Posted on 09/04/2023 7:21:31 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
This is what a bankrupted, collapsing society looks like.
They don’t do this in Third World countries because they don’t have to.
Walmart has an associate with a smart phone watching the seLf checkout.
The smart phone shows every thing being scanned. If the associate witnesses an inconsistency between the items being scanned and what the computer is sending to the smart phone, then the shopper is to be “HELPED”.
“They’re not removing the brand names to prevent theft, the distributors are the ones who won’t sell the retailer product because of the theft and the store not paying the bills.
Most supermarket chains have product delivered by the distributors, some of whom put the product directly on the shelves that they’ve paid a slotting fee for.”
Not sure where you got your information from Yoits, but you’re wrong.
All retail chains, even Walmart, have distribution centers that product is shipped to from the supplier. Certain suppliers, Nabisco was one, had route salesmen who would make an order for each store on his route and have it shipped directly from the Nabisco distribution center. Beer, wine and major soft drink companies do that as well. Everything else is delivered to a store chains distribution center and shipped to the individual stores on trucks bearing the chains logo.
Placement of product on aisles and end caps has been a pay to play proposition for decades. It’s called marketing agreements. The store chain signs an agreement with Frito Lay to allot X feet on the chip aisle for Frito-Lay products. The agreement lays out shelf location and prices and pays extra for end cap and free standing displays as well as how often products are featured in store ads.
How do I know this?
Cousins and friends with decades of experience in the grocery business in department and store management. As well as sixteen years of over the road experience myself delivering to distribution centers.
They can’t require you to show a receipt. It is voluntary and nothing they can do if you choose not to other than possibly try to trespass you from the store but that would be hard to do if you just keep walking. Walmart has tried that crap at various stores and I just walk past.
Perfectly put in all of those several sentences, especially the last one. As I have put it especially for the last 3 years or so, “they’re doubling, tripling, and quadrupling down”, rolling all their dice at the same time, taking everything to the limit, and expecting no real resistance to it, whether it be the ongoing attempt to carry out new Covid strictures, or illegal border crossings, or proposing the hegemonic rights of school boards over the rights of parents—by doing so many things at once, they confound the opposition which doesn’t know where to turn, or even starting a process of opposition that will be at all effective. We are dealing, quite simply, with people who think the last “election” gave them a mandate for Revolution. Whether they stole it or rigged it doesn’t matter. “Most” “seemed” to agree that they “won” it.
Perfectly put in all of those several sentences, especially the last one. As I have put it especially for the last 3 years or so, “they’re doubling, tripling, and quadrupling down”, rolling all their dice at the same time, taking everything to the limit, and expecting no real resistance to it, whether it be the ongoing attempt to carry out new Covid strictures, or illegal border crossings, or proposing the hegemonic rights of school boards over the rights of parents—by doing so many things at once, they confound the opposition which doesn’t know where to turn, or even starting a process of opposition that will be at all effective. We are dealing, quite simply, with people who think the last “election” gave them a mandate for Revolution. Whether they stole it or rigged it doesn’t matter. “Most” “seemed” to agree that they “won” it.
“So DC shoplifters/thieves only steal brand name products and leave generics on the shelves?”
You got it!
I read an article several years ago about Tide detergent being used as street currency. That would never happen with a generic.
Please explain what you meant by this night manager’s directives to night stockers...”graze on”, etc. Sounds interesting.
That’s BIDENOMICS… 🙄
Why do you suppose that is?
The A&P returns
I get what you’re saying. I’m not a fan of being stopped to show a receipt when leaving a store. Mainly because I just like to be left alone.
But I always do it kinda cheerfully for two reasons.
1. I respect property rights. If that’s the store’s policy I will respect that policy or shop elsewhere.
2. The poor slob who is checking the receipts doesn’t make the rules. He’s just trying to earn an honest living.
As with most things, your mileage may vary.
looks like more grocery store change coming, not recorded here yet
Look for one of the squad to come out in support of government food centers.
Pretty neat trick. Run capitalism out of town with crime, backfill with progressive utopia.
The first three sentences ignore the fact that the manufactures/creators of the products would have nothing to gain from having “the government” control the distribution/sales of their products. The intervention by government might eliminate these new traditions of outright theft but would lead directly to giving everything away, which would effectively lead back to Square One.
“ If I was a security guard there, I’d be very careful about confronting shoplifters.”
Mayor Bowser caved and posted a cop outside the front door. She will, eventually, have to buy the store to keep it open since this plan will fail. Then she can put cops inside the store.
“I don’t know if the quality is different or not”
It usually is a lower quality. Kirkland batteries are made by Duracell and they make them lower quality (according to a recent research article).
I’m guessing the local governments wouldn’t interfere in the distribution process. The distributors would take the order, then deliver the goods to a government-run and government-subsidized food store.
At the store the looting would continue as before. That would hurt the city’s bottom line, but not the distributor. The distributor had better just require payment on delivery to the store’s location.
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