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- Federal authorities are sounding the alarm over coordinated robberies as retailers say this type of crime is reaching unprecedented levels. shorturl.at/pQST8
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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!!!
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 .
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 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.
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…
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.
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
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 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?
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.
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.
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”
To be honest stores are going to get to the point where they are only going to allow a small number of ppl in at a time and lock the doors while they shop with paid security watching.
or do online only and maybe local pick up. order and pay online, drive to store, employees bring stuff to the front door
@@SgtJoeSmith that actually is a good idea. There was a store in Alabama when I was little that was like that.
Mom and pop store actually. I remember specifically that in order to get to the window you have to go through this zig zag drive thru that was cemented and enclosed so once you turn in you couldn’t turn around you had to go all the way around the store. No snatch and grab opportunities there. Plus pop always had his gun on and a large one on the wall!
I never heard of them getting robbed.
Exactly! Or they are going to shut down. Their are so many businesses that shut down in Whittier I couldn't believe it.
Most big stores have curbside or front desk pickup already. Where have you been?
@@mariahconklin4150good, the thieves getting plundered. What a sight
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.
@@biggtrux All they need help with is directions to the prison showers.
but then we spend more on incarcerating them than the value of what the stole.
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.
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
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.
You didn't stand up when they stole a piece of candy, you didn't stand up when they went through your car at night, you allowed the same politicians back into office that been there the whole time while all this just got worse. So why be upset now that you or your property are not safe ANYWHERE?
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!
Until someone breaks into the wrong vehicle or something stupid, and someone gets killed for taking chances. People like this won't stop.
It's not hard to find grown people who are supposed to be working and yet their paying bills without jobs. The cops will get em sooner or later.
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!
The store lays the burden of paying for the stolen goods on the consumer... that's just disgusting!!!
Then what should they do
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
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 ?
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.
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
Unfortunately, it’s not just Home Depot. It’s also all supermarkets and other retailers out there.
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.
Did the ceo take a pay cut this year?
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.
@@floridaviolets9601 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
Here’s a nutty idea you could actually arrest shoplifters
this country needs to respond like they did in the wild west days
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 🙄
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”
Retail shops should have armed guards at the doors...
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.
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.
The solution to this is for stores to go to a "membership only" model like Sams or Costco, doesn't have to cost anything but should have to be verified with a credit card and ID. Strict ID check at the door, long "trap" entrance and exit halls with electronic locking reinforced doors for those who try to push their way in or out.
Can the doors be locked in front of the thieves so they cannot leave ???
Actually a good idea.
I guess that can't be done because it could create a hostage situation.
@@peter_shadow7559 Then change the law to allow it, but laying around whining about what can't be done sure isn't the way to solve this.
@@chillwill5080 I was replying to @ds
We have to go back to the good old days of punishment whenever they would catch someone stealing.
Also, prices too high for the products to start with.
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.
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?
The day of having a retail shop is becoming too dangerous. Go exclusively online and/or a heavily fortified store front with no access for "customers".
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.
In California you’re practically rewarded and told you’re a victim.
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!
Those with carts have to be more that the legal limit, which is $1000
No repercussions no tough harsh sentences why should they stop.....they never have to face any consequences...I'm sick to death of it.....smh...
None of those employees make enough money to put their life on the line.. I wouldn't.
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
I worked retail for 5 years in San Francisco. And trust me when i tell you ive seen it all
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! 🤣🤣🤣
@@bk_n lol take a show u wreak troll.
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.
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.
Increase the punishment if it is part of an organized criminal theft.
I'm actually happy this is happening, this has to happen first for things to get better
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.
Stores will have to be closed, everything you need ordered on-line.
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.
Looks who’s doing it? Is it not obvious why they are also the ones who wanted to defund the police?
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.
One question I don't know if it has been asked yet is, do they get to recover this through insurance?
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.
@@ilfaitfroid9739 like u?
Maybe a 3 strike law on theft, 3 times caught and 5 years prison mandatory
I just hope the tight security brings the price back down .
Exit doors that don’t allow people to leave without a receipt
Must be some measures to prevent them from leaving. Armed guards on exit
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.
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.
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
How about not prosecuting under 900$ ? Could that be a reason ?
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.
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.
They will just walk into the back stock rooms and grab things.
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
@@TheTryHardDad They gonna understand soon enough when everything that was so easy and cool is long gone.
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?
When you have rampant crime with no law enforcement it is a recipe for disaster. The crimes will only escalate in scale and also in violence. Stores should be able to identify vehicles and there needs to be a special police force solely dedicated to pursuing and apprehending these retail criminals. Then the local judicial systems need to bite the bullet and incarcerate these offenders for at least six months on a first offense and much longer when any violence is involved. Anything stolen over $100 being a felony.
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!
And yet people will still throw a fit when asked to show a receipt.
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As a kartel member, I would like to thank Home Depot for their generous contributions.
The consequences of being socf on crime
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.
@@greenelephant1231 The authority given to security comes from government. If government can surround themselves with armed protection, there is no legal basis to deny that same right to citizens and business who pay for all that.
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.
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
And everyone wonders why a whole lot of Walmarts announced their closures a few months back.
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!
Most of the people stealing things out of Walmart here - or politician's lecterns - are obese hicks with MAGA hats. I know the demographic you're talking about. They're poorer than Mexicans but have a superiority complex. It's really sad.
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.
Say goodbye to brick and mortar stores. Thanks a lot, Brandon.
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.
They're like children if you don't punish them they will keep acting like children!
Why are you covering the faces of the criminals?
Now tell us the truth MSM who is causing this?
Feral Democrats.
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.
last home depot i was in had already added a bunch of locked cabinets.
but i noticed they still sold bolt cutters, which weren't locked up...
and what happens if a key carrying employee takes his key to a friend who makes keys? or one of those automated things i see at many grocery stores today?
Retailers with Overpriced items they paid pennies on the dollar to make or create are also criminals, especially when kids are the ones sitting in factories working. Kinda unusual?
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 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.
Do you really think corporations are worried about this? They can just deduct it and make up extra off the top. Which is one reason it's so sad to hear that a $11 an hour retail worker is concerned about Home Depot, but Home Depot is over there laughing and looking forward to the extra.
@@DJJahT It's true, I have watched prices double on a lot of their products in just over a year.
@@ko7577 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.
This is what happens when you reward criminals by letting them have open season on doing whatever they please. Those to blame for this are the bums in corporate and the bums in our justice system. Meanwhile, the consumer (me) is the only one being punished with inflation. When will this stop, when stores shut their doors?
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.
The United States of America has thousands of retired x military personnel who needs a job. Hire them to protect all businesses where people go. Protecting the 🇺🇲 people at home is something they been doing for years. Longer prison sentence and maybe life. No chance of parole. There's ways to solve this problem. HARSH but it will work ⚡⚡⚡⚡🪑⚰️
Death penalty is the best option.
Maybe make it so stores can go on lockdown - if one of these gangs comes in, any store employee can press the button and nobody can get out until the police arrive?