I work retail at an electronics store, it has increased a lot. I’ve heard of more than $3,000 in one item being systematically stolen by one person. We even get warnings and wanted posters of known shoplifting rings from other stores. The amount of loss or “shrink” ,as we call it, varies, but can be on the order of hundreds of thousands of dollars per year for just one store
It's crazy how people don't go to jail for these kind of stuff, I'd hope America has a better law enforcement over these things. In my country the jail sentence for stealing can be 6 months up to 2 years, ( bail from 200 USD to 4K) this for a first time felony on something as simple as 10 USD in products.
@@Hardcore_Hypara Either this is a joke, or you're completely braindead. People who steal from stores will pass the losses onto paying customers in the form of raised prices.
As someone who works in retail, theft has been bad for a while now. I have to keep dummy boxes of products Velcroed to the shelves, and hold them all in our backroom stock.
according to news channels, that makes you racist. if you question my accusation, that makes you even more racist. Dont velcro fake products down, dont lock products up, leave everything out to be stolen. Any action taken to safeguard merchandise makes you a trump loving racist.
Crazy to see the amount of losers in Atrioc's chat cheering it on, regardless of what he says. This is what the "capitalism = bad" mindset does to you I guess. As someone who has worked in retail, dealing with these types of situations can be pretty taxing on your mental and physical state, but I guess that doesn't matter because "capitalism = bad". I hope you aren't getting threatened or seeing too much trouble in the area that you work.
I’m an Accountant for a large convenience store chain in the south east. Candy theft and alcohol theft is at an all time high and our shrink analysts are being worked like Atrioc editors. It’s a real issue and I laughed the entire time during this video.
😇 Candy and alcohol. The kids are tackling one department while the parents head for the heavier stuff. A family tradition that really brings folks together for the holidays. 🥲
My parents were telling me about a rising trend in chinese social media which translates to "zero-dollar shopping". Basically walking out of the door with items as if you bought it. I of course went "so shoplifting?" and they seemed confused since ig in their minds shoplifting is something sneaky and this new trend is very very brazen. In any case, it's super interesting to see that this trend is popping up in all sorts of places.
There are people who go in and buy stuff and then pass off the receipt to the next party in which they roll right out the door with it in hand. They are quick and fast. I seen a team of them at Walmart as we had been shopping all day. They would just wave the receipt around as they rolled out while another person was just out of the line of site and ready to roll when a person came in to give them the receipt. They did this from the veggie side of Walmart. As I sat leaning on my cart waiting around. I watched about 6 carts roll out the door. A lady would be over near the clothes and would be packing up the stuff in walmart bags and then a man would come in from outside and she would then casually stroll to the doors where the greeter would see the receipt. Then another lady would show up about in the same spot and someone else would show up and then that lady would roll out. Then some time later I saw the man with a cart full of stuff. This went on for may be 30 to 45 mins. They were never once stopped. I kinda wondered and my best guess is they bought the first cart and then with in that hour of buying it would roll out with half a dozen or so identical carts. Even if someone had looked at it and asked why its been 45 mins. I mean have you not seen those people who sit by the bathrooms for a while waiting. Either way its likely they made a grand or 2 in that amount of time. Do every day and you are making some good money.
@@cattysplat It's because China was mostly ruled by foreign rulers for the past 1500+ years. China probably has the most brutal history ever, even worse than Russia. edit: The specific term you described is called "Grab Hag" culture, combined with the Chinese saying "If you can cheat, then cheat".
Especially as the income disparity increases and folks are struggling yeah either directly or to sell it so they can buy what they actually need. Foodbanks are worse than useless here, some of them are charging more than the big two chains for the stuff they're selling (yeah foodbanks aren't free here in Australia) on top of being EOL usually.
@@cericat They're not struggling. There are public and private programs to help those who are struggling. They're just opportunists. If someone is shoplifting baby formula it's not because they're desperate to feed their children, it's because that's the best ingredient to cut their drugs with.
@@kavky the fact you think those programs are adequate to needs despite all the reporting to the contrary for decades just shows you don't know what you're talking about and think everyone struggling is a drug user because why?
As someone who recently left loss prevention for a grocery store -- thank god. I'll never look back to dealing with shoplifting. Police would take hours to show up, if they even showed up. Ranging from simple low-cost stealing to organized retail crime having people try to steal $300+ of supplements. The store I worked at had $1,200 worth of supplements get stolen before my shift at one time.
I find it crazy that we're at a point where people are forced to commit organized crime to steal supplements to make sure their bodies get what they need.
I shopped at Walmart a couple weeks ago. Been to this one a few times and knew about the random stuff locked up. They had underwear and socks locked up though. Pretty wild. But then I went to self checkout. There were maybe 8 checkouts. They had about 4 employees waiting around at the self checkout. When I went to do my thing, an employee escorted me to a machine and stood there with me watching me checkout. The locked up stuff was sad but if you’re gonna have someone hold my hand at self checkout then just take the machines out and have them work at checkout. There were only two lines open for checkout. Santa Rosa CA btw.
Yeah, any time I'm at the local Publix here in Florida, you can see _all the employees turn to watch_ the self-checkers. When you get to the checkout, one will move in close to stand near you while the others watch. Down here, they lock up all the items you'd find at a pharmacy isle. Goodies/BC powder, Certain blades, and fancy hair or dental products. I guess they havent found a way to lock up the $100 cuts of meat and seafood, but they will. Guess this means AI wont replace people as fast as we thought. Yet.
maybe - just maybe, if companies weren’t raking in record profits while jacking up the price of necessities and calling it inflation, then people would not be stealing those necessities.
@@Timmy-mi2ef or maybe its cause i just spent 350$ on groceries that wouldve cost 100$ 4 years ago, like seriously, i seen a small steak cost as much as 35$ and 4 bananas for 8$ i saw a shoulder roast that cost 87$ for 1kg (2.2lbs) in your freedom units
I can't get enough of these, thank you so much for researching these topics then putting them all in a digestible 30 minute video. Looking forward to the next one!
I worked at a supermarket here in the Philippines.... The store has security guards on the entrances and exits of the store and they have what we called "roaming guards", security guards that are not in their uniforms and dressed casually... What they do is they roam around the store disguised as customers.... And if ever they caught a shoplifter, they take those to a holding area (usually the office of the security) and they called the police to escort them to the precint.... When the other employees spotted a shoplifter, the SOP is to inform the roaming guard about it and don't confront the shoplifter on their own.... Add to the fact that supermarkets also have cctvs installed that willl also serve as evidence if ever it happens
Unfortunately in some areas of the US, they have made theft of items under $1000 a petty crime which means these shoplifters have no fear. The security usually doesn't get involved because even if they do, the police won't come because the law no longer considers theft as a serious crime. It was done so police aren't wasting resources on individuals stealing a few small items but there must be some sort of middle ground they can come to lol
@@bigfoothunter8080 Imagine blaming guns for shoplifting when the high-crime areas in the US already have them banned You guys decriminalized theft and criminalized self-defense; and now you're getting robbed. Bad policy has consequences for people that aren't rich.
As a student in portland I can tell you that the district's own appointed bargaining team's compromise got rejected... by the board that hired them... yeah we're gonna have school till july
God Atrioc I just love how informed I feel about things that would never cross the surface of the media I am exposed to without your channel. Please keep up this marketing monday, I am truly dedicated to your content. Much love from Minnesota
Yo so cool to see that the school district I go to was mentioned in marketing Monday! Only it was for notably being the only one of the 3 mentioned strikes that did not get deals settled. They are continuing to struggle and I learned today that the board just denied their own agreement’s that they made with the teachers. Anyways happy marketing Monday shout out to pps (portland public schools) for a big fail this week and getting on marketing Monday.
Was a home Depot employee for a couple summers, shoplifting was such a big issue that we had to put a lot of our more expensive products in the overhead bays just because they were getting shoplifted so much. Once had a police officer recover over 2500 worth of stolen wire, including a 1600 dollar spool that I have no idea how they even managed to sneak out of the store.
cause they dont enter the store they park as close to the back of your store where you do pickups and roll out spools that were out there waiting to be picked up by someone
@@khirasier The truth is that contractors make so much money for Home Depot and Lowe's that they're willing to ignore much of the shoplifting as long as it doesn't affect their contractor money. Cops always show up if shoplifters mess with contractors.
@@MK_ULTRA420 Lowes and Home Depot are both stores with expensive af sht inside, hell no they aren't "willing to ignore shoplifters". How does catching shoplifters even affect contractors in a negative way?
Most stores I go to now have security guards posted at the doors. Even the thrift store. With the spiraling cost of everything I'm not terribly surprised by the sharp increase in shoplifting.
Retail worker here, theft has increased a ton at my store. It's so bad in a few nearby stores in my zone that my company has hired armed guards from a private company, and is also trying to rework it's liability protection to let loss prevention physically restrain shoplifters, which will just get people hurt.
Armed guards are showing up because of major retail corporations misreporting the amount of theft there is and then politicians using the misreported statistics to instate more laws/policies that protect company assets more.
in late 2020, I was working at Sprouts farmers market as a grocery manager. Our store got shipments around 9pm so we all worked from 8pm-5am. One night someone was using bolt cutters to try to open our shipping containers and when that didn't work, they started prying open the receiving door. a couple of employees and I were able to quickly open the door to scare away the thieves and even got a video of their vehicle driving away with their license plate number fully visible. I called the police who showed up an hour later and did a quick drive around the parking lot. Despite having a license plate number and video showing the attempted breaking and entering, police did nothing.
I work for a large retail electronics store and theft has been the worst I've seen in a long time. People coming in wearing hoodies and masks just shoving shit in their pockets and walking out because they know we can't do anything. We had one guy come in, grab 4 ps5s, and then walk out singing at the top of his lungs. We had another guy assault my boss and another coworker ran to go help him. Both got fired. It's really really bad. They get to walk all over us and we still don't have any security.
Would be epic if the implemented in store stand your ground with like view galleries and bullet proof glass you could watch through and bang on like hockey games. At this point I'm just enjoying the view on America's ride down. It will end up like judge dread and I bet they still won't have livable wages for full time workers in "undesirable jobs
how does it effect you in any way? you’re still getting paid your hourly and you don’t have to do anything but be entertained. Don’t feel bad walmart lost 1000 dollars of ps5s when they make billions every year
@PHANTUMDUMPER It's disheartening to see people steal non-essentials, but that's not the primary point. The point is that individuals are growing more and more emboldened and aggressive as they realize there is no punishment for misdeeds whilst corporations do less and less to protect us. Like I stated, my coworkers were fired for defending themselves.
@@vapv3656 why would you try to stop someone from shoplifting on behalf of a multi million dollar conglomerate as if they care about you or the 50 dollars you’re trying to protect
As someone who lives in the UK, I can 100% confirm that shoplifting is getting unbelievably bad, even in areas with fairly decent levels of wealth. I feel it's being caused by a mixture of inflation (around 10%) where people don't feel that a price is justifiable, opportunity through self-check out systems and also home deliveries where it's easy to contact a retailer and say that a parcel never arrived. As the cost of living crisis in the UK continues to get worse - which it will since the fixed-mortgage issue is only starting to have an effect - this is only going to get worse and worse.
I guarantee you that the English invented the Art of Knicking after the Romans dropped the ball. The Italians picked it up again and improved on the art, but still.
Whoever had the idea to put the fryer alarms sound every time in and out was referenced is a genius. I hope that's funny even to people who haven't worked fast food
in Australia (i live here), they've rarely given security *body cams* (which could lead to privacy concers, see more in replies) and more even though the two companies who essentially have a duopoly on food and such have recorded record profits. prices are up and shoplifting is a natural product of that in our situation.
As woolies employee, we are told to not hold, stop or detain shop lifters. If it's leads to violence it could end into a lawsuit on the shoplifters or workers side. We are told to let them go and just take down their details. Also the shops are insured. I knew a bloke who tried to stop a shoplifter. Got injured, and HE was the one who nearly got fired.
@@leonardotheuseless4188 sorry i was misinformed. there's no legal worries unless they are using the footage for facial recognition, voice recog, etc. the problem is we don't know if they are doing this until too late, and if it makes a projected profit they'll do it. bunnings and kmart already did facisl rec sometime ago apparently so it's not a baseless accusation
@@lennylikesmusic because legally you have no right to restrain another person, that's false imprisonment. Former Class 1 license here, we're not even allowed to do it usually (Vic uses private security for prison transport that's one of the exceptions), don't put yourself at risk especially since the employer will be the one that cops the lawsuit they will turf you faster than last season's styles for it.
yea i saw a 1kg shoulder roast for 87$ like a month or two back, and i was like hmmm, a yes the 30% or so inflation since 2020 has lead to a 350% inflation in grocery prices, definitely makes sense and isnt capitalist scummery
I work at the Toyota plant in Indiana and there is very little chance we will become a union. Toyota has 3 idle factories in Japan that they hold in case we unionize. They would just lock the doors and be back up and running in 6 months.
Lmao thats what they want you to think, they will not have the necessary number of employees over there with a very weak yen further decreasing their profits. They arent just bumping all of y'alls pay for fun after the strike ended
The problem with the fentanyl "crackdown" is that most of it isn't made in China. The precursors are made in China and exported elsewhere (mostly South America) where they are made into fentanyl.
I can't lie, a couple of my grocery items have conveniently missed the scanner at the self checkout on the way to my bag. I don't feel good about it but a lot of things that I buy have gone up 50%+ in the time that my pay hasn't even gone up 10%.
@@Shadoallcaps it is still theft and its not a scam, price-jacking perhaps, but not a scam. without laws, and a society that follows them, we fall into anarchy.
I work at a Kwik trip in the Midwest. Our "shrink" in our specific store was somewhere around .08%. I can't stress enough that we are one of the smallest stores in the smallest town. A couple towns over, one of my old ASLs who became a SL there quit because his store's shrink was so high that even the employees would steal. (I believe the record high was like 42.8%) When he was asked to control it, he said at the peak he was watching camera footage in the office for entire 8-12 hour stretches. The police would do absolutely nothing about it either. You could have an entire profile of someone with a state ID with perfect pristine video evidence of theft, but if it isn't $50+ or a regular thief, they won't care. We did have one guy at our store run out of the emergency exit door and trigger the alarms once. That was pretty funny. And loud. Very loud.
We get a lot of teenage thieves, not always the same ones but the same groups, and the police say it "doesn't matter" since it's only a couple candybars at a time... 🙄 We even had a group of teenagers wheel a stack of totes of glazers into the bathroom??? To mess with us I guess?
Damn. I watched some new story not long ago where they recorded someone stealing while they were there. I can not recall if it was live or not. I also think I seen something where a cop was standing around and they were doing it too. Just walking in and getting what they wanted and leaving. If its that easy, then everyone should steal. FFS no wonder why stuff cost a lot of money.
@@kameljoe21 the stuff would cost alot of money anyway dude lmao. just look at inflation, business profits and the payout of their higher-ups. nobody has to increase prices bc of shrinkage, thats delusional lol
I work at a retail store at a downtown area, there was a dude stealing a shoe and had 2 other people waiting outside nearby and when the manager tried to stop him, they sent him to the hospital with a bloody nose. Thankfully, the local drug dealers across the street sent the thieves to the hospital as well, they beat the hell out of them. Cops were entirely useless when they were told the victim and the thieves/assaulters were at the same hospital and they never checked up on it... hell, they didn't even wanna come near the store because they were afraid their car would get stolen.
I work for Walmart, they aren’t hiring people back, just running like 2 cashiers and letting the lines become super long. We also get training to not approach and try and stop shop lifters only AP (asset protection) and managers can and we can only assist as a witness of the crime.
I work at grocery store, for a long time it was a daily occurrence for sh*t heads come in, fill a cart FULL of tide, expensive spices, HBC (health & beauty care) items and just walk right out the door. The ONLY thing that stopped them was the store had to close 1 of its two main entrances and hire an ARMED security guard. TBH all that did was make people try to steal more through the self-scan registers.
we as employees, due to insurance reasons, are not allowed to say anything to them other than "hey did you pay for that?" if they ignore you there is nothing else we're allowed to do.
Due to all of this they have removed all expensive tide and tide pods from the shelves and as a customer you're required to take this little card to the register for them to retrieve your product. all i can say is FUCK shoplifters they've made my life SOOOOOOOOOOO much harder I hate them with a serious passion
OHH! last thing to mention. most of these crimes have little to no consequences. As long as the offending party doesn't steal more than like 1k-1.5k worth of stuff the worst punishment they can receive is a fine, even if they are a repeat offender.
Its sad. Seems like your area is much worse off than mine but everywhere is slowly going to become like this. I genuinely fear for this country as we still casually let this continue as a nation.
I just moved to Seattle and have never seen so much blatant shoplifting. I work in retail and we have people come in every night stealing over $500+ at a time. We have a security guard that isn’t allowed to touch the “customer” or take items out of their hands. It’s such a grey area because they technically haven’t stolen anything until they leave the store and because of that there was a lawsuit against the company from a shoplifter who had items taken out of her hand right before she left the store.
@PHANTUMDUMPER The problem is this is destroying businesses, big and small. Communities need services that provide value. If no one is willing to provide those things locally, costs go up for everyone else or there end up being no services left
@@PHANTUMDUMPER I hope you realize that they're doing it to small businesses as well. If this is allowed to continue we won't have a country left in a couple years.
Last week, Memphis TN got hit with 3 'flash mob' shopliftings in 1 night. 2 gas stations and a parked FedEx truck were ransacked by 40+ people. They even flashed guns at bystander and employees so they wouldn't mess with them.
I was visiting LA awhile back and forgot to pack underwear. I drove to the closest Wal-Mart and found the underwear isle. All the underwear were behind a locked cage, I had never seen this before so I had to find a employee and they told me to hit the button in the isle and someone would come get it for me. There wasn't a button in the isle so I went a couple isles over and so I finally get my underwear but then he is like you have to go up front and pay for this. So I walked up front and asked for the item and it took like 15 minutes for someone to come over and they brought several packs of underwear none of them being the pack I chose. I had to go back there with someone else who then walked back up front. At this point I had to get back in line and wait and finally got to check out with my underwear. A ten minute trip to get underwear turned into an hour ordeal.
1:23 when he says our team did some real research into this, I just picture like whodat, sykik, and punch running around like in that SpongeBob episode when he learns fine dining but forgets everything else including his name. And all the lil spongers are running around in his brain searching filing cabinets saying “what’s the name? What’s the name!?”😂😂
A couple friends and I all did work building the wework buildings and they only wanted the cheapest and quickest to install infrastructure and I knew it wasn’t going to last. Especially after they opened and was 80% vacant
As a small private business worker in the getho, in Canada, It’s worse than ever, but people won’t hear me when I say it’s a global issue not just here
Not to mention, IIRC wage theft by companies constitutes approximately 75% of all theft, while robbery accounts for less than 1%. Larceny was the highest at around 10% of all theft. Even if robbery doubled (or more) since I last checked, I doubt it even reached 2% of all theft.
Oh no... those poor.. poor, criminals, who could live anywhere in the world, but choose coastal areas where the Rich could use their votes to keep upping the prices.. buts its okay, thieves have sad backstories.. So let's keep on letting them do that and blame police instead for... reasons.
@@TAKEYOURCREATINE Sure, here's the wikipedia link to wage theft so you can learn about it because it's not just illegally stealing wages from employees, but includes things like unpaid overtime, failure to pay minimum wage, etc: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_theft The FBI releases crime data in their uniform crime report: ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s although that site is kinda a pain to navigate lol In the FBI's most recent year published, property crime (larceny, burglary, robbery, etc.) was $15.8 billion, so I guess it was ~3/5 of all theft, not 3/4.
@@TAKEYOURCREATINE Wage Theft is a broad term that includes a bunch of ways companies can avoid paying workers what they're legally owed. This includes denying overtime pay, insisting employees work off the clock, denying breaks, and in some egregious cases directly taking money out of their pay checks. While we're not sure the exact number since its rare for action to be taken numbers range from 3-15 billion in just a few years. the EPI has quite a few reports on it and you can find occasional news stories in magazines like Forbes
I used to work at a DSG in a very very affluent area and shoplifting happened all the time. Nike tech hoodies, north face, Patagonia, etc. people ran in, grabbed a hole rack and ran. Stupid part about it, was the store made so many millions a week and a constant sales leader that they didn’t care to do anything about the theft
Yep if you know anything about clothes manufacturing, they are made for pennies and sold for hundreds. Even if 90% of stock isn't sold they still make a profit.
I've worked in all aspects of loss prevention, security, and when I was a dumb kid, a shoplifter. And the shoplifting that's going on now, is ridiculous. I did used to do it for fun, but also in college, sometimes i needed something, but didn't have the money. I use that knowledge now in private security to get a one up on people trying to be clever.
The "Save on Food" in my city always had deal prices in the candy section where you put a candy in a bag and weigh at the counter for the final cost. People would always use the code that would give them the cheapest deal. Recently they started faking deal prices so people would stack up thinking it would be "80c per 100grams" When in reality it would be $1.40 per 100g. So you are either forced to pay almost double you anticipated or walk up to the clerk and ask them to take them off your order and let them know you were using the wrong code lol
during the riots i payed a homeless guy 40 bucks and got a new 240 hrts monitor that was retailing for like 3-400 bucks edit: it’s not illegal if you win
The problem is that shoplifting is just not treated seriously enough as a crime, and it's all too often handwaved away as "poor people just trying to feed themselves". The reality is that shoplifters are doing this for profit or for kleptomania, not out of desperation. Desperate people steal bread and other low-ticket items with low/zero resale value, not higher ticket items they can fence off for profit or keep as a 'prize' for personal luxury. As a brit I'm also not at all surprised that it's more of an issue here. Our laws are surprisingly soft on these types of things, and our recent 'cost of living crisis' has only served to make it more tempting to steal. If my local cornershop caught somebody stealing and called the police I'm pretty sure they wouldn't even bother showing up. To them it's too petty and isn't worth their time, which kinda goes against the idea of having a police force to be honest (they shouldn't get to pick and choose what laws are worth their time to actually enforce).
No one steals bread, that is the dumbest assumption, poor people would steal bread O Why would they steal one loaf of bread to eat, when they could steal something of greater value to help cover their food and rent. So dumb, like this is Aladdin or some sh!t.
@@DougDepker Right like people only have to eat? The law does punish people who don't pay their bills with homelessness.... that they then don't grant them housing!!!!!
This was such a great video. Genuinely learned a lot and laughed out loud during some points. Thanks for making educational and actually useful shit so simple and so funny.
How could you not mention prosecutors refusing to charge shoplifters with anything? When the prosecutor office make stealing defacto legal, how could crime not go up?
The prosecutors can't do anything. Shoplifting under $1k isn't prosecuted and cash bail is abolished. So even if you can be arrested, they release you again like it's some kinda fishing show.
@@onri_the law was most likely the same before it started rising. "Why did it start rising if the law didn't change" is an obvious question, and a rise in poverty is an obvious answer.
Shoplifters are still prosecuted as misdemeanors and can still go to jail and have significant fines, and the 1k think is not exclusive to California either, it's even higher in other states. If you think corporations are actually being negatively affected by stealing, they would of decreased prices. It's simply cheaper not to arrest these people. Of course the rate of crime increases as the cost of living increases, crime rates are higher in poorer areas. But no muh poor billion dollar corporations being affected by the evil Californian prosectuters. This viewpoint comes from automatically seeing people who steal as monsters and not the human beings they are.
"Shrinkage on inventory" is not just an account that includes shoplifting. It includes damaged products, products given to or taken from employees, lost products from shipment, etc. To say its a "fudged number" isnt wrong but it does antagonize thr corporation for an accounting practice that is not set by them
On the topic of seeing a rising in shoplifting and a rise in strikes. Here are some stats on theft per year in the US: Burglary, larceny and auto theft combined are 14B on the other hand we have wage theft with minimum wage violations 23B, overtime violations 9B, rest break violations 4B and off the clock violations 3B
okay but hot take, stealing from a store and causing prices to spike further for the community as a whole to subsidize theft isn't a good target when you're really angry at employers for wage theft. It's like beating a toddler up cause some dude insulted you
@@PP-ok2xt prices are gonna increase anyway mate lmao. if you think shrinkage has any effect on pricing, youre delusional. theres a reason big grocery brands are making millions upon millions.
Hey editors, any idea when the Marketing Monday on the UAW will go up? It was my favorite one yet and I really want to show the edited version to my dad. Keep up the good work!
@@Amick2003 go full extreme, hate a random arbitrary group for no good reason. Preferably because the people around you like them and you seek conflict and 'see the truth'
My local target hired a bunch of loss prevention guys, all large athletic dudes, and gave them to absolute green light to chase thieves down and tackle them in the parking lot if it comes to it. And they’ve been doing just that.
A while ago i saw something beautiful at walgreens. I was waiting in line and a group of tweens came in hollering. they were yelling banging things together acting like they were gonna tip over aisles and of course security started following them yelling to get out. just after they came in 3 other kids came in with big trash bags and started sweeping the candy shelves they made out like bandits. the best part was that they didn’t need the distraction security can’t do anything to stop them
Exactly that last point. As a retail worker the most you can do is tell them in a stern voice to stop, leave, call the cops for them trespassing. It's funny, in the training video they say to tell loss protection if you see people steal shit, and ask them if they need help finding anything... 💀 This department literally doesn't exist at our store because of how small we are compared to other stores. The shoplifters KNOW we can't do anything or we'll get in trouble. Some drastic change needs to happen, many solutions each with their pros and cons. The best counter play the stores have are ruining the customer experience to save more product.
The trend seems to be spreading internationally. While we don't have mass looting raids here in Australia (yet...), I've noticed supermarkets here now have a full time security guard roaming the store. There were none a decade ago. Better cuts of meat have security tags on them. Only a matter of time until they're locked up.
That point about living further away from major cities to have a lower cost of living is absolutely real. I went from living in a major city paying more than 1500 for rent to living 1.5 hours from the city in a rural area and now owning my own 5 bedroom home with a $318 mortgage all because I bought my home in a old mining town at the mind shut down in. Best part is my you only increased by 10 minutes.
problem is after covid australia is having the opposite problem, everyone is moving out of the big cities and buying up all the homes in small towns increasing our rent prices so much it now costs about the same to live in a rural town then it costs to live in the middle-outer suburbs in melbourne, infact im moving to melbourne next year cause those outer suburbs are now slightly cheaper than living rural
@@khirasierI live in Australia too... it cost 12 years worth of work to be able just to afford a down payment for a home, I'm a carer, and I have stopped caring for ANYTHING till my generation and the Zoomers can afford to live a life off the streets, unlike the Boomers. No charity, no sympathy, no protests, no progress, no hard work... nothing till we get what's due!
I mean if the cost of living is low in an area it's almost always cause the people there are poor. If people are poor there are not high paying jobs in that area. There may be some people who can work remotely and exploit the price of housing in poor areas, but it is not a real solution for most people.
Can’t make this up: The second Atrioc started talking about how Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez were pretending they were normal people, I get a notification that D’Angelo Wallace posted a new video about them pretending to be normal people.
So I'm guessing this was made before corporations admitted they lied about how much organized retail crime was a problem? lol As a retail worker of 7 years, they do not, nor have they ever, cared about organized theft enough to do anything about it. I once heard my company's (multi-billion dollar international clothing brand) head of loss preventions say "We're only losing $500 on shrink a week, so why would we spend $800 on labor to prevent it?" They would rather take the loss than pay their employees to work longer. They don't give a shit
@@seanscott1308Vaush covered this in detail. It was fake data which lied about the problem exaggerating it by 10x, using it to lobby for harsher prison sentences and to promote use of security in stores.
Some places absolutely do lmao why else are they hiring loss prevention, security, AND off-duty police? Maybe you live in a great area, but I guarantee a ton of places are losing thousands in shrink a week.
When I was detained for shoplifting in 2020 or 2021, they didn’t want to call the cops because they were already dealing with an advanced shoplifting ring that were targeting bigger ticket items. They ultimately dropped the case against me thankfully.
Can you imagine how funny it would be if there were all of the American west coast In-n-Out locations... and then just one randomly in like, Shanghai, China
I work in a supermarket in the UK. Shoplifting is a pretty big issue here. It’s mainly parents stealing food or baby stuff. Followed by people stealing alcohol and so on. It’s pretty depressing having to stop new parents stealing like bread and milk.
A massive teacher's strike started today in Quebec. It's one of the many strikes in Quebec lately. The government gave themselves large raises this year, and yet they can't pay teachers and other important workers a decent wage
Meanwhile corporate profits in the US have risen by about 600 billion per year since January 2021. Also: The consumer price index for food has gone up 19% in the same timespan.
Honestly, taking that and all the employment malpractices from big corporations into account, it almost feels like shoplifting is the moral thing to do. The amount they lost to shoplifting doesn't even put a dent on the amount they earned by stealing from their own employees.
@@thacoolest13 but they are also the companies being stolen from mostly. people steal expensive stuff, that they know is gonna sell well. that includes most of th+e big big companies.
I know alot of people who work at woolworths (aussie grocery store) and theyve had to hide their cooler bags cuz they kept getting stolen. Best part is, the actual workers purposely look the other way because the prices are so ridiculous
I work in security at a train station in the UK station has a lot of retailers and ive definitely noticed the rise in theft its literally around very corner for me. I actually had to defend myself from attack because someone wouldn't give up a chocolate bar they had just stolen.
Trust me but it's no where near as bad as it is in the US... The states that are struggling with this are progressives states where they basically decriminalised shoplifting and so it exploded so voilently that major supermarkets started leaving these states and closed their shop doors. That doesn't happen here in the UK nor do we have pictures of items we like to buy but Atrioc is a bit bias and doesn't report the full truth or why the police do nothing in the states this is happening in.
@@crackajacka87 UK shoplifting is mostly done by drug addicts. These are people you do not want to confront because they are unstable, shop workers have been stabbed even killed for confronting them. Have to let the police be called, given CCTV footage and let them deal with it.
@@cattysplat Yea but that's nothing new, my argument was that what's being reported in the US is far worse as it's down to political policies the local governments have set out which was defunding from the police and turning petty crimes like shoplifting a misdemeanour and you'd get a slap on the wrist which is why crime broke out massively in left winged states that did this but not so much the right winged states that didn't.
I was at a meeting of a local feminist network the other day, was a girl there who literally was insulting people for 'feeding the patriarchy' by, you know, paying for things. She got arrested for trying to steal 200 euro worth of IKEA lamps or something a week later
I would love to see some stats on what specifically is being shoplifted. I see a lot of people in these comments blaming cost of living and "times are tough" but honestly most of the videos I've seen gone viral of people looting/shoplifting stores have been the makeup aisles at CVS, beer coolers in gas stations, clothing from malls and phones from Apple stores. Anecdotally, I also used to work at a convenience store and no one ever stole toilet paper or other household goods. It was always beer and candy.
@@jcmcgee1573 ask anyone in loss protection what they catch lol. Candy, Toys, Candy, Alcohol, Alcohol, Alcohol, Toys, item they can easily resell, colored markers...
if youzr money can only pay for basic neccessities and everything thats not essential, but for fun or luxury has to be stolen, times are still tough mate^^ i used to work at a grocery store and the most stolen items were either small expensive items (easy to steal and you can sell it), make up (super easy to steal) or alcohol/cigarettes (well still easier since its very money dense (volume divided by worth)). actually the formula voluma divided by monetary value is mostly the biggest indicator for what gets stolen a lot. (cigarettes were at an all time hight a few years back)
The mall near us now has actual police on site in addition to the normal renta-cops, but only by one exit as far as I've seen. They have a section that is all high-end fashion and jewelry stores that has an exterior exit right in the middle, so there is now a K9 unit stationed there all day. Not sure how well it is working since someone still made off with $30k worth of stuff a couple weeks ago.
I work at a grocery store that recently started locking up laundry supplies to prevent theft. Almost every customer I help get laundry detergent complains that it's locked up, and many get mad with me as though it was my fault somehow
Power tools that won't work just means they sell the powertool without the battery in the box and we have a bunch of different batteries near the checkout that fit all the tools in our store. I've worked at Home Depot and that is all they mean. I like the funky word choice to try and make it seem like a big deal though lol.
@@bruhcoin2361so the criminals are bigger victims? Corporations don't have ideology nor last long anyway, but having no where to eat or buy from because "I have no money so I must do bad things" sad bad story can't excuse shop lifting anymore. It just makes you look like privileged asshats who compared to the rest of us actually pay for our meals. Victim mentality servers neither side bro, own up and starve like the rest of us. It's not rich vs poor, it's rich vs rich and poor vs poor, class isn't a stagnant thing.
if you are too lazy to *boop* your own items and say stupid shit like "i dont get paid to work here*.... mufugga i do it to just avoid human contact. give me a dollar off using a real cashier, or no dollar off and ill *boop* my stuff all day at self checkout. but.... BUT... when people who exploit the combination of self checkout + wallyworld employees got giving AF, and those losses mean a less user friendly experience, yeah thats bad. the fact that stealing is seen as "fun" is sad to me.
It's honestly disheartening seeing the amount of people in these comments just completely chill with shoplifting not realizing (or more likely not caring) that it negatively affects those of us that actually pay for our shit no matter how "tough times are".
UK frog here - our local village shop has been held up by armed thieves so many times they had to put protective screens around the checkout. And the shop near where I work also had a bottle-->head incident, and another time, their security guard was attacked by shoplifters and got a broken nose and arm 😬😬😶 So uh, sounds like you've got all this to look forwards to, America. Godspeed.
God damn 💀 I mean I live in the UK too but nothing like that has happened near me and I live in Nottingham so it's not like crime is low in general here 💀
"That's a weird fusion of government and business that I don't think should exist." Oh, sweet summer child. Corporations have been stealing from us for decades. Serves them right.
Shawn Fain is a legend. They were encouraging other places to line up their contract expiration dates with UAW so they can help get them terms as well next time around. Solidarity baby
For the nepotism part, in my opinion it's possible that for sport-related career, it's more tied to how their parents would probably be more supportive about the nba/nfl dream (lessons, advices, etc) and genetics. Although I can't deny that if you're lebron's kid you would probably have an easier time getting into NBA (but would still need actual good abilities and training)
You're forgetting the most obvious factor. You're genetically related to a freak athlete. 95% of people couldn't get into the NFL or NBA no matter what they did or who helped them. You need natural ability to have a chance in the first place.
working hard on sam altman / open AI video for tomorrow :)
will there still be stream??
your hard work is appreciated, another great video (i watched the stream) much love big A 🤍
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I work retail at an electronics store, it has increased a lot. I’ve heard of more than $3,000 in one item being systematically stolen by one person. We even get warnings and wanted posters of known shoplifting rings from other stores. The amount of loss or “shrink” ,as we call it, varies, but can be on the order of hundreds of thousands of dollars per year for just one store
@@LiveTypeRemember kids: stealing from stores is based unless it's a local mom and pop.
It's crazy how people don't go to jail for these kind of stuff, I'd hope America has a better law enforcement over these things. In my country the jail sentence for stealing can be 6 months up to 2 years, ( bail from 200 USD to 4K) this for a first time felony on something as simple as 10 USD in products.
@@Hardcore_Hypara Stealing is not based what the fuck is happening rn
@@Hardcore_Hypara Either this is a joke, or you're completely braindead. People who steal from stores will pass the losses onto paying customers in the form of raised prices.
@@wdexter3887 I think that's the joke lil guppy.
As someone who works in retail, theft has been bad for a while now. I have to keep dummy boxes of products Velcroed to the shelves, and hold them all in our backroom stock.
but the biggest political streamers right now like hasan are actually saying theft is just redistribution of goods to the community. it's so unhinged
according to news channels, that makes you racist. if you question my accusation, that makes you even more racist. Dont velcro fake products down, dont lock products up, leave everything out to be stolen. Any action taken to safeguard merchandise makes you a trump loving racist.
ty for the tip
coming for that backroom
Crazy to see the amount of losers in Atrioc's chat cheering it on, regardless of what he says. This is what the "capitalism = bad" mindset does to you I guess. As someone who has worked in retail, dealing with these types of situations can be pretty taxing on your mental and physical state, but I guess that doesn't matter because "capitalism = bad". I hope you aren't getting threatened or seeing too much trouble in the area that you work.
I’m an Accountant for a large convenience store chain in the south east. Candy theft and alcohol theft is at an all time high and our shrink analysts are being worked like Atrioc editors. It’s a real issue and I laughed the entire time during this video.
😇 Candy and alcohol. The kids are tackling one department while the parents head for the heavier stuff.
A family tradition that really brings folks together for the holidays. 🥲
@@snickle1980the kids are doing both of those lmfao
stop selling 4 bananas for 8$ and a steak for 35$ then
@@spaceghostmiid every day mother's bring their children of all ages into my store to steal with them.
Eat the rich.
My parents were telling me about a rising trend in chinese social media which translates to "zero-dollar shopping". Basically walking out of the door with items as if you bought it. I of course went "so shoplifting?" and they seemed confused since ig in their minds shoplifting is something sneaky and this new trend is very very brazen.
In any case, it's super interesting to see that this trend is popping up in all sorts of places.
Chinese taking anything not nailed down will never not be a sad inditement of their culture.
Shoplifting has decreased over the years, they reported 10x as much theft from organized crime than there was.
absolutely, from high tech military plans to metal from maritime battleship war graves, they are a soulless bunch with zero conscience...@@cattysplat
There are people who go in and buy stuff and then pass off the receipt to the next party in which they roll right out the door with it in hand. They are quick and fast. I seen a team of them at Walmart as we had been shopping all day. They would just wave the receipt around as they rolled out while another person was just out of the line of site and ready to roll when a person came in to give them the receipt. They did this from the veggie side of Walmart. As I sat leaning on my cart waiting around. I watched about 6 carts roll out the door. A lady would be over near the clothes and would be packing up the stuff in walmart bags and then a man would come in from outside and she would then casually stroll to the doors where the greeter would see the receipt. Then another lady would show up about in the same spot and someone else would show up and then that lady would roll out. Then some time later I saw the man with a cart full of stuff. This went on for may be 30 to 45 mins. They were never once stopped. I kinda wondered and my best guess is they bought the first cart and then with in that hour of buying it would roll out with half a dozen or so identical carts. Even if someone had looked at it and asked why its been 45 mins. I mean have you not seen those people who sit by the bathrooms for a while waiting. Either way its likely they made a grand or 2 in that amount of time. Do every day and you are making some good money.
@@cattysplat It's because China was mostly ruled by foreign rulers for the past 1500+ years. China probably has the most brutal history ever, even worse than Russia.
edit: The specific term you described is called "Grab Hag" culture, combined with the Chinese saying "If you can cheat, then cheat".
Shoplifting raising makes sense. Expect to see those numbers continuing to rise, we aren’t improving.
Especially as the income disparity increases and folks are struggling yeah either directly or to sell it so they can buy what they actually need. Foodbanks are worse than useless here, some of them are charging more than the big two chains for the stuff they're selling (yeah foodbanks aren't free here in Australia) on top of being EOL usually.
@@cericat Most shoplifting is done by those who can afford to buy what they are stealing. This isn't desperation.
@@cattysplatsource? (Trust me bro)
@@cericat They're not struggling. There are public and private programs to help those who are struggling. They're just opportunists. If someone is shoplifting baby formula it's not because they're desperate to feed their children, it's because that's the best ingredient to cut their drugs with.
@@kavky the fact you think those programs are adequate to needs despite all the reporting to the contrary for decades just shows you don't know what you're talking about and think everyone struggling is a drug user because why?
As someone who recently left loss prevention for a grocery store -- thank god. I'll never look back to dealing with shoplifting. Police would take hours to show up, if they even showed up. Ranging from simple low-cost stealing to organized retail crime having people try to steal $300+ of supplements. The store I worked at had $1,200 worth of supplements get stolen before my shift at one time.
Those 1200 in supplements probably cost 50 bucks for the store
@@wickedsamurai3323 hot take: theft = bad
@@wickedsamurai3323Considering margins on supplements in stores average around 30% those supplements cost the store 840 dollars.
@@wickedsamurai3323probably more like 600
I find it crazy that we're at a point where people are forced to commit organized crime to steal supplements to make sure their bodies get what they need.
I shopped at Walmart a couple weeks ago. Been to this one a few times and knew about the random stuff locked up. They had underwear and socks locked up though. Pretty wild. But then I went to self checkout. There were maybe 8 checkouts. They had about 4 employees waiting around at the self checkout. When I went to do my thing, an employee escorted me to a machine and stood there with me watching me checkout. The locked up stuff was sad but if you’re gonna have someone hold my hand at self checkout then just take the machines out and have them work at checkout. There were only two lines open for checkout. Santa Rosa CA btw.
Yeah, any time I'm at the local Publix here in Florida, you can see _all the employees turn to watch_ the self-checkers.
When you get to the checkout, one will move in close to stand near you while the others watch.
Down here, they lock up all the items you'd find at a pharmacy isle. Goodies/BC powder, Certain blades, and fancy hair or dental products.
I guess they havent found a way to lock up the $100 cuts of meat and seafood, but they will.
Guess this means AI wont replace people as fast as we thought. Yet.
maybe - just maybe, if companies weren’t raking in record profits while jacking up the price of necessities and calling it inflation, then people would not be stealing those necessities.
@@spaceghostmiid hmm yes poor people definetly need the newest jordans
@@Timmy-mi2ef or maybe its cause i just spent 350$ on groceries that wouldve cost 100$ 4 years ago, like seriously, i seen a small steak cost as much as 35$ and 4 bananas for 8$ i saw a shoulder roast that cost 87$ for 1kg (2.2lbs) in your freedom units
Transaction observers probably get paid less than cashiers. One is skilled labor, and the other is unskilled labor.
I can't get enough of these, thank you so much for researching these topics then putting them all in a digestible 30 minute video. Looking forward to the next one!
I worked at a supermarket here in the Philippines.... The store has security guards on the entrances and exits of the store and they have what we called "roaming guards", security guards that are not in their uniforms and dressed casually... What they do is they roam around the store disguised as customers.... And if ever they caught a shoplifter, they take those to a holding area (usually the office of the security) and they called the police to escort them to the precint.... When the other employees spotted a shoplifter, the SOP is to inform the roaming guard about it and don't confront the shoplifter on their own.... Add to the fact that supermarkets also have cctvs installed that willl also serve as evidence if ever it happens
The Philippines has a less violent culture and doesn't hand out guns to criminals like candy. So preventing shoplifting is much safer than in the US.
Unfortunately in some areas of the US, they have made theft of items under $1000 a petty crime which means these shoplifters have no fear. The security usually doesn't get involved because even if they do, the police won't come because the law no longer considers theft as a serious crime. It was done so police aren't wasting resources on individuals stealing a few small items but there must be some sort of middle ground they can come to lol
@@bigfoothunter8080 Imagine blaming guns for shoplifting when the high-crime areas in the US already have them banned
You guys decriminalized theft and criminalized self-defense; and now you're getting robbed. Bad policy has consequences for people that aren't rich.
@@johnnysupreme5718 That's not what he's saying at all. But good job being an american :)
@@jcmcgee1573 I think it's pretty clear what he's saying
As a student in portland I can tell you that the district's own appointed bargaining team's compromise got rejected... by the board that hired them... yeah we're gonna have school till july
dude im so unexcited for that
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Shop lifting is actually down as of recent studies. Stores kinda just lie about shoplifting
Yo so cool to see that the school district I go to was mentioned in marketing Monday! Only it was for notably being the only one of the 3 mentioned strikes that did not get deals settled. They are continuing to struggle and I learned today that the board just denied their own agreement’s that they made with the teachers. Anyways happy marketing Monday shout out to pps (portland public schools) for a big fail this week and getting on marketing Monday.
Was a home Depot employee for a couple summers, shoplifting was such a big issue that we had to put a lot of our more expensive products in the overhead bays just because they were getting shoplifted so much. Once had a police officer recover over 2500 worth of stolen wire, including a 1600 dollar spool that I have no idea how they even managed to sneak out of the store.
cause they dont enter the store they park as close to the back of your store where you do pickups and roll out spools that were out there waiting to be picked up by someone
@@khirasier The truth is that contractors make so much money for Home Depot and Lowe's that they're willing to ignore much of the shoplifting as long as it doesn't affect their contractor money. Cops always show up if shoplifters mess with contractors.
@@MK_ULTRA420
Lowes and Home Depot are both stores with expensive af sht inside, hell no they aren't "willing to ignore shoplifters". How does catching shoplifters even affect contractors in a negative way?
@@PointsofData you have no idea lol
This video legitimately inspired me to shoplift because of how easy you made it seem. Thanks Big A. To the moon o7
its incredibly easy get after it soldier
Just make sure you're safe and go after big businesses with low security
Y’all insane
@@Mysteroo 🤖🤖🤖
@@Mysteroo They really are.
I live in DC and CVS has so many isles that are now locked behind glass and employees constantly monitoring who enters
the idea of not being alone at having their life fall apart is serene to me.
We have seen a decrease shoplifting at our store ever since we started posting videos.
Most stores I go to now have security guards posted at the doors. Even the thrift store. With the spiraling cost of everything I'm not terribly surprised by the sharp increase in shoplifting.
Security guards won't notice me swapping my belt for a better one at Goodwill lmao
Atrioc came to my town and hot dogs immediately were locked up like Fort Knox
Retail worker here, theft has increased a ton at my store. It's so bad in a few nearby stores in my zone that my company has hired armed guards from a private company, and is also trying to rework it's liability protection to let loss prevention physically restrain shoplifters, which will just get people hurt.
Armed guards are showing up because of major retail corporations misreporting the amount of theft there is and then politicians using the misreported statistics to instate more laws/policies that protect company assets more.
The main statistic that was used was reported as being inflated 10x.
in late 2020, I was working at Sprouts farmers market as a grocery manager. Our store got shipments around 9pm so we all worked from 8pm-5am. One night someone was using bolt cutters to try to open our shipping containers and when that didn't work, they started prying open the receiving door. a couple of employees and I were able to quickly open the door to scare away the thieves and even got a video of their vehicle driving away with their license plate number fully visible. I called the police who showed up an hour later and did a quick drive around the parking lot. Despite having a license plate number and video showing the attempted breaking and entering, police did nothing.
I work for a large retail electronics store and theft has been the worst I've seen in a long time. People coming in wearing hoodies and masks just shoving shit in their pockets and walking out because they know we can't do anything. We had one guy come in, grab 4 ps5s, and then walk out singing at the top of his lungs. We had another guy assault my boss and another coworker ran to go help him. Both got fired. It's really really bad. They get to walk all over us and we still don't have any security.
Would be epic if the implemented in store stand your ground with like view galleries and bullet proof glass you could watch through and bang on like hockey games. At this point I'm just enjoying the view on America's ride down.
It will end up like judge dread and I bet they still won't have livable wages for full time workers in "undesirable jobs
Employee gets assaulted then fired due to that, makes sense
how does it effect you in any way? you’re still getting paid your hourly and you don’t have to do anything but be entertained. Don’t feel bad walmart lost 1000 dollars of ps5s when they make billions every year
@PHANTUMDUMPER
It's disheartening to see people steal non-essentials, but that's not the primary point. The point is that individuals are growing more and more emboldened and aggressive as they realize there is no punishment for misdeeds whilst corporations do less and less to protect us. Like I stated, my coworkers were fired for defending themselves.
@@vapv3656 why would you try to stop someone from shoplifting on behalf of a multi million dollar conglomerate as if they care about you or the 50 dollars you’re trying to protect
As someone who lives in the UK, I can 100% confirm that shoplifting is getting unbelievably bad, even in areas with fairly decent levels of wealth. I feel it's being caused by a mixture of inflation (around 10%) where people don't feel that a price is justifiable, opportunity through self-check out systems and also home deliveries where it's easy to contact a retailer and say that a parcel never arrived. As the cost of living crisis in the UK continues to get worse - which it will since the fixed-mortgage issue is only starting to have an effect - this is only going to get worse and worse.
I guarantee you that the English invented the Art of Knicking after the Romans dropped the ball. The Italians picked it up again and improved on the art, but still.
Whoever had the idea to put the fryer alarms sound every time in and out was referenced is a genius. I hope that's funny even to people who haven't worked fast food
I feel like that alarm is more of a ptsd trigger than anything
Yep, I didn't know they where the fryer alarms tho, I just thought of it as the McDonalds sound
in Australia (i live here), they've rarely given security *body cams* (which could lead to privacy concers, see more in replies) and more
even though the two companies who essentially have a duopoly on food and such have recorded record profits.
prices are up and shoplifting is a natural product of that in our situation.
As woolies employee, we are told to not hold, stop or detain shop lifters. If it's leads to violence it could end into a lawsuit on the shoplifters or workers side. We are told to let them go and just take down their details. Also the shops are insured.
I knew a bloke who tried to stop a shoplifter. Got injured, and HE was the one who nearly got fired.
Why would body cams be illegal? Is it any different than a normal security camera?
@@leonardotheuseless4188 sorry i was misinformed. there's no legal worries unless they are using the footage for facial recognition, voice recog, etc.
the problem is we don't know if they are doing this until too late, and if it makes a projected profit they'll do it.
bunnings and kmart already did facisl rec sometime ago apparently so it's not a baseless accusation
@@lennylikesmusic because legally you have no right to restrain another person, that's false imprisonment. Former Class 1 license here, we're not even allowed to do it usually (Vic uses private security for prison transport that's one of the exceptions), don't put yourself at risk especially since the employer will be the one that cops the lawsuit they will turf you faster than last season's styles for it.
yea i saw a 1kg shoulder roast for 87$ like a month or two back, and i was like hmmm, a yes the 30% or so inflation since 2020 has lead to a 350% inflation in grocery prices, definitely makes sense and isnt capitalist scummery
I work at the Toyota plant in Indiana and there is very little chance we will become a union. Toyota has 3 idle factories in Japan that they hold in case we unionize. They would just lock the doors and be back up and running in 6 months.
Lmao thats what they want you to think, they will not have the necessary number of employees over there with a very weak yen further decreasing their profits. They arent just bumping all of y'alls pay for fun after the strike ended
The problem with the fentanyl "crackdown" is that most of it isn't made in China. The precursors are made in China and exported elsewhere (mostly South America) where they are made into fentanyl.
And the product finally winds up in America via Biden’s wide open border!!
I can't lie, a couple of my grocery items have conveniently missed the scanner at the self checkout on the way to my bag. I don't feel good about it but a lot of things that I buy have gone up 50%+ in the time that my pay hasn't even gone up 10%.
Preach. It's not theft if you are being scammed, you're just smarter
@@Shadoallcaps smarter thing would be to not buy
@@JGnLAU8OAWF6 damn bro u a genius. Here's your noddy badge
@@Shadoallcaps it is still theft and its not a scam, price-jacking perhaps, but not a scam. without laws, and a society that follows them, we fall into anarchy.
@@kiranthomlinson3056 you ever thought the laws might be wrong? Humans need order, yes, but what exactly has society become?
I work at a Kwik trip in the Midwest. Our "shrink" in our specific store was somewhere around .08%. I can't stress enough that we are one of the smallest stores in the smallest town. A couple towns over, one of my old ASLs who became a SL there quit because his store's shrink was so high that even the employees would steal. (I believe the record high was like 42.8%) When he was asked to control it, he said at the peak he was watching camera footage in the office for entire 8-12 hour stretches. The police would do absolutely nothing about it either. You could have an entire profile of someone with a state ID with perfect pristine video evidence of theft, but if it isn't $50+ or a regular thief, they won't care.
We did have one guy at our store run out of the emergency exit door and trigger the alarms once. That was pretty funny. And loud. Very loud.
We get a lot of teenage thieves, not always the same ones but the same groups, and the police say it "doesn't matter" since it's only a couple candybars at a time... 🙄
We even had a group of teenagers wheel a stack of totes of glazers into the bathroom??? To mess with us I guess?
Most of our big thefts where i work go through the fire doors, so on the worst days its a rave 😂😂
Damn. I watched some new story not long ago where they recorded someone stealing while they were there. I can not recall if it was live or not. I also think I seen something where a cop was standing around and they were doing it too. Just walking in and getting what they wanted and leaving.
If its that easy, then everyone should steal. FFS no wonder why stuff cost a lot of money.
Dude, shrink at my store was over 2% last year. Its fucking insane how much theft has exploded.
@@kameljoe21 the stuff would cost alot of money anyway dude lmao. just look at inflation, business profits and the payout of their higher-ups. nobody has to increase prices bc of shrinkage, thats delusional lol
I work at a retail store at a downtown area, there was a dude stealing a shoe and had 2 other people waiting outside nearby and when the manager tried to stop him, they sent him to the hospital with a bloody nose. Thankfully, the local drug dealers across the street sent the thieves to the hospital as well, they beat the hell out of them. Cops were entirely useless when they were told the victim and the thieves/assaulters were at the same hospital and they never checked up on it... hell, they didn't even wanna come near the store because they were afraid their car would get stolen.
A shoe. A single shoe?
@@jonessii Wearing 2 separate shoes will be a new style soon I bet. Shoplifter style.
What did the drug dealers have to gain from getting involved on the store's side?
@@wakkaseta8351 "this is our turf, we do crime here"
I work for Walmart, they aren’t hiring people back, just running like 2 cashiers and letting the lines become super long. We also get training to not approach and try and stop shop lifters only AP (asset protection) and managers can and we can only assist as a witness of the crime.
Unfortunately the extensive lines are probably one reason why shoplifting is becoming a problem.
When has Walmart ever run more than 2 cashiers even before all this began?
- What's your profession?
- You can say I work in retail.
I work at grocery store, for a long time it was a daily occurrence for sh*t heads come in, fill a cart FULL of tide, expensive spices, HBC (health & beauty care) items and just walk right out the door.
The ONLY thing that stopped them was the store had to close 1 of its two main entrances and hire an ARMED security guard. TBH all that did was make people try to steal more through the self-scan registers.
we as employees, due to insurance reasons, are not allowed to say anything to them other than "hey did you pay for that?" if they ignore you there is nothing else we're allowed to do.
Due to all of this they have removed all expensive tide and tide pods from the shelves and as a customer you're required to take this little card to the register for them to retrieve your product. all i can say is FUCK shoplifters they've made my life SOOOOOOOOOOO much harder I hate them with a serious passion
OHH! last thing to mention. most of these crimes have little to no consequences. As long as the offending party doesn't steal more than like 1k-1.5k worth of stuff the worst punishment they can receive is a fine, even if they are a repeat offender.
@@Disconnecteification expensive tide pods lol. Why dont they buy powder detergent.
Its sad. Seems like your area is much worse off than mine but everywhere is slowly going to become like this. I genuinely fear for this country as we still casually let this continue as a nation.
I just moved to Seattle and have never seen so much blatant shoplifting. I work in retail and we have people come in every night stealing over $500+ at a time. We have a security guard that isn’t allowed to touch the “customer” or take items out of their hands. It’s such a grey area because they technically haven’t stolen anything until they leave the store and because of that there was a lawsuit against the company from a shoplifter who had items taken out of her hand right before she left the store.
boohoo multi billion dollar conglomerate loses 500 dollars this is so sad guys how will society recover
@PHANTUMDUMPER The problem is this is destroying businesses, big and small. Communities need services that provide value. If no one is willing to provide those things locally, costs go up for everyone else or there end up being no services left
@@thomasreese2816 Sadly people nowadays can't think of a future past the current day
@@Timmy-mi2efAnd they can’t think of a world beyond themselves
@@PHANTUMDUMPER I hope you realize that they're doing it to small businesses as well. If this is allowed to continue we won't have a country left in a couple years.
Last week, Memphis TN got hit with 3 'flash mob' shopliftings in 1 night. 2 gas stations and a parked FedEx truck were ransacked by 40+ people. They even flashed guns at bystander and employees so they wouldn't mess with them.
That's when the National Guard needs to come in and treat the food-conditioned bears as enemy combatants. Shit would stop real quick.
@@thorlancaster5641 ah yes being back accountability with a bang i like it
I was visiting LA awhile back and forgot to pack underwear. I drove to the closest Wal-Mart and found the underwear isle. All the underwear were behind a locked cage, I had never seen this before so I had to find a employee and they told me to hit the button in the isle and someone would come get it for me. There wasn't a button in the isle so I went a couple isles over and so I finally get my underwear but then he is like you have to go up front and pay for this. So I walked up front and asked for the item and it took like 15 minutes for someone to come over and they brought several packs of underwear none of them being the pack I chose. I had to go back there with someone else who then walked back up front. At this point I had to get back in line and wait and finally got to check out with my underwear. A ten minute trip to get underwear turned into an hour ordeal.
America is such a broken country. Ya'll got people down so bad they steal underwear?
That's when you accept you're gonna wear those undies all week.
Other than podcasts this is the only series of RUclips videos that i eagerly await the next video! Keep it up my Glizzard
1:23 when he says our team did some real research into this, I just picture like whodat, sykik, and punch running around like in that SpongeBob episode when he learns fine dining but forgets everything else including his name. And all the lil spongers are running around in his brain searching filing cabinets saying “what’s the name? What’s the name!?”😂😂
Biden saying "He is" to the dictator question was super based.
How ya feeling about Biden these days?
@@amentco8445 Same I guess? Why?
A couple friends and I all did work building the wework buildings and they only wanted the cheapest and quickest to install infrastructure and I knew it wasn’t going to last. Especially after they opened and was 80% vacant
As a small private business worker in the getho, in Canada, It’s worse than ever, but people won’t hear me when I say it’s a global issue not just here
It’s almost like people resort to theft when the cost of living is so high that anything beyond necessities is out of reach of the average person.
Not to mention, IIRC wage theft by companies constitutes approximately 75% of all theft, while robbery accounts for less than 1%. Larceny was the highest at around 10% of all theft.
Even if robbery doubled (or more) since I last checked, I doubt it even reached 2% of all theft.
Oh no... those poor.. poor, criminals, who could live anywhere in the world, but choose coastal areas where the Rich could use their votes to keep upping the prices.. buts its okay, thieves have sad backstories..
So let's keep on letting them do that and blame police instead for... reasons.
@@g4rrett73 Huh? Companies stealing wages from employees? Source?
@@TAKEYOURCREATINE
Sure, here's the wikipedia link to wage theft so you can learn about it because it's not just illegally stealing wages from employees, but includes things like unpaid overtime, failure to pay minimum wage, etc: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_theft
The FBI releases crime data in their uniform crime report: ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s
although that site is kinda a pain to navigate lol
In the FBI's most recent year published, property crime (larceny, burglary, robbery, etc.) was $15.8 billion, so I guess it was ~3/5 of all theft, not 3/4.
@@TAKEYOURCREATINE Wage Theft is a broad term that includes a bunch of ways companies can avoid paying workers what they're legally owed. This includes denying overtime pay, insisting employees work off the clock, denying breaks, and in some egregious cases directly taking money out of their pay checks. While we're not sure the exact number since its rare for action to be taken numbers range from 3-15 billion in just a few years.
the EPI has quite a few reports on it and you can find occasional news stories in magazines like Forbes
I used to work at a DSG in a very very affluent area and shoplifting happened all the time. Nike tech hoodies, north face, Patagonia, etc. people ran in, grabbed a hole rack and ran. Stupid part about it, was the store made so many millions a week and a constant sales leader that they didn’t care to do anything about the theft
Yep if you know anything about clothes manufacturing, they are made for pennies and sold for hundreds. Even if 90% of stock isn't sold they still make a profit.
I've worked in all aspects of loss prevention, security, and when I was a dumb kid, a shoplifter. And the shoplifting that's going on now, is ridiculous. I did used to do it for fun, but also in college, sometimes i needed something, but didn't have the money. I use that knowledge now in private security to get a one up on people trying to be clever.
If you can find a safe and effective way of stopping organized gangs of shoplifters then you've got it made.
The "Save on Food" in my city always had deal prices in the candy section where you put a candy in a bag and weigh at the counter for the final cost. People would always use the code that would give them the cheapest deal. Recently they started faking deal prices so people would stack up thinking it would be "80c per 100grams" When in reality it would be $1.40 per 100g. So you are either forced to pay almost double you anticipated or walk up to the clerk and ask them to take them off your order and let them know you were using the wrong code lol
It's so ironic how the store is called save on yet it's one of the most expensive national chain grocery stores.
@@ryan_alexander Yea I hate it, worst part is I don't drive and it's the closest store to me. So gg my wallet
so they try to deal with crime with crime? lmao, in my country theyd get sued for stating wrong deals that dont work.
Really liking the deeper effort into the marketing Mondays ❤️
big ACLU dub
during the riots i payed a homeless guy 40 bucks and got a new 240 hrts monitor that was retailing for like 3-400 bucks
edit: it’s not illegal if you win
fuck yeah
if the low end was $3 then paying $40 doesn't sound like a good deal
@@yuuuukiiiii supporting my local community brother man. 10% retail is good with me
The art of business
The power of the free market
The Sims music playing during the super commuting segment hit HARD
The problem is that shoplifting is just not treated seriously enough as a crime, and it's all too often handwaved away as "poor people just trying to feed themselves". The reality is that shoplifters are doing this for profit or for kleptomania, not out of desperation. Desperate people steal bread and other low-ticket items with low/zero resale value, not higher ticket items they can fence off for profit or keep as a 'prize' for personal luxury.
As a brit I'm also not at all surprised that it's more of an issue here. Our laws are surprisingly soft on these types of things, and our recent 'cost of living crisis' has only served to make it more tempting to steal.
If my local cornershop caught somebody stealing and called the police I'm pretty sure they wouldn't even bother showing up. To them it's too petty and isn't worth their time, which kinda goes against the idea of having a police force to be honest (they shouldn't get to pick and choose what laws are worth their time to actually enforce).
No one steals bread, that is the dumbest assumption, poor people would steal bread
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Why would they steal one loaf of bread to eat, when they could steal something of greater value to help cover their food and rent. So dumb, like this is Aladdin or some sh!t.
@@DougDepker Right like people only have to eat? The law does punish people who don't pay their bills with homelessness.... that they then don't grant them housing!!!!!
what a dim witted individual
Braindead
12:00 I was not expecting a PMD Explorers of Sky ost but i appreciate it
You know I regarded it as barbaric but maybe the fact that one handed thieves are less effecient is something I ponder.
This was such a great video. Genuinely learned a lot and laughed out loud during some points. Thanks for making educational and actually useful shit so simple and so funny.
How could you not mention prosecutors refusing to charge shoplifters with anything? When the prosecutor office make stealing defacto legal, how could crime not go up?
The prosecutors can't do anything. Shoplifting under $1k isn't prosecuted and cash bail is abolished. So even if you can be arrested, they release you again like it's some kinda fishing show.
@@shortlivedglory3314 Prosecutors and Bill makers are the ones adovcating for this shit, Trying to blame this on Cost of living is rich
@@shortlivedglory3314 The 1K thing isn't based on some law or anything like that, it comes directly from the Californian prosecutors office
@@onri_the law was most likely the same before it started rising. "Why did it start rising if the law didn't change" is an obvious question, and a rise in poverty is an obvious answer.
Shoplifters are still prosecuted as misdemeanors and can still go to jail and have significant fines, and the 1k think is not exclusive to California either, it's even higher in other states. If you think corporations are actually being negatively affected by stealing, they would of decreased prices. It's simply cheaper not to arrest these people.
Of course the rate of crime increases as the cost of living increases, crime rates are higher in poorer areas.
But no muh poor billion dollar corporations being affected by the evil Californian prosectuters. This viewpoint comes from automatically seeing people who steal as monsters and not the human beings they are.
"Shrinkage on inventory" is not just an account that includes shoplifting. It includes damaged products, products given to or taken from employees, lost products from shipment, etc. To say its a "fudged number" isnt wrong but it does antagonize thr corporation for an accounting practice that is not set by them
On the topic of seeing a rising in shoplifting and a rise in strikes. Here are some stats on theft per year in the US:
Burglary, larceny and auto theft combined are 14B on the other hand we have wage theft with minimum wage violations 23B, overtime violations 9B, rest break violations 4B and off the clock violations 3B
okay but hot take, stealing from a store and causing prices to spike further for the community as a whole to subsidize theft isn't a good target when you're really angry at employers for wage theft. It's like beating a toddler up cause some dude insulted you
@@PP-ok2xt prices are gonna increase anyway mate lmao. if you think shrinkage has any effect on pricing, youre delusional. theres a reason big grocery brands are making millions upon millions.
Couldn’t even edge to this, I exploded immediately!!! Clean up on aisle MY PANTS 😂😂😂😂
THE FUCK?!
I'm edging to this comment 🥴😣😖🤤💦
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Basedddd
Hey editors, any idea when the Marketing Monday on the UAW will go up? It was my favorite one yet and I really want to show the edited version to my dad. Keep up the good work!
The combination of genetics, resources, access to training, family support, and culture easily explains the NBA and NFL situation
As someone from Europe these deep dive into the insane antics of American economics begin to feel more and more like an absurd sitcom show.
At some point along the way it became lame to be a moderate in America. It sucks, especially as a zoomer.
@@Amick2003 go full extreme, hate a random arbitrary group for no good reason. Preferably because the people around you like them and you seek conflict and 'see the truth'
@@xerfrex7869 So go full Attila the Hun on Brazil, gotcha! 👍
@@MK_ULTRA420 Now you're getting it!
@@xerfrex7869 I just got the sudden feeling that at least 50% of Brazil would join me...
My local target hired a bunch of loss prevention guys, all large athletic dudes, and gave them to absolute green light to chase thieves down and tackle them in the parking lot if it comes to it. And they’ve been doing just that.
A while ago i saw something beautiful at walgreens. I was waiting in line and a group of tweens came in hollering. they were yelling banging things together acting like they were gonna tip over aisles and of course security started following them yelling to get out. just after they came in 3 other kids came in with big trash bags and started sweeping the candy shelves they made out like bandits. the best part was that they didn’t need the distraction security can’t do anything to stop them
Exactly that last point. As a retail worker the most you can do is tell them in a stern voice to stop, leave, call the cops for them trespassing. It's funny, in the training video they say to tell loss protection if you see people steal shit, and ask them if they need help finding anything... 💀
This department literally doesn't exist at our store because of how small we are compared to other stores. The shoplifters KNOW we can't do anything or we'll get in trouble. Some drastic change needs to happen, many solutions each with their pros and cons. The best counter play the stores have are ruining the customer experience to save more product.
calling this beautiful is... deranged
@@Nightknight1992 I don't feel the slightest bit bad that a Walgreens got shoplifted from, why would I? Nobody got hurt.
@@Nightknight1992It’s sarcasm dude
@@angelvu hilarious that you call it sarcasm and just one response above shoplifting gets defended. the community has a bunch of bad apples.
The Mystery Dungeon music at 12:09 is unlocking some buried memories
Wait there's just hella DS Pokemon music hidden in this, awesome
On a Monday! Shows the ACLU is already applying great pressure 💪
My friend is one of the leaders in the Portland Teacher's strike so it's so sick seeing you talk about it!!!
The trend seems to be spreading internationally. While we don't have mass looting raids here in Australia (yet...), I've noticed supermarkets here now have a full time security guard roaming the store. There were none a decade ago. Better cuts of meat have security tags on them. Only a matter of time until they're locked up.
Western countries are rapidly becoming poorer due to shooting themselves in their feet. Rest of the world is fine
Couldn’t find a comment acknowledging the Pirate Town theme song at 7:00 into the video, god tier Pokémon reference, well done sir!
Damn I really stopped shoplifting and using fentanyl at the right time lol
The "super commuters" kinda sounds like a faster paced Aussie FIFO job.
That point about living further away from major cities to have a lower cost of living is absolutely real. I went from living in a major city paying more than 1500 for rent to living 1.5 hours from the city in a rural area and now owning my own 5 bedroom home with a $318 mortgage all because I bought my home in a old mining town at the mind shut down in. Best part is my you only increased by 10 minutes.
problem is after covid australia is having the opposite problem, everyone is moving out of the big cities and buying up all the homes in small towns increasing our rent prices so much it now costs about the same to live in a rural town then it costs to live in the middle-outer suburbs in melbourne, infact im moving to melbourne next year cause those outer suburbs are now slightly cheaper than living rural
@@khirasierI live in Australia too... it cost 12 years worth of work to be able just to afford a down payment for a home, I'm a carer, and I have stopped caring for ANYTHING till my generation and the Zoomers can afford to live a life off the streets, unlike the Boomers.
No charity, no sympathy, no protests, no progress, no hard work... nothing till we get what's due!
I mean if the cost of living is low in an area it's almost always cause the people there are poor. If people are poor there are not high paying jobs in that area. There may be some people who can work remotely and exploit the price of housing in poor areas, but it is not a real solution for most people.
@@TheDrackOfSpades apathy prevents change, apathy is the flaw of boomers, they didin't care, don't be them
@@PrincetonTech-h1w YEP in my area 1000% the truth!!
I used to work at the busiest Walmart in texas, and they accounted for 500,000-1,000,000 in merchandise stolen each year into their budget. Crazy
Can’t make this up: The second Atrioc started talking about how Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez were pretending they were normal people, I get a notification that D’Angelo Wallace posted a new video about them pretending to be normal people.
So I'm guessing this was made before corporations admitted they lied about how much organized retail crime was a problem?
lol
As a retail worker of 7 years, they do not, nor have they ever, cared about organized theft enough to do anything about it.
I once heard my company's (multi-billion dollar international clothing brand) head of loss preventions say "We're only losing $500 on shrink a week, so why would we spend $800 on labor to prevent it?" They would rather take the loss than pay their employees to work longer. They don't give a shit
What do you mean they lied about it?
@@seanscott1308Vaush covered this in detail. It was fake data which lied about the problem exaggerating it by 10x, using it to lobby for harsher prison sentences and to promote use of security in stores.
Some places absolutely do lmao why else are they hiring loss prevention, security, AND off-duty police? Maybe you live in a great area, but I guarantee a ton of places are losing thousands in shrink a week.
I love the double down on calling Xi a dictator.
When I was detained for shoplifting in 2020 or 2021, they didn’t want to call the cops because they were already dealing with an advanced shoplifting ring that were targeting bigger ticket items. They ultimately dropped the case against me thankfully.
Can you imagine how funny it would be if there were all of the American west coast In-n-Out locations... and then just one randomly in like, Shanghai, China
As someone from Springfield, you don’t wanna be there. It ain’t worth it
My favorite show to watch in Tuesday due to time zone difference ❤
I look forward to a Big A upload more than I do any other RUclipsr/ Streamer I follow
I work in a supermarket in the UK.
Shoplifting is a pretty big issue here. It’s mainly parents stealing food or baby stuff. Followed by people stealing alcohol and so on.
It’s pretty depressing having to stop new parents stealing like bread and milk.
I would simply find a new job. No way I’m taking food out of a starving baby’s mouth for a billion dollar corporation
Where I work we mostly have the organised gangs, many of which drive things like range rovers.
You don't have to stop parents stealing bread. That is a choice you are making.
@@DueySR bye bye goes his job and now he is the one stealing bread...
@@DueySR yeah. I’ll just get fired then?
A massive teacher's strike started today in Quebec. It's one of the many strikes in Quebec lately. The government gave themselves large raises this year, and yet they can't pay teachers and other important workers a decent wage
Meanwhile corporate profits in the US have risen by about 600 billion per year since January 2021.
Also: The consumer price index for food has gone up 19% in the same timespan.
Honestly, taking that and all the employment malpractices from big corporations into account, it almost feels like shoplifting is the moral thing to do.
The amount they lost to shoplifting doesn't even put a dent on the amount they earned by stealing from their own employees.
Worth noting that a lot of that is gobbled up by very very few companies
@@thacoolest13 but they are also the companies being stolen from mostly. people steal expensive stuff, that they know is gonna sell well. that includes most of th+e big big companies.
I know alot of people who work at woolworths (aussie grocery store) and theyve had to hide their cooler bags cuz they kept getting stolen. Best part is, the actual workers purposely look the other way because the prices are so ridiculous
I work in security at a train station in the UK station has a lot of retailers and ive definitely noticed the rise in theft its literally around very corner for me. I actually had to defend myself from attack because someone wouldn't give up a chocolate bar they had just stolen.
Trust me but it's no where near as bad as it is in the US... The states that are struggling with this are progressives states where they basically decriminalised shoplifting and so it exploded so voilently that major supermarkets started leaving these states and closed their shop doors. That doesn't happen here in the UK nor do we have pictures of items we like to buy but Atrioc is a bit bias and doesn't report the full truth or why the police do nothing in the states this is happening in.
@@crackajacka87 UK shoplifting is mostly done by drug addicts. These are people you do not want to confront because they are unstable, shop workers have been stabbed even killed for confronting them. Have to let the police be called, given CCTV footage and let them deal with it.
@@cattysplat Yea but that's nothing new, my argument was that what's being reported in the US is far worse as it's down to political policies the local governments have set out which was defunding from the police and turning petty crimes like shoplifting a misdemeanour and you'd get a slap on the wrist which is why crime broke out massively in left winged states that did this but not so much the right winged states that didn't.
I was at a meeting of a local feminist network the other day, was a girl there who literally was insulting people for 'feeding the patriarchy' by, you know, paying for things. She got arrested for trying to steal 200 euro worth of IKEA lamps or something a week later
I would love to see some stats on what specifically is being shoplifted. I see a lot of people in these comments blaming cost of living and "times are tough" but honestly most of the videos I've seen gone viral of people looting/shoplifting stores have been the makeup aisles at CVS, beer coolers in gas stations, clothing from malls and phones from Apple stores. Anecdotally, I also used to work at a convenience store and no one ever stole toilet paper or other household goods. It was always beer and candy.
Hmmm i wonder why those are the only ones going viral???? Hmmm.........
@@jcmcgee1573 ask anyone in loss protection what they catch lol. Candy, Toys, Candy, Alcohol, Alcohol, Alcohol, Toys, item they can easily resell, colored markers...
if youzr money can only pay for basic neccessities and everything thats not essential, but for fun or luxury has to be stolen, times are still tough mate^^ i used to work at a grocery store and the most stolen items were either small expensive items (easy to steal and you can sell it), make up (super easy to steal) or alcohol/cigarettes (well still easier since its very money dense (volume divided by worth)). actually the formula voluma divided by monetary value is mostly the biggest indicator for what gets stolen a lot. (cigarettes were at an all time hight a few years back)
The mall near us now has actual police on site in addition to the normal renta-cops, but only by one exit as far as I've seen. They have a section that is all high-end fashion and jewelry stores that has an exterior exit right in the middle, so there is now a K9 unit stationed there all day. Not sure how well it is working since someone still made off with $30k worth of stuff a couple weeks ago.
one purse lol
I work at a grocery store that recently started locking up laundry supplies to prevent theft. Almost every customer I help get laundry detergent complains that it's locked up, and many get mad with me as though it was my fault somehow
wow. this might be the best atrioc vid i’ve ever seen. that was a full-ass tv news comedy episode basically
Power tools that won't work just means they sell the powertool without the battery in the box and we have a bunch of different batteries near the checkout that fit all the tools in our store. I've worked at Home Depot and that is all they mean. I like the funky word choice to try and make it seem like a big deal though lol.
Absolutely, just corporations trying to make themselves look like victims
Milwaukee came out with a drill. That can be locked with an app in the case of theft. It’s not just the battery
@@bruhcoin2361so the criminals are bigger victims? Corporations don't have ideology nor last long anyway, but having no where to eat or buy from because "I have no money so I must do bad things" sad bad story can't excuse shop lifting anymore. It just makes you look like privileged asshats who compared to the rest of us actually pay for our meals. Victim mentality servers neither side bro, own up and starve like the rest of us. It's not rich vs poor, it's rich vs rich and poor vs poor, class isn't a stagnant thing.
@@bruhcoin2361 bro what did home depot do to you?
@@alexmol6268 pfft, just open it up and bypass that lock lmao
good thing this isnt going on everywhere, i heard about all this looting but its not happening in my state
if you are too lazy to *boop* your own items and say stupid shit like "i dont get paid to work here*.... mufugga i do it to just avoid human contact. give me a dollar off using a real cashier, or no dollar off and ill *boop* my stuff all day at self checkout. but.... BUT... when people who exploit the combination of self checkout + wallyworld employees got giving AF, and those losses mean a less user friendly experience, yeah thats bad. the fact that stealing is seen as "fun" is sad to me.
It's honestly disheartening seeing the amount of people in these comments just completely chill with shoplifting not realizing (or more likely not caring) that it negatively affects those of us that actually pay for our shit no matter how "tough times are".
@@ZZ-os4nbI completely agree. Society doesn’t seem to be heading in the right direction.
Finally someone who can form a thought that considers tomorrows exist
I've commented on it before but always love eriksenchee's music choices, Windfall Island will always get me
UK frog here - our local village shop has been held up by armed thieves so many times they had to put protective screens around the checkout. And the shop near where I work also had a bottle-->head incident, and another time, their security guard was attacked by shoplifters and got a broken nose and arm 😬😬😶
So uh, sounds like you've got all this to look forwards to, America. Godspeed.
God damn 💀 I mean I live in the UK too but nothing like that has happened near me and I live in Nottingham so it's not like crime is low in general here 💀
"That's a weird fusion of government and business that I don't think should exist."
Oh, sweet summer child.
Corporations have been stealing from us for decades. Serves them right.
Shawn Fain is a legend. They were encouraging other places to line up their contract expiration dates with UAW so they can help get them terms as well next time around. Solidarity baby
Police station in walmart: i dont like this
Police station in train station: makes sense
For the nepotism part, in my opinion it's possible that for sport-related career, it's more tied to how their parents would probably be more supportive about the nba/nfl dream (lessons, advices, etc) and genetics.
Although I can't deny that if you're lebron's kid you would probably have an easier time getting into NBA (but would still need actual good abilities and training)
You're forgetting the most obvious factor. You're genetically related to a freak athlete. 95% of people couldn't get into the NFL or NBA no matter what they did or who helped them. You need natural ability to have a chance in the first place.
Imagine they just let a couch potato onto the NBA just because he's lebron's kid
Here we can see the effects of the ACLU strike; better marketing monday quality
Certain communities are much worse than others. Wal Mart and Dollar General literally closing down stores in those kind of neighborhoods.
It’s good that they shut down. They don’t deserve stores and food deserts are a fine punishment
@@bittervalor may 2024 be the worst year of your life, you ghoul