Give me money to afford stuff, "no that'll make prices go up" OK then I'll steal it "no that'll make prices go up" Well honey we can't afford 15 dollar nail polish and the cheap stuff flakes right off so
High crime rate is more prevalent among certain communities in america. political correctness and fear of cancellation is making the situation progressively worse.
@@Majeed. give black people and other poor communities money and opportunities and we won't need to steal. Affirmative action is under attack, so now more rich white people will hoard resources. Vote for it to stick around or we regress as a country into white supremacy and nepotism. You're right, people need to say it like it is.
WHILE they/corporations announce they've made "record" profits past few years. Making record profits and losing record losses? All that stock buyback/CEO yearly bonuses proves they lying about consumer theft and all of them are swimming in cash/value
As a retail union rep one of my cases was defending a retail worker who was fired for going outside and writing down a thief’s license plate number. Businesses really don’t want you to protect their product. The chatter who said they factor it into their budget us correct, I’ve seen it.
Target saying that it’s closing because of crime is sooo BS. As a Seattleite, the ones they are closing don’t get nearly as much theft as some of the bigger ones they have near me. The ones they’re closing are tiny or in inconvenient locations
I'm a Seattlite too and I just love how the local news media (fox 13, king 5, komo 4, etc) completely blew this out of proportion and fooled people like my gullible media illiterate parents into believing that crime has recently become a huge problem in Seattle.
They'd literally rather invent a shoplifting epidemic than admit that no one wants or has any reason to go downtown except for the people who work there.
LOL ever been to the ghetto? Hasan obviously hasn't because there are only bodegas that you pay by sliding money under the glass , liquor stores, there are no sitdown restaurants just takeaways with no bathrooms and no seats and you have to pay first Everything at these stores are also 2x-3x what they cost in costco or wallmart Shoplifting hurts everyone stop being a retard
Yes you should feel bad for the 164 billion dollar family and not their employees that get paid so little they must be on food stamps. I feel so bad for Walmart
My first job was at a Target, and they paid me 10.50 an hour and treated me like shit. They're all interchangeable poorly paying wastes of space that suck money out of communities. I hope that this terrible management by box stores translates to more locally owned businesses popping up. (Not to glorify shitty little family owned businesses that also treat workers like trash, but at least that money circulates in a local economy).
even when i worked at walmart i didnt give a damn if people stole, the security was more annoying to me because they always try to involve the stockers in there stupid sting operations, like bruh im not defending this damn store, thats your job.
@HIPPYLOCO fr dude AP would come to me and expect me to watch customers like a hawk to catch people and i would just be like "dude i work fresh cap 2. I dont have the fucking TIME to do that. Also, idgaf about someone stealing a rack of ribs. Find something more important to care about." One of my roommates was AP and he agreed.
@@Greenlantern957stealing Mac n cheese and bread don’t pay the rent, or the other half dozen monthly bills needed to live. Why you coming in here with your disingenuous nonsense?
As someone who works in corporate retail in Philly, everything Hasan said is correct, actual theft is so insignificant vs damaged product and most retailers are simply just looking to exit out of expensive leases that are due for renewal or expiring that are in locations that are no longer working for the company, it happens every year in retail. As far as the “looting”, it happens every time there is any type of protest in the city, where people just take advantage of the situation and go out long after the actual protests are over. There is a centralized area of retail downtown that gets hit every time, often just a handful of stores vs the hundreds that are there and it is massively overblown. Plus not to mention, the people that are stealing things from those stores literally just go out and resell it all to make money, quite literally a product of the wealth disparity.
🍽️🥕✊🌶️I did food not bombs in the late 90’s-00’s. It was amazing how easy it was to get boxes of free food from a store when you just ask for donations. Then there are the few with the bytchie managers who don’t want to help and then get a ✴️ face when the people over their head approve it. Then you go out to the dumpster and you see the tons of stuff they threw out before you got there.🚮
@@sanestflexican just go to different stores and ask for donations. Some won’t, don’t let them discourage you. Tell them what it’s for. I did food not bombs. There might be something in your area like a food bank that you can go to. I didn’t know what I was doing and just had to recruit some friends and strangers help me. I was homeless for a few years too. I went to different places and there were different types of people doing food not bombs. There are more food banks now but even in those places I would find the coop dumpsters full of food that could have been donated just before it expired. Like how much X did they expect to sell in a couple days? 🖖
If you want to eradicate retail theft, you need to eradicate poverty. Get rid of poverty and raise the standard of living, people won't steal to begin with unless they're mentally ill
I enjoy how the media fails to see a through-line from the judge letting the cop walk, to people no longer respecting the law or expecting it to protect them. The cops total inability to halt the looting shows that they aren't even able to protect the property of the ownership class, and it all really comes down to people being willing to participate in the social contract. A contract that the judge and that cop broke first.
Yep you're really teaching those cops a lesson by stealing from private business. All the black business owners like myself thank you for caring so much about us that you are stealing from our stores to teach those damn pigs a lesson
@@knivesthec10wn we're talking about big stores and chains like Walmart, target, etc. Stealing from a small business isn't what anyone is looking for nor supporting. Also, we're not trying to show the cops by doing that, people are trying to survive, that's the main reason.
as a humble soldier of the Albertson’s grocery empire, on average we throw away a metric ton of food and products just due to damage/restocking when compared to the ones of instances were a random teenager steals a 12 pack of beer
A lady came through my checkout line spewing some shit about how it’s the homeless and teenagers faults that the baby formula is behind a glass case and that food is so over costed and I was like ……. Yeah I hate when homeless people need food or mothers can’t afford formula so they steal it to feed her babies. We laughed and then her face slowly dropped as she realized we sounded like fucking monsters 😂😂😂
@@notamurderer6226You lacking empathy for people who are struggling with addicts, so much to the point they become homeless still makes you sound like a monster just fyi.
no ethical consumption under capitalism refers to the fact that people under our capitalistic societies may have to make unethical choices and actions to survive, and if it is a necessity to survive without doing that due to society, as it is in ours, then the moral shading of the engagement in that unethical behavior is not laid upon those doing it but the society that allows itself to be structured in such a fashion that they must do this unethical behavior to survive.
except you arent "reclaiming" anything the companies will be fine the only whos who will suffer from your "reclaiming" are the honest people who shop at those stores
What about consumer theft, where these companies sell spoiled meat and perishables that were not stored properly or past expiration date. Where 85% of the customers won't bother returning it and eat the cost themselves. Also does that $112B figure cover only the store's cost (like how insurance companies do for people) or does that include the 1000% markup like on razors and makeup?
If I accidentally use two hands putting a single item in a bag at walmart self-checkout an alarm goes off and the lady has to come over and watch a video to let me continue buying groceries. Best Buy removed their Asset Protection position back in 2020 and never replaced it because most theft is under $20, phone cases and such, and selling one tv makes up for the next month of thefts combined.
Also one of their asset protection employees killed a guy they thought was stealing. Like I would never go hard for a corporation that doesn’t even pay you enough to live. F that!
I remember how fucked up I felt when I learned after working in retail for years that so much of the surveillance in the stores aren't for customers and the potential bad shit they'll do, it's for the workers. The company will act infinitely faster if it's an employee who does something bad vs a customer.
because the company has the option to take immediate action against an employee but doesn't have that option against customers its really not hard to understand
I used to be a cashier at a big box store, and management used to tell us that 25% of shrink came from cashiers forgetting to scan stuff the the customer had put onto that cart rack that's below the cart's basket. The most common things to put under there are bags of dogfood, cases of bottled water, and assemble-at-home bookcases.
The real question is how much of this stuff was gonna end up in some dump or locked in a trashbin specifically so poor/homeless people can't take it when the stores realised it wasn't gonna sell?
Ive worked in retail as a merch coordinator at a certain chain of home and clothing stores and damages and theft are awlays acounted for and it never affects the bottom line enough to shut down a store. Damages are the biggest cause of shrink the amount of furniture ive seen crushed in the back of a semi is crazy and management is never realy that bothered. Not to mention the ungodly amount of products tossed in a compactor because the item didnt sell witin a few rounds of markdowns product that could have been given to employees or donated.
Back when I was super broke in college, barely able to afford more than one meal every day, I would steal small stuff all the time because I just couldn't buy it. Weird how now that I have a good job I magically stopped stealing food and shit. I must have got less woke or something.
grew up poor, still fkn poor. nobody cared when my familys car was robbed and we lost our family camera and childhood photos. (i still dont have them, they were never recovered) why should i care that people are stealing make up and clothes. why do these mass produced things mean more to police then my irreplaceable things
Why go into college without thinking about the possible debt? Should've went to a trade school, its alot cheaper and quicker. But im guessing you dont like thinking ahead.
so what about everyone else who's also struggling financially can they steal too or just you? what about if an entire community is struggling and they steal everything, what's gonna make the companies come back and replenish those stolen goods if there's no money? I hope you can see how selfish stealing is because in order to have the opportunity to steal in the first place there has to be an honest person somewhere down the line enabling that store to exist
@@danijean4788 The stores are closing due to the low profits in certain areas. It isn't caused by loss of product from stealing. Most product gets thrown away when it shows up busted or since it didn't get sold in time.
High crime rate is more prevalent among certain communities in america. political correctness and fear of cancellation is making the situation progressively worse.
@@Majeed. Just say it with your chest, coward. Yopu pretend theres no racism, believe black people are inherently more violent, forget that for the same crimes they get more punishment and dont realise that is racist
@@Majeed. Exactly right brother! These thieves have gotten more brazen in their theft and otherwise good people are just letting these leeches rob us blind! The thieves we are talking about live in the Hamptons and steal wages everyday.
This guy i talk to literally was like "Did you hear what happened?!" Expecting it to be big news that a bunch of companies got looted in Philly. When he told me I was like "oh dang" then he proceeded unprompted to say "Yeah I hate to say it but they were all black" yikes
philly is mainly black my roommate and i are the only young white women around my area. this 4th of july my neighbors said we stuck out because we genuinely were the only 2 white people outside.
@@michaelwalters4749 i understand, i dont think what that person said was okay. philly is very black and hispanic. ofc everyone looting is the main demographic of the city. do you expect it to be the 5% of white people there or the majority of people that live there. i also saw videos of white people on their damn bikes with guns at the same lootings😭 some of the 5% did come out
I worked in a distribution center for a coffee company, lots a semi loads got damaged by semi drivers going around roundabouts, we had to change how we loaded them due too how badly the loads would shift going from point A to B, not to mention so many products go from one distribution to another distribution center and gets handled 2-4 times before it ever even gets to the store. I’m not surprised 20% is due to damage in transit
except "the greedy" will be completely fine no matter how much is stolen, ask yourself how effective are your actions at solving the problem and who is actually being impacted by your choices
@@Max78912 i think you ahould question your actions of over reacting to an obvious silly comment with a condescending obtuse diatribe on the moral repercussions of ownership. btch plz
@@notamurderer6226the roof koreans were looted after a woman shot a child she thought was stealing and then the justice system did nothing about it so the people did, resulting in them looting korean shops all over california
wait a second. the correction says of the 30 something percent of shrink that's external theft, only 11% of that number is organized. so organized theft is 3 whole percent.
The other thing to think about is companies like Ild Navy who destroy their clothes once zeroed out. What is keeping them from adding the full price of items they destroyed themselves off of these reports as “damages”
Actual receiving guy here. The sheer amount of stupid vendors and shrink we find and then have to fix is wild. Sams club is a huge bull store unlike Menards and lowes where I’ve been in the past. Locking it down is hard enough with out things getting thrown out and destroyed it’s almost never theft.
Once upon a time I worked at Walmart and for real the damaged goods are frequent they legit will put glass at the bottom of the trailers and it gets crushed we threw out so many things that were crushed in the trailers
They pretty much just throw things into the trailers at the distribution centers and I don't think the whole time I worked there we ever had a trailer that didn't include multiple broken items
@@B.A.D.Company69 The lack of time given to load trucks and the frustration from loading heavy shit all day eventually results in products just getting layered in the worst way or chucked and broken all the time.
@@OscarLangleySoryu Umm yes it is all business owners premiums will increase due to looting eventually all the businesses leave take a walk around detroit, baltimore, camden, compton etc... There are no stores, there are only liquor stores, convenience stores, and takeout places with no bathrooms or tables and there are extremely few of them every store requires sliding money under glass to buy something everything costs 3x as much as it does in the major chain stores a rich boy like you don't know shit about the ghetto
High crime rate is more prevalent among certain communities in america. political correctness and fear of cancellation is making the situation progressively worse.
I've lowered my dose of crime. The doctor claimed criming so much was causing issues with my spleen. Crime responsibly. Use moderation when you practice shrinkage.
The worst part about these numbers they throw out, is an overwhelming amount of the numbers are technically imaginary numbers. Most of the theft are "acquired goods" that wouldn't even sell in the first place. What I mean is, they don't get these numbers from the cost to make/ship each individual product, they use the suggested retail price to do their numbers on losses. So in other words, the issue is overinflated anyway. If anything, shrink costs them less money than getting rid of the excess product that doesn't sell. Hence why, these companies have posted record profits despite claiming they are losing so much on shrink. As for the companies that closed shop, yeah no duh. Go into a walgreens, and notice a 30% markup on virtually all products in store. This narrative from big capitalists is wild to me, and half of the country actually believes them.
I had this conversation with someone, and after definitively proving the major problem was real estate costs, they responded with, "Of course they can't afford real estate when they are getting robbed all the time." It was at this point that I realized the conversation was pointless, 30 minutes talking to me could never overcome a daily 2-hours worth of Fox News white supremacy. I then reverted to fucking with them and saying crime should be legal.
Honestly? Best move at that point. Better for your health, blood pressure, and way more fun. You know they'll never learn, no point in arguing yourself blue in the face - and hey, maybe taking it to ridiculous extremes will make them think more critically in the future...? But probably not, sigh~
High crime rate is more prevalent among certain communities in america. political correctness and fear of cancellation is making the situation progressively worse.
CEO of a major corporation tells public," Its Retail theft". CFO & CEO Private correspondence, with hedge fund manager: "profits have been steadily declining since 2016".
I remember a person who used to work at a gamestop, and they said the first day the store opened.. it got robbed.. the company did nothing, and then it kept getting robbed because it was just that easy to steal from. Honestly, Target and Walmart barely have anyone working there.. stealing is just too easy Course having too many stores is probably the real reason.. it's like with Starbucks.. I got literally 4 and more just down the block No one needs that much coffee so close to each other
if inflation is 30 % over the last year for example, and the exact same number of the same items get stolen this year as last, by definition retail theft will be up 30 % when expressed as dollars, but up 0 % when expressed in terms of items.
Not to mention more sales more trucks coming in with more stuff in them and I worked back there pretty much every trailer has multiple broken cases of items and sometimes cutting things open with the box cutters they use you'll accidentally puncture things loss from that happens frequently and is counted in the same figures
@@B.A.D.Company69 good point, they also inflate it by lumping these two loses together. there is also population growth, which would result in more loses with the same proportion of thieves stealing the same each. So the data should be normalized to the population or expressed per capita. I guess my point is that everyone needs to look at the units for the data, and how it was calculated, which type of average was used ect. before drawing conclusions - but the media gloss over these important details because it is "boring" or might alienate less intelligent people. by glossing over these details they make it possible to present half-true data to support any ideology.
Hi, Philly guy here. The "looters" targeted the same area as in 2020... because there are 3 major shopping areas in Philly. "The same corridors" are always going to be "targeted" if the city continues to only allow business to thrive in these areas. You can drive for blocks in south, west, and north Philly and not see a grocery, pharmacy, or any retail stores. The zoning is killing the city.
like everything in chain pharmacy drug stores is locked up and theres no employees to ever unlock anything so i just end up looking for what i need on amazon while i wait for the employee to never come and then leave. Its like a commercial for amazon
i feel like these news talking head forget: these big box stores are SUPPOSED TO HAVE INSURANCE FOR THIS STUFF. i bet this is going to be used as a scapegoat to raise prices when most of it's going to be covered and they widen their profit margins anyway from paying their employees dogshit wages. leave the small shops alone, but i literally do not care if someone steals from walmart.
It's funny too because when working in a produce section for basic food chains, often food just gets thrown away, and it isn't counted in the inventory as sold- therefore leaving it to be lost and incorporated into studies like this
unfortunately im starting to experience some mania induced kleptomania. i stole a $96 dollar wallet that was clearly fake leather. how am i supposed to feel bad when they have 3 huge buildings that all sell $200 fake plants. i cant imagine theft genuinely hurts their profits when it costs them 1/100th of what they sell it for
its not about you stealing that one thing one time, its the mentality of people like you justifying this behavior that will lead to much worse things happening for your communities
I don't approve of targeting mom and pop shops, but the big businesses need a good looting. Fuck Walmart and dollar general, but leave the small stores alone.
the only reason you have the option to loot those stores in the first place is because honest people drive business into the area, when those businesses leave a lot of opportunities and convenience will go with it and people like you will be the ones to blame
@@Max78912 that's actually not true. I used to live in a small town that ONLY had small stores. Those stores didn't attract companies, it was urbanization. The nearby city was expanding and property was being bought. The small stores Lost business because the big stores moved in.
@@skittlecornnation4323 I said people drive the demand for stores not the other way around, you said urbanization is whats attracting those stores which is just more people really, the majority of which don't steal, you're literally saying the same thing I am
@@Max78912 no you said honest people drive business, implying small stores attract bigger ones. It's not the case, and the lootings are a result of poverty from corporate greed.
My Rite Aid just closed. It literally has one like 6 blocks away from it, and is about 5 blocks from a Giant Eagle, which has more stuff than it does. Sucks for me because I am disabled and can't go those few extra blocks, but it was useless and had the absolute worst pharmacy I have ever used. I literally have over 15 regular meds, so they were a nightmare lol. Should have done retail crime in a video game before it closed lol.
I work at a Walgreens in literally the worst city possible (Oakland). And there are break-ins people going behind the register to steal so often. We are literally not getting paid enough for this, employees are constantly in danger and nothing gets done :/
I’m a little disappointed that Hasan didn’t know that the theft wasn’t in any way tied to the dismissal of the case. Anecdotally speaking, Philly has felt increasingly unsafe for me-personally-over the past 6 years. I’m not disagreeing with what studies say… but I know my own neighborhood has seen more gun violence and I have been harassed and followed more now than I was when I first started living here. I have videos of people literally break dancing outside the convenience store at like 1 am on a Tuesday-which I loved. And now? Those small joyous moments? Gone. Never see them. Instead, it’s just people getting mugged and ODing.
@@fuglong I don’t think that’s the only issue here. Keep in mind Philadelphia-Kensington specifically is the heroin hub. We need massive funds directed towards drug rehabilitation and recovery.
Totally agree, been here for 10 years and I live in Mt airy and someone got shot outside of my apartment a few weeks ago, which is almost unheard of up this way. The cops have been doing nothing for the city (even less than the usual) and there has just been more and more overpriced “luxury” apartments going up with zero affordable housing created to supplement it. It has changed so much in the last few years alone. Now them banning safe injection sites is just going to make things even worse downtown in the long run.
I work at Walmart and we literally get our money back by putting in a claim, this literally affects nobody in the entire company that should cause them to close stores, it’s all lies
I live in Kensington in Philly and yes it is looting because of Eddie being killed .. they want to say it’s not but the same people who doing the theft is also doing the graffiti all over the place saying Justice for Eddie.. this doesn’t happen randomly it happens when there’s a disgusting miscarriage of justice like this. And there was also a large protest at city hall a few hours before the looting started.
my loss prevention officer told me the big companies have insurance for stolen goods, n that there’s a baseline minimum amount stolen before they get that insurance
