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Something disheartening about going to the service desk and asking for directions to some swimmers marked as In Stock online, and the worker saying it's likely that I can't find them because every single size of that item (except 3XL) has been shoplifted.
This is Big W QV and they must get slammed by theft. He was already dealing with someone walking behind the counter and pocketing boxes of Pokémon cards and had walked over to me with a handful of discarded packaging from toys that had obviously been lifted as well.
I mean it's not nappies and baby formula getting pinched.
If it was Nappies and Baby Formula, there would have been prosecutions and security guards wrestling single mothers to the ground.
It is anything like my local Big W, since it was Pokémon Cards and Bathers, it was probably employees supplementing their minimum wage of their 7.5 hour shifts.
Pay your employees a living wage!
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no, it's not employees, it's outside thieves , I have even seen thieves go into stores, grab something , then leave
I've seen guys stuff food down their pants and women hide items under their scarves.
that is not say employee theft doesn't happen and that wage theft doesn't happen
regarding unethical employment practices, this is what Liberal voters wanted when they voted for Jeff Kennett and John Howard. It was no secret.
I hear stories of people wheeling entire shopping trolleys of Lego out the front entry, ignoring the greeters/staff members.
They typically wheel the entire trolley straight to their Drug Dealer where they trade it for their recreation of choice.
The Drug Dealers then put them on BrickLink.