I am willing to bet there was also a lot of shoplifting at that location. Shoplifting and $15 per hour is just too much to handle.
A few years ago (at least at my location) WM re-assigned the elderly "greeters" to regular work assigments in the store.
Now I notice they are back at the doors. Even MBAs figure it out eventually.
“I am willing to bet there was also a lot of shoplifting at that location.”
No one seems to want to talk about it, but this is the real reason that there are no shopping centers in “urban areas”.
I worked in college at a department store. One of the managers came from an “urban” store like ours with many fascinating stories. For example, they would get a shipment of sunglasses in and put them on one of those rotating racks at the front of the store. By the end of the day, it was nearly empty. They checked the registers and sales inventory, and they had sold exactly three pairs. And that was a long time ago.