WalMart Shoplifting

[bcp]

I've read that registers often require the answer to be input before continuing, but often clerks will answer without asking the customer, in obvious cases.

Bruce

 

[Bird]

Interesting. Here all banks here have drive thru's, and that is all I use. I never go inside.

One of my credit union's branch offices has drive thru's, but I've never used that. Instead, I go inside and they have a couple of 4 or 5 foot round, nearly chest high tables with their computer and other stuff on it, so the cashiers are just standing in the open, you can walk right up to them, stand behind or beside them and see their computer screen, etc. I've never asked, but I was sure surprised the first time I saw that arrangement. it would appear that there are NO security measures at all.

 

[Deere Dude]

I like drive thru's but since I been hoggin duallys it don't work except if it is really raining. Then the tires rub on both sides and it is a very slow process.

 

[bcp]

I like drive thru's but since I been hoggin duallys it don't work except if it is really raining. Then the tires rub on both sides and it is a very slow process.

Some SRW guys have a truck-ATM problem, too.



Bruce

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Too many window robberies I guess?

The same bank with branches in the SF Bay Area and Washington will have very nice Washington Branches and Drive Up tellers... I always attributed it to Washington Weather?

No drive up window, just the pneumatic tube. Its to reduce robberies.

 

[ultrarunner]

I was at the bank today... walked in and about 4 in front of me...

As I am there a woman is at the lobby desk making out deposit receipts.

Several more people come in behind me...

I am now number 2 in line and just as number one gets goes to the counter the woman walks to front of the line without saying a work... I thought they might have come in together but this proved not to be the case...

Very odd but not something to make a deal over...

Unfortunately... it seems to be behavior that is more common these days...

 

[bcp]

I see that at the post office. But when lines were longer so I had longer to watch, the clerk would often tell a customer who had waited their turn to go over to the counter to fill out a form, then return to the head of the line.

Bruce

 

[ultrarunner]

Yep... happens often at the post office... never seen it at the bank and I believe we arrived at just about the same time... the car she left in arrived just as I was pulling in...

Maybe she was in a hurry... not worth making anything over it but simple courtesy would have been nice.

I posted before about the post office two years back... the line was very long prior to Christmas... a disabled older person with two wrist canes struggled to get in and it was a struggle... to a last person about 20 motioned him forward... some were not so sure because they had their back to the line but when they saw everyone else motioning forward they got with the program... and the person thanked everyone for their kindness...

 

[2ndhalf]

I recognize Jim Harbaugh, but I don't know the second driver. Is he a public figure?

Steve

He is a pro athlete turned sports broadcaster; don't know his name.

 

[3930dave]

This is just another of those things that have changed over the years. It's been 50 years since I had a moonlighting job in a big department store in downtown Dallas. Sometimes I worked in uniform in hopes of preventing shoplifting; other times I worked in plain clothes to catch shoplifters. And as far as I know, every retail establishment in Dallas was in favor of arresting and prosecuting all shoplifters.

Then - Consequences for Bad Behaviour.

Can't imagine what went wrong since then......

Rgds, D.

 

[zzvyb6]

Shoplifting Statistics -NASP

Its a $50 BILLION cost to the economy: inventory, police and courts.

Any wonder that on-line shopping is popular with companies. Now the credit card loss factor and ID theft will zoom.

 

[masscity]

I have a Dodge 2500 Cummins with BFG 295-75-16 without any lift and I couldn't reach the drive up machine. I would pull up and park my truck, get out and walk up to the machine.

 

[tallyho8]

We were at Chili's a while back and my wife wanted a Marguerita and the waitress asked for an ID. Wife said "your kidding?" Waitress said no, manager required them to check ID for all alcoholic purchases. WIFE IS 70 YEARS OLD!!!! I didn't raise a stink with the manager only because we were with some friends. If we were by ourselves, I very likely would have approached the manager and not to politely told him how stupid he was before we walked out.

I'm 72 and still have to show my ID. Where I live most stores that sell liquor have to scan your drivers license for proof. There have been many places that lost their liquor license because the employees were caught selling liquor to minors so now they require all employees to scan your license before they sell you liquor. When they check their sales and find a liquor sale that did not have a scanned ID, that cashier is fired.

 

[Tractor Seabee]

Amazon it THE best place I know of to shop. And I do about 90% of my shopping right there.

Amazon just opened a grocery (brick & mortar. You sign up for a digital account and have a transponder card, walk in, pick up your items, put it back it deletes it, walk out, it charges your account, no cash register. Wave of the future I am sure. Someone will find a way to defeat it though. Ethics and integrity are no longer taught at home, in the schools, or in the churches. I fear for my grand-kids that have been raised right (a couple haven't) as they are now in the minority and pressured to conform to the new millennium.

Ron

 

[Tractor Seabee]

We were at Chili's a while back and my wife wanted a Marguerita and the waitress asked for an ID. Wife said "your kidding?" Waitress said no, manager required them to check ID for all alcoholic purchases. WIFE IS 70 YEARS OLD!!!! I didn't raise a stink with the manager only because we were with some friends. If we were by ourselves, I very likely would have approached the manager and not to politely told him how stupid he was before we walked out.

Here in WA state carding for liquor sales is mandatory for all ages. Just not heavily enforced. Enforcement makes random checks and then everyone is carded for awhile creating all kinds of hate and discontent. I think that probably applies to Pot sales also as it is controlled by the same agency.

Ron

 

[goeduck]

Its a $50 BILLION cost to the economy: inventory, police and courts.
Any wonder that on-line shopping is popular with companies. Now the credit card loss factor and ID theft will zoom.

Good point that I had never thought of before. That could explain why it is often less expensive to shop on line. Hate to say it but it makes me want to shop on line more so I don’t have to fund the free loaders and shop lifters.

 

[4570Man]

Amazon just opened a grocery (brick & mortar. You sign up for a digital account and have a transponder card, walk in, pick up your items, put it back it deletes it, walk out, it charges your account, no cash register. Wave of the future I am sure. Someone will find a way to defeat it though. Ethics and integrity are no longer taught at home, in the schools, or in the churches. I fear for my grand-kids that have been raised right (a couple haven't) as they are now in the minority and pressured to conform to the new millennium.

Ron

It would eliminate most of it though. Electronic theft requires brain power. A tool most shoplifters are lacking.

 

[4570Man]

Good point that I had never thought of before. That could explain why is is often less expensive to shop on line. Hate to say it but it makes me want to shop on line more so I don’t have to fund the free loaders and shop lifters.

It might be a good time to invest in UPS stock. Brick and mortar businesses are going the way of the woolly mammoths.

 

[RichM752]

Man what difference a couple of generations make. I was 13-14 yrs old, a friend and myself were in a large department store, and he shoplifted a couple of 8 track tapes. As we left the store the undercover store guy pulled us aside. Took us in the office, call the cops, and they took us both to the juvenile hall, a.k.a. juvie. Spent the night and our parents picked us up the next day. Got a good whooping at home, and if I remember correctly, I was on "restriction" for a month. Needless to say, that was the end of my criminal career. Been on the strait and narrow ever since.

 

[RandyT]

Man what difference a couple of generations make. I was 13-14 yrs old, a friend and myself were in a large department store, and he shoplifted a couple of 8 track tapes. As we left the store the undercover store guy pulled us aside. Took us in the office, call the cops, and they took us both to the juvenile hall, a.k.a. juvie. Spent the night and our parents picked us up the next day. Got a good whooping at home, and if I remember correctly, I was on "restriction" for a month. Needless to say, that was the end of my criminal career. Been on the strait and narrow ever since.

Now the parents would get arrested for child abandonment for leaving their child overnight in jail instead of running right to the police station to pickup their child at 2 am, and then have additional charges for assault and battery for whooping their child, and unlawful restraint for restricting them