Pay attention to his last statement. He said they've been good about not raising prices due to shrink. That doesn't account for a myriad of other reasons they raise prices, including "Just because we can".
@@sjcflawless OK . You may not agree, but I agree with the stores decision to close. Probably in a lower rent area, crime is usually higher. Regular folks pay for their stuff.
@@bopeep86 Amazon was really the ultimate reason why Sears closed. Stolen merchandise was the number two reason. In the end, I can only go by the earnings and media reports. Sears was everywhere! The appliances were the cheapest. I’m pretty sure most of the loss occurred in areas where theft occurs often. I miss Sears though!
As a former Home Depot employee I once witnessed a guy run out of the store with some stuff. I took a note of his car and plate number. I reported it to the manager on duty and she did NOTHING about it. Her reason was she said that they didn't want to accuse anybody. Fricking bs.
I once chased a guy out of Target, took a picture of his car and gave it to the manager. A week later the same guy was at a restaurant. They never did anything. And I didn't even work there.
I hate self checkout. I went to a Walmart marketplace store when I don't usually go there and was surprised to find out that they don't have any cashiers after 8PM. They seemed annoyed that I went to the customer service counter to buy my stuff. I have health problems that make it hard for me to be on my feet and I just wanted to buy my stuff as quickly as possible. Walmart makes an insane amount of money and they can't even afford to hire cashiers? I won't steal even though I'm homeless, but I have no sympathy for them if other people take advantage of them being too cheap to hire cashiers.
@@tj7179 When the Walmart grocery store was open 24/7, I used to go in the middle of the night and I'd walk around looking for someone to ring me up and then just leave what I wanted to buy at the register and then leave. I'm sure they must have have many people just walk out without paying.
The logic is that the loss is less than the total cost of employees. Now that losses are increasing the math just doesn't pan out any longer. Combine that with basic greed. That small percentage used to be acceptable. In order to keep margin GROWTH, they have trimmed all the labor they could, volume is stagnant, the easiest target left is reduce loss. Profits were a certain percentage, if that stays the same they're still making money. They just aren't making MORE.
Both Home Depot and Lowes are terribly run companies. The store managers hide from the customers and the employees go out of their way to avoid being helpful. I hate going in to either one and I blame corporate management.
this is only half the story, as expected with NBC reporting. home depot already got an insurance check on the theft. the cops now stole it from the thief. you think they will give it back to home depot or whatever store? hilariously no. the cops keep it and auction it off and pocket the money. they likely let the thief go because its likely a crime ring and racketeering job and all are in on it.
How about this Home Depot, have more sales persons on the floor. You go into Home Depot and you can’t even get any help. More visible salespersons would deter shop lifters.
Here in Atlanta there is a cluster of 2-4 standing near the self checkout. Always young. I thought they were avoiding work. Now I understand what they're doing.
I live in two states, one of my homes is just outside NYC and one is in a rural area of Massachusetts. Its almost like a different country. The rural store is a joy the NY store not so much.
You have to take this with a grain of salt. These stories are always exaggerated by everyone involved. HD has been locking up portable power tools behind metal gates; how are they being stolen? Their large stores were built when they employed large numbers of helpful employees. Now you’re lucky if you can find an employee 5 aisles away! Of course theft is going to increase when there are no employees around!
I talked to the HD lumber manager and he says they are also paying a lot more for the product. They have contracts with suppliers and the prices fluctuate. I also talked with a bid that runs a hardware store and lumber yard, he told me the same thing. He said “ it’s not me, it’s the suppliers”.
Its not home depot, there's only like 4 or 5 major lumber company's and they supply everyone And the top two as in income wise has had an increase of like 300% on profit for lumber
Noticed how he said the cost would be passed to the consumer. Maybe you should hire more employees. More security. Because your prices are too high to begin with. People can and will turn against higher prices. Then that will be your down fall. This day and age retail greed has people realizing what they can live with and what they can do without.
Why should businesses have to fork the unnecessary cost just to do their normal business. The cost of operation will go up either way. Therefore, prices will too.
Depending on what State this CRIME is committed. In Connecticut store security can use what ever means necessary to STOP the theft and get their merchandise back
Wrong answer, leftist clown. In none of the fifty states do rent-a-cops (aka loss prevention, security, whatever their exact title) have the right to lay hands on you or search your possessions. See the 4th amendment if you believe otherwise. And yes, contrary to popular belief, the 4th amendment _does_ in fact apply to places of public accommodation as well since the right to be secure in your own person is a NATURAL right which cannot be taken away except through due process. So no, in CT, store security cannot use "whatever means necessary" to stop the theft. They're free to try, but they'll either get charged with battery or attacked back in self-defense. And if you think for even a _second_ that the suspected shoplifter will be charged with robbery due to choosing to defend him (or herself), think again. The woman who was strong-armed by "undercover" (aka plain clothes) loss prevention personnel at an Ikea store in St. Louis ended up having all charges dropped simply because she was grabbed by one of the rent-a-cops. So while true that responding officers and the D.A.'s Office often don't care enough to investigate such matters, there are times when they listen to both sides of the story.
@@arturocamaney9235 ever hear of a citizen arrest? This is where a citizen can place another citizen under citizen arrest for a crime witnessed by that citizen. Get it citizen?
I’m in law enforcement and I can tell you it’s a real problem. The only thing when we get their property back they never want to prosecute. They will also not call the police until the thieves have already let the store even if they have been watching them conceal items.
@Prince Wojak then don’t call at all. If they don’t have the stolen merchandise on them then it’s been my experience the prosecution doesn’t want to take the case.
That last is actually an important point that I have not seen raised, JD. Imagine if the store negotiated in advance with law enforcement about how to notify them when they see a likely impending shoplifting, so that officers could already be on their way or present outside when the thief exits the building. Would that work, in your opinion? Or would that be treated by LE as a nuisance, since at the time of the first call no actual crime has yet occurred, and some shoplifters might abort their theft if the police arrival was noticed (by them or an associate outside)? Too many fruitless calls - so wait until the crime is verified before calling.
There's really no law against concealing merchandise. Only once you attempt to walk out the doors without paying for it is a crime. Anyone can walk around a store stuffing drills down their pants all they want to but if they take it back out and pay for it no crime committed
@@billybobjamesalt2255 That’s not completely true but your close. It’s passed all points of sale. So once you go pass the cash registers you are fair game. Also if you can prove someone’s intent to commit the crime then they can also be arrested. Example, all of these smash and grabs on the news. However, what you said isn’t untrue.
If he wasn't on utube all day he would stop more thefts, just ask yourself have you ever seen him stop anyone? We have a sherif infront of ours, they just sit and do nothing. Hands off police don't realy get a lot done.
I could picture him tackling a guy for trying to go into without a mask while a guy with $3000 dollars of stolen goods helps the officer subdue the guy, get a high-five from the officer then leave without issues.
They do that in Africa for real, watched it on bitchute, cut the guys fingers off with a dull hatchet right outside the store and more crazy...the guy was like well ok and just walked off, no freaking out or anything....
@@JimboJazz You mostly named the chews without naming them, start naming them. The small hat tribe. The J tube algo is so far up my azz I can hardly say anything the sheeps can understand.
We are going to let insurance handle it and just tell the customers that the $800k shrinkage out of our billion dollar profit must be passed onto them by permanently raising prices on everything even though we could easily make that back in a day.
When I work in retail that was one of the main issues. The employees are ripping off the business more than anyone. They get their friends to come in, shoplift, and split the money
employees can help you with an inside job and not even know it. when you order something online usually they keep it in a cart by the back door somewhere. not that I would do it, but a person could easily add all kinds of stuff to said cart. when you pick up your online order they call back and have someone bring you your cart they dont bother to check it over again because it was already loaded by an employee so they unknowingly shoplift for you. if your worried about cameras when loading cart wear a mask and a hat different color shirt they cant prove its you and you didn't actually have it in your possession and walking out the store.
My niece was working at a Home Depot where they put in charge of loss prevention. She found out contractors were taking tools out the back rollup door and then around the building to their construction vehicle. When she told management what she had discovered in her investigation, they did nothing and told her to back off. Was the store management getting a kickback? She quit them and now has a wonderful architect job with a major power provider company.
@@bigred1247 except once the pawn shop is busted they'll get your name and address from the pawnshop (as they are required to get this for all sales), then you'll be out your money and stolen goods.
I'm retired corrections and now work at Lowes. Recent policy has been to "stay out of the way" when these criminals make their way out of our stores with merchandise. Management thinks this policy is "safe," and yet have no idea how criminals view this with contempt.
Outside stores there are yellow surveillance machines that can usually just do the job for u….only time they care is if the car is stolen and that leads to bigger arrest I guess everyone understands these are just large company stores n it doesn’t affect the employees or managers so they don’t care…either way there run doesn’t last long either there a super intelligent smart career criminal or usually what it is there just a person addicted to drugs that will either go to jail or die soon… n usually n back then if u would get them in trouble if it isn’t over 1000$ u can’t really do anything they will just be banned from ur store… n even that is a risk cuz if they run they usually do that because they have warrants and those people are already lossed causes so just let em be n they will just use drugs until there death…
Home Depot once accused me of stealing. Said they seen me on camera sticking a Circular Saw blade in my jacket...I laughed thinking they were joking, but then they said they will call the police if I didn't show them my waistband.....they didn't even apologize after I showed them .....shop LOWES ever since.
Walmart, Target and the rest...they expect law enforcement to handle it. Hire your own security, equip them with the proper tools and training and let them do their job. They are too scared of lawsuits.
KEEP IT REAL........Walmart, Target and the rest.. "BAD DEBT INSURANCE".......their income revenue. No interest what so ever in hiring Security, in the even of incident, no notification to Police, which would at least provide information to law enforcement, heightened crime area, knowing, not only Criminal activitst , " Pivot" to.....Shoplifters/ Drug abusers ," pick pocketing, car jackings, robbery, etc. These establishments, covered, no loss, experience the daily occurennce.... recognize same individuals, daily / weekly, unconcerned jeopardy, the safety....of employees, customers, children, etc. 👋JUst like in the case of karen's, these people are escalating, more agressive., confrontational., and physical.....life endangerment of no concern. THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD " MANDATE LAW:" ESTABLISHMENTS THAT CARRY "DRUGS" /ALCOHOL......SECURITY MUST BE ASSIGNED DURING OPERATIONS. INCIDENT REPORT COPIES WEEKLY PROVIDED TO NEIGHBORING POLICE STATIONS, TO ASSIST THEIR MONITORING /ASSISTANCE 🖐 ********PLEASE BE ASSURED..........THERE IS NO LACK OF THE ANGLES THE CAMERAS ARE SET UP TO RECORD THE EMPLOYEES 👀👀👀👀
It'll be everyone else's fault when they finally deny public access to the buildings. Bricking up the main entrances/exits and start filling orders out the side doors.
@@ElectronicsForFun yeah for Covid, we don't have the big theft problems like the USA.. if you look at the Camera footage almost every perp is a Sun Person.. way bigger populations in the USA..
From what I've heard, they just let them steal here and don't even try to stop them. Matter of fact, if an employee tries to stop them, they get fired :/ I work for a competitor, so LoL! Good job guys!
The best one was the You Tube Video of a guy on a bike just go in and take stuff while they filmed this Glorious Socialist Discount system. Look at all the California Discounts thanks to Socialist Newsom
@@Iowa21 A lot of dumb people watch TV. These dumb people have dumb questions like this. They think "Home Depot is a big company, so why can't they just absorb the losses?" So by asking an intentionally dumb question, she gives him an opportunity to speak directly to all the jerks in the audience who think this is no big deal. She plays dumb and it appeals to all the dumb viewers who think "Hey, she's just like me, wondering 'bout this stuff." It's more diplomatic than saying "Explain to our audience why this is a problem."
That’s a legitimate question. Many businesses just count it as an operating expense. Now it’s an organized large operation and is too much of a business cost to absorb by just reducing profit.
From what I hear Home depot better keep a better eye on their employees including their loss prevention security employees. They take it before it hits the show room.
I LOST MY HOME DEPOT CARD THAT WAS FRAUDULENTLY USED BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON. THE TOTAL COST WAS ABOUT 2000.00 dollars. OUR LOCAL HOME DEPOT WAS VERY UNCOOPERATIVE. CITIBANK HAS BEEN OF LITTLE HELP. WE WERE TOLD BY HOME DEPOT THAT THE LOSS IS OUR PROBLEM. BUYER BE WARE.
Let me explain the problem I saw with Home Depot. They rotate managers...a lot. What they don't do is inventory on his way in. After a year they inventory and he is responsible for the loss he walked into...then he's transferred. You could have literally ZERO loss and when they do inventory you're responsible for the stuff that was supposed to be there but wasn't when you started.
I don’t get why this even have to be tolerated. We have armed security in most commercial establishments here in the Philippines. You won’t even dare to try any of those things here.
Laws, rights, and liability are very different in our two nations, and as the fellow before pointed out, your nation isn’t infested with liberal scum running and ruining everything. How sad it is that the Philippines and even Russia look freer and safer in many respects than we do.
Because America is weak and will soon be taken over by another country. One side is brave enough to dare them and the other side is scared enough to let it go. I like the way this guy handles his shoplifters. He has a channel with several videos.... Gas Station Encounters.
The professional shoplifters know that major retailers now have a hands-off policy toward shoplifters. Employees can be fired for making any attempt to physically stop shoplifting.
I’ve noticed tool prices are climbing big time. The 12-inch Makita glide miter saw I was looking at a short time ago went from $899.00 to over a thousand now. The Dewalt table saw on a collapsible stand went from $589.00 to $649.00. So which is it, the retailers? The manufacturers or a combination of both? It’s like those little refrigerators in your hotel room, lower the freaking prices and I’ll buy it!
remember a store called Service Merchandice? everything in the store was a bolted down or non working or demo unit display item. you had to pay for your item then wait for it to come out of the back warehouse.
I don’t remember that store or they didn’t have one where I lived. However I know circuit city moved to a similar model for higher priced items. CDs, movies, cases and small priced items stay on the floor. Mid value were in locked cabinets on the showroom floor and higher priced items were rang up/paid for and the item would come out at customer service from the back warehouse. They had working demos that were secured down or behind display cases. The retail industry went to a customer needs to touch it to but it model and self service as ways to cut down cost, but this may actually be costing them more.
In Canada there was a retailer called Consumers Distributing with the same concept. They had a catolog u look thru then filled out a card with what u wanted. Hand it to the cashier and it would be passed to a "picker" who would go into the secured warehouse and 5 mins later u had ur goods. Sadly they closed but were in business for 40+ yrs.
@@euphoricmonk the company had 1 billion sales one year in the early 90s. They had over 200 retail locations in Canada and throughout the eastern US. I worked at 1 in high school and it was a great company to work for. The internet killed the concept.
@SEC Securities and Exchange Commission I used to work for a store and if i remember correctly when i person is catch steeling the person is arrested and next day released but the merchandise gets thrown away !! anyway your still collecting money for stolen property and the tax is just a man made way to collect money from working people so politicians can sit at home if the police station collects the money $$ so the tax shod be adjusted for home owners since many home owners pay tax for police stations you can not collect money + homeowners tax at the same % so what happens to the money the police station will collect is it pocketed or its it used to adjust the % so home owners can pay less tax since the police stolen lets say made 100K in stolen property or is the money donated and the is proof its bin donated to a hospital even if its donated to schools the tax needs to be adjusted again for homeowners !
Home Depot and its employees are the real thieves here since they leveraged their influence with the State to shut down small businesses during the lockdowns. They also forced people -- even children -- to wear medical devices.
$777,877 out of every BILLION dollars sounds way worse than less than 8 CENTS out of every dollar. It's a good thing they're not promoting sensationalism!
It's actually a nationwide issue. You can track building materials prices online. It appears to be Covid related. The supply lines are just now catching up.
Let me guess, shop lifting got bad when they installed the self checkouts. Why not pay for more cashiers?!! There are no self checkouts at Lowes and it would be pretty difficult to walk out of things from that store. The lanes are close tight and blocked if not in use.
@@tacticalteddy5556 There are 3 in my area and non have self checkout. Even the one in a really expensive neighborhood doesn't have self checkout either. But all the HD around my area have self checkout.
I would rather not have them. Cause if im gonna do the checkout clerks job i should get the employee discount. I hate having to use them when im in a hurry and avoid them as much as possible but they make it hard.
@@tacticalteddy5556 Your comment made me laugh and reminded me of a story. I was in a bathroom and the hand towel holder was empty. On the shelf there were extra rolls so I opened the dispenser and put in a new roll. A man was standing there and told me I should not do that because it was a Union Job.
I'm a General contractor in California and I won't spend a dime in Home depot any more as they burned me and now they loose a minimum of $1,500.00 per month from just me not to mention all the people I know who know me and know that I'm honest and there are some major problems with management and special orders from outside vendors. It's very sad I used to love the establishment, they burned me and would not take responsibility take careful a very good ex client.
I go to lowes and when I made the change I noticed that several of the employees had also made the switch from HD and were now working in the lowes that I frequent and they were the same very friendly and efficient folks that I appreciate.
@@nickm4974 yes Nick I agree but I am not that blessed with land and opportunity 😉, probably in a past life though. I do have some experience pulling fresh cut lumber off a conver and stacking it on carts with steel caster wheels in 20 below zero degrees in Brattleboro VT at a local lumber possessing yard.brrrrrr
These are organized criminal organizations therefore they can be charged with a felony under the RICO statue. Under the RICO Act, a person can be charged with racketeering - which includes bribery, extortion, illegal drug sales, loan sharking, murder and prostitution and organized theft - if he or she has committed two of the 27 federal and eight state crimes under U.S. legislation within a 10-year period.
This is the craziest thing, I've every heard of. What happened to catching them and locking them up? Place a sensor on items! The one thing a thief doesn't like is an alarm, they run EVERY TIME! 😧
I bought a Milwaukee 12v battery that was in a large clear security box. I asked THREE HD associates to remove the box but got waved off, so I just took the whole box home and disassembled it at home. The box had an electronic security device, and the item inside had an RFID tag. Nobody stopped me leaving the store with the whole thing. And now, due to my having to disassemble it, I know how their security box actually works and could easily be defeated- not that I would, but not everybody is honest.
Lol I used to treat the alarm as a joke like I won something or I would wait till a old man walks out and go out at the same time and call him a frikin thief xD laughing cuz it was obvi me but no one was around rly alarm stops anyone watever it was that beeped I am not going to stop at the time I was doing this Stop so I can let them get me ? This is all in the past btw don’t get it twisted 😂
I worked at home depot a long time ago, the problem I saw is with the store managers stealing large items from them! marking them down as damaged witch you have to throw them in the trash but they go to the manager's friends and family.
Make sure you steal a calculator to make sure you don't go over $949 lul Heard this one dude stole a $650 gun. Now they can get away with 2 crimes at the same time.
I was a part time employee who pursued a fraud crime suspect (using a fake credit card). I got WRITTEN UP because I could've have been hurt or killed according to the box store we are watching.
LOL. Like that would stop them. I pay for my items and I usually don’t waste time stopping again. I already paid for the item. I’m not waiting in line again.
That is complicated by the fact now you have many people creating a situation by walking past the receipt checkers at stores and refusing to show their receipts. Some of them do this while recording and place the interaction on RUclips. Many of the recorded & posted incidents occurs at Walmart.
They think it's a victimless crime but at some point everyone becomes the victim. The theifs will just become bolder and try to steal more stuff. They don't understand how the world truly operates. They consider it part of the tax the risk mentality.
@@roadrunner123 She wasn't asking that because she or the network believe that Home Depot should absorb the losses. It's an intentionally leading question so that he has an opportunity to answer it for all the idiots out there who would truly ask that. She's playing dumb so that all the idiots in the audience can get their own stupid questions answered.
I went into home depot to buy a $330. Toro lawn mower a few years ago....they said they had 5 in stock....everyone , I had 3 associates and managers looking for the mowers they had in stock...and they couldn't find the specific Toro mower for me to buy. All of them were gone. Another time @ home depot i was in the checkout line and i saw a man push a cart thru the door and the alarm bells went off and then he rushed and ran to his truck. The associate i was with call security...but it was too late....guy was long gone. All this occurred in Lancaster, Texas...i hope they have the issues resolved. I never could understand why someone can't just buy one lawn mower...and pass the receipt to their friend...who goes gets another mower for free...and then while exiting passes the receipt to another who goes gets another free mower and so on...until the mowers are all gone in 1 hour. Home Depot needs to keep an eye on people...and there should be a bar code on the receipts so they are used only once exiting.
I know this is old but. Home depot writes off those shrinkage it doesn’t affect their stock price if they raise prices their stock prices go up and wow now they are a more valuable company because of theft.
The real thieves are large shareholders and corporate executives. 100,000 people on the ground stealing cartfulls here and there couldn't diminish your buying power the way the wage gap has in the last 12 years.
I was at Walmart and came into view with a guy that had an entire armful of 4K UHD Blu-rays and he had been there grabbing more because he casually put them in a reusable black grocery bag and had another 3 bags already full. He picked up the bags and casually walked past 3 Walmart employees that were just standing there talking then right through a self checkout opening where there was another 2 employees then past the customer service desk where there was 3 more employees and past the greeter and the censors beeped but the greeter just said it was fine. In all the while at each stop I was mentioning it to each employee without them doing diddly squat.
@@kitfisto1827 He means the thieves. Don't be insinuating color of people. There's enough problems in the world without the need to create imaginary problems.
So doing the math...they are losing $8 per $10,000 of sales. It's much cheaper to lose the merchandise than hire workers to watch for shoplifters. Also getting the police to do your asset protection is a plus at a cost to taxpayers.
Those places are so huge that you need to bring a Sherpa with you to bring provisions. They really do need to have employees to help you find stuff if you're not like a construction worker or something who is used to finding their way around the store.
@@Primalxbeast anytime a home depot employee every asked me " can I help you " they disappear never to be seen again. They hire cheap and train them to say that. Then they stop short of training them to actually help.
Checking receipts at the door is complicated now that you have people refusing to show receipts at the door even when they have one and exiting the store. There are people doing this while recording and placing on RUclips. Many are so called "auditors" stating they are standing up for their rights.
Merchandise display locks can be circumvented with bolt cutters, hammers, cutting power tools, and ramset guns, and there are organized retail criminals that are smart enough to do that. To curtail organized retail crime, incorporate choke points and making the entrance doors entrance only unless there is an emergency as well as adding Public views monitors at every self checkout, the entrances, exits, and pro pickup zones. Also we need state laws all across the United States that will make retail boosting an automatic felony.
Yall acting like this is a huge deal 8 hundred thousand for every billion in sales is like losing 80 cents for every 1000 dollars you make. These companies make billions in profit, this isn't hurting anyone.
Those are the wrong numbers to compare. Of that $1,000 you're looking at, most is cost of goods. How much was profit (needed to pay for the wages, the building, property tax, A/C and other utilities)?
Shoplifters are just trying to make a living. They should be bailed out by the government or there should be a shoplifter tax so we all can help them out. The next time you see a shoplifter get caught, just tell them to put it on your bill.
Oh lord, you lost me with "shoplifting causes opioid addition" My IQ dropped several points when I heard that stupidity uttered on a would be news channel.
How about Hiring security,have merchandise check at the exit and hire more worker,instead of people checking them out at the register,this will cut down on stealing.
Are they really? The media portrays the store as the employees are not allowed to stop them. And let them take whatever they want and go home. Obviously a whole warehouse full of stolen merchandise is not the pawn owners fault. It's the stores wide open door policy
@@jakepyrett1715 Yes, they are. I used to work there. It is true that the employees are not allowed to confront shoplifters. The company has indeed started cracking down with loss prevention.
@@PunishedGayMelGibson Stealing is a crime. Home Depot was hit hard with shoplifting when I worked there. I'm glad they're finally taking action against these common thieves.
This has been going on for decades. I worked as a kid for a grocery store on the Baltimore city line back in the 90's. Shoplifters would literally mad rush the store and clear the shelves of many things. I remember batteries and baby formula being a huge target. They came in numbers and security couldn't stop them all. The products ended up on unfortunately on small retailers shelves in the city. I imagined they either directed them or paid peanuts.
How long has that been around? Do the right thing? Evidently your limited understanding of where “thou shalt not…” ends there. Do the right thing does not work with the sinner!
I worked for a contractor who routinely stole materials from the depot and he had a group of boosters who would go around town stealing materials right from job sites.
Back when I was in retail in the 80's and 90's, you'd be surprised what deterrent effect punching a shoplifter in the face had. We used to beat their asses, and they didn't come back.
This would be so easy to stop. A big store like HD can afford to put guys in an office watching cameras on each isle. From there they have the ability to shut and lock the front doors electronically - and here's the key - double doors, like banks in Europe have, so the perp gets trapped in between. Security personnel then grab the perp and have an airtight case because the perp was caught exiting the building. Each arrest would take a matter of minutes if not seconds. Wouldn't take long for crooks to get the message - then you probably wouldn't even have to watch the cameras - someone at the door could do the lockdown. Businesses like this are so worried something will go wrong and they'll end up in court, so really, it's the courts that make this possible. Legalize drugs, put thieves in jail instead. Mexico would be thankful if cartels would go bankrupt - so would American tourists and expats. Win-win. Drugs being illegal does next to nothing to stop their use. We have so little vision and common sense in America. It's too easy for them to pass the cost on to the consumer. Always it's the consumer who suffers. And really, in this day and age where every nut has a gun, every large store like this should have armed, trained security at the front door at all times. This is where we find ourselves. Tell that to the HD CEO/owner. Whoever it is has his head up his ass. We should be giving him the middle finger for making us pay for his lack of action.
I used to think that legalizing drugs was the answer. Try having a friend or relative permanently destroy their brains on meth before you change too many laws tho. It's very easy to get addicted to. If you could buy your first dose at a dispensary for cheap, we'd unfortunately have a WHOLE lot more violent and dysfunctional homeless people than we do - like alcohol but much worse. Some drugs might be handled better through legalization, tho. But the drugs which cause the most harm often don't fall into the category, unfortunately.
All of these stolen goods get sent to Amazon from multiple seller accounts. The stolen goods get put on the shelf right next to legitimate ones and are sold randomly. It is really easy to sell stolen goods on Amazon (not to mention counterfeit ones) because when a seller sells their product it gets pulled off the shelf randomly. It can be the actuall item that the theives sent in or an item from a legitimate wholesaler. Think about how scary this is for food, hygeine products, etc if you receive a counterfeit one with unknown chemicals in it from a reputable seller because the Amazon stock of the product is a mix of real, fake, or stolen products. Buying off Amazon has unfortunately become a direct support of organized crime. In turn you are also funding these crime operations which aren't limited to stolen power tools....think human trafficking, drug distribution, etc.
By their own figures their "cost to the industry per billion" is .007%.... And they're threatening to pass it on to consumers. Or you know, just using it as another reason in the long list of excuses to justify jacking up prices again......
@@klong024 0.088% of gross sales actually, but higher when compared to net profits. The good news is that honest customers are buying FAR more than thieves are stealing. If 5% of customers stole instead, they would go out of business or raise prices. At the current rate, they only have to raise prices by less than 1% to cover the losses (that is, raising prices by 1% would provide more than enough extra gross profit to cover the losses).
Home Depot has a no confrontation policy. On rare occasion they have asset protection officers in the building. They cannot follow the thief into the parking lot. If the employee deviates from this policy, they are fired. Therefore, shrinkage will continue to be a major problem at the Home Depot.
"How is it that they can sell it for even less than a big box retailer can even buy that product for?" Well, I guarantee home depot buys a drill for $20 and then sells it for $120, $99 on "sale".
That's funny because retailers make next to nothing per sale, they make their money in other aspects of the business or other products. But I DeWalt drill that was $120 at home Depot was genuinely probably $99 out the manufacturers door...
It isn’t just boosters. I bought a Hilti drill on eBay and when it arrived it was drop shipped from Hilti direct. I went to register the brand new drill and it said it was already linked to an account. I called and worked with them to help them identify that a group was using stolen CC from companies to buy them on their account and then sell them. Hilti was nice enough to let me keep it for helping them identify the way they were doing it.
@@euphoricmonk they didn’t ask me to return it or send them money for it. It wasn’t free as I paid the scammer but Hilti would have ended up running a charge off or the actual account holder would have disputed it and Hilti was out the tools and money. Sorry for confusion
@@randyjenkins8743 sure there buddy. That’s a story worth making up. With that big melon of yours why don’t you try to exercise the contents of it so maybe you don’t sound so ignorant.
Shoplifters still going strong. On the other hand contractors having trouble returning items they paid for with a receipt.
Or getting loaded with items purchased
I have never had any issues returning anything to the Depot.
Its the HOME DEPOT way .........
They F everyone no matter what.
Don't be fooled by this propaganda.
EXACTLY
That’s halarious!!! Home Depot has already passed it along to the customer. Prices are rediculous.
Then don’t shop there. This has nothing to do with these people stealing from them.
@Richard B EV incentive
@@magahongkong4664 yeah you can literally just charge your car at home.
If you go solar you become close to energy self sufficient
They double dip...Shrinkage written into the costs and deducted on taxes 🙄
@Richard B Remember gas prices are only about half or 60 % of the pump price. The rest is your state and federal taxes.
So what I learned from this video, go shop at pawn shops before going to Home Depot
Shop at flea markets. Everything you can find at stores are sold there. Personal care products by the box. Tools brand new in the box. Best price
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Exactly
@@billpiehler9010 That’s it. Knowingly support the thieves. /s
@@jstins Rather do that than bay these Corporate Communist P.O.S's!!!
Pay attention to his last statement. He said they've been good about not raising prices due to shrink. That doesn't account for a myriad of other reasons they raise prices, including "Just because we can".
This was a the same justification Sears used before they shut down! They blamed stolen merchandise as the downfall! I didn’t really agree with that!
The market drives the price. If it's too high . no one will buy. If there are competitors, the price goes down as well. Capitalism- it's a good thing.
@@sjcflawless OK . You may not agree, but I agree with the stores decision to close. Probably in a lower rent area, crime is usually higher. Regular folks pay for their stuff.
@@bopeep86 Agreed.
@@bopeep86 Amazon was really the ultimate reason why Sears closed. Stolen merchandise was the number two reason. In the end, I can only go by the earnings and media reports. Sears was everywhere! The appliances were the cheapest. I’m pretty sure most of the loss occurred in areas where theft occurs often. I miss Sears though!
30 bucks for a sheet of plywood... who is the real thief?
As a former Home Depot employee I once witnessed a guy run out of the store with some stuff. I took a note of his car and plate number. I reported it to the manager on duty and she did NOTHING about it. Her reason was she said that they didn't want to accuse anybody. Fricking bs.
Report her too, she was likely in on it
I once chased a guy out of Target, took a picture of his car and gave it to the manager. A week later the same guy was at a restaurant. They never did anything. And I didn't even work there.
Yes she probably was in on it
Do you live in a Blue State?
@@J.D.Vision I lived in Wyoming at the time, a mostly red state.
Remove the self checkout and Home depot will save millions Note:I am a Home Depot employee
I hate self checkout. I went to a Walmart marketplace store when I don't usually go there and was surprised to find out that they don't have any cashiers after 8PM. They seemed annoyed that I went to the customer service counter to buy my stuff. I have health problems that make it hard for me to be on my feet and I just wanted to buy my stuff as quickly as possible. Walmart makes an insane amount of money and they can't even afford to hire cashiers? I won't steal even though I'm homeless, but I have no sympathy for them if other people take advantage of them being too cheap to hire cashiers.
I believe this to be true everywhere.. Especially Walmart. If you hired cashiers then it would cut theft down by prob 70%
@@tj7179 When the Walmart grocery store was open 24/7, I used to go in the middle of the night and I'd walk around looking for someone to ring me up and then just leave what I wanted to buy at the register and then leave. I'm sure they must have have many people just walk out without paying.
The logic is that the loss is less than the total cost of employees. Now that losses are increasing the math just doesn't pan out any longer. Combine that with basic greed. That small percentage used to be acceptable. In order to keep margin GROWTH, they have trimmed all the labor they could, volume is stagnant, the easiest target left is reduce loss. Profits were a certain percentage, if that stays the same they're still making money. They just aren't making MORE.
@@Primalxbeast
No. They use the self checkout like a logical adult.
Both Home Depot and Lowes are terribly run companies. The store managers hide from the customers and the employees go out of their way to avoid being helpful. I hate going in to either one and I blame corporate management.
this is only half the story, as expected with NBC reporting. home depot already got an insurance check on the theft. the cops now stole it from the thief. you think they will give it back to home depot or whatever store? hilariously no. the cops keep it and auction it off and pocket the money. they likely let the thief go because its likely a crime ring and racketeering job and all are in on it.
To God be the glory
How about this Home Depot, have more sales persons on the floor. You go into Home Depot and you can’t even get any help. More visible salespersons would deter shop lifters.
They need to keep the expensive high theft items under lock and key
This is true, salespersons at Home Depot run when they see customers.
Here in Atlanta there is a cluster of 2-4 standing near the self checkout. Always young. I thought they were avoiding work. Now I understand what they're doing.
How can a salesperson watch for shoplifters if they are helping you?
I live in two states, one of my homes is just outside NYC and one is in a rural area of Massachusetts. Its almost like a different country. The rural store is a joy the NY store not so much.
You have to take this with a grain of salt. These stories are always exaggerated by everyone involved. HD has been locking up portable power tools behind metal gates; how are they being stolen?
Their large stores were built when they employed large numbers of helpful employees. Now you’re lucky if you can find an employee 5 aisles away!
Of course theft is going to increase when there are no employees around!
Talk about Home Depot's lumber prices if on the subject of theft.
Perfect comment!
Everyone knows lumber has gone up due to the pandemic
I talked to the HD lumber manager and he says they are also paying a lot more for the product. They have contracts with suppliers and the prices fluctuate. I also talked with a bid that runs a hardware store and lumber yard, he told me the same thing. He said “ it’s not me, it’s the suppliers”.
@@katemiller7874 What? there was a tree killing Chinese beetle pandemic?
Its not home depot, there's only like 4 or 5 major lumber company's and they supply everyone
And the top two as in income wise has had an increase of like 300% on profit for lumber
Noticed how he said the cost would be passed to the consumer. Maybe you should hire more employees. More security. Because your prices are too high to begin with. People can and will turn against higher prices. Then that will be your down fall. This day and age retail greed has people realizing what they can live with and what they can do without.
Why should businesses have to fork the unnecessary cost just to do their normal business. The cost of operation will go up either way. Therefore, prices will too.
Well amazon would probably be happy to sell lumber, and offer same day shipping
@@michaellim4165 why should the consumer always be penalized for their lacking?
I say screw the corporations any way one can lol
@@jhaseglenn3064 consumers have a choice, either shop or don't shop. Vendors do not
Depending on what State this CRIME is committed. In Connecticut store security can use what ever means necessary to STOP the theft and get their merchandise back
Wrong answer, leftist clown. In none of the fifty states do rent-a-cops (aka loss prevention, security, whatever their exact title) have the right to lay hands on you or search your possessions. See the 4th amendment if you believe otherwise. And yes, contrary to popular belief, the 4th amendment _does_ in fact apply to places of public accommodation as well since the right to be secure in your own person is a NATURAL right which cannot be taken away except through due process.
So no, in CT, store security cannot use "whatever means necessary" to stop the theft. They're free to try, but they'll either get charged with battery or attacked back in self-defense. And if you think for even a _second_ that the suspected shoplifter will be charged with robbery due to choosing to defend him (or herself), think again.
The woman who was strong-armed by "undercover" (aka plain clothes) loss prevention personnel at an Ikea store in St. Louis ended up having all charges dropped simply because she was grabbed by one of the rent-a-cops. So while true that responding officers and the D.A.'s Office often don't care enough to investigate such matters, there are times when they listen to both sides of the story.
@@arturocamaney9235 sounds like something a thief would say
Umm disagree with you democrat. If someone from "Security" touches me at your store, I will soon be your new CEO, and you'll be fired.
Joe Conservative Not true
@@arturocamaney9235 ever hear of a citizen arrest? This is where a citizen can place another citizen under citizen arrest for a crime witnessed by that citizen. Get it citizen?
Here's a crazy idea, hire guards for the doors instead of firing employees.
You can't touch them. They have the law on their side. These pos thieves know this.
Hiring guards for the doors is not cost effective.
@@michaelshultz1590 They still can't touch the shop lifters, they are not police. They are just there to call the police so they are a waste of time.
@@ricos6243 That depends on the state and the company. Some are hands on.
But that will take from the millionaire CEOs pocket to hire more people you can't do that...
I’m in law enforcement and I can tell you it’s a real problem. The only thing when we get their property back they never want to prosecute. They will also not call the police until the thieves have already let the store even if they have been watching them conceal items.
Most likely an attempt to prevent cops from shooting legitimate customers.
@Prince Wojak then don’t call at all. If they don’t have the stolen merchandise on them then it’s been my experience the prosecution doesn’t want to take the case.
That last is actually an important point that I have not seen raised, JD.
Imagine if the store negotiated in advance with law enforcement about how to notify them when they see a likely impending shoplifting, so that officers could already be on their way or present outside when the thief exits the building. Would that work, in your opinion?
Or would that be treated by LE as a nuisance, since at the time of the first call no actual crime has yet occurred, and some shoplifters might abort their theft if the police arrival was noticed (by them or an associate outside)? Too many fruitless calls - so wait until the crime is verified before calling.
There's really no law against concealing merchandise. Only once you attempt to walk out the doors without paying for it is a crime. Anyone can walk around a store stuffing drills down their pants all they want to but if they take it back out and pay for it no crime committed
@@billybobjamesalt2255 That’s not completely true but your close. It’s passed all points of sale. So once you go pass the cash registers you are fair game. Also if you can prove someone’s intent to commit the crime then they can also be arrested. Example, all of these smash and grabs on the news. However, what you said isn’t untrue.
My homedepot has an Oakland pd officer permanently standing at the exit
If he wasn't on utube all day he would stop more thefts, just ask yourself have you ever seen him stop anyone? We have a sherif infront of ours, they just sit and do nothing. Hands off police don't realy get a lot done.
If he stops one cart full of thousands of dollars of tools a week, the store makes out WELL.
I could picture him tackling a guy for trying to go into without a mask while a guy with $3000 dollars of stolen goods helps the officer subdue the guy, get a high-five from the officer then leave without issues.
Cut a hand off if they are caught and convicted, bet the theft rate would go down.
Thank you Mustafa!
They do that in Africa for real, watched it on bitchute, cut the guys fingers off with a dull hatchet right outside the store and more crazy...the guy was like well ok and just walked off, no freaking out or anything....
Nah ...... Bleeding heart Liberals WON'T ALLOW anything that COULD SOLVE a problem .........
When defense contractors,pharma reps,Wall Street and bank executives and media cheat us -same treatment then? I’m all for it
@@JimboJazz You mostly named the chews without naming them, start naming them. The small hat tribe. The J tube algo is so far up my azz I can hardly say anything the sheeps can understand.
We are going to let insurance handle it and just tell the customers that the $800k shrinkage out of our billion dollar profit must be passed onto them by permanently raising prices on everything even though we could easily make that back in a day.
*EXACTLY* ☝🏽
Having worked at a Home Depot for almost 3 years, it was always weird seeing how much of the shrinkage was from inside jobs🤷♂️
When I work in retail that was one of the main issues. The employees are ripping off the business more than anyone. They get their friends to come in, shoplift, and split the money
Exactly
Sad. So many thieves
employees can help you with an inside job and not even know it. when you order something online usually they keep it in a cart by the back door somewhere. not that I would do it, but a person could easily add all kinds of stuff to said cart. when you pick up your online order they call back and have someone bring you your cart they dont bother to check it over again because it was already loaded by an employee so they unknowingly shoplift for you. if your worried about cameras when loading cart wear a mask and a hat different color shirt they cant prove its you and you didn't actually have it in your possession and walking out the store.
it shrinks??
My niece was working at a Home Depot where they put in charge of loss prevention. She found out contractors were taking tools out the back rollup door and then around the building to their construction vehicle. When she told management what she had discovered in her investigation, they did nothing and told her to back off. Was the store management getting a kickback?
She quit them and now has a wonderful architect job with a major power provider company.
she's lying , she's escorting
Wow? She’s an architect? And she worked for Home Depot? That’s Sussy Baka holmez….
your neice was in the wrong.
how so?@@hardtymz2517
Crooks standing outside Home Depot, "Let's Do This"
We wants it, WE TAKES IT!!
Good one!
how doers get more done is the new crook motto!
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 Omg man... Maybe I go to home depot too much but this cracked me up
Let's be real, it went up the past 3 quarters because you put in all the self check out stations.
Solution to your theft problem - pay cashiers instead of trying to be cheap with the self check outs.
You mean the skip scan lane? 😜
Self check out is so nice though for legits, no messing around, in out boom done.
@@huntergcarswell every company is doing it and most people are honest
@@huntergcarswell Paid cashiers at manned check stands.
And as a small business owner that frequents Home Depot, guess what that means to the bill I hand you after I'm finished with the job?
Yeah we will all go yo a pawn shop but thanks and keep your bill
@@bigred1247 except once the pawn shop is busted they'll get your name and address from the pawnshop (as they are required to get this for all sales), then you'll be out your money and stolen goods.
@@aktsly9237 lol ok guy
You will raise your prices by 0,0778%, as well?
I'm retired corrections and now work at Lowes. Recent policy has been to "stay out of the way" when these criminals make their way out of our stores with merchandise. Management thinks this policy is "safe," and yet have no idea how criminals view this with contempt.
Outside stores there are yellow surveillance machines that can usually just do the job for u….only time they care is if the car is stolen and that leads to bigger arrest I guess everyone understands these are just large company stores n it doesn’t affect the employees or managers so they don’t care…either way there run doesn’t last long either there a super intelligent smart career criminal or usually what it is there just a person addicted to drugs that will either go to jail or die soon… n usually n back then if u would get them in trouble if it isn’t over 1000$ u can’t really do anything they will just be banned from ur store… n even that is a risk cuz if they run they usually do that because they have warrants and those people are already lossed causes so just let em be n they will just use drugs until there death…
Home Depot once accused me of stealing. Said they seen me on camera sticking a Circular Saw blade in my jacket...I laughed thinking they were joking, but then they said they will call the police if I didn't show them my waistband.....they didn't even apologize after I showed them .....shop LOWES ever since.
You should have just cheerfully shown them you were innocent, and that’s it.
Should've made them show you the tape!
@dimentia Biden I had a wife named sue. Her last name was sususudio.!
@@dannysunay8099 wow, how long did you hang onto that one🤦🏿♂️
I quit home depot a few months ago
Walmart, Target and the rest...they expect law enforcement to handle it. Hire your own security, equip them with the proper tools and training and let them do their job. They are too scared of lawsuits.
KEEP IT REAL........Walmart, Target and the rest.. "BAD DEBT INSURANCE".......their income revenue. No interest what so ever in hiring Security, in the even of incident, no notification to Police, which would at least provide information to law enforcement, heightened crime area, knowing, not only Criminal activitst , " Pivot" to.....Shoplifters/ Drug abusers ," pick pocketing, car jackings, robbery, etc.
These establishments, covered, no loss, experience the daily occurennce.... recognize same individuals, daily / weekly, unconcerned jeopardy, the safety....of employees, customers, children, etc. 👋JUst like in the case of karen's, these people are escalating, more agressive., confrontational., and physical.....life endangerment of no concern.
THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD " MANDATE LAW:" ESTABLISHMENTS THAT CARRY "DRUGS" /ALCOHOL......SECURITY MUST BE ASSIGNED DURING OPERATIONS. INCIDENT REPORT COPIES WEEKLY PROVIDED TO NEIGHBORING POLICE STATIONS, TO ASSIST THEIR MONITORING /ASSISTANCE 🖐
********PLEASE BE ASSURED..........THERE IS NO LACK OF THE ANGLES THE CAMERAS ARE SET UP TO RECORD THE EMPLOYEES 👀👀👀👀
00:48 I get the feeling she's the best looking gal to ever ride in that SUV and he's taking the long route
Exactly!
It'll be everyone else's fault when they finally deny public access to the buildings. Bricking up the main entrances/exits and start filling orders out the side doors.
I think the canada home depot is already doing that.
@Andrew Kitchens They're just closing stores instead.
@@ElectronicsForFun yeah for Covid, we don't have the big theft problems like the USA.. if you look at the Camera footage almost every perp is a Sun Person.. way bigger populations in the USA..
Ahhhh, this is how there’s always a ton of brand new Milwaukee power tools for sell on offer up…
I am going to go there and do some shopping
Yea that’s what I have been thinking since I first started seeing them on there. You know they are stolen cause there is no mark up.
Houston's offer up is filled with these type of "deals"
@@terri3486 Thanks for the tip.
@@travisk5589 don't blame me of you get caught up in a sting😬
From what I've heard, they just let them steal here and don't even try to stop them. Matter of fact, if an employee tries to stop them, they get fired :/ I work for a competitor, so LoL! Good job guys!
The best one was the You Tube Video of a guy on a bike just go in and take stuff while they filmed this Glorious Socialist Discount system. Look at all the California Discounts thanks to Socialist Newsom
Yep same thing here in sw Virginia. Employees have been told its not worth risking their lives to stop them. Let’s go Brandon!!!
Lowes?
@@ganjaman407 I think home depot, but probably Lowe's too. Big dumb ass woke corporations are all Duhhhhhh......
Figures it would be a CNBC reporter asking "why is this a problem?".
Lol I laughed when she asked that, what kind of question is that?
Exactly!!!!
First thing I noticed, her first two questions are dumb
@@Iowa21 A lot of dumb people watch TV. These dumb people have dumb questions like this. They think "Home Depot is a big company, so why can't they just absorb the losses?" So by asking an intentionally dumb question, she gives him an opportunity to speak directly to all the jerks in the audience who think this is no big deal.
She plays dumb and it appeals to all the dumb viewers who think "Hey, she's just like me, wondering 'bout this stuff." It's more diplomatic than saying "Explain to our audience why this is a problem."
That’s a legitimate question. Many businesses just count it as an operating expense. Now it’s an organized large operation and is too much of a business cost to absorb by just reducing profit.
Instead of chopping off hands, can’t we just tattoo their crime of choice on their forehead?
No.
Good idea, if you can find a spot to put it on these tatted up assholes. Oh wait, maybe on their a, never mind probably already ink there too!
Brings you lower than they are.
@@xtscarfacem8255 You're right. Perhaps execution would be best, that's not nice either. What would you suggest?
@David Sturgeon Yeah! Where's DOJ with the antitrust indictments?
Charging 3X the normal price for lumber is stealing,
😄
they have to, the lumber cutters are the real crooks charging that much to sell it
It’s the lumber suppliers, not Home Depot or Lowe’s. The lumber suppliers are blaming it all on trucker shortages. Believe what you want.
Its the owls fault. Sarcasm intended
From what I hear Home depot better keep a better eye on their employees including their loss prevention security employees. They take it before it hits the show room.
I LOST MY HOME DEPOT CARD THAT WAS FRAUDULENTLY USED BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON. THE TOTAL COST WAS ABOUT 2000.00 dollars. OUR LOCAL HOME DEPOT WAS VERY UNCOOPERATIVE. CITIBANK HAS BEEN OF LITTLE HELP. WE WERE TOLD BY HOME DEPOT THAT THE LOSS IS OUR PROBLEM. BUYER BE WARE.
Let me explain the problem I saw with Home Depot. They rotate managers...a lot. What they don't do is inventory on his way in. After a year they inventory and he is responsible for the loss he walked into...then he's transferred. You could have literally ZERO loss and when they do inventory you're responsible for the stuff that was supposed to be there but wasn't when you started.
I don’t get why this even have to be tolerated. We have armed security in most commercial establishments here in the Philippines. You won’t even dare to try any of those things here.
lol
Then simply, YOU folks DON'T have "Bleeding heart Liberals" running your country ........ The U.S. is very WEAK on "Disaplin"
Laws, rights, and liability are very different in our two nations, and as the fellow before pointed out, your nation isn’t infested with liberal scum running and ruining everything. How sad it is that the Philippines and even Russia look freer and safer in many respects than we do.
Because America is weak and will soon be taken over by another country. One side is brave enough to dare them and the other side is scared enough to let it go. I like the way this guy handles his shoplifters. He has a channel with several videos.... Gas Station Encounters.
Could you imagine if a retail stores security shot an “unarmed black man”?
The professional shoplifters know that major retailers now have a hands-off policy toward shoplifters. Employees can be fired for making any attempt to physically stop shoplifting.
they can't stop you if you know where the camera blind spots are. I have chased my fair share of tweakers, nobody saw a thing.
Yep. When I used to steal as a youngster, I knew the places that did and didn't have that policy. Guess where we went.
I’ve noticed tool prices are climbing big time. The 12-inch Makita glide miter saw I was looking at a short time ago went from $899.00 to over a thousand now. The Dewalt table saw on a collapsible stand went from $589.00 to $649.00. So which is it, the retailers? The manufacturers or a combination of both? It’s like those little refrigerators in your hotel room, lower the freaking prices and I’ll buy it!
Naw everything is up. Raw materials and tools
remember a store called Service Merchandice? everything in the store was a bolted down or non working or demo unit display item. you had to pay for your item then wait for it to come out of the back warehouse.
I don’t remember that store or they didn’t have one where I lived. However I know circuit city moved to a similar model for higher priced items. CDs, movies, cases and small priced items stay on the floor. Mid value were in locked cabinets on the showroom floor and higher priced items were rang up/paid for and the item would come out at customer service from the back warehouse. They had working demos that were secured down or behind display cases. The retail industry went to a customer needs to touch it to but it model and self service as ways to cut down cost, but this may actually be costing them more.
In Canada there was a retailer called Consumers Distributing with the same concept. They had a catolog u look thru then filled out a card with what u wanted. Hand it to the cashier and it would be passed to a "picker" who would go into the secured warehouse and 5 mins later u had ur goods. Sadly they closed but were in business for 40+ yrs.
@@randypoffo5634 Probably from Sloooooow sales..that's core issue here having effective security with fast end user sales balance..
@@euphoricmonk the company had 1 billion sales one year in the early 90s. They had over 200 retail locations in Canada and throughout the eastern US. I worked at 1 in high school and it was a great company to work for. The internet killed the concept.
@@randypoffo5634 Ahh gotcha, the flip side to the internet is some businesses faded away.
At the end the police station sells are goods at a auction so the crime continues if the police station collects the money !!
It's a cycle like you said
@SEC Securities and Exchange Commission I used to work for a store and if i remember correctly when i person is catch steeling the person is arrested and next day released but the merchandise gets thrown away !! anyway your still collecting money for stolen property and the tax is just a man made way to collect money from working people so politicians can sit at home if the police station collects the money $$ so the tax shod be adjusted for home owners since many home owners pay tax for police stations you can not collect money + homeowners tax at the same % so what happens to the money the police station will collect is it pocketed or its it used to adjust the % so home owners can pay less tax since the police stolen lets say made 100K in stolen property or is the money donated and the is proof its bin donated to a hospital even if its donated to schools the tax needs to be adjusted again for homeowners !
They make up for the loses with lumber pricing.
"Isn't HD able to absorb that issue". Um... Like stealing is not a crime.
Home Depot and its employees are the real thieves here since they leveraged their influence with the State to shut down small businesses during the lockdowns. They also forced people -- even children -- to wear medical devices.
You done lost your mind! How 'bout I find you, rob you of all your stuff and sell in on the next street over.
He was arrested and was back out that evening, and what Facebook channel was that drill on?
$777,877 out of every BILLION dollars sounds way worse than less than 8 CENTS out of every dollar. It's a good thing they're not promoting sensationalism!
I wonder if the boosters figured out a way to steal lumber, wood is getting more expensive than power tools
Lol I'm guessing, like that guy did walk straight out the store and spray pepper spray
I was thinking the same thing 😅
It's actually a nationwide issue. You can track building materials prices online.
It appears to be Covid related. The supply lines are just now catching up.
Let me guess, shop lifting got bad when they installed the self checkouts. Why not pay for more cashiers?!! There are no self checkouts at Lowes and it would be pretty difficult to walk out of things from that store. The lanes are close tight and blocked if not in use.
I dont know what lowes your talking about cause everyone ive been in in the last 5 yrs has them.
@@tacticalteddy5556 There are 3 in my area and non have self checkout. Even the one in a really expensive neighborhood doesn't have self checkout either. But all the HD around my area have self checkout.
My local Lowe’s has self check out
I would rather not have them. Cause if im gonna do the checkout clerks job i should get the employee discount. I hate having to use them when im in a hurry and avoid them as much as possible but they make it hard.
@@tacticalteddy5556 Your comment made me laugh and reminded me of a story. I was in a bathroom and the hand towel holder was empty. On the shelf there were extra rolls so I opened the dispenser and put in a new roll. A man was standing there and told me I should not do that because it was a Union Job.
Who’s watching this while being on lunch as a Home Depot associate??😂😂
All dumb hippo associates do is hide in the break room
I worked at home depot for 7 years part time. I really enjoyed my time working there.
I’m in the bathroom as an associate but yeah
I'm on aisle 5
I'm a General contractor in California and I won't spend a dime in Home depot any more as they burned me and now they loose a minimum of $1,500.00 per month from just me not to mention all the people I know who know me and know that I'm honest and there are some major problems with management and special orders from outside vendors.
It's very sad I used to love the establishment, they burned me and would not take responsibility take careful a very good ex client.
Ok where will you go then? Lowes?HD suppy?
I go to lowes and when I made the change I noticed that several of the employees had also made the switch from HD and were now working in the lowes that I frequent and they were the same very friendly and efficient folks that I appreciate.
@@tomwalton2872 best way is to cut and process your own lumber.
@@nickm4974 yes Nick I agree but I am not that blessed with land and opportunity 😉, probably in a past life though.
I do have some experience pulling fresh cut lumber off a conver and stacking it on carts with steel caster wheels in 20 below zero degrees in Brattleboro VT at a local lumber possessing yard.brrrrrr
These are organized criminal organizations therefore they can be charged with a felony under the RICO statue. Under the RICO Act, a person can be charged with racketeering - which includes bribery, extortion, illegal drug sales, loan sharking, murder and prostitution and organized theft - if he or she has committed two of the 27 federal and eight state crimes under U.S. legislation within a 10-year period.
This is the craziest thing, I've every heard of. What happened to catching them and locking them up? Place a sensor on items! The one thing a thief doesn't like is an alarm, they run EVERY TIME! 😧
In the video it literally showed a guy running out as the alarm is going off...
An alarm will not stop hard-core thieves or professional shoplifters
I bought a Milwaukee 12v battery that was in a large clear security box. I asked THREE HD associates to remove the box but got waved off, so I just took the whole box home and disassembled it at home. The box had an electronic security device, and the item inside had an RFID tag. Nobody stopped me leaving the store with the whole thing. And now, due to my having to disassemble it, I know how their security box actually works and could easily be defeated- not that I would, but not everybody is honest.
Too expensive and too time consuming, better to just write it off as a loss.
Lol I used to treat the alarm as a joke like I won something or I would wait till a old man walks out and go out at the same time and call him a frikin thief xD laughing cuz it was obvi me but no one was around rly alarm stops anyone watever it was that beeped I am not going to stop at the time I was doing this
Stop so I can let them get me ? This is all in the past btw don’t get it twisted 😂
Moral of the story, it's easy af to just walk out of homedepot with a cart full of tools
Lmao it really is
Yup and if they stop you and you get hurt in the process you can sue...it's a win win 😂
@@josephmunn15 how's looting this week?
It’s also easy asf to get arrested for it.
been doing it for years HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I worked at home depot a long time ago, the problem I saw is with the store managers stealing large items from them! marking them down as damaged witch you have to throw them in the trash but they go to the manager's friends and family.
Nice that’s smart
In California, they won’t arrest you if what you stole is less than $950.
Make sure you steal a calculator to make sure you don't go over $949 lul Heard this one dude stole a $650 gun. Now they can get away with 2 crimes at the same time.
One of the reasons why Cali is such a safe, clean and pleasant place to live! ; )
Glad to see they are stepping their game up. I used to fleece Home Depot hard as a kid.
The store people are not allowed to stop them. They could get hurt and then lose there job.
I was a part time employee who pursued a fraud crime suspect (using a fake credit card). I got WRITTEN UP because I could've have been hurt or killed according to the box store we are watching.
They need to have clerks at the doors like Costco, no receipt, call supervisors.
LOL. Like that would stop them. I pay for my items and I usually don’t waste time stopping again. I already paid for the item. I’m not waiting in line again.
That is complicated by the fact now you have many people creating a situation by walking past the receipt checkers at stores and refusing to show their receipts. Some of them do this while recording and place the interaction on RUclips. Many of the recorded & posted incidents occurs at Walmart.
The difference is at Costco you need a membership to even get in the door.
Did she really just say “isn’t Home Depot big enough to absorb this issue?”
That's the left for you. They want someone else to lose their goods because someone else needs them more! Provided they themselves lose nothing.
They think it's a victimless crime but at some point everyone becomes the victim. The theifs will just become bolder and try to steal more stuff. They don't understand how the world truly operates. They consider it part of the tax the risk mentality.
@@roadrunner123 She wasn't asking that because she or the network believe that Home Depot should absorb the losses. It's an intentionally leading question so that he has an opportunity to answer it for all the idiots out there who would truly ask that. She's playing dumb so that all the idiots in the audience can get their own stupid questions answered.
She ask a general question for the audience not her own
What a moronic question.
I went into home depot to buy a $330. Toro lawn mower a few years ago....they said they had 5 in stock....everyone , I had 3 associates and managers looking for the mowers they had in stock...and they couldn't find the specific Toro mower for me to buy. All of them were gone.
Another time @ home depot i was in the checkout line and i saw a man push a cart thru the door and the alarm bells went off and then he rushed and ran to his truck. The associate i was with call security...but it was too late....guy was long gone.
All this occurred in Lancaster, Texas...i hope they have the issues resolved. I never could understand why someone can't just buy one lawn mower...and pass the receipt to their friend...who goes gets another mower for free...and then while exiting passes the receipt to another who goes gets another free mower and so on...until the mowers are all gone in 1 hour.
Home Depot needs to keep an eye on people...and there should be a bar code on the receipts so they are used only once exiting.
There is a reason the receipts had a timestamp.
I know this is old but. Home depot writes off those shrinkage it doesn’t affect their stock price if they raise prices their stock prices go up and wow now they are a more valuable company because of theft.
These are why prices going up because of thieves like this....smh.
Yep, that is why me drill costs so much. Thanks thieves.
Now I know where those brand new tools come from on Craigslist.
Remember the BLM stealing for a couple of weeks back when they were doing the so called peaceful protest
The real thieves are large shareholders and corporate executives. 100,000 people on the ground stealing cartfulls here and there couldn't diminish your buying power the way the wage gap has in the last 12 years.
0,0778%, that is how much the thieves cost them, so that is how much they can raise prices
yes but how are the thieves being punished? I've seen thieves walk out the door, no one called the cops, no one tried to stop them
I was at Walmart and came into view with a guy that had an entire armful of 4K UHD Blu-rays and he had been there grabbing more because he casually put them in a reusable black grocery bag and had another 3 bags already full. He picked up the bags and casually walked past 3 Walmart employees that were just standing there talking then right through a self checkout opening where there was another 2 employees then past the customer service desk where there was 3 more employees and past the greeter and the censors beeped but the greeter just said it was fine. In all the while at each stop I was mentioning it to each employee without them doing diddly squat.
I think the reason is because they don't want any confrontation and they get the insurance back for stolen merchandise.
@@randybradley4151 yes but if they are never really punished for misdeeds they're just gonna do it again
@@randybradley4151 whos willing to fight and possibly get injured for minimum wage? Plus risk being sued for excessive force or some shit...
@Iansain the great I totally agree with you and was thinking the same damn thing.
Facebook Marketplace is plagued with these people. If you try to report it through FB, it appears they don't stop them.
What do you mean "these people" ?😄
@@kitfisto1827 He means the thieves. Don't be insinuating color of people. There's enough problems in the world without the need to create imaginary problems.
But fb is on the spot if they deem something "offensive"
FaceBook is only concerned if you express anything while wearing a MAGA cap.
Saying the company is losing 700k would be much more impressive if it wasn't "per billion in sales". Great use of government resources there.
So doing the math...they are losing $8 per $10,000 of sales. It's much cheaper to lose the merchandise than hire workers to watch for shoplifters. Also getting the police to do your asset protection is a plus at a cost to taxpayers.
Home Depot needs more employees to start, it is like shopping in a ghost town. Check receipts at the doors.
Those places are so huge that you need to bring a Sherpa with you to bring provisions. They really do need to have employees to help you find stuff if you're not like a construction worker or something who is used to finding their way around the store.
@@Primalxbeast anytime a home depot employee every asked me " can I help you " they disappear never to be seen again. They hire cheap and train them to say that. Then they stop short of training them to actually help.
@@kahnfused1 And if someone disappears in a Home Depot, you'd have to call in search dogs to find them. 👻
Checking receipts at the door is complicated now that you have people refusing to show receipts at the door even when they have one and exiting the store. There are people doing this while recording and placing on RUclips. Many are so called "auditors" stating they are standing up for their rights.
How can someone show a receipt if they choose the email option?
Besides once I pay for the item, no one touches it.
Merchandise display locks can be circumvented with bolt cutters, hammers, cutting power tools, and ramset guns, and there are organized retail criminals that are smart enough to do that. To curtail organized retail crime, incorporate choke points and making the entrance doors entrance only unless there is an emergency as well as adding Public views monitors at every self checkout, the entrances, exits, and pro pickup zones. Also we need state laws all across the United States that will make retail boosting an automatic felony.
California: “Lol…good luck.”
"There was shrinkage!!!!" - George Costanza
Legend!🤣😂
Significant shrinkage
I was in the pool!!!
Significant shrinkage
All that cold water...
People host Home Depot "yard sales" in some west Phoenix neighborhoods. Clues? Multiples of leaf blowers and other tools new in the box.
Lmfaooo
Yall acting like this is a huge deal 8 hundred thousand for every billion in sales is like losing 80 cents for every 1000 dollars you make. These companies make billions in profit, this isn't hurting anyone.
Those are the wrong numbers to compare. Of that $1,000 you're looking at, most is cost of goods. How much was profit (needed to pay for the wages, the building, property tax, A/C and other utilities)?
You can buy pallets of home depot tools and they are returns doesn’t mean they are stolen
Shoplifters are just trying to make a living. They should be bailed out by the government or there should be a shoplifter tax so we all can help them out. The next time you see a shoplifter get caught, just tell them to put it on your bill.
@@petem7118 Chill. Look up "sarcasm".
Hello, I'm a very successful shoplifter in Chicago
Hi
Thanks CNBC, that was super informative!
It's not just the big box chains.And from what I've observed employees are often complicit.
All I saw was law enforcement going after pawn shops. Passing laws to take down pawn shops.
Because... pawn shops are the fencers? Any of this registering? Stop smoking so much weed man.
Try hiring some actual employees. An employee is paid an actual living wage...
How much is a living wage?
@@ALSmith-zz4yy 25 an hour
Oh lord, you lost me with "shoplifting causes opioid addition" My IQ dropped several points when I heard that stupidity uttered on a would be news channel.
What? It’s absolutely true. People addicted to hard drugs are far more likely to engage in retail theft
In the same sentence, he called "guns" a crime.
@@TheGalvin86 So think about what *you* just said... So drugs lead to shoplifting NOT shoplifting leads to drugs, right?
@@deathwrenchcustom Oh boy! I missed that! I must have still been dizzy from "shoplifting leads to opioid use!" lol!
Opiate addiction causes shoplifting. They should strip the Sackler family of every penny.
How about Hiring security,have merchandise check at the exit and hire more worker,instead of people checking them out at the register,this will cut down on stealing.
What????! Shoplifting is a human right!
Sincerely,
San Francisco leftwingers
I'm glad to see that Home Depot is cracking down on these crooks. They and the pawn owners need to go to jail.
Are they really? The media portrays the store as the employees are not allowed to stop them. And let them take whatever they want and go home. Obviously a whole warehouse full of stolen merchandise is not the pawn owners fault. It's the stores wide open door policy
@@jakepyrett1715 Yes, they are. I used to work there. It is true that the employees are not allowed to confront shoplifters. The company has indeed started cracking down with loss prevention.
@@PunishedGayMelGibson Stealing is a crime. Home Depot was hit hard with shoplifting when I worked there. I'm glad they're finally taking action against these common thieves.
This has been going on for decades. I worked as a kid for a grocery store on the Baltimore city line back in the 90's. Shoplifters would literally mad rush the store and clear the shelves of many things. I remember batteries and baby formula being a huge target. They came in numbers and security couldn't stop them all. The products ended up on unfortunately on small retailers shelves in the city. I imagined they either directed them or paid peanuts.
Maybe in your area but there’s MANY decent areas where this normally doesn’t happen.
How bout just THOU SHALL NOT STEAL. End of problems. Do the right thing.
How long has that been around? Do the right thing? Evidently your limited understanding of where “thou shalt not…” ends there. Do the right thing does not work with the sinner!
The green Home Depot shirt at about 1:26 where to buy?
I worked for a contractor who routinely stole materials from the depot and he had a group of boosters who would go around town stealing materials right from job sites.
Back when I was in retail in the 80's and 90's, you'd be surprised what deterrent effect punching a shoplifter in the face had. We used to beat their asses, and they didn't come back.
The good ole days
nowdays, YOU would be charged for doing that and the shoplifter would get a fine or even less.
Sounds like mob. Take them in the back room,smash the hand with a hammer. Then throw them into the alley.
@@robertcollins6170 Yall crazy
Sure buddy tell us a other story...
Hard to feel sorry for Home depot loses😳
lifethroughthelenseof happiness... I'd like to know if you would feel the same if people were stealing from YOU everyday?
They treat their staff so poorly that they don't care unless the store manager is in house that day.
This would be so easy to stop. A big store like HD can afford to put guys in an office watching cameras on each isle. From there they have the ability to shut and lock the front doors electronically - and here's the key - double doors, like banks in Europe have, so the perp gets trapped in between. Security personnel then grab the perp and have an airtight case because the perp was caught exiting the building. Each arrest would take a matter of minutes if not seconds. Wouldn't take long for crooks to get the message - then you probably wouldn't even have to watch the cameras - someone at the door could do the lockdown. Businesses like this are so worried something will go wrong and they'll end up in court, so really, it's the courts that make this possible. Legalize drugs, put thieves in jail instead. Mexico would be thankful if cartels would go bankrupt - so would American tourists and expats. Win-win. Drugs being illegal does next to nothing to stop their use. We have so little vision and common sense in America. It's too easy for them to pass the cost on to the consumer. Always it's the consumer who suffers. And really, in this day and age where every nut has a gun, every large store like this should have armed, trained security at the front door at all times. This is where we find ourselves. Tell that to the HD CEO/owner. Whoever it is has his head up his ass. We should be giving him the middle finger for making us pay for his lack of action.
I used to think that legalizing drugs was the answer. Try having a friend or relative permanently destroy their brains on meth before you change too many laws tho. It's very easy to get addicted to. If you could buy your first dose at a dispensary for cheap, we'd unfortunately have a WHOLE lot more violent and dysfunctional homeless people than we do - like alcohol but much worse.
Some drugs might be handled better through legalization, tho. But the drugs which cause the most harm often don't fall into the category, unfortunately.
All of these stolen goods get sent to Amazon from multiple seller accounts. The stolen goods get put on the shelf right next to legitimate ones and are sold randomly. It is really easy to sell stolen goods on Amazon (not to mention counterfeit ones) because when a seller sells their product it gets pulled off the shelf randomly. It can be the actuall item that the theives sent in or an item from a legitimate wholesaler. Think about how scary this is for food, hygeine products, etc if you receive a counterfeit one with unknown chemicals in it from a reputable seller because the Amazon stock of the product is a mix of real, fake, or stolen products. Buying off Amazon has unfortunately become a direct support of organized crime. In turn you are also funding these crime operations which aren't limited to stolen power tools....think human trafficking, drug distribution, etc.
They should put smaller doors and only open the bigger entrances/exit for customers once they show receipt of payment.
no, that’s called imprisonment;
COSTCO/SAM’s has a policy where they ask for the receipts on way out but the doors are not locked....
Plus you can exit out of the entrances and vice versa. good idea though
@@av8rbri473 private business and they can do what they want. Banks do it with ATM
I got nabbed as a kid trying to steal staples. Different times lol
I got caught in 1973 when I was 10 stealing a Bic lighter from Grants Dept store......My Dad BEAT MY ASS!
Their profit took a hit lmao 🤣 ok Home Depot have a 178% profit increase this year alone
By their own figures their "cost to the industry per billion" is .007%.... And they're threatening to pass it on to consumers. Or you know, just using it as another reason in the long list of excuses to justify jacking up prices again......
@@klong024 0.088% of gross sales actually, but higher when compared to net profits.
The good news is that honest customers are buying FAR more than thieves are stealing. If 5% of customers stole instead, they would go out of business or raise prices. At the current rate, they only have to raise prices by less than 1% to cover the losses (that is, raising prices by 1% would provide more than enough extra gross profit to cover the losses).
Home Depot has a no confrontation policy. On rare occasion they have asset protection officers in the building. They cannot follow the thief into the parking lot. If the employee deviates from this policy, they are fired. Therefore, shrinkage will continue to be a major problem at the Home Depot.
68 bucks for a 1/2 inch thick peace of plywood. Not bringing up the prices. My as
"How is it that they can sell it for even less than a big box retailer can even buy that product for?" Well, I guarantee home depot buys a drill for $20 and then sells it for $120, $99 on "sale".
That's funny because retailers make next to nothing per sale, they make their money in other aspects of the business or other products. But I DeWalt drill that was $120 at home Depot was genuinely probably $99 out the manufacturers door...
If they can buy it for $20 new from the manufacturer, then it will be far cheaper at some other store or at Amazon. More likely they buy for $90-100.
The consumer is on the hook for the stolen items and losses.
It isn’t just boosters. I bought a Hilti drill on eBay and when it arrived it was drop shipped from Hilti direct. I went to register the brand new drill and it said it was already linked to an account. I called and worked with them to help them identify that a group was using stolen CC from companies to buy them on their account and then sell them. Hilti was nice enough to let me keep it for helping them identify the way they were doing it.
Hilti makes nice equipment
They let you keep it but didn't you already buy it on eBay? or did they give your money back? unclear.
Made up story
@@euphoricmonk they didn’t ask me to return it or send them money for it. It wasn’t free as I paid the scammer but Hilti would have ended up running a charge off or the actual account holder would have disputed it and Hilti was out the tools and money. Sorry for confusion
@@randyjenkins8743 sure there buddy. That’s a story worth making up. With that big melon of yours why don’t you try to exercise the contents of it so maybe you don’t sound so ignorant.
$800,000 lost for every one billion dollars earned by home depot.
Oh, boo hoo. I can hear the worlds smallest violin playing just for the elite.
Have you checked the price of a 2x4 lately? ... Home Depot is passing it along.