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2022-09-19 -Great Cultural Revolution

ORCs-The Actual Name For The Epidemic Of Organized Retail Crime Sweeping The Nation

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Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-09-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 One can blame an emasculated law enforcement, the racial appeasement policy, the state of retail prices themselves, the socialist leech psychology... but you can't write a word about all the black criminals and their newfound racially entitled attitude. Essentially blaming yourself again, while denying the real problem.

And that's the primary reason you can't do jack shit about it. The most the useless State can do is bill the stupid taxpayer for it all indirectly, to keep industry running. 'We are sorry even if the economy is bleeding, we need you to pay more for stuff, because it's being stolen.'

Posted by Dron66046 2022-09-19 02:36|| 2022-09-19 02:36|| Front Page Top

#2 And Jeff Bezos is loving every minute of it.

Posted by DooDahMan 2022-09-19 02:43|| 2022-09-19 02:43|| Front Page Top

#3 More evidence of the growing urban anarchy predicted here several years ago.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-09-19 06:03|| 2022-09-19 06:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Remind me who as 'posted' on each side of the itinerate rabbi those years ago.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-09-19 07:19|| 2022-09-19 07:19|| Front Page Top

#5

Speaking with a buddy who is a "Loss Preventive" Mgr. for a big box. He said they are seeing increased losses in the fresh meat areas, where RFID tagging is not "currently" used in many cases.

He also warned me to double-check scanned prices vs. tag/posted prices, as their computerized registers have a number of higher price coding errors.

So it seems Big Box stores chains are both victim and predator.

Posted by NN2N1 2022-09-19 08:36|| 2022-09-19 08:36|| Front Page Top

#6 Mostly "predators" .....thank you PRC, tech oligarchs, and Henry Kissenger.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-09-19 08:46|| 2022-09-19 08:46|| Front Page Top

#7 The U.S. Chamber of Commerce demanded earlier this year that Congress take action

They, the Bidness Rountable and other such groups are big backers of open borders. Now, suddenly, they want ~~the law~~ certain laws enforced. A nice package would be increased penalties for retail theft, not circumventable by Soros DAs, coupled with nationwide mandated use of eVerify for any job whatsoever.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-09-19 08:57|| 2022-09-19 08:57|| Front Page Top

#8 I conducted a mission analysis on the scope of retail crime a couple of years ago in regards to narcotics financing. A "shrinkage rate" of near 2% was common. Note the play on words...shrink...shinkage...minimization is intentional. The real numbers tat should be used is millions of dollars per each individual WalMart and Lowes location...

Our intent was to use this as an opportunity to target the criminals returning to this unprotected honey pot time and time again. Most are criminals with outstanding arrest warrants...that can be identified using facial recognition at the entry points to these big box stores. The stores will not give us the video feeds to identify the fugitives stealing. They are content with allowing their customers to mingle with criminals and happy to pass that 2% loss rate on to the customer...and giving the thief a in store credit card for full purchase price of the stolen item when they return the stolen item to the store without a receipt. The thief is rewarded with a full price card which they then trade for the narcotics of their choice. Kinda curious if the stores aren't unwitting accomplices in this criminal enterprise...that whole deliberate indifference thing.

Posted by Tennessee 2022-09-19 09:09|| 2022-09-19 09:09|| Front Page Top

#9 /\ Kinda curious if the stores aren't unwitting accomplices in this criminal enterprise...that whole deliberate indifference thing.

Same team as Sino-American fentanyl invasion and Washington "secure border" crowd. Just a different logistics venue.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-09-19 09:23|| 2022-09-19 09:23|| Front Page Top

#10 ....heh.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-09-19 09:32|| 2022-09-19 09:32|| Front Page Top

#11 Note the play on words...shrink...shinkage...minimization is intentional.

Which means what?

"Shrink" includes losses to shoplifting, spoilage, damage, and just accounting errors. It basically means "we bought this, but in the end couldn't sell it for some reason".

Years ago I heard the chief of security for one of the biggest grocery retailers in the US speak, specifically about organized retail crime. The rings are organized along two axes -- street gangs and overseas reselling. Some of the overseas reselling, well, the goods and cash made it all the way to Pakistan.

The stores are balancing the safety of staff and customers against the losses -- and err on the side of safety. When the margins are $0.001 on the dollar of sales, that 2% loss hurts -- but it's cheaper than lives and injuries.

The idea the stores are somehow complicit is ludicrous -- excessive shrink is held against store management, items that are most likely to be targeted have all manner of deterrents, and corporate loss prevention works with law enforcement to take down the organized rings.

Blame the "prosecutors" who let repeat offenders walk, the legislators who have essentially legalized theft, and the criminals.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-09-19 09:45|| 2022-09-19 09:45|| Front Page Top

#12 Like corporate taxes, businesses pass this on to the customer.

That would be you.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-09-19 09:51|| 2022-09-19 09:51|| Front Page Top

#13 Blame the "prosecutors" who let repeat offenders walk, the legislators who have essentially legalized theft, and the criminals. Posted by Rob Crawford

Prosecutors? The stores rarely if ever report the loss - how is the prosecutor supposed to prosecute what isn't reported.

Which means what? The real question is WHY? Why don't the stores share a simple public video feed that would enable LE to screen out fugitives from darkening their doorways? WHY don't the stores cooperate? Liability? It appears that if the public is willing to pay the 2% theft tax...all is swept under the rug...and the consumer makes up the stores profit "shrinkage" in higher prices and the cartels suck on the teat via another source of funding for the narcotics trade.

Shrink? Why not say THEFT - STEALING you know real words. Shrink is focused on the stores profit margin, not loss they pass on to the customer.

It is time for the national leadership of big box stores to take on some responsibility and cooperate with LE when given a chance. The local managers are likely willing but not given the chance by corporate lawyers...been there and heard that story.

Posted by Tennessee 2022-09-19 10:59|| 2022-09-19 10:59|| Front Page Top

#14 In 2014 voters in California passed Proposition 47 which reclassified many crimes from felonies to misdemeanors.

The law made some non-violent property crimes, where the value does not exceed $950, into misdemeanors. It also made some simple drug possession offenses into misdemeanors.

Further, because so many county detention facilities are already overcrowded, those who commit misdemeanors are often released shortly after booking. Knowing this, police are often reluctant to bother making an arrest because the paperwork is a waste of their time.

Shoplifting and possession of dangerous narcotics like fentanyl were in effect legalized in California.

It was perhaps the biggest mistake voters in this state ever made. We are getting what we deserve for this mistake. As they say, we are getting it good and hard.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-09-19 11:42|| 2022-09-19 11:42|| Front Page Top

#15 IIRC, one of the justifications for Prop 47 was the three strikes law which California voters passed in a previous election some years ago. Three strikes said that a third conviction for a felony would result in a mandatory life sentence. Bleeding hearts could simply not abide the thought of all those criminals being put away for good.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-09-19 11:49|| 2022-09-19 11:49|| Front Page Top

#16 I remember the day I was standing at the local Home Depot checkout counter when two big burly guys ran behind me and grabbed a guy who forgot to stop at the checkout counter before he walked out the door. The clerk told me the big burly guys were part of their "inventory control team". Funny how they looked like your average Home Depot shoppers until somebody tried to leave the store without paying for the merchandise. I believe that crime was reported but I can't remember if it was before or after Proposition 47.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-09-19 11:56|| 2022-09-19 11:56|| Front Page Top

#17 Not all shrink is theft, and there's no point in putting money and time into categorizing it.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-09-19 12:33|| 2022-09-19 12:33|| Front Page Top

#18 Well, there is the Al Capone approach: We're hiring 87,000 new IRS employees, and each of these thefts is (I suspect) a taxable transaction. Biden and Warren want to enforce the tax laws, don't they?

Posted by Matt 2022-09-19 13:52|| 2022-09-19 13:52|| Front Page Top

#19 The dance around the reason for so many stores turning a blind eye is racial. Everyone knows it is disproportionately POCs and that stopping them can be hazardous to your staff. The same racial composition of suspects if the police make arrests makes DA's leery of prosecution since conviction numbers are tracked by race baiters for future bias lawsuits and propaganda for political allies. Further, what follows any interdiction is an instant civil lawsuit against the deep-pocket store for some cooked up bullshit reason that will go before a local jury primed to award serious money for something akin to disrespect or bias, let alone actual criminality.

So much easier to just tax the honest consumer through invisible price increases. Eventually, someone will decide that the location isn't worth.
I can't resist wondering if the ORCs and making Mordor our of blue cities.....Tolkienesque imagery at its most poignant.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-09-19 15:10|| 2022-09-19 15:10|| Front Page Top

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