HA. Best comment. ur the winner. :)Originally Posted by emshighway
Wanna hear the not-so-pretty-truth? Toys-R-Us are in the minority. MOST major mid-level retailers would not have a loss prevetion method as blatent or easy to f* up. Earlier comment was right, if a video clip shows 1 or 2 white customers passing...no matter the circumstance accident/racial targeting/human error/WHATEVER, they're screwed for 2 or 4 hundred million $.
Compare that to the loss of a $49.99 video game here or there by NOT screening the customers... and the situation has a different bottom line perspective.
It's a balencing act. For Best Buy, the potential $500 camera slipping out multiple times a day in multiple locations can add up quickly... but when the product is a $24.50 polo at gap, or a $10 cd at Starbucks... its just not worth the potential lawsuit.
So they manage their loss. By increasing your prices. By decreasing employee hours and benefits.
And for anyone buying into the idea that theft is a problem only in low-income or minority areas... you are being willfully ignorant to facts out there. Stores in middle-america upper middle class areas are "high risk" just as often as those in urban centers. Ah, and that "Louis Vuitton" bag your girlfriend carries that you got for her in Chinatown? It hurts LVHM's bottom line just as much as the iPod someone lifted out of the Apple Store.
Be careful with the low-blows and the quick assumptions.
I'd say thats where this whole thing started.
Maybe the security guard made an unfair assumption.
Maybe the shopper made an unfair assumption.
The point is.... there are a lot of jackasses out there. Don't be one of them.
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