Yet Another Reason For Sovereignty

[disobey]

If only there was an actual political section in this joke forum. But I guess that this will have to do. You may have heard on the news recently that Target stores were closing a number of stores because of crime. Such as swarm robberies. But they aren't the only ones to have done so. I wonder how bad things have to get before you fools stand up and demand separatism.

Speaking of fools, I wonder why it is that some of my threads have received hundreds or thousands of views. But I can just about count on one hand the number of people that reply to those threads. And they are usually the same people. Surely others have seen them. Why don't they reply. Do they fear the topics? Or do they think that the topics are too deep for them? Who knows. But back to the point, here is a link for you. 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.


Shoplifting is surging across America with dangerous and costly consequences | CNN Business

You might also find this video of a swarm robbery interesting.

https://www.100free.com/view?v=3445002109

[LarsMac]

Oh good. You're back.
And FX said you were gone for good.
Shows what he knows.

[LarsMac]

Disobey said:

[Speaking of fools, I wonder why it is that some of my threads have received hundreds or thousands of views. But I can just about count on one hand the number of people that reply to those threads.

Well, those hundreds or thousands of views are basically from google/Yahoo/DuckDuckGo, etc search returns.
the replies tend to be locals who spend some time actually reading posts here. ]

for every few thousand dings on search, you probably hear from one or maybe two who care what you might have to say.

[Ari]

Yes that has been the corporate line, best not look any further.

One of the Targets closing is in SF, literally across the street from Rainbow Grocery, a hippie organic health food co-op, where all the vegan anti-corporate hippies shop, and is also underneath an overpass not around any other stores. I’m not surprised a corporate store under the overpass next to the Fuck The Man hippie store didn’t meet quota.

Walgreens did this last year and claimed crime in SF was just too high they had to close stores, but when the local news looked into it, they had closed under performing stores in saturated or bad locations and left open ones seen in viral robberies.

[LarsMac]

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.

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.)

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

disobey can keep worrying about the small things
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[JoeP]

This thread title. I have high hopes.

[disobey]

Originally Posted by LarsMac

Oh good. You're back.
And FX said you were gone for good.
Shows what he knows.

Didn't think FX was that much of an asshole to want that.

[disobey]

Originally Posted by LarsMac

Disobey said:

for every few thousand dings on search, you probably hear from one or maybe two who care what you might have to say.

For those who don't reply to what I said, the most likely reason is because they know they are part of the problem. And would prefer to remain a problem. Another reason is that this forum is such a shithole ghost town. At the more populated forums that I have been at, (for the short times that I have been allowed to stay) I have received more replies to my threads that I was able to keep up with. Also, you read my thread. You probably read most of my threads. Do you think any of them were unworthy of discussion?

[disobey]

[quote=Kamilah Hauptmann;1391189]


disobey can keep worrying about the small things


Just as I have learned to expect from you. Another load of crap. Stores being forced to close due to theft isn't a "small thing."

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Smaller than and bigger than is a Sesame Street level concept. You are unable to handle trivialities four year olds are capable of.

[disobey]

Originally Posted by LarsMac

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.

[disobey]

Originally Posted by Kamilah Hauptmann

Smaller than and bigger than is a Sesame Street level concept. You are unable to handle trivialities four year olds are capable of.

Just fuck off already.

[LarsMac]

Originally Posted by disobey

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.

I take it you haven't worked much in Retail for a while.

[Stephen Maturin]

What is it about old, welfare-dependent crackpot morons and inability to navigate message board quote functions?

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Originally Posted by disobey

Just fuck off already.

Ahhh, he confesses to being a moron unable to understand the concepts of “same” and “different”. The guy demanding obedience from workers, while shilling for capital.

You are a joke. You are the most obedient little tool your masters could ever hope for.

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by LarsMac

I take it you haven't worked much

[seebs]

holy shit is that Sov returning to enlighten us all after all these years?

[Stephen Maturin]

Different moronic shithead entirely, but chemofists up for the Brandon Orr reference!

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[seebs]

no way, i just assumed it was the same person because, like, "Sovereignty" sounds like the same thing, and the arguments are Awfully Familiar

[JoeP]

They are scraping the bottom of the same barrel.

[seebs]

Honestly I think I'm just going to believe in my heart that it's the same person trying to pretend not to be the same person until I see some kind of unambiguous proof that it's not. It's just too weirdly specialized. It's like if somenoe showed up and started finishing all their posts with "CHECKMATE ATHEISTS" and claimed not to be that one guy.

[JoeP]

Who amongst us can honestly say that at one point or another he hasn't typed CHECKMATE ATHEISTS!?

[disobey]

Originally Posted by LarsMac

I take it you haven't worked much in Retail for a while.

I've never worked in retail. Unless you want to count the one time I worked at a gas station. That aside, that doesn't make what I said untrue. Though when it comes to telling an insurance company what the cost of any stolen item is, no doubt they are going to use every trick in the book to inflate the cost of a loss. But the average markup that stores sell their items at is 50%.
So if a store had something stolen that cost 3 dollars, they would have to sell two of those items to break even.

[disobey]

Originally Posted by seebs

Honestly I think I'm just going to believe in my heart that it's the same person trying to pretend not to be the same person until I see some kind of unambiguous proof that it's not. It's just too weirdly specialized. It's like if somenoe showed up and started finishing all their posts with "CHECKMATE ATHEISTS" and claimed not to be that one guy.

Let me settle your question as to who I am. I am not "Sov." I am Cultsmasher. The one and only. If anybody else spoke as I do, that must mean that there is another intelligent person out there. That aside, I entered in the wrong title for this thread. What I meant to say was, "Yet another reason for Separatism." What do you make of that.