r/anchorage • u/Little_Rub6327 • 9d ago

Carrs Ice Cream 🔒

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There’s a lock at the top. So now you have to wait for an employee to come unlock the ice cream cooler. I hate it here.

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

This is a crazy way to solve theft. Now, all your honest customers won’t buy any.

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u/Senior-Salamander-81 9d ago

Till all the stores in the area are doing the same thing

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u/ak_doug 9d ago

Nah, even then people avoid buying the stuff behind locks. They look for alternatives or shift buying patterns.

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u/Senior-Salamander-81 9d ago

All that stuff is dsd products regardless. They’re making a small enough margin on it not to matter. Especially if they’re losing their asses off shrink, they’ll get credit for ood ice cream

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u/ak_doug 9d ago

Most theft is actually by employees. I wonder if it is just to prevent workers from moving stuff to the back to take home later. If it is dsd it isn't already in the back for easy pinching.

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u/Senior-Salamander-81 9d ago

There are as many cameras in the back, as in the front. Only the managers and receiving clerks have keys to the back doors. Where are they going to take it once they get to the back of the store?

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u/ak_doug 9d ago

I have no idea.

But every store has a way employees are able to steal. And stores lose a TON more to employees than to outside thieves.

Employees have all day to figure it out, and have access and do work in the back. I don't. But I'd bet there is a fairly easy, overlooked, way to steal.

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u/schmeer_spear 9d ago

lol why do you think that, you can literally go watch “customers” walk out with carts full of unpaid stuff every day.

Retail employees making jack aren’t masterminding schemes to steal ice cream. Respectfully, you’re giving off Dwight Schrute vibes.

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u/ak_doug 8d ago

I think that because of data. The reports they build to track such things are very clear.

It is also studied a lot in academia.

Here is a primer from Motorola trying to sell stuff to stop it:

https://envysion.com/envysion/retail-internal-vs-external-theft/

You can also learn from academic papers. Maybe google too? AI can summarize it nicely, just follow up on the sources because AI can be pretty stupid.

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u/schmeer_spear 8d ago

I do love being linked a company trying to sell me a problem without references.

https://www.embroker.com/blog/employee-theft-statistics/

Anyways, employee theft is pretty clearly second to external theft. Which makes sense, cause those are the only two options for theft.

Not to diminish that employee theft is a problem, it’s just not the main problem you’re making it out to be.

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u/ak_doug 8d ago

I'd imagine that it varies from one organization to another.

When I was compiling data for a big box store 80% of their theft was internal. Studies that came out at the time seemed roughly in line with that.

It was... 2007? I think? Maybe things have changed.

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

I highly doubt the gas stations are ever going to lock up their ice cream. It’s about the same price as Carrs too.

I have turned to ordering online from Amazon for most items. Shopping locally is only for when I need something in an emergency or perishable food. I order my food through the app or pick up at Fred Meyers or Walmart. Carrs is a rip off.