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Originally Posted by LarsMac
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Originally Posted by disobey
... Though there is one statistic they give in it that I find impossible to believe. They say that for every $330.00 dollars worth of merchandise stolen, retailers have to sell $300,000 dollars worth of merchandise to break even.
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Yep. That's a special form of retail math that is used for such things.
If somebody lifts a $3.00 item from the store, they figure in the entire supply chain cost of replacement for that item. There's the 3 bucks they lost from it being stolen plus the replacement cost of the 3 dollar item, and the cost of transportation, the salary of the guy that bought the replace. Transportation costs to get it from manufacturer to wholesaler and the salary of the receiving clerk, and the stock clerk and the cashier. OH! and don't forget the salary of the bookkeeper who has to keep track of it all.
(Yes, this might be a slight exaggeration, but not much. Life in retail is hard, but hey! That's Capitalism at its best. So, just go with it.) |
What a bunch of bullshit. If a store sold a 3 dollar item rather than had one stolen, they would have to go through all that crap anyway just to be able to restock it.