posted on Jan, 25 2022 @ 08:13 AM
a reply to:
okazakijoe
I used to design point of purchase displays, including some for high end products. Good luck at making something securely locked. These days there's
too much tech out there for anything to be "securely locked". Cordless roto tools with diamond cutting wheels, hydraulic and pneumatic bolt cutters
and so forth. Then there's always the tried and true, hold a gun or knife on somebody and make the salesperson unlock the security. I've seen video
of what they will do to break into something, it's nuts.
There was another post here showing a cleaned out Samsung cabinet along with an Apple cabinet that they couldn't get into. I designed both cabinets.
We offered Samsung the same security in their cabinet but, they didn't want it for cost reasons.
Something a lot of people don't know, for some products the value is in the name. A long time ago I was installing a machine in a plant that made
refrigerators. They used an assembly line for manufacture. There was a red housing hanging on the line. I was curious and asked one of the people
on the line. He told me to watch when the red housing got to a girl on the line. (I'd have watched the girl anyway) When it got to her she pulled a
cord stopping the line. She took two boxes from her worktable and put them under it. She pulled out two different boxes and restarted the line. The
boxes contained the labels that went on the refrigerators. When she stopped the line she put a low end brand name's labels under the table and pulled
out a high end brand's labels. There was no other difference in the refrigerators.
The reason I mention this is what is the "actual" loss because of these thefts? When a phone costs $70-$80 to manufacture, but, you sell it for
$1000, is the actual loss worth the cost and liability of the security measures that would be needed?