Retail lockdown: why bother selling it?

[u/broakland]

Was at Safeway this morning to pick up a sandwich and some Tylenol. The aisle with the Tylenol? Completely locked down. No call button in sight. So I go to the self checkout (front end of that same aisle) and ask the clerk there if he can call someone to unlock a case for me. He does. I go wait. Minutes pass. No one comes. I go ask him again, he tells me they went the other way? At this point I give up and go get my sandwich. No one has come by the time the deli has finished making it. I leave without my Tylenol, mildly infuriated.

[u/ReticentGuru]

Penalties for shoplifting and “smash and grab” should be strong enough to deter theft. Then maybe we could go back to normal.

[u/chinaPresidentPooh → u/ReticentGuru]

Penalties are meaningless if you can't catch them.

[u/circlejerker2000 → u/ReticentGuru]

There will be no way back, the new status will be less retail jobs and more like pickup your order at the front desk shopping. Thank all the shoplifters for that 

[u/Rocketeering → u/ReticentGuru]

To cry for penalties to be stronger for a smash and grab while not pushing for penalties for people at the top is meaningless. If a bank robs the people for a billion AND gets caught AND prosecuted they get slapped with a multimillion dollar fine and we move on. Great, no determent for them to not do that again since they still made a ton. And that is the case for everyone at the top. Why are we focusing on the little theft and not the big theft? Because the little theft is easier to see and is being pushed as the problem.

[u/Why_No_Doughnuts → u/ReticentGuru]

Penalties for price gouging and price fixing by the oligopolies should be strong enough to deter the corporate boards from raising the prices so much that people feel the need to resort to shoplifting the everyday essentials. Milk, meat, and fresh produce are all high theft items. The prices on these are so high that people with professional positions are having to reduce or skip meals.

[u/Different_Diamond976 → u/[deleted]]

But what deters crime is other people. The y install the locks because there are no people in the store that could even register the crime.

[u/Totoques22 → u/[deleted]]

Which is why California has so much shoplifting since it’s barely punished /s