• silence7@slrpnk.netOP
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    11 months ago

    It’s likely real, and yes, it’s from employees trying to make ends meet: the main theft happening in stores is wage theft by the employers.

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      11 months ago

      where did you get that from? I read the whole article and didn’t see any claims of employee theft. The issue is that they were looking at total 2015 shrinkage numbers across the industry and misrepresenting those numbers as a percentage of thefts (37-50%)

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          11 months ago

          I was referring to OP claim the shrinkage was actually employees stealing to “make ends meet”.

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            11 months ago

            We all know that retail workers are underpaid. And it’s pretty widely known that the biggest source of shrinkage is employees. Thought this was just common knowledge