Yeah. It's in the contracts we sign, to respect the store's property and to be vigilent is part of the job. I mean, if something small got stolen, that's one thing. Bigger things are more serious. If it happens too often while certain people are on shift, then those people are switched around and watched by the supervisors and suspected. The thing is, some shoplifters, if they get away with it while one person's on shift, then they'll always come back during that person's shifts to shoplift, knowing they won't get caught out. This doesn't happen all the time, but it has happened at least a few times in the years I worked in retail.
And then it's a question of going up the food chain. If something major was stolen or shoplifting happens often enough, employees are warned and checked by the store manager, because the store is losing money from this, and the manager is being warned and such by the district manager. The district manager in turn is being warned by their superior. And then the president of the store chain, if one locale loses money from shoplifters, accumulated over time, or if something huge got stolen and was not noticed, they demand that it be remedied: that employees are fired, managers are switched to see if the manager is responsible, sometimes a manager gets fired or a assistant manager, or at the extreme cases, the locale gets closed.
Alerting an employee of a shoplifter lets them take note that something was taken, take stock and inventory, take note of the shoplifter's description, so then everyone working there is informed and that person isn't allowed to shop there and can be apprehended.
Yeah. It's in the contracts we sign, to respect the store's property and to be vigilent is part of the job. I mean, if something small got stolen, that's one thing. Bigger things are more serious. If it happens too often while certain people are on shift, then those people are switched around and watched by the supervisors and suspected. The thing is, some shoplifters, if they get away with it while one person's on shift, then they'll always come back during that person's shifts to shoplift, knowing they won't get caught out. This doesn't happen all the time, but it has happened at least a few times in the years I worked in retail.
And then it's a question of going up the food chain. If something major was stolen or shoplifting happens often enough, employees are warned and checked by the store manager, because the store is losing money from this, and the manager is being warned and such by the district manager. The district manager in turn is being warned by their superior. And then the president of the store chain, if one locale loses money from shoplifters, accumulated over time, or if something huge got stolen and was not noticed, they demand that it be remedied: that employees are fired, managers are switched to see if the manager is responsible, sometimes a manager gets fired or a assistant manager, or at the extreme cases, the locale gets closed.
Alerting an employee of a shoplifter lets them take note that something was taken, take stock and inventory, take note of the shoplifter's description, so then everyone working there is informed and that person isn't allowed to shop there and can be apprehended.