And who bears the additional cost of all these security measures? Honest paying customers? Our societies need to ask the harder underlying question: Why has the social contract broken?
@@rridderbusch518the type of answer that encourage people to shoplift. They are not desperate, they just rely on people saying this shyte to keep on stealing with no guilt while the honest are the ones paying the prices with more increased prices. Shame to these people.
State governments need to make breaking into these cases a felony. California needs to lower the amount they prosecute for theft from $1000 to $50. They need to secure all merchandise.
Even though it's wrong, as an EMPLOYEE, you don't get paid enough to be the police. You don't care enough to stop them. Boss man says let them go. The stuff's insured. End of story.
Problem is insurance is gonna get expensive so the loss has to be covered somewhere. Id rather the employer not take a loss and then have them pay me more.
Yep. This is why Loss Prevention at Ross are told not to follow, block, detain, confront, touch and accuse those that are shoplifting. If they did, they then are taking their chances of getting hurt. And if by chance the shoplifter is badly injured because an Loss Prevention security guard decided to take law into their own hands, the shoplifter can sue that guard. Reason being, is because any security guard are not law enforcement.
That lady is right it does Jack up the price for everyone else. Consumers are paying for the cost of increased security and the cost to replace the stolen items.
Should’ve been called”How to prevent shoplifting, while simultaneously pissing off real customers.” Not even real customers want to go through all that for a bag of beef jerky. I don’t even shop at Walmart because of the lock boxes that take an extra twenty minutes for an employee to arrive just to get something like deodorant. I’ll just take my chances and buy from amazon
For real. I don't usually shop at Walmart cause there isn't one close by but one day I happened to be in the area and wanted to try the new TMNT pizza that is only sold at Walmart. I also needed some new razor blades so I stopped by that aisle to get it only to discover it was locked in a case. It wouldn't be so bad if any employee in the store had a key to unlock the cases but I got told I had to go to self check out and ask them to unlock it so I had to trek all the way to the front to ask for help only to be told he was by himself and couldn't leave and that I had to go to customer service. Ended up taking like 15 min just to get razor blades which is ridiculous. I would have bought them online but all the reviews for the ones I needed for my razor mentioned that they were counterfeits and they were marked up higher than what Walmart had them for.
@@TheCobruhAlienat0r My local Walmart has those flip up covers on basically everything in the health & beauty section. They also narrowed the isles to the absolute minimum required by ADA. It's damn near impossible to get through, and if someone is already in the isle between you and what you need you can't get past them if you both have carts, you have to wait or circle around to the other end. It's absolutely maddening. I only go there for some food items other local stores stopped carrying, and it's no longer worth the ever smaller savings to go through the hassle of picking up other items I may need there.
I went to the Walmart at 6am one day, noticed the cheap thing I wanted was locked away, hidden in a corner of a numbering system that doesn't follow a normal order. I had to be somewhere, and didn't have time to hunt down an associate to play the "find the key" game. Later that day, went to a supermarket where the product wasn't under lock, bought it at self-checkout. I wonder when Walmart will take the lazy route and blame amazon for its problems, when that's not the case at all.
Seems part of the problem is the lack of employees. Retailers cheaped out and have almost no staff watching over all that merchandise and then they wonder why it grows legs and walks off. Guess they figure losing a few things and paying for these anti-theft devices is cheaper than paying an employee.
@@SamSitar Well, I think the business might have something to say about that... and also ...if you are not sure you are going to be paid.. it's not worth it.
Make it so you have to walk down a long hallway to exit the store. The doors in the hallway lock and trap you inside until the police come to arrest you. There would be two hallways to exit in the event that someone is caught.
How about you take a basic math course? Executive pay can certainly be excessive but a CEO can work for free and the net result would be a few bucks - if that - to each employee per year. But go ahead and keep living this fantasy where executive pay is the real problem.
How about them actually being arrested and charged to the fullest extent each and every time instead of just letting them get gone and not doing anything.....
@@mrparkerdanI think charged and sentence to the fullest extent of the law works. In some of these cases, there are other things they can tack on if they were serious. Also, in some places in the USA that never happens. There are still a lot of places in the USA where you will be punished if you are caught. It's just the problem is so prevalent and out of control in cities controlled by the Democrats that it seems like It happens everywhere.
The lady in the end has so much dignity that I felt shame for the thief in the bike. Whatever happened to chain gang prisoners being put to work building roadways or making big rocks into smaller rocks? These shoplifters are untapped workforce for the prison system.
The sad thing is, is that the lady could lose her job over what she did. Reason being, is that she could have gotten hurt. When I worked at Ross, the employees including Loss Prevention officers are told not to do 6 things to shoplifters. Those 6 things are, not to follow, detain, accuse, block, confront and touch the shoplifters due to they are not law enforcement, therefore, if the shoplifter got injured by a store employee, that shoplifter can sue.
You think the KMT while they were in charge didn't try to do that with the poor in China? Where are the KMT now? Thing is, these poor people has nothing to lose, but everything to gain. If they are going to die from starvation anyways, why not? We had a saying back home, a cornered tiger will attack. It has nothing to lose, but by attacking you, there is a small chance of it actually gaining something.
That security guy is a snakeoil salesman. Only way to solve is with harsh prosecution or turn stores into prisons to get out of them. Driving your stolen car to a big box store, knowing no one in the store will stop you from stealing, and you won't be chased, caught, or prosecuted is the issue. Professional thief is a career now.
Always remember to do your shopping at the local flea market and yard sales. This is where you will find many of the stolen merchandise at a good discount. 😊
I was in Seattle and couldn’t even pick up allergy medicine myself because it was behind a locked cabinet! I understand why they do that, but it is very frustrating.
FYI, it takes 1 single #14 thhn and a 1/16th of a brain to figure out how to bypass the activation chips in power tools. Simple bypass via jumper wire and they work fine.
Except that property & violent crime has gone down steadily since peaking in the 70s. Ups & downs but the trend is down. Modern mass media shows it so it seems like it’s more
Thieves dont want to share their phone numbers? So what stops them from using phone apps that give you free temporary phone numbers to receive text messages to get inside the case...
What about the 10s of thousands of jobs that will go away when all the local stores close down? If everyone is now a low-wage delivery driver, will your job still be safe?
I wonder why the roads are crowded during certain times of the day. You can work on that same internet, no reason to spend hours driving to find an internet connection in an office!
It is pretty simple ! Soft on crime officials and not being charged , no charges filed for up to $950.00 dollars of goods . Ar best, maybe a minor charge. Then back out on the street to keep doing
@@CapnCody1622 True, Kroger fired me for defending myself way back in 2001 when a female coworker attacked me while I was using the deli meat slicer. Kicked me in the back of the knee, almost caused me to fall, so I turned around and put her in a headlock. And then she cried to the boss and had me fired.
It's not a shoplifting epidemic. It's a No Consequences, No Arrests, No Punishment, No Morals epidemic. Combine that with people who don't want to work, or who make more money reselling stolen goods than what they would make at a real job.
You are right. I watched this segment and I did not see them mention that fact. I saw where the majority of shoplifting in NYC is done by something like 200+ people. Sounds like they even know who they are but they won't keep them in jail. It makes no sense.
I guarantee you the poor people who made up the Communist party of China was not lazy and don't want to work. Don't make that mistake, many of these people tried to work, but can't make ends meet.
But lets also be real, it's a particular type and demographic of people who are doing this. It's summertime and the USA is in the middle of a massive heat wave and people that wear masks, hoodies up over their head, gloves and the like aren't coming to shop, they're coming to rob you. This is the same "uniform" of the same demographic that continues to perpetuate the same crimes for decades. Take that as you will. But I take it as, if I see you wearing that type of clothing, I'm gonna be sure to avoid you and take a photo of you just in case, cause I know you're gonna be shoplifting or robbing someone.
Yeah and when walmart comes in your neighborhood and runs out local grocery stores with open late hours more cashiers lower prices and then closes down because they claim theft is to great to continue operations because the crap they sell does not cover operating costs. Now we have no place to buy groceries. And youbleeding heart liberal politicians DO NOTHING.
Shouldn't have to outsmart them. Just put four beefy, angry looking dudes with baseball bats outside the door standing around a sign: "Shoplifters, we're here for you." After they get their bearings beaten off a time or three they'll stop stealing... probably because they'll be too crippled to.
People like to think that stealing from large corporations hurts the wealthy CEOs and higher executive beneficiaries; however, those people pass those expenses out to their employees, shareholders, etc those losses aren’t realized where they hurt the bad people. They are always losses to the people working there who make less money than the thieves.
It's already a legal requirement for pawn brokers. Pawn shops are highly regulated. Their license will be revoked if they don't do it. Any electronics, watches, vehicle VIN's (people duplicate titles all the time to sell stolen vehicles), jewelry (if it has one) serial numbers, and firearm serial numbers (if you have an FFL), gold/silver bar's serial number (they're usually engraved on the bar somewhere) are required to be entered into a database once purchased or pawned. Every item in the pawn shop is in this database, but 99% of the time the items have no serial number. The database is tied directly to law enforcement. But the truth is, unless you have something insured, 99% of people do not know the serial number of any of there items or jewelry, so there's not often information about it in the database. I managed a pawn shop for 8 years. I had many stolen items come in, and within 24 hours of entering it into the database, if it was reported stolen and they had information to give to the police, the police would come by and inspected the item, verified some information, get information about the same from me, and then take the item. There's just no full proof way to not buy stolen items. It happens to every pawn shop. The database does bring up some red flags for police as well. Say someone stole like 200oz of silver and someone just pawned or sold like 180oz if silver, they're notified. If you have something stolen, do not bring it to a pawn shop, they're required to scan your ID if they make a purchase.
Merchandise Warehouse, anyone? Oh, yeah -- people all said their shopping model didn't work well enough. Now here we are decades later and it's the ONLY way these stores can possibly survive.
Or, you could just make getting caught harder and make the punishment for doing so worse as well......Why should it be the company's responsibility to keep people from stealing?? Its a person's responsibility to not steal. There is a fear there that is dying. Its sad.
Been a few times I brought a few things with security tags whats still inside the items,I walk in to another shop,It set's of the alarm's,I got stopped and searched,I did tell them about it,All they did was stop the alarm going of again when I walked back out
Or we could just raise the minimum wage. People don't steal beef jerky and risk jail unless they are hungry and have no other choice. People have full time jobs and are still living in their car.
@@lisarose7084No, they are stealing because they know they don't have to pay for things anymore and they can get away with zero consequences. This is a recent issue that is a direct result of the Democratic soft on crime policies.
I don’t want power tools that have special chips in them…. I’m sure those chips will go bad and now you a defective tool….. not to mention what if they have gps location… I’m tired of everything trying to track me
One should ask: Why do people need to steal in the first place? Asking the question doesn’t make what they’re doing right and we should be open to finding the answers that we’re uncomfortable with. Economic inequality, not making a living wage, gentrification and being priced out of homes are all good places to start. It would be advantageous to explore the root of the problem instead one of many symptoms.
Your answer is perfect if you're reading a paragraph in a social work textbook. The reality is (it's my job - I deal with it every day) there is a percentage of our population that lives a life of crime-violent and nonviolent. They have zero empathy, zero ability to think four steps ahead about consequences, etc. There has been nobody to teach morals, rules, how to be a good citizen in the community, etc. This population I speak of covers all races and they just want to belong to their group-whatever it may be. Laws and rules mean nothing to them, NOTHING. Slapping people on the hand for breaking the law has created this nightmare and as we see in he video here, many of the shoplifters have weapons (guns, knives, razor blades, pepper spray and bear spray) and they are using them more frequently, especially juveniles because they think they can't be charged since they are under age. I have had a couple bad times in he last 15 years but I would have died before I stole anything! It's how I was raised-to know right from wrong.
@@LaLadybug2011 I agree with you completely. There are just some people who do not know (or care about) right from wrong. They justify their actions in their heads and that makes their crimes reasonable. From shoplifters to wealthy conmen running Ponzi schemes, they are a scourge on modern society. We even elected one president. (I'll let you decide which one.) The only solution is to prosecute them for their crimes and hope that they learn their lesson, or at least fear being prosecuted again.
Wages cannot keep up the cost of living , just look at the most basic things, gas, milk, eggs. Prices keep going up, but wages stay the same. Many companies are trying to cut cost by hiring 2 part-time employees instead of 1 full time employee to save on health insurance, PTO, merternity leaves, vacation etc
Why didn’t they put a gate that will auto close if someone tries to shoplift? If they did that with a very tall gate it’s basically impossible to gate jump and gates can have the option to lock so bruite force dosent work as well and put a wall on top like nyc mta gates to prevent them from climbing over
If they would punish thievery by 1st time chopping off the middle finger, 2nd time dominant hand... I believe this thievery would be no longer an issue.
Pro tip: If I have to get an adult to unlock the heartburn medication from the pharmacy aisle, I'm not gonna shop at your store. And If my $300 power drill has to be "activated" that means it can also be deactivated, and I'm not buying it.
But reg people should not have to giv their phone numbers just to buy tampons... seem like date collection not crime prevention...is this data being sold ?
Many stores don't allow employees to intervene and in many places shoplifters don't get it any trouble if caught anyway. So more employees isn't a solution in many locations.
Help youth and ex prison inmates,poor people find Jobs with high inflation,food stamps cut.Millions & Millions dollars going to Ukraine & Taiwan to help them.
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It's cheaper to teach them as children not to steal . But that would involve actually being a parent
Parenting has been made illegal in the USA. Particularly BLM parenting.
Most of the parents are doing the same thing or just doing crimes in general . How do you think they learn it?
A bit short sighted. Passing blame from the people doing to parents is only hyper focused on one area.
@@Djmatrix2310it all starts at home, if you're raised with poor fundamentals at home then nothing else really matters in terms of prevention.
Retailers decided they didn’t want to pay for checkout clerks and make you do the checkout. How do we teach retailers to do their jobs?
You don't need to outsmart them, you just need to make shoplifting illegal again.
👍 Much respect to that lady at the end for ripping off the thief's mask!
@@JohnCiaccio : Why? She was just another customer.
He looked like what is the matter with you?
Old lady is lucky that thief didn't want to add an assault charge to his misdemeanor.
That was assault, I hope she is identified and arrested
@@patricknevermind8529she attacked first, it wouldn't be assault for him
Although scared for her, Grandma made me proud.
Grandma at the end is a true American Hero! Getter Grandma!
It literally says Canada on the clip 😂
it's Canadian Hero !
She is from a time when shoplifting was illegal.
Kudos to the Granny at the end!🤣🤣👏🏿👏🏿So glad she wasn't hurt!
And who bears the additional cost of all these security measures? Honest paying customers? Our societies need to ask the harder underlying question: Why has the social contract broken?
Because Billionaires have the power to set low wages. People are desperate.
Broken families
@@rridderbusch518 No- like the video said, most of these crimes are done by gangs- organized crime, NOT people stealing "necessities".
@@rridderbusch518That's not why. They are stealing because Democrats have removed the penalties for doing so and they had no morals to begin with.
@@rridderbusch518the type of answer that encourage people to shoplift. They are not desperate, they just rely on people saying this shyte to keep on stealing with no guilt while the honest are the ones paying the prices with more increased prices. Shame to these people.
Grandma at the end of the video is my hero, dude. She's not afraid of anything!
State governments need to make breaking into these cases a felony. California needs to lower the amount they prosecute for theft from $1000 to $50. They need to secure all merchandise.
From 1000 to 0 you mean
Yeah, we need more people in jail.. 🤨
Even though it's wrong, as an EMPLOYEE, you don't get paid enough to be the police. You don't care enough to stop them. Boss man says let them go. The stuff's insured. End of story.
Problem is insurance is gonna get expensive so the loss has to be covered somewhere. Id rather the employer not take a loss and then have them pay me more.
@@MH-eu1drYea, cuz trickle down economics has been proven to work 😂😂
I was told the same thing by Home Depot employees. They were told to let the thiefs walk out with the merchandise.
Yep. This is why Loss Prevention at Ross are told not to follow, block, detain, confront, touch and accuse those that are shoplifting. If they did, they then are taking their chances of getting hurt. And if by chance the shoplifter is badly injured because an Loss Prevention security guard decided to take law into their own hands, the shoplifter can sue that guard. Reason being, is because any security guard are not law enforcement.
@@nwhite3080 Trust your bossman. Trust 100%!
That lady is right it does Jack up the price for everyone else. Consumers are paying for the cost of increased security and the cost to replace the stolen items.
Corporations are all making record profits.
Signage and monitors do not deter thief's, nor do employees.
*Thieves. _(8/7/2023)_
They don't deter thief's what?
Should’ve been called”How to prevent shoplifting, while simultaneously pissing off real customers.”
Not even real customers want to go through all that for a bag of beef jerky. I don’t even shop at Walmart because of the lock boxes that take an extra twenty minutes for an employee to arrive just to get something like deodorant. I’ll just take my chances and buy from amazon
For real. I don't usually shop at Walmart cause there isn't one close by but one day I happened to be in the area and wanted to try the new TMNT pizza that is only sold at Walmart. I also needed some new razor blades so I stopped by that aisle to get it only to discover it was locked in a case. It wouldn't be so bad if any employee in the store had a key to unlock the cases but I got told I had to go to self check out and ask them to unlock it so I had to trek all the way to the front to ask for help only to be told he was by himself and couldn't leave and that I had to go to customer service. Ended up taking like 15 min just to get razor blades which is ridiculous.
I would have bought them online but all the reviews for the ones I needed for my razor mentioned that they were counterfeits and they were marked up higher than what Walmart had them for.
@@TheCobruhAlienat0r My local Walmart has those flip up covers on basically everything in the health & beauty section. They also narrowed the isles to the absolute minimum required by ADA. It's damn near impossible to get through, and if someone is already in the isle between you and what you need you can't get past them if you both have carts, you have to wait or circle around to the other end. It's absolutely maddening. I only go there for some food items other local stores stopped carrying, and it's no longer worth the ever smaller savings to go through the hassle of picking up other items I may need there.
I went to the Walmart at 6am one day, noticed the cheap thing I wanted was locked away, hidden in a corner of a numbering system that doesn't follow a normal order. I had to be somewhere, and didn't have time to hunt down an associate to play the "find the key" game. Later that day, went to a supermarket where the product wasn't under lock, bought it at self-checkout. I wonder when Walmart will take the lazy route and blame amazon for its problems, when that's not the case at all.
Seems part of the problem is the lack of employees. Retailers cheaped out and have almost no staff watching over all that merchandise and then they wonder why it grows legs and walks off. Guess they figure losing a few things and paying for these anti-theft devices is cheaper than paying an employee.
@@jasons8479 Agreed 100%
When you see someone selling quantities of the same item on eBay or Craigslist, the products are almost always stolen.
I remember a movie or tv show that all crime was punishable by mandatory 25 years or death. It still happened but not very often.
1:34 Cellphone number pfft 😂🤣 Burner phones are $20 and untraceable.
All goods behind bars where the customers can't touch them. Just like in Africa where this level of protection is of course absolutely necessary.
I have heard, lately, of employees getting FIRED for trying to stop a shoplifters. WTH???
refuse that firing, call local police. then keep working.
@@SamSitar Well, I think the business might have something to say about that... and also ...if you are not sure you are going to be paid.. it's not worth it.
Make it so you have to walk down a long hallway to exit the store. The doors in the hallway lock and trap you inside until the police come to arrest you. There would be two hallways to exit in the event that someone is caught.
How about corporate execs take a massive pay cut so people don’t have to pay ridiculous prices and employees can make a living wage?
How about you take a basic math course? Executive pay can certainly be excessive but a CEO can work for free and the net result would be a few bucks - if that - to each employee per year. But go ahead and keep living this fantasy where executive pay is the real problem.
Let's talk about living wages when the McDonald's lacky can actually get my order right. 🙄
wrong video
How about them actually being arrested and charged to the fullest extent each and every time instead of just letting them get gone and not doing anything.....
You mean SENTENCED to the fullest extent of the law … this is USA, that NEVER happens 🙄
@@mrparkerdan yes and therein lies the problem and why it gets worse and keeps continuing...
Because like many states, their reasoning is because of overcrowded jails and prisons. Sad, I know.
@@mrparkerdanI think charged and sentence to the fullest extent of the law works. In some of these cases, there are other things they can tack on if they were serious.
Also, in some places in the USA that never happens. There are still a lot of places in the USA where you will be punished if you are caught. It's just the problem is so prevalent and out of control in cities controlled by the Democrats that it seems like It happens everywhere.
Got unlimited taxpayer funds?
shoplifting has exploded to new heights due to the soft on crime DA/AG's like in NYC/Chigaco/LA/etc
The lady in the end has so much dignity that I felt shame for the thief in the bike. Whatever happened to chain gang prisoners being put to work building roadways or making big rocks into smaller rocks? These shoplifters are untapped workforce for the prison system.
The sad thing is, is that the lady could lose her job over what she did. Reason being, is that she could have gotten hurt. When I worked at Ross, the employees including Loss Prevention officers are told not to do 6 things to shoplifters. Those 6 things are, not to follow, detain, accuse, block, confront and touch the shoplifters due to they are not law enforcement, therefore, if the shoplifter got injured by a store employee, that shoplifter can sue.
@@kaleoy7584that lady was a customer not an employee
You think the KMT while they were in charge didn't try to do that with the poor in China? Where are the KMT now? Thing is, these poor people has nothing to lose, but everything to gain. If they are going to die from starvation anyways, why not? We had a saying back home, a cornered tiger will attack. It has nothing to lose, but by attacking you, there is a small chance of it actually gaining something.
We went from living in a free and prosperous nation a couple years ago… to this.
Keeping beef jerky behind lock and key.
You can purchase a lot of these lifted goods at your local swap meet or the Mexican vendor on the corner of your street.
For regular people stealing, sense of entitlement and lack of concern for others. Organized crime saw an untapped resource.
I would hate shopping in a store like this, thank you shoplifters for higher prices and a painful shopping experience.
not the shoplifters fault. it's capitalism and the corporation's fault for making it a necessity in the first place
That security guy is a snakeoil salesman. Only way to solve is with harsh prosecution or turn stores into prisons to get out of them. Driving your stolen car to a big box store, knowing no one in the store will stop you from stealing, and you won't be chased, caught, or prosecuted is the issue. Professional thief is a career now.
Yeah, they work for corporate.
Always remember to do your shopping at the local flea market and yard sales. This is where you will find many of the stolen merchandise at a good discount. 😊
I was in Seattle and couldn’t even pick up allergy medicine myself because it was behind a locked cabinet! I understand why they do that, but it is very frustrating.
and this is why things still get higher .
FYI, it takes 1 single #14 thhn and a 1/16th of a brain to figure out how to bypass the activation chips in power tools. Simple bypass via jumper wire and they work fine.
Sometimes I wish we could turn back the clock . I really miss the good old days before crime got so out of hand .
Except that property & violent crime has gone down steadily since peaking in the 70s. Ups & downs but the trend is down. Modern mass media shows it so it seems like it’s more
NO CONSEQUENCES FOR CRIME!!!!!! I’ll send the government my consultation invoice
Keep on putting all the new security measures on the news see what happens. 😂
Maybe most non-thieves wanna share their info either?
This post purchase activation schema is a slippery slope to subscription service for a power tool
Oh...you have a FUTURE in retail sales, Dude!
@@kenc2257 ha! I could never.
When I worked in Bloomingdales, security guards would tackle shoplifters if they had resisted and handcuff them
Thieves dont want to share their phone numbers? So what stops them from using phone apps that give you free temporary phone numbers to receive text messages to get inside the case...
The cell phone number one: couldn't they use burner phones?
Yup
Or just steal someone's phone and SIM card.
When there are no consequences, why would anyone stop?
I'm still confused why people shop in stores. There is this thing called the internet where you can buy stuff and it comes to your house.
What about the 10s of thousands of jobs that will go away when all the local stores close down? If everyone is now a low-wage delivery driver, will your job still be safe?
You must be perpetually confused then, because--for hundreds of years--there has been this thing called "retail sales" at "brick-and-mortar stores."
I wonder why the roads are crowded during certain times of the day. You can work on that same internet, no reason to spend hours driving to find an internet connection in an office!
one of my walmarts had mutliple shelf cases. Its gotten to the point theres not enough employees to open the cases for each interested customer
It is pretty simple ! Soft on crime officials and not being charged , no charges filed for up to $950.00 dollars of goods . Ar best, maybe a minor charge. Then back out on the street to keep doing
...and fire loyal employees who engage shoplifters...world is upside down
It's because they don't want their employees to get hurt. They'd rather lose the money.
@@RandomPlayIistAn employee simply filmed a shoplifter stealing 50 containers of laundry detergent. And Kroger decided to fire them.
@@RealMTBAddictThat’s cuz Kroger will fire anyone for nothing.
@@CapnCody1622 Well I haven't shopped there since that happened.
@@CapnCody1622 True, Kroger fired me for defending myself way back in 2001 when a female coworker attacked me while I was using the deli meat slicer. Kicked me in the back of the knee, almost caused me to fall, so I turned around and put her in a headlock. And then she cried to the boss and had me fired.
Crazy Idea, maybe let the police do their actual job, and arrest them. And actual charge them. I grew up poor, but I know it's wrong to steal.
Who's stopping them?
@@jasons8479 Voters, by passing stupid laws, and the "Refund the police" groups. Getting rid of police doesn't stop crime!
the 90's were a simpler time
It's not a shoplifting epidemic. It's a No Consequences, No Arrests, No Punishment, No Morals epidemic. Combine that with people who don't want to work, or who make more money reselling stolen goods than what they would make at a real job.
You are right. I watched this segment and I did not see them mention that fact. I saw where the majority of shoplifting in NYC is done by something like 200+ people. Sounds like they even know who they are but they won't keep them in jail. It makes no sense.
@dlight9849: ... starting at the highly visible top, with Trump and his Republican co-conspirators.
make easy jobs that criminals can learn.
@@SamSitarThey don't want to work. They want free stuff.
I guarantee you the poor people who made up the Communist party of China was not lazy and don't want to work. Don't make that mistake, many of these people tried to work, but can't make ends meet.
But lets also be real, it's a particular type and demographic of people who are doing this. It's summertime and the USA is in the middle of a massive heat wave and people that wear masks, hoodies up over their head, gloves and the like aren't coming to shop, they're coming to rob you. This is the same "uniform" of the same demographic that continues to perpetuate the same crimes for decades. Take that as you will. But I take it as, if I see you wearing that type of clothing, I'm gonna be sure to avoid you and take a photo of you just in case, cause I know you're gonna be shoplifting or robbing someone.
Just do what Walmart did and close down stores that are constant victims of theft.
Yeah and when walmart comes in your neighborhood and runs out local grocery stores with open late hours more cashiers lower prices and then closes down because they claim theft is to great to continue operations because the crap they sell does not cover operating costs. Now we have no place to buy groceries. And youbleeding heart liberal politicians DO NOTHING.
Peter pays for Paul
The car they are using as a getaway is probably stolen. 😂😂😂
1:42 I don't wanna share my phone number with a store, either, and get bombarded with unwanted advertisements.
Reparations is costing us all a lot of problems.
i report it when i see it at a store.
Force all shoplifters to fill out a job application. That would scare the pants off 99% of them.
Shouldn't have to outsmart them.
Just put four beefy, angry looking dudes with baseball bats outside the door standing around a sign: "Shoplifters, we're here for you."
After they get their bearings beaten off a time or three they'll stop stealing... probably because they'll be too crippled to.
Honestly, lethal force needs to be authorized. These shoplifters will stop overnight when they realize they can die from doing it.
People like to think that stealing from large corporations hurts the wealthy CEOs and higher executive beneficiaries; however, those people pass those expenses out to their employees, shareholders, etc those losses aren’t realized where they hurt the bad people. They are always losses to the people working there who make less money than the thieves.
Pawnshops need more accountability with serial number requirements and data availability
It's already a legal requirement for pawn brokers. Pawn shops are highly regulated. Their license will be revoked if they don't do it. Any electronics, watches, vehicle VIN's (people duplicate titles all the time to sell stolen vehicles), jewelry (if it has one) serial numbers, and firearm serial numbers (if you have an FFL), gold/silver bar's serial number (they're usually engraved on the bar somewhere) are required to be entered into a database once purchased or pawned. Every item in the pawn shop is in this database, but 99% of the time the items have no serial number. The database is tied directly to law enforcement. But the truth is, unless you have something insured, 99% of people do not know the serial number of any of there items or jewelry, so there's not often information about it in the database. I managed a pawn shop for 8 years. I had many stolen items come in, and within 24 hours of entering it into the database, if it was reported stolen and they had information to give to the police, the police would come by and inspected the item, verified some information, get information about the same from me, and then take the item. There's just no full proof way to not buy stolen items. It happens to every pawn shop. The database does bring up some red flags for police as well. Say someone stole like 200oz of silver and someone just pawned or sold like 180oz if silver, they're notified. If you have something stolen, do not bring it to a pawn shop, they're required to scan your ID if they make a purchase.
follow what costco does and make it membership only shopping. bet costco has the lowest shoplifting crime number.
These corporations are making record profits. F them.
I avoid social interaction so having to now ask someone to unlock a case so i can buy it driving me insane!!!
The half-arsed 2FA display case only works if an organized ring isn’t using burner phones.
This is part of the problem for item prices that keep rising.
Merchandise Warehouse, anyone? Oh, yeah -- people all said their shopping model didn't work well enough. Now here we are decades later and it's the ONLY way these stores can possibly survive.
Media will never acknowledge that politicians are responsible.
Or, you could just make getting caught harder and make the punishment for doing so worse as well......Why should it be the company's responsibility to keep people from stealing?? Its a person's responsibility to not steal. There is a fear there that is dying. Its sad.
Been a few times I brought a few things with security tags whats still inside the items,I walk in to another shop,It set's of the alarm's,I got stopped and searched,I did tell them about it,All they did was stop the alarm going of again when I walked back out
Until these thieves are apprehended, prosecuted & spend time in jail nothing much will change.
Or we could just raise the minimum wage. People don't steal beef jerky and risk jail unless they are hungry and have no other choice. People have full time jobs and are still living in their car.
@@lisarose7084No, they are stealing because they know they don't have to pay for things anymore and they can get away with zero consequences. This is a recent issue that is a direct result of the Democratic soft on crime policies.
I don’t want power tools that have special chips in them…. I’m sure those chips will go bad and now you a defective tool….. not to mention what if they have gps location… I’m tired of everything trying to track me
Law and order will do it, but, some fools voted to defund police…you get what you voted for.. now deal with retail stores leaving crime areas…
Make it illegal to shoplift and we will see a decrease
I bet there's baseball bats in the sporting goods aisle
Someone said they carry a bag of marbles to throw in front of thieves so they sprain their ankles into grapefruits😂😂😂😂
There’s Txting apps where they give a number , then delete the app . They just don’t know
eh small businesses have my concern, the big corporations, keep stealing. they've been stealing from you for years.
Thinking a sign or a monitor will stop stealing is a joke.
One should ask: Why do people need to steal in the first place? Asking the question doesn’t make what they’re doing right and we should be open to finding the answers that we’re uncomfortable with. Economic inequality, not making a living wage, gentrification and being priced out of homes are all good places to start. It would be advantageous to explore the root of the problem instead one of many symptoms.
Calm down, they are stealing the selling the stuff on the black market.
Your answer is perfect if you're reading a paragraph in a social work textbook. The reality is (it's my job - I deal with it every day) there is a percentage of our population that lives a life of crime-violent and nonviolent. They have zero empathy, zero ability to think four steps ahead about consequences, etc. There has been nobody to teach morals, rules, how to be a good citizen in the community, etc. This population I speak of covers all races and they just want to belong to their group-whatever it may be. Laws and rules mean nothing to them, NOTHING. Slapping people on the hand for breaking the law has created this nightmare and as we see in he video here, many of the shoplifters have weapons (guns, knives, razor blades, pepper spray and bear spray) and they are using them more frequently, especially juveniles because they think they can't be charged since they are under age. I have had a couple bad times in he last 15 years but I would have died before I stole anything! It's how I was raised-to know right from wrong.
@@LaLadybug2011 I agree with you completely. There are just some people who do not know (or care about) right from wrong. They justify their actions in their heads and that makes their crimes reasonable. From shoplifters to wealthy conmen running Ponzi schemes, they are a scourge on modern society. We even elected one president. (I'll let you decide which one.) The only solution is to prosecute them for their crimes and hope that they learn their lesson, or at least fear being prosecuted again.
Wages cannot keep up the cost of living , just look at the most basic things, gas, milk, eggs. Prices keep going up, but wages stay the same. Many companies are trying to cut cost by hiring 2 part-time employees instead of 1 full time employee to save on health insurance, PTO, merternity leaves, vacation etc
Economic equality won't change individuals who lack morals.
Nice repeat! 😂
It's not worth your life chasing a shoplifter.
Why didn’t they put a gate that will auto close if someone tries to shoplift? If they did that with a very tall gate it’s basically impossible to gate jump and gates can have the option to lock so bruite force dosent work as well and put a wall on top like nyc mta gates to prevent them from climbing over
When companies don’t want or allow their employees to stop or engage shoplifters, they embolden shoplifters to continue.
Or you could just arrest and charge shoplifters.
If they would punish thievery by 1st time chopping off the middle finger, 2nd time dominant hand... I believe this thievery would be no longer an issue.
What's to stop thieves using stolen cell phones?
3:38 aren't most cars from thieves stolen?
Pro tip:
If I have to get an adult to unlock the heartburn medication from the pharmacy aisle, I'm not gonna shop at your store.
And If my $300 power drill has to be "activated" that means it can also be deactivated, and I'm not buying it.
You know the poverty level is not helping any of this that's a huge contributing factor and why it's going up
having to input a cellphone number just to buy items is annoying, this shouldn't come to market
Near me that license plate reader wouldn’t work because the car would probably be stolen. 😢
But reg people should not have to giv their phone numbers just to buy tampons... seem like date collection not crime prevention...is this data being sold ?
Just make every store where you have to purchase online and pickup curbside and can’t actually go into stores anymore. That will stop it.
That fashion shop looked like the shop in Cruella.
The best deterrent to shoplifting is to hire people to work in the stores!
Many stores don't allow employees to intervene and in many places shoplifters don't get it any trouble if caught anyway. So more employees isn't a solution in many locations.
With all the research I do, pretty much none of the things in this video will stop shoplifters...
How about a GPS
Lowering the price's will discourage genius.
Help youth and ex prison inmates,poor people find Jobs with high inflation,food stamps cut.Millions & Millions dollars going to Ukraine & Taiwan to help them.
ID check everyone that walks in the door. No ID, no entry.
Hire more security and watch them and tackle them.