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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
The one thing that hasn't been mentioned yet is how retailers treat their employees with regard to theft/shrinkage.
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Without a doubt, some of the "shrink" involves employee theft. But, the overwhelming majority of the theft comes from the customers. There are actually employees that are paid to do nothing but circumnavigate the store, picking up the empty packages that used to contain the products that people have walked out of the store with. It really does stagger the imagination to see the things, and the amount of things, that people manage to make off with. DVDs, CDs, trash bag liners, fabric softener sheets, air fresheners, footballs, makeup, condoms, you name it. If it's in the store, they will steal it. If a fraction of the ingenuity involved in stealing this crap were put to a constuctive use, then I have no doubt that this country would not be in the shape that it's in.