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Comment by no_wizard

3 days ago

Wage theft is the largest form of theft in retail, out numbering shoplifting by a good margin.

Perhaps loss prevention should look at management for the stolen money

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llm_nerd  3 days ago

These are orthogonal. Maybe we should have max enforcement in both? Indeed, seems like separate groups should be enforcing both?

However I suspect it's also an outdated claim. Shoplifting and other merchandise loss has exploded. In the past five years it has increased 100%+ in many areas. It has almost been normalized where some groups will proudly boast about how they've scammed and stole, especially at self checkouts.

I have zero problem with max enforcement. I'm not a thief and if you have a thousand AI cameras tracking my every move through the store, I simply do not care. I also don't see a particularly slippery slope about systems that highlight the frequent thieves. Further I appreciate that retail operates at a pretty thin margin, so every penny they save (both on labour and by catching/preventing thefts) is actually good for law abiding society. So more of it, please.