Walgreens CEO says anti-shoplifting strategy backfired: 'When you lock things up…you don't sell as many of them’
Walgreens' CEO talked about the flip side of investing in increased security on a recent earnings call.
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Well yeah… if you’ve got everything locked up you need to find one of the few staff left who is under far too much pressure to deal with customers.
It's the fucking worst. Say I need a toothbrush, new mascara, and cough syrup. That's gonna be at least 10 minutes waiting for the one overworked staff member to unlock the case at each of them.
A toothbrush? In the U.K. they’re like 2 quid …we’re actually gonna end up with people using Amazon for their shop for everything. It won’t end up with your weekly shopping trip being from the same place either.
They're super cheap here too, but Walgreens at almost every location I've been to locks up absolutely everything
To be fair Walgreens happily marks a $1 brush up to $5
Preventing people from stealing toothbrushes is just evil. Nobody chooses to be in a situation where they even think about stealing a freaking toothbrush.
To be fair ….i live in a small town. I don’t tend to go other places and buy tooth brushes, but at the same time only expensive items are locked up.
Deodorant is the thing here
Also for some reason laundry detergent? Like, just get purex and be done with it, like $10 for a year supply.
I found a wholesaler that sells a 5gal bucket of laundry detergent for $45, lasts probably 6 months.
We're a small household with minimal laundry so 5 gallons is more like a 10 year supply for us... I'm here for it : D
Looking around online they're a bit more than $50. It might be worth it to look around locally, I bet you have a laundry janitorial wholesaler near you.
From what I understand laundry detergent (especially Tide) is used as a black market currency because the value is relatively stable and everyone needs it eventually.
I read a few years ago that was because Tide was fairly high end as far as laundry detergents go.
That was pre-Tide pods too, so those must be like Louis Vuitton type shit these days.
This is more urban legend that fun fact.
Probably. I did say, "From what I understand," rather than stating it as a fact. Could very well have been thoroughly debunked but I can't be arsed to look up detergent shoplifting tends and causes.
Name brand laundry detergent has a decent resale price on the street. Tide was the first thing I noticed getting locked up at Family Dollar back in the 10s.
Must not have spread here yet. Last week i bought DayQuil, cough drops, pseudoephedrine. Nothing was locked up. The pseudoephedrine was behind the pharmacy counter
