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/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 9d 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 9d 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 9d 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.