be actively interfere with robbers. Yet US is trying to pass laws to allow teachers (whose job is to teach kids by the way) to be actively involved with a killer with gun by shooting them?
There use to be a store here in winnipeg a long time ago. Everything was behind the counter in the warehouse section closed off to the public. High price items shouldn't be left out in the open. You want a high price item you go to pull the item ticket and they bring it up after purchase. Easy system
Dear Raymond Berard: This is a well-written paragraph. I agree.
What was the name?
Or we can bring Law and Order back. Just saying. #SeekGod 😌🙏🏽🌟🕊
I remember place in the states like the Service Merchandise, late 70's early 80's. Everything was on a display Got some of my BB guns there you pulled the ticket took it to counter and they would go back and get item you payed and walked out was a great system.
But then how would they price gauge you?
When a stores policy not to confront or detain is known, its free stuff. In the 90's, Security (some) was hands-on and everybody knew it.
The stockers, checkers, and "customer service associates" aren't paid enough to risk injury to stop those thieves. The corporations are too scared of the profits that any amount of ill press, ill will, or insurance liability for someone injured stopping a thief would cost them.
The companies "offload" (read "socialize") the cost of "shrinkage" (read "theft") onto the tax system as losses and onto the insurance systems as loss claims (potentially repaing more than they lost).
Then the companies wait for certain threshholds to get passed so they can offload (socialize) the cost of anti-shrinkage (anti-theft) enforcement onto actual law enforcement and the criminal penal system.
And then they can legally justify offloading (socializing) the legal and medical cost for anybody injured protecting the company's assets (peons) onto the people themselves because "it violates company policy," even if there's a conflicting company policy, or, alternately, onto the law enforcement previously mentioned (the companies don't pay their wages or insurance).
Subsequently, any negative press from any such incidents are offloaded (socialized) onto the criminals themselves, onto any employees who may have "violated policy" to protect the company's assets, and/or law enforcement.
And following that, companies use these incidents to justify price hikes on products that are already too expensive relative to the general public's purchasing power.
There usually is NO incentive for underpaid employees (including contractors like Security Guards) to put themselves in harms way for a company that's going to "win" regardless of the outcome. At most, they are incentivized to stand aside, document it, and let the pencil pushers upstairs decide on when and how to act. Those are the people supposedly paid to make those decisions.
And those stores wasted a LOT more money on crime scene cleaners as what would happen was a shoplifter got fed up, defended themselves, and the police had to arrive to clean up the aftermath...and this led to scared employees, upset customers, and ended up costing the store WAY more than just letting the police detain them.
You act like people didn't shoplift in the 1990s, oh no, they did. There have been COUNTLESS times when the entire loss prevention office had to be cleaned out by crime-scene-cleaners because a suspected shoplifter panicked and tried escaping. So don't act like the 1990s was a perfect time period, it wasn't, and it was a headache from an upper management point of view.
Because what would happen would be that the injured security guard or loss prevention staffer would file a lawsuit for creating a dangerous work environment, the shoplifter would sue for injury, customers who FELL down trying to avoid the LP and shoplifter tussling would also sue, and this cost stores too much.
Why do you think Mervyns went out of business? Or Frys Electronics? Because of that.
@@greenelephant1231 LOL...no.
I was listening to a podcast a few months back from a guy who used to both steal AND work security back in the 90s. He said that there were some locations where the guards were just waiting for you to steal something so they could beat you senseless. Not surprisingly, the rate of theft was much lower at those stores.
We had lawyers in the 90s too and that's why we have these policies. Home Depot just passes it on to the customer and cashes in by warehousing where they sell and having piles of expensive merch near the doors so you are drawn to it and they sell more. They create their own problem, then make us pay for it, while they profit either way.
@@gregfalco4528 A podcast compared to decades of case law, I'd trust case law. As I said before, guards who do stuff like that ended up injured, either on the clock or off the clock. Many had their vehicles vandalized, were followed home, point being that the 90s weren't as pleasant for the guards as you may think.
And that is why now in days everything should be in hidden storage, only display one through three models of the product, scan for purchase, get items when pay when bouts to leave.
I haven't been to a Brandsmart in years but it used to be you would go in and look at store display items and once you decided what you wanted to purchase a salesperson would ring up the item on a computer, then you'd pay and pick up the item at the exit AFTER paying. Seems this way of selling would cut down on this rampant theft if only display items were on shelves.
Well, when you don't keep criminals in jail and you let the rest off with a slap in the wrist, they have lots of time to organized and become better criminals. That's just a fact.
What is it like to be blind? Or are you under the impression that America doesn't have the largest number of incarcerated people in the world? (on record)
@@0shadowgrace0 So.. you're saying that the justice system in America is fine based on the number of incarcerated people? Well obivously the number should be even higher.
@Joe The whole point of the original comment was that these people are going to jail for ticky-tack things and learning from other criminals in jail. Then they get out and apply the skills they learned. We need to separate prisons based on severity of the crime, instead of for-profit-private-prisons (legitimately stealing our tax money), or putting stoners with serial killers bc weed is still schedule 1. Do you want the stoner to stay a stoner or do you want him to quit and learn how do be a serial killer? (One thing I disagree with is the slap on the wrist. A slap on the wrist is still a good chunk of your life spent in prison. Jail for a couple years should be more of a rehabilitation center than a prison.)
The system doesn't think the human experience down to the detail. It's almost like the system was made by an ai or a human lacking in sympathy.
@@0shadowgrace0 Bwhahaha! Reduce the prison population by ignoring crime. What a stupid idea! 🤣🤣🤣
@@Khoy-B lol take a show u wreak troll.
In California you’re practically rewarded and told you’re a victim.
Currently, I am working in the retail industry and one of those businesses in this video.
I was told that these people knew the store policy and they would even remove the security wraps of the expensive items before taking them.
We look for people who push a shopping cart filled with expensive merchandise. But we try to avoid getting physical with these criminals.
The government should know how to control and avoid downfall of society.
Do you think it's because a lack of law enforcement is involved or because the corporation isn't willing to prosecute?
This administration is the reason for the downfall in our society.
@@shirleyefting5194 wrong, this has been growing for decades with every administration being involved to some degree. Screw up education, make people afraid to correct their childrens behavior, do not police the police no matter how bad they are. Qualified immunity was given to cops in 1982 while Reagan was in office. No party in congress has ever tried to stop it. Since then qualified immunity has been applied to all government officials. There is one party, in government, the party of greed and power.
@@shirleyefting5194 It’s been happening for a longer period than the current administration.
@@shirleyefting5194 BS!
It's not really just organized retail crime, it's a form of terrorism and looting. Maybe these stores can have something like Stand your Ground when they're being picked clean by these criminals.
Ain’t nobody standing ground for a bunch of goods that don’t belong to them. Let the store handle that by hiring QUALIFIED authority TRAINED and PAID to stand ground.
@@DrLauraRPalmer you will just be forced to pay more
Lmfao be serious
shootouts in crowded stores would be a terrible solution.
You don't know of they have a weapon on them.
When you dont administer punishment for bad actions there is nothing stoping it from happening again.
The threat of imprisonment is NOT a deterrent. These are people who have already come to terms with the fact that they will be spending a good portion of their lives in prison.
Right but now we have an absence of punishment so their is no deterrent at all. At least they chose freedom or prison now its just… “why not no one gonna stop me”
It's only a certain group that are committing the majority of these crimes. Won't be long before all these big box stores close their retail addresses and focus on larger, secured fulfillment centers with gated entrances, etc. This is a bunch of BS. It's disgusting.
We know, we know.
@@jasonlucas2328 unfortunately many wite girls dont and theyre dating the same peopel doing this!
Retailers treat their employees more like criminals rather than handles the retail theft. Retailers would rather lose thousands of dollars than hire private security to handle dangerous criminals.
EXACTLY!!!! And, the reason is so they can "justify" overcharging you and me.
Private security can't do much which is why they don't hire private security. It's not to their benefit to be stolen from. Stores are closing down left and right leaving some places "retail deserts" because of this. It's more on the law makers who are too easy on crime due to racial optics and class warfare tactics.
Why would people hire private security when they can just use sworn law enforcement instead? Law enforcement has more authority, doesn't cost money, and is less of a liability than private security. The only thing private security should do is serve as a store greeter and observe and report.
@@greenelephant1231 Well, for one thing, law enforcement cannot work for private enterprises while they're on the job, since they have a job of their own. That's why.
@@truth2power463 Uh...yes they can and do. Walmart stores in the Southeast have on-duty police officers
How fucking stupid is it to CENSOR THE FEATURES OF A THIEF? It’s like y’all want them to get away with it or something
this has been happening since June 2020
Dear @Dean Martin: I agree: Occurring on this brazen scale since then, partially inspired by the BLM-Floyd situation, subtly springing forth stupidity and stultification to branch out; destroy, teef, and rob.
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whoa, don't disrespect drug addict, small time pornstar, st floyd like that
Everyone knows theft did not exist until the lockdowns.
Time to impose harsher sentencing. Lower the threshold for felony retail theft, and make the police actually investigate and go after these people. Instead of just sitting around in their patrol cars waiting to catch someone speeding.
They're not gonna do that because too many black and brown will be in jail.
True police usually ignore those calls hence why so many people are doing it. No punishment why not steal? All they gotta do is get the license plates and watch the video feed. Everything is on camera now.
Time to allow "shoot to... uhm harm" policy to empower retail owners to put a stop to these robberies nonsense.
Police aren't going to do anything. They aren't actually interested in preventing crime.
Or picking their balls at a road construction site.
Used to work loss prevention at Lowes. This happened all the time. We apprehended a lot of them though. It was frustrating they wouldn’t let us lock up high theft items. It was always bad customer service they said. I heard in the years after I left that job they did away with LP staff.
They are back now. I worked at Lowes for a while and basically everything is locked up now that is a high theft item. The crooks know what to take that will fetch the highest dollar so they usually hit stores that have those items freely available and in stock. They’ll send scouts into the store to check it out beforehand.
Yeah, because they did the math and all this "billion dollars worth of goods" wasn't really worth a billion dollars and it's even more wasteful to hire people to protect it.
@@phxsisko Low IQ
In Japan, shoplifting an item for as little as $1 will result in the offender being taken to the police. The police believe that if small crimes are left unchecked, they will eventually cascade into bigger crimes.
This is an easy fix. Close the stores to customers. You buy what you want on an app, drive up and have your merchandise brought to you. No need to close the store, keeps people employed and safe.
But then how would they price gauge you?
Way back in the good old days of the 1980's, we had a BEST Products store that had merchandise on the floor as a model only. The buyer would put their order in and it would come down a large conveyer belt where one would have to pay for the product before receiving it. It was a slower and more inefficient transactional method of business, but it virtually eliminated all possibilities of theft, at least within the public (internal theft may still have occurred). They really should go back to that.
Those with carts have to be more that the legal limit, which is $1000
Sounds like they're paying far more in theft than the salary of armed security.
if you have armed security then you will have shootings, death and law suits. I don't have the answer to stop this craziness but armed security for sure is not the answer.
Not really. All merchandise are insured or the can get it back during tax time. My man's mom worked in a hospital and she said what bills aren't paid gets written off and they get it back during tax time. I knew someone who worked in retail and it's the same thing. They're not "losing" money. They get it back. Even grocery stores where food items have expire or don't get sold, they get the cost back. This is just an excuse to raise price, so they don't look like greedy bastards.
If true, merch insurance rates would go up and tax revenue would go down. There's no magical free lunch.
If true, merch insurance rates would go up and tax revenue would go down. There's no magical free lunch.
I worked for home Depot until very recently. They have to keep everything under lock and key.. even the bolt cutters because they will use them to cut the locks, and cables meant to prevent theft. Also cannot leave an orange ladder staircase on any aisle with power tools in the overhead shelves... It's really bad in Memphis and surrounding areas. 3:40
It's sad. This is what it was like in Jamaica. Barbed wire everywhere and you had to ask an employee to get what you wanted for you.
Many large retail chains have been pushing to have all online shopping with local distribution warehouses with few employees, as places for pick up and deliveries. Thefts like this will expedite it.
I'm actually happy this is happening, this has to happen first for things to get better
As a kartel member, I would like to thank Home Depot for their generous contributions.
None of those employees make enough money to put their life on the line.. I wouldn't.
It’s a whole new world because retailers don’t provide security and don’t prosecute on fear of lawsuits. They need to grow some balls
Why don’t they invest those billions they’re losing in products into hiring more workers that prevent theft/ can assist customers in getting items that are locked up.
We had an LPS when our first store in Norfolk VA opened. He’d be the one to confront the thieves if the situation seemed non threatening for the most part. Police were called especially on repeat offenders. That was the late 90’s. Roundup products and lumber were the main products being stolen.
I would set up all the expensive items to be sold in the way the store Service Merchandise sold them (before they changed to jewelry sales only). You choose, paid and wait for your order to come out to you. Unless laws are toughened up big time this is going to be hard to stop. Criminals are brazen, it’s shocking that it’s gone this far.
Great comment.
That's how B&H Photo Video is down in NYC, you go to the counter and pick out what you want from a catalog and pay for it then they go in the warehouse and get it for you..
Damn! Service merchandise is OG. Anyone born after the 90’s won’t understand
I dont think people understand just how bad it is. People come into stores with spotters looking for the best things to steal, and where to hide them while distracting employees so a buddy can pick up the item
I used to work in retail and we were told to allow the thief to walk off, don't even bother with reporting it to the cops. We used to hire a security guard but then the company got cheap when the mim wage hit $15 hourly. They had the money, just refused to spend more and rather apply things frugally, leading to shoplifters. There needs to be a better check and balance system with bought and stolen goods. We could use a special coding system that verifies a product was legitimately bought off or at least create a better tracking system so that if something was stolen and sold into an auction space, we can tell was it stolen or not.
I blame lawyers, that's why we have these policies. Home Depot just passes it on to the customer and cashes by warehousing where they sell and having piles of expensive merch near the doors so you are drawn to it and they sell more. They create their own problem, then make us pay for it, while they profit either way.
@K O That's not 100% true, we have upper management that is concerned about this because if we come off easy, thieving increases. There was a period we just let people off and that encouraged more thieves; we had to create our own lost prevention methods like placing goods in locked bins or confront the thief by locking the doors. When the thieves realize we're giving them a hard time, the thefts started to drop. Sadly, it wasn't enough to prevent my store getting closed.
Tool manufactures could provide safety locks on their tools that keep the tool from working until activated by the store after purchase. Or, the store puts a code on the receipt that's used online to get a code that unlocks the tool. Or, just resume prosecuting shoplifting as it was once prosecuted.
Same. I worked retail about 20 years ago and when/if people came in and tried to steal something, was just told to "let them do it." I was like "Why am I working here for a 50% discount when I could just come in and steal whatever I wanted with zero consequences?" They didn't have an answer for that.
@@DJJahTThe big companies don't care. They make enough money off the squeezed middle class. Walmart puts unsold new seasonal merch in shredders and crushers rather than donating, clearancing, or otherwise. Grocery stores have locked chutes leading out of their back rooms so they can dispose of items rather than donating to shelters, or allow people to scavenge useable items. GameStop deliberately smashes and destroys items before tossing them in their dumpster, rather than marking them down for clearance.
They make getting out the the store with the merch too easy that's why it happens so often. Every store that has been hit with a large amount of stuff just carted away have ONE thing in common, SLIDING DOORS. It's almost like welcoming them when they are leaving. They don't even have to open a door.
Hasn't been a problem in the last 60 years.
Good point
And that's why these retailers need to hire quality armed security. Door alarms don't do anything unless you have armed security to stop them.
More perfect examples of why I'm always carrying pepper spray and a gun at all times.
So you can hold up a store?
@@Globodyne for self-defense, dummy! Biden stooge detected!
Although not an option for the younger shop lifter, my method works well for senior shop lifters. I have an young accomplice who drives me around to various retail locations and waits in the parking lot while I shop lift inside. Whenever I'm caught, she runs inside pretendeing to be my grand daughter and explains to the store manager that I have dementia and just forgot to pay. She promises the manager that she will never bring me back to that store and they let me go every time.
Also, prices too high for the products to start with.
As a customer who always pays, I am sickened when I have to wait 30 minutes to browse razors, or electronics, etc, all high theft items. It’s usually because I have to find an employee. Now since it’s taking so long to browse, I just shop online and I doubt I am alone. Soon large retail stores will be closed or very $$$ to offset being open, like convenience stores. I hate it, as I enjoy the shopping experience, or used to. I understand we have to stop thieves, but not at the suffering of those who don’t commit crimes. Between self checkout and now this, I shop everything except groceries online, I would do that too if they people picking items weren’t feckless and dirty. Maybe allow dogs in stores for LP, what about giving more pay and tasers to LP, what about arming law abiding citizens and making theft a crime worthy of lethal force. All great options if you ask me.
"suffering" having to wait a whole min or two to find an employee to help you - LMAO!!! Talk about spoiled first world problems.
Maybe a 3 strike law on theft, 3 times caught and 5 years prison mandatory
Not gonna be able to have stores anymore, they gonna have to start carding people as they come in and have a card on file, so when they pick something up it gets charged
Surely the big retail chains can afford some innovations to prevent organized theft of expensive items. Potentially they could ask customers to prepay, enter a key in their receipt, and a machine would provide their items, like an ATM machine inside a room. If something sets off an alarm, then the room would lock so people would be trapped and trap them in there until the police arrive.
What about the country as a whole prosecute criminals even if most of them are from a particular community which UA-cam doesn't allow me to say?
@@slomo4672 found the racistttt
Lmao liberal brain at work here
The consequences of being socf on crime
I do not understand why people call this a problem? This is exactly why people voted for politicians to Defund The Police and for DA's not to prosecute crime. People vote and this is what they voted for so they should not complain. I guess the ones stealing are not complaining but than again, they are "owed" these items and the retailers should be giving the people these items for free since profits are a bad thing. Profits from hard work for example should be given away as taxes so others can have that money they actually earned not the person doing the work.
Online stores and retail shops including auto shops MUST show proof of where they bought their items for sale. Inspect them and fine them and remove all stolen items they can't prove they bought!
It's crazy. During FIFA in Qatar, visitors were shocked to see how safe it was in Doha even in the night. Someone left their cell phone in public for hours, and nobody even touched it. And we all know why.
Stores need to stop stocking items out on the floor. They should just setup floor space with display items only that are locked down by cables. You can go into store, look at the items, do your comparison shopping then once decided step up to a terminal where you put in what item(s) you want to buy. Pay and then pick up at the exit. And everything is stocked in a locked down warehouse space behind the store. This will stop the rampant walking out with carts full of items. Maybe just do this for the higher priced items like anything over $100. They need to think of ways to minimize the opportunity for theft.
They're like children if you don't punish them they will keep acting like children!
Consistent skin pigmentation…
Homeland Security leaders are to blame. Close the BORDERS!!!!!
Self checkout, scan and go, and locking up merchandise. The self checkout push and now the scan and go doesn't really help deter criminals from stepping up their game. I wonder how much of an increase of "oops that didn't get scanned" occurs nowadays. It is becoming easier to order online, just not always timely.
I heard from someone who is a normal middle class person that when using the self check out about 25% of his items 'accidentally' don't get scanned. It's crazy.
@@Nothing-fp7jg He sounds based. No snitching.
@@Nothing-fp7jg Cost cutting measure leads to costs from people unable to use a self checkout properly. Ironic.
I WOULD PERSONALLY BE
INCLINED TO UNDERGO A PRE-SCREENING AND OBTAIN A VERIFICATION CODE AS A PREREQUISITE FOR ACCESSING THE STORE. WHILE THIS APPROACH MAY BE DEEMED OFFENSIVE BY CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS, ITS IMPLENTATION
WOULD EFFECTIVELY MITIGATE PRICE FLUCTUATIONS AND MINIMIZE CONFLICTS OR DISTURBANCES.
OK
This is America. Damn.
The store lays the burden of paying for the stolen goods on the consumer... that's just disgusting!!!
Then what should they do
Hmmm I wonder if the increase in self-checkout automation replacing workers has anything to do with people stealing more, since the threshold is lower. Saving billions while losing billions.... I'd be interested to see if that's a net loss on retailers or if they are making more now comparatively.
They should start cutting off your hands when you get caught stealing again.
Here’s a nutty idea you could actually arrest shoplifters
I went to Lowes close to our home. There were two workers, one at the self checkout and one on the regular checkout. And two workers at the service and return. The place is almost 50,000 SF and a lot of cameras. If they get a lot of thieves, then it is their fault. Your worker is not going to try to stop a group of criminals rushing out the door. Big businesses need to revise how they operate their store and stop cutting workers and cost. You might as well walk into an Amazon store and ring yourself out. No Service, No Money.
Amen. Theft isn't new, all that stuff should have been locked up a long time ago, but Depot profits by putting stacks of expensive stuff near their doors. Depot created their problem and then make us pay for it.
lock the doors, and only let in people who get their drivers license scanned and credit card....
and after they pay politely escort them to their car and help them load ....
zero theft can be replaced with great service
no one is steeling shopping carts of stuff at costco ....
they have to change business plans, because of the dumb ass government
its easy to fix, but they don't want to be called RACIST they would rather just close the store in the GHETTOs
but the GHETTO crumbs will just drive to the next store .....
Parents if you know your kid is mentally ill keep them home
Dear Curtis Donnelly: Fine comment.
more of some parents are same class include grandpa and grandma ,need work hard for forgiving on themselves . their brain thoughts are very uncomfortable and fighting to get free from own ego desires , need practice on pleasant relationship within themselves ,look at your heart(THE HEART SAYS NO ) not to stuffs . more you giving they will taking more on all stuffs so, stop donations
Wrong video
How about not prosecuting under 900$ ? Could that be a reason ?
Pretty soon we are going to have to make an appointment to go shopping. And when we arrive at our shopping destination, retailers will ask us for our identification and they will log our personal information into their computers before we can do any shopping. Merchandise will be locked up and store clerks will need to retrieve our items.
@K O chicken little? You are part of the problem.
Law enforcement shouldn't hesitate to unleash their brute force. Enough is enough.
Law enforcement only unleashes their “brute force” on innocent people.
I was all for blm for a bit(like a fool)
Now I am all about the Blue.
@@darknessreign you bought into both political scams.....congragulations......
@@bully61 how is supporting the police a scam? I want to know,I came from the ghetto streets of Oakland somewhere you'd probably be shot In the head just for standing around. So yeah sure goofy.
I have seen many HD employees fired on the spot for even tlking to a thief as they walk out of the store. The only solution is to have armed security and to actually drop them at the outside of the door. The message will spread quickly, trust me.
I wish there was a way to see a pattern or maybe find something in common with all these types of thieving events. It’s difficult to figure out. Can we just refer to these events as “wealth transfer opportunists” so we dont hurt feelings?
youre corny like a turd
oh yeah, and we can call them "self-enabled shoppers" and "store clutter reduction volunteers".