[LeoSolaris]

Yeah... Right. It has nothing to do with the extremely low pay, terrible management, psycho customers with no support against customer abuses, frequent changes in hours, a lack of pay stability, seeing new people starting wages above trained staff wages, finally having an employee market for the first time in decades to give them options...

None of that is a factor at all. It's all those thieves that the employees rarely ever see taking things that don't matter to the employees. Uh huh...

No one in retail in a corporate store cares at all about theft. Theft is written off of the corporate taxes. Theft saves more in taxes than the items stolen are worth to the company. The company writes off the retail price while only paying the wholesale price. Corporations don't really care if the item is stolen or sold. They get their profit from the item either way.

[hnburnsy]

You seemed to have found a loop hole, you should open a retail store and let everyone steal your stock instead of actually selling goods. Let us know how profitable you are.

[aluminum96]

> Theft saves more in taxes than the items stolen are worth to the company.

Citation needed

[yummypaint]

Great so retailers have externalized the consequences of their own poor practices onto the taxpayer in yet another way.