• thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Stores should lock everything behind cabinets to prevent shop lifting. Police should never investigate any shoplifting if a store does not lock up merchandise. Stores should have enough staff to hand you things from behind a counter.

    Walmart has download police to municipalities, it costs tax payers billions a year. Socialism for the rich. We need fewer police.

    Historically stores have looked like this https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/ARHMCUO6N7MRYV8S everything locked up, a clerk serving people. Police grew, as stores decided to not lock up stuff. They didn’t lock up stuff because they could cut back on staff and rely on public police.

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      18 hours ago

      If any store decides I need to ask an employee to read the nutritional facts on the back of a can of soup I will never shop there.

      The solution isn’t locks it’s fixing the underlying problem.

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      20 hours ago

      Notably, those stores fell out of fashion pretty quickly when someone decided to just throw stuff out on shelves and have people get it themselves.

      I’m not asking a clerk to get me shit. I can either find it quickly and get it myself or I’m getting it elsewhere.