One of my stores was just robbed about two hours ago. I wasn't there at the time. Might have been at gunpoint, my employee complied before he made the asshole make good on his threat of having a weapon. Got him on camera, he only got away with about $1000, but argh. Two of my best staff are shaken and even though I wasn't there, I'm both shaking and seething at the same time. This is probably more of a blue room type post, but meh, I'm of the Red Room.
Dude Im gonna be straight with you, until our economy gets better, you should brace youself for more of this to come
Dude.. his employees got robbed AT GUNPOINT!!! Thats a very sad thing. I'm just glad no one was hurt!
I feel for ya. Same thing happened to my store last month. Apparently, we were also robbed three times in the month before I took the place over. People are animals.
25 +/- years ago, I was 19 and working in a gas station/convenience store. Some guy came in. He was wearing a zippered sweatshirt with the hood over his head and his hands in his pockets and said "give me all the money in the register." Like I said, I was young - I was also ... well, more naive than I am now. I'd been raised in middle-class America. Stuff like this "only happens on tv." So I laughed. Dude turned around and walked out. When I told the manager about it later, she freaked out. Told me I should have shut the store down and called her immediately. I told her he walked out, it was all a joke. She yelled and lectured me the rest of my shift that day and for the next week. Then I quit and got another job.
Ditto. I read now that the prime target in a lot of the home burglaries that are happening in some places is the freezer and the pantry. People who wouldn't normally steal are getting desperate for the basics.
The economy isn't the factor. You will always have "X" amount of people who commit armed robbery. They are (hopefully) a fraction of the population, and are likely always at the bottom rung of society regardless of the economy.
Certainly, there are x amount of people who will pull shit like this, but as the old saying goes, "Desperate times call for desperate measures." As the economy worsens and people get more desperate, yeah, I think we're going to see more of this. People who otherwise would never be a part of x will embrace it out of necessity.
I don't know. I know the economy is bad - something like 9.5% unemployment here in Chicagoland and my cousin is in danger of adding to that statistic - but, I think decent people will always be decent. If someone resorts to theivery, just because they lost their job, they weren't decent to start with. Disclaimer: The above statement does not include those who grew up after several generations of welfare and living in the midst of gangland and that's the only life they know. - just so I'm not accused of backtracking.
Would it be cost-effective to put in one of them Dr. Evil-style tiger pits with a trap door by the register? Seriously, though, I'm sorry to hear this, I'm sorry for the loss of money, but at least no one was harmed.
I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to call BS on that. Setting aside foodstamps, soup kitchens and food banksm mass to value, food is a piss poor item to steal. You grab a one TV and bug out, and you got the equivalent of 5 pantries worth of food.
Bad economic times do not increase the rate of robberies/burglaries. It DOES increase the rate of bad check writing, credit card fraud, and identity theft.
If you think you might lose your job in the next few months, take advantage of a church. If you're already a member, they'll help you out. If you're not already a member, join one, be nice, and they'll help you out.
Sure, if you can hock it or sell it but food is consumable immediately without the hassle of trying to turn the stolen goods. There's been instances here where food was a target as well as goods.
