tons of business executives get fox news brain the same as every other kind of conservative, and it leads to stuff like hiring security consultants (who also have fox brain) who tell you to do shit like this in "urban" stores.
Anti-theft deterrent also means anti-sales. Nice job, eggheads. "Upon discovering that an item they want to buy is in a locked case, less than one in three shoppers (32%) get a store employee to unlock the case." www.retailbrew.com/stories/2024...
Most end up trying to find the product in another store, according to a Consumer World survey.
The other day I paid the much higher price at the grocery store, and made the extra stop at the grocery store, solely because I didn't want to go find someone to unlock something at Target
This also seems like a useful strategy if you’re a giant pharmacy chain that wants to close “redundant” stores and need data to show that there aren’t enough sales or customers to support them all.
there's also, and this has been discussed in the context of outsourcing and those "inversions" that were really popular for "tax" benefits, of a follow the leader. Where if Company A is doing it, investors will punish company b even if the actual benefits are hazy.
It's exhausting how news media and people assume that everything a business/corp does is by the numbers and strictly logical responses to their current situation.
We've had multiple stores realize that it actually costs them less to just write off shrinkage than it does to engage in such protection tactics. When I ran my own business at cons, we'd lose one or two items per con to shoplifting, but it wasn't worth packing everything back to the hotel each day.
Wow, almost as if making customers jump through hoops is not an appealling marketing strategy whatsoever, who knew?