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originally posted by: musicismagic
a reply to: JAGStorm

I understand where you are coming from. Don't you have price tags that sound an alert if the item goes through a security check at the door ?

those tags are useless, far too easy to remove or deactivate (all it takes is a magnet). and these days i have heard the shoplifters have actually stolen the canceling and removal "keys", for pretty much all of the security systems that set off the alarms.

Stores will have to look like what they are in the Philippines or in the USA ghettos soon. Everything behind bullet proof windows. Can't blame the store owners. I use to manage a 7-11 in Santa Monica and I can tell you this... there is NO Shame in stealing. Mostly at the time is was cold medicine, beer and whine. Run in, run out , jump in the car and sayonara .

i have to take offense of your racist shot at the Philippines. and it has to be out of racism, because it is completely untrue. the ONLY bulletproof glass i have ever seen in a store situation in the Philippines, is only at money changers, money lenders and stores that send money like western union. all places that have huge amounts of cash on site. like a bank. but unlike in the US banks don't even normally have bulletproof glass at the counter. forget about normal stores having it. such things just don't exist in the Philippines that i ever saw in my decade of living there, or my fathers almost two decades living in the Philippines.

there i guess is a small chance you were not being racist, and instead think the barriers put up as part of the covid precautions, are bulletproof glass. most may look like it, but are actually just pretty much saran wrap while most of the rest is just rather thin plastic. even "pay windows" that look like bulletproof glass that have been around forever are also just thin plastic, if not just plain glass.

If you don't charge people with a crime for shoplifting, soon more and more people will do it and the people who pay are paying extra to cover what they steal. If the problem gets out of hand, they close the store....I would if I owned a store and people were stealing all my merchandise. It is a competitive market, and if prices are too high to cover this kind of stuff you will go broke because people will shop where it is cheaper and safer since these groups are scaring the customers.

These big chain stores came here and put the small stores out of business, they did not create many new jobs, the smaller stores employed more people collectively. When Menards came here, people flocked there, I just looked at the prices, the local hardwares had better quality stuff at similar or cheaper prices...but people liked selection so they went with big box stores selection and thought they were getting a better deal...but weren't.

Each town and city worldwide has only a few days' worth of food, medicine, etc., to keep inventory and other costs low.

a reply to: rickymouse

if you think about it, the sad fact is, that if the big chain stores did not come in and takeover, all the stores would have closed even sooner. a company like walmart can handle a lot of theft and not be too hurt. where a mom and pop store would be quickly driven out of business by the shoplifting.

people go shopping at a candy factory? menards is not a store, its a candy manufacturer. some of the best gummies around. hmm, thinking about it, i wonder if they now make marijuana gummies since it's now legal and pot gummies fairly popular.

I don't feel bad that this Wal-Mart is closing. The people in the hood couldn't keep their sticky fingers off the merchandise. They will pay the price now.

I'm sick of thieves ruining everything. We should fine them to within an inch of their life and jail their a**es.

Hey JAG I see we're in the same corner of the world lol. I'm right off MLK on near north side, and remember very well when the Silver Spring area was nice, and up by Northridge Mall was hopping, its where an first lived when I first got here.

This whole city has gone to hell and we're looking at moving... At least I am

Btw, you remember T.A. Vern's by chance?

a reply to: socialmediaclown

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Look at you. You take the one part of my post that you think you can use to try to paint me into a corner ... How very predictable, and it also shows that my point went right over your head. It's been flying right over your head this whole time.

"Whoever fights with monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you."

- Nietzsche

You are focused on the perceived evils of Walmart that you are willing to do what you perceive them to have done to you. You are now the monster yourself. The abyss has gazed into you and you have become what you claim to hate.

You very much want to believe that you are saving me from my own unawareness of the evil of Walmart, but it doesn't work that way. I do what anyone does who does not like Walmart. I DON'T GIVE THEM MY MONEY. I don't shop there. If enough other people did the same, they would start to fold or have to cater to what we do want in order to satisfy.

Disney is finding this out. They've gone too far away from what the customers want in various ways and they're losing a ton of money.

You, on the other hand, are very simple. You think that Walmart steals, so you steal from Walmart. An eye for an eye makes the world blind. Pretty soon, everyone is an evil sh1t - including you. Congrats! You are what you now hate. An evil thief hurting others just like you think Walmart hurts you. No one likes you like no one likes Walmart. I hope all that stuff you took was worth it and loves you because no one else will.

I, on the other hand, will get along just fine because I will still be an honorable, upright, and trustworthy individual having never justified evil in the face of the wrongs done to me.

**EDIT**

The other point I've been making that you have patently been missing is that if all people everywhere were basically good people, then Walmart wouldn't matter because everyone in the organization, top to bottom, would be doing right by others. No organization on earth would be corrupt because corruption is a human thing, not as much an organizational thing. Humans make the organizations. They can only be as corrupt as *we* - people like you and I - make them.

If an organization is corrupt it is because it has corrupt people in it. People like yourself who think that certain things done by others justify doing horrible things themselves, or they are simply lazy or inept or not at all committed to doing right by their fellows because they just don't care. If you want people to do right by you, you have to go out of your way to do right by them, and it has to happen from everyone, everywhere, all the time. This is why I hate people and have a mistrust of bureaucracies - it's just not possible and the system breaks down the larger it gets because the craptastic people can hide in the system and use it to their advantage.

In short, people like yourself are embedded in it at every stage to make it a mockery of what it's supposed to be and make my life hell.

a reply to: rickymouse

COVID and the St. Floyd debacle accelerated this.

Remember how awesome mom and pop joints were on the left ... until COVID ... and suddenly mom and pop joints had to shut down because they were too stupid to look after our general health, so the only places who could be trusted to do this were the big box cattle call stores like Walmart?

How ironic the left is sometimes.