Behind the scenes of Home Depot's operation to take down professional shoplifters
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- Опубликовано: 21 ноя 2019
- Organized retail crime cost retailers nearly $778,000 per $1 billion in sales in 2018, an all-time high, according to a National Retail Federation survey. In the past three quarters, Home Depot reported that an increase in "shrink" hurt its financial results. Retail shrinkage includes organized retail crime. Home Depot says if shrink gets too high, it may have to pass costs off to consumers. CNBC's Courtney Reagan reports.
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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.
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!
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...
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!!!
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.
They make up for the loses with lumber pricing.
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??
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
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
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.
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......
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
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.
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😬
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
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
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.
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…
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.
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?
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.
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!
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
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?
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* ☝🏽
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.
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..
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
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 👀👀👀👀
Glad to see they are stepping their game up. I used to fleece Home Depot hard as a kid.
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
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.
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!
They treat their staff so poorly that they don't care unless the store manager is in house that day.
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.
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
"There was shrinkage!!!!" - George Costanza
Legend!🤣😂
Significant shrinkage
I was in the pool!!!
Significant shrinkage
All that cold water...
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.
"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.
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 😂
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?
30 bucks for a sheet of plywood... who is the real thief?
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.
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.
Try hiring some actual employees. An employee is paid an actual living wage...
How much is a living wage?
@@ALSmith-zz4yy 25 an hour
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”?
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?
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.
The easiest way to stop it is, $1 retail value, including damage to store fittings= 1 days jail. Same sentence for everyone involved.
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!
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
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.
It's not just the big box chains.And from what I've observed employees are often complicit.
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.
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.
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! ; )
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.”
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.
Home Depot needs to just put some stiff at the door checking receipts like Costco does. It may not stop it but will severely hamper it.
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.
California must pass a law forcing stores to provide bigger carts for shoplifting.
He was arrested and was back out that evening, and what Facebook channel was that drill on?
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.
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 !
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.
$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!
Here I’m here saving for new packout cases, yet these people take a full cart of tools with them.
That's the real hidden cost.
If you measure this in just dollars, they said that the losses amounted to less than a million per billion of sales; if each billion of sales produces, say, $20 million in profits (after all costs), that's less than 5% of profits. Stopping it could cost much more, directly (eg: more security) or indirectly (lawsuits). So they decide whether or not some measure is worth it.
But the social cost is a society where people feel that others are openly getting away with crime while they have to work their butts off. Over time that corrodes the social contract, leads to some negative outcomes. Joining the thieves is one possibility, but there are others.
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!
Thanks CNBC, that was super informative!
Dude who walks into HD with a hoodie pulled over and buys 6-8 chainsaws at once and no one stops him lol
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).
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.
I worked at a home depot and if you tried to stop a shop lifter say goodbye to your job
What????! Shoplifting is a human right!
Sincerely,
San Francisco leftwingers
These criminals know they can get away with it. Put a cop at the exit.
They need to hire experienced LP and pull off the restraints. Walmart make it an easy target due to LP being handcuffed by Walmart policy. Over 30 years in LP, and highly trained people is a must.
You can buy pallets of home depot tools and they are returns doesn’t mean they are stolen
I can't think of a single reason why shoplifting has skyrocketed...
With your high prices,you never have to worry about me shoplifting
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 😅
A truck driver got his load lifted a week ago which was destined for Menards lol
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.
"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.
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
Drill set $400
Air compressor $300
Chopsaw $ 200
Cutting off hand with Chopsaw for repeatedly stealing...priceless.
I hear the Home Depot theme
There is a very easy way to stop this. Put kiosks in front of the store and don't let customers inside. You pick what you want from a computer screen, pay, then an employee brings out your stuff. Problem solved. Zero theft.
Stores are already moving to online. Pretty soon there will not be many retail stores. That business model probably doesn’t work well with home improvement stores.
Not a bad idea
@@kenbrownfield6584 Thank you.
@@jimziemer474 Well, it would cost a lot to have like lumber, drywall and mud delivered. You could order it online then pick it up like H D Pro.
You can't pick lumber through a computer screen. You'll end up with all the warped, twisted , cracked, and knot filled stuff you couldn't build a dog house it of.
Every time I go into a Lowe's or Home Depot the security alarm goes off nobody even looks towards the door except me
If you do the math, it’s only 0.8% of their profit.
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...
Hello, I'm a very successful shoplifter in Chicago
Hi
Even the steel shelves were stolen from HD! Amazing!
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.
"Can't you absorb this?" WTF is the matter with you woman? If somebody starts taking money out of your paycheck every week eventually you are either going to find out who and stop it or ask for a raise.
It was a pre- loaded question for the interview. Common practice.
700 or 800 k is 8/10 of 1% of a billion hd runs a margin of about 30% not saying its not an issue, but don't get sidetracked its cute how 700 is emphasized and 1 billion sounds so small. a billion is a thousand million. under 1% means they are doing a really good job at this cat and mouse job.
Big businesses like that have to account for loss due to theft.. it sucks but it is what it is.
Lol check your paycheck, you might be surprised 1/3 of it is gone.
@@mikeicee so your a liertaian. so tel us please how do you get around using pubic ways.? maybe you own s car. how do you gas up the car. its alwsys a libertaian that feels they are getting ripped off but are thd frist to be sucking up the benifits of society. if society followed your model progress would stop. industry would stop 90% of your efforts would be you just trying to stay alive. so 1800 welcomes you.
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".
Give the stores real security guards that are allowed to use force if necessary
I work at Home Depot and that’s exactly what I see people stealing on a week day basis
Shut these pawn shops down!
These thieves are just trying to compensate themselves for all the time it took to find a person to assist them with a simple question 🤣🤣
Lol
That is funny but years ago my brother and I went to Builders Square ( just like home depot years ago) tried to get someone to get down a $800 fire place from the top shelve, after an hour we just walked out, gave up.
Lol perfectly said
They could start by..... not letting thieves leave the store. Lowes has a do no confront policy and just lets them walk. Once when I was in a store, a guy walked right past an off duty out of uniform cop as he was getting rung up. The cashier said "it happens all the time" and the cop went out in the parking lot and arrested the thief on the spot. So big box retailers: DOn't sit on your hands and watch your inventory walk out the door. STOP the thieves.
Shrinkage, I was in the pool!