A fact I would like to know is this: “How much shoplifting occurred at this WalMart store vs the typical WalMart store?”
The $15 hour may have been the excuse given for closing a money losing store due to theft.
They mount the cameras in the big ticket areas. Dry Grocery and bakery is comparatively chump change. Not to say that a store in a blighted area isn’t getting raped by its customers. Wages and benefits are the number one expense for just about any retail store.
Walmart stores are closing in my area, too. However, it has nothing to do with $15.00/hr wages because nobody here earns that!
I think they’re hiding their bad numbers.
They mount the cameras in the big ticket areas. Dry Grocery and bakery is comparatively chump change. Not to say that a store in a blighted area isn’t getting raped by its customers. Wages and benefits are the number one expense for just about any retail store.
Walmart carefully tracks shrinkage. Any empty packaging is placed in a bin.
Walmart does collect from vendors for damaged stock which includes things like canned goods shipped out without labels and containers damaged before being placed in the case for shipping.
If there’s a way, Walmart is on it.