“But it does impact how sales work through the store because when you lock things up,” he added, “for example, you don’t sell as many of them. We’ve kind of proven that pretty conclusively.”
wow, check out the brains on this guy
Remember: You get a business degree because you’re not talented enough for the arts and not smart enough for engineering or medicine.
I’ve always heard “what do you call a failed med student? The hospital administrator.”
Know what they call the med student who graduated bottom of his class?
“Doctor.”
Bonus points for first bringing all your points of sale down to skeleton crews first.
Just replace them with self checkout, problem solved! Wait… back to square 1.
Lol. I’m guessing they earned this discovery after an agile data driven pivot away from keeping the front doors of the store locked all day…
If it’s locked up, I won’t buy it. I don’t have time for that nonsense and large companies only understand money (or a lack of) before they will make a change.
I don’t buy locked up stuff because I don’t want to talk to people.
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Lock everything up then understaff your stores so there’s no one to ask to unlock an item even if you were so inclined to go to the trouble. Great success.
My favorite is home depot locking up stuff but not locking up the bolt cutters
There is nothing makes me leave a store quicker than having to wait on a worker for a basic item that shouldn’t be locked away.
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Even if their claim of “organized theft” is true, that itself would be a self-correcting market force. Your price point should exist somewhere between the extreme of “lock it up so tight nobody can buy it” and “it’s cheaper for people to shoplift it en masse”. If you can’t manage that, maybe you deserve to go out of business (also I think you’ll find that it would also help to increase the number of staff to actually unlock the damn shelves). Perhaps in the long run the market will self correct, but this is absolutely idiotic right now. And the real consequences for people that have lost their local pharmacy are catastrophic.
Some report said the claim of organized theft was not true or greatly exaggerated
It wasn’t true. It was used to disguise crumbling profits as American shopping habits changed out of necessity.
that’s my understanding as well
Don’t forget that there is always online shopping out there as well.
I learned this from the “Black Market” episode of Battlestar Galactica
Those are not two extremes of a “price point”, you describe two scenarios on the high end with no sweet spot in between. Good job confusing me trying to read your sentence correctly :p
I was hoping nobody would notice, I saw that myself as I was thinking through my argument. You’d forgive a friend for putting rhetorical flourishes before pure logic - just this once, wouldn’t you? 😅
Pfff… :p
Keep stealing then
I was at a store the other day, eeddd usb-c pd cables.
The 5ft 10 dollar cables were locked up, the 10 ft 14 dollar cables weren’t.
Walgreens is why I joined Dollar shave club years ago. Nothing like needing to flag down an employee to fetch another employee who can unlock the razorblades.
Razor blades in Costco are not locked up, and one package easily lasts a year
Neat.
Personally it’s the pricetage that always stopped me from shopping there. Walgreens is consistently the most expensive option for pretty much their entire inventory compared to the 6 chains within half a mile that sell the exact same shit.
Exactly. Their ONLY virtue is convenience. Either you’re there for a prescription and buy something because you’re already there, or you’re just looking to do a quick stop. They’re basically a glorified convenience store that happens to have a pharmacy attached. Their prices are high, but they do have convenience on their side. You don’t have to walk across half a mile of parking before getting to the front door. You don’t have to walk into a giant warehouse store that corrals you into shopping in a giant counterclockwise loop. Walgreens does have the convenience option over shopping at a big grocery store.
And this is what is so bone-headed about these locking cases. Again, their ONLY advantage is convenience. If they’re going to slow things down by putting a bunch of barriers between me and the things I want, I might as well just spend the same amount of time, go to the full-sized grocery store, and save some money.
This. Walgreens is bad, CVS is even worse. I refuse to pay for convenience. Even if it’s just one thing I need; if it’s $5 at the cvs down the street and $2 at the Walmart 3 miles away through city traffic, I’m waiting til I need a few things and going to the Walmart every time. If for nothing else than the principle of it all. Eat shit CVS.
If you want a chuckle, look at their OTC meds and calculate price per milligram.
CostOfBottle / (#PillsPerBottle * #MgPerPill)Do this for all the basic meds you keep in your home.
Now go to Costco or Sams or something and do it again. No shit, the difference is 100-fold sometimes, especially if you compare things like name brand (aka Tylenol) at Walgreens to generic (aka Kirkland’s “Acetaminophen”). Turning it even more extreme, look at the little single-dose pouches they sell at the checkstand - folks are literally paying the same at Walgreens for like 2 pills as they are at Costco for a bottle of 500 of the same dose.
It’s fucking wild.
I stopped going to Walmart for that reason.
I remember as a kid in Mexico, you had to go make a line at the store. When you finally got to the desk, you would ask for what you wanted to buy. Lol, needles to say that’s exactly how it still works in small local stores. Its a little like buying cigarettes at the gas station, but for everything minus the ID.
That’s not good for business, but hey, it’s been decades of my life and they’re still working like that. Maybe there’s something to it? I hate it though. I would never shop there unless it was the last place on earth.
My local Walmart has locked up the Lego sets… I mean I get it they aren’t cheap especially recently… But come on…
In the Bay Area, I saw stores with gates and turnstiles which are presumably intended to make running out of the store harder, especially for someone holding a lot of stuff. I wonder if they work any better.
One store I went to there even had a guy letting people in one by one after looking them over, like a bouncer.
This logic frustrates me:
these claims were unfounded, with a mere 23 shoplifting incidents occurring between 2018 and 2021, according to police records
That’s less than one shoplifter a month, which is obviously not an accurate count.
The police barely even respond to shootings. Are they going to do anything if you call them and report someone stealing a box of shaving supplies? Why bother even trying to report that?
If bet thats 23 incidents reported to police. There are absolutely people out there that make a living stealing from box stores. Kroger specifically won’t do much besides glare at you and ask if you’d kindly not steal that.
Walgreens is God awful, 25 min In line for a prescription yesterday and everything is locked up.
Walgreens decided that underpaying and understaffing the pharmacy is their new secret to profitability.
It’s one of the faster enshitifications I’ve seen. Last time I had a prescription filled at Walgreens, I had plenty of time in line to realize that my stupid shopping choice could also actually get me killed this time.
I think they’re more distressed by people stealing it
Uh, where y’all live that this is a thing? I’ll stay out the major cities, thanks.
