Do you know the lefts solution to crime toward merchants in San Francisco?
Force the stores to close early. Do you agree with this?
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Diotrephes · 70-79, M
How about renovating stores so that the customer goes to a computer and selects all of the items that is to be purchased and then pays for them. In the background, robots get the items and bags them and puts them into the delivery slot where the customer picks them up. Some fast food restaurants already work that way. That should eliminate the shoplifting problem.
Or how about giving everyone a badge that they have to use when entering a store. The person can then take whatever he wants but he has to use the adge to exit the store. If the person doesn't pay for the items then he has to do slave labor for a set amount of time to cover the expense of the items that he took. No appeal, no court case.
Or how about giving everyone a badge that they have to use when entering a store. The person can then take whatever he wants but he has to use the adge to exit the store. If the person doesn't pay for the items then he has to do slave labor for a set amount of time to cover the expense of the items that he took. No appeal, no court case.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@Diotrephes The back-room system you suggest was used by the British household & luxury goods retailer Argos, albeit with printed catalogues and human staff, not computers and robots. The goods emerged on a conveyor-belt behind the counter, and was handed to the customer by a sales person, against a collection-note.
It probably allowed them to work with smaller premises than otherwise necessary, but of course was secure against shop-lifting.
Argos has since closed its shops and stopped printing catalogues but still works by on-line ordering and direct delivery or by collection from partner-supermarkets.
Some of the supermarkets here do now offer order-and-collect or order-and-delivery options but that is for customer convenience more than security, because the shops still operate in the conventional open-display, self-service manner.
Not sure the "slave labour" would work or could be enforced, and might not be legal anyway; but being made simply to leave all the goods - in front of everyone queuing behind them - with a threat of legal action and future bans from the stores - could be very effective.
It probably allowed them to work with smaller premises than otherwise necessary, but of course was secure against shop-lifting.
Argos has since closed its shops and stopped printing catalogues but still works by on-line ordering and direct delivery or by collection from partner-supermarkets.
Some of the supermarkets here do now offer order-and-collect or order-and-delivery options but that is for customer convenience more than security, because the shops still operate in the conventional open-display, self-service manner.
Not sure the "slave labour" would work or could be enforced, and might not be legal anyway; but being made simply to leave all the goods - in front of everyone queuing behind them - with a threat of legal action and future bans from the stores - could be very effective.
Diotrephes · 70-79, M
@ArishMell
Slavery is still legal in America but some States (not all) have banned it in their State constitutions.
Not sure the "slave labour" would work or could be enforced, and might not be legal anyway; but being made simply to leave all the goods - in front of everyone queuing behind them - with a threat of legal action and future bans from the stores - could be very effective.
Slavery is still legal in America but some States (not all) have banned it in their State constitutions.
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Diotrephes · 70-79, M
@MarmeeMarch
Cashiers get robbed every day. It's not the best job in the world.
Sounds expensive and complicated - very expensive. I like the idea of cashiers at the end of each isle. We already have the cashiers just place them at the end no way out unless you pay for the item that is in that isle.
Cashiers get robbed every day. It's not the best job in the world.
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ninalanyon · 61-69, T
@ArishMell
Argos has since closed its shops and stopped printing catalogues but still works by on-line ordering and direct delivery or by collection from partner-supermarkets.
You can still go to an Argos store and pick something from the catalogue on a touch screen. Or has that changed in the last year? The stores are in Sainsbury's. luxury goods retailer Argos,
That's the first time I have seen luxury and Argos in the same sentence!