Never trust the corporations excuses.

PS: I wasn’t sure if this was a good fit for this community, but I couldn’t think of another. Any suggestions?

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      You only report a crime when it’s happening. If someone successfully takes a lipstick without getting caught then it would take until the next inventory for them to catch that it’s missing. The inventory discrepancies are sent in to insurance. Cops wouldn’t be involved because no one is going to sit through dozens of camera feeds woth hundreds of not thousands of hours of footage between inventories to figure out who stole it.

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        Every big box store experiences petty theft, though. The real reason the 3 Target stores in Portland closed is because they were all in absolutely horrific locations. One was in a reclaimed bowling alley. Another was off a freeway and took ages to actually get to a parking lot. Just super inaccessible.

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          Lol what dies a bowling ally have to do with anything ? Who cares what it was previously. A shop rite opened up in a dead abandoned mall by me and its user popular and always busy.

          Petty theft is one thing but of you get hit enough it adds up. Bot every shop lifter fills a car full high end items and leaves. Some take a small amount if items and come back dozens of times a week. Sometimes multiple times a day. I was a store fixer for toys r us about 20 years ago. This one woman would come in a few days a week and pocket magic the gathering cards packs and other card game packs. While I was there we caught her in camera taking $200 worth of packs each trip. That was a single person doing it.

          Now imagine a place like target that actually has a variety of small easily hidden products that cost a lot more money.

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            It’s okay- literally every Portland local agrees that this was the reason for the stores closing down. What national news reports is incredibly out-of-touch.

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              Well of course, why blame themselves for bad politicians they voted in when they can blame others. It’s the American way. Thankfully Oakland, Chicago and other places are starting to wake up to what is really going on

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                Obviously, your experience in retail 20 years ago trumps all else, babe. Lmao.

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                  I have a lot of experience in LP. About 12 years worth. I did consulting for many retail companies.