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CVS Tests Letting iPhone Users Unlock Product Cabinets Without an Employee

big_papa_johnny said:
I'm confused as to how you came to that conclusion based on what I've said.
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It was actually quite easy. You said, "This locking everything up doesn’t seem to be nearly as prevalent as the media portrays it to be."

So if the media doesn't portray something as to have happened, then it didn't happen. A lot of us haven't trusted the media for some time because of what/how they report, unfortunately some are a bit slower in realizing the media won't report on something they don't want us to know because it doesn't fit their narrative. Doesn't mean there's no story that should have been reported.

I am curious as to what conclusion you think I should have reached from your original post. Going back and rereading it, I could easily conclude that you think big business is greedy and they make up stories, that could easily be proven to be false or true, just to try and make an extra buck.
 
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Makosuke said:
Well, it would certainly avoid the situation of standing in front of the “intimacy products” case next to two embarrassed college students for 5 awkward minutes waiting for an employee to unlock the condoms while the PA system announces it to everyone in the store.
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Until the next day when Mom and Dad see a push notification on your lock screen: "Since you were interested in condoms, perhaps you'll be interested in..."
 
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As a society, what we tolerate will happen. Shoplifting needs to be punished severely. In some other countries, people who steal would have their hands cut off or have their bodies beaten with a wooden pole.
 
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The other day I was at target and needed sonicare heads which were locked up. Rather than dealing with this bs I went home and ordered them overnight on Amazon. I’m not going gen to let businesses win when it is my money I choose to spend with them. I will not buy an item that is locked up at a store that is a routine daily use hygiene product.
 
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Daalseth said:
Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner. They don’t want to pay anyone, just have people come in and leave money. It’s why they are firing checkers and replacing them with self serve checkout lanes. It’s why there’s never anyone stocking stuff that you can ask. It’s why the stores are ofted staffed by one person at the front and nobody else anywhere to help you. News Flash: When stores are staffed adequately, theft goers down.
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Honestly they should just make it like Amazon go. Fire the employees or keep just one on hand to monitor and use sensors/tech for cart/payment processing. If someone jumps
the gate the employee calls the police and they have your info on file.

The problem is the cost of tech. I’m not sure what the exact numbers are but it’s surely pricey. Enough to offset shrink?
 
VisceralRealist said:
It's something...I guess.

Walgreens has been lamenting their lost sales due to locked cabinets. Guess they're going to have to decide whether theft or lost sales are the bigger drain on revenue. All these stores have been known to cover up their own financial failings as being entirely the result of theft and loose criminal policy, even when that's likely just one piece of the pie.

In either case, going into a store and having half the merchandise locked up is nothing short of dystopian.
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Been wondering about this for a while now. One of the Targets in my area has everything from deodorant to detergent locked up. If all Targets started doing that, I would literally stop shopping there, as it would significant lengthen my shopping trip.
 
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ZipZilla said:
As a society, what we tolerate will happen. Shoplifting needs to be punished severely. In some other countries, people who steal would have their hands cut off or have their bodies beaten with a wooden pole.
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Americans are far too nice and obsessed with political correctness to do anything remotely close to that, though it’s sorely needed.

A simple, cheap and highly undesirable (aka painful) punishment will curb theft quickly.

Paying a fine or spending time in jail is far too easy for someone who just doesn’t care.
 
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TigerNike23 said:
Ding ding ding!

Welcome to late-stage capitalism
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Counterpoint--I talk with the store managers about automation and self check out aisles and things like that. They can't find people to work there. There is no mustachioed villain cackling in a black hat in the back counting money like Scrooge McDuck. That's not how the world works (especially not the grocery industry--the idea they are "gouging" customers is laughable--their margins are the thinnest of perhaps any industry).
 
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Baywatchboy said:
It was actually quite easy. You said, "This locking everything up doesn’t seem to be nearly as prevalent as the media portrays it to be."

So if the media doesn't portray something as to have happened, then it didn't happen. A lot of us haven't trusted the media for some time because of what/how they report, unfortunately some are a bit slower in realizing the media won't report on something they don't want us to know because it doesn't fit their narrative. Doesn't mean there's no story that should have been reported.

I am curious as to what conclusion you think I should have reached from your original post. Going back and rereading it, I could easily conclude that you think big business is greedy and they make up stories, that could easily be proven to be false or true, just to try and make an extra buck.
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I didn't say that it doesn't happen, just that the prevalence of it is overexaggerated by the media. Surely that was quite clear.
 
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contacos said:
I don’t really get the whole stealing problem that seems to be getting out of hand in the U.S. Aren’t there security tags on most items that beep when you try to leave without paying? Plus, don't stores often have security guards or undercover personnel near the exits, especially in certain areas, like they do here in Germany?

Or MAYBE it goes back to the issue of 🔫 again like I guess people don't just want to ask people to open their bag because they need to be worried about having their face blown off
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It isn’t actually getting out of hand, it’s mass hysteria almost entirely fueled by social media and Republicans politicians.
 
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Blackstick said:
Seems to work well for Costco. Hell, worked fine when I worked at Apple 10 years ago. A security guard deters the 95% just by watching the door and engaging people to ask for receipts as they leave.

Yes, you'll inevitably still have the incorrigible 5%.
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Costco has the incidental benefit of everything they sell being enormous and difficult to hide 😅
 
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flexwithmarius said:
Americans are far too nice and obsessed with political correctness to do anything remotely close to that, though it’s sorely needed.

A simple, cheap and highly undesirable (aka painful) punishment will curb theft quickly.

Paying a fine or spending time in jail is far too easy for someone who just doesn’t care.
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STOP MAKING SENSE!!! Jail doesn't really work for people who actually like jail.
 
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