A national lobbying group has retracted its startling estimate that “organized retail crime” was responsible for nearly half the $94.5 billion in store merchandise that disappeared in 2021, a figure that helped amplify claims that the United States was experiencing a nationwide wave of shoplifting.
shit the vast majority of my shrink in my dept that i am happily quitting soon is from the insane price increases causing us to donate like 50-60% of everything that comes through, plus shitty packaging and quality control (which is getting worse likely due to overworking manufacturers because i’m sure they are getting just as overworked as we are).
instead of increased theft mostly i just see more people taking markdown stickers off and moving them to fresh items. this is just because i basically have to markdown everything to even sell it before it hits dates.
so yeah greed and capitalism. lower your fucking prices and maybe you’ll sell something. but you won’t.