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Saw something at the Apple Store today that shocked me.
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One needs quite a bit more training and/or certification to work around narcotics (I'm thinking police, pharmacy, or hospital).
And which companies did you work with? If you don't mind me asking?
Did the company sell expensive products like Apple does?
2 of the companies I worked for did in fact sell equipment that was priced around Apple products. One was a construction equipment company and the other was a GPS equipment manufacturer.
I have had friends work at an Apple Store near me at Pentagon City and another in Washington DC. Neither do this as I have walked out with them before.
Just generally speaking, I am not sure I have ever heard of anyone I know across numerous types of areas EVER have to do this.
I am sure it does happen in the country but I am just surprised seeing Apple do this
Clearly they've never met my wife. Hers could fit everything AND the kitchen sink. On a regular day her purse contains (at least) the following:
iPod touch
digital camera
iPod nano
headphones
wallet
keys
a book
make-up
When I worked at Best Buy in college, their attitude was that employees cause more inventory shrink than customers. We were not under any circumstances allowed to have our shirts untucked and we were on camera all day every day. The guys in the yellow shirts up front when you walk into a Best Buy are watching the employees just as much as they're watching anything else. There are even cameras over by the bathrooms in case you decide to take something into the bathroom and try to rip the security tag off of it.
When we went into Best Buy to buy something when we weren't on the clock, we were also not allowed to have our shirts hanging out. One of the security guys once made me tuck in my hoodie because I was there buying a CD off the clock. (I actually refused and got written up.)
When we went into Best Buy to buy something when we weren't on the clock, we were also not allowed to have our shirts hanging out. One of the security guys once made me tuck in my hoodie because I was there buying a CD off the clock. (I actually refused and got written up.)
Yeah, tell me about it.
I'm not sure that was a corporate policy to tell me to do that--it may have been a case of a Best Buy employee just wanting to act holier than thou. Although we did have a BIG theft problem at that particular Best Buy.
Later we found out that one of the employees was taking digital cameras (this was back when digital cameras first came out), Playstations, Gameboys, etc. and throwing them out the back door of the building at a certain time every day. His buddy would come around the corner and pick them up and then they'd sell everything later.
Either way, I didn't work there long. Retail sucks.
I think most places consider sexual harassment and associated jokes more serious than loss prevention. Anyway, as others have said, pretty much every chain retail store does this, if you're shocked and surprised by this, you aren't paying attention or have never been to a store in your life.
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Yeah, retailers are more concerned with someone walking off with an ipod then with Oxycontin, at least it seems that way.
Yeah, retailers are more concerned with someone walking off with an ipod then with Oxycontin, at least it seems that way.
Considering you need years of school and certification to be able to sell controlled medication, it's not really the same thing.
When I read the title I thought you were going to say you saw two employees ****ing on a display table.
I worked in El Salvador for a year. All of the grocery stores and retail stores had an armed guard inside the front door. Customers who had bags, backpacks, or purses had to put them on a wall of shelves right after they entered the store and they picked them up on their way out.
Apple bag checks are supposed to be done in Back of House, not on the floor, so it's not surprising you didn't see your friends stop on the floor.
Apple also has employees fill out "Technology Cards", which has the serial #s of the devices they bring to work, so they can't try to "upgrade".
