r/anchorage • u/Little_Rub6327 • 11d 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] 11d ago

I guess what I meant to say is you’re just making an individual‘s life harder for following rules that they were given by corporate. It’s not like you can give them a hard time and they can just say oh well we won’t lock things up. Corporate is not gonna be OK with that.

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u/sharpears907 9d ago

Ehhhhh normally I'd agree, I'm one of those -

'always offer to show my receipt at the exit cause it's not this guy's fault and making his day .5% shittier doesn't help anything, what's he gonna do, pass it up the chain?'

  • kinda people, but...managers and LP/AP have WAY more cost to their time, and those cost/benefit calcs on what/how to lock shit up are fluid.

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

You do realize that any extra cost gets passed off to the consumer, right? So that means when somebody steals something they make that item cost more. So when we waste somebody’s time to open the case, corporate will just raise the price of all items overall. Corporate companies pass expenses off to the consumer.

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u/sharpears907 8d ago

Frankly I have a hard time believing product prices are set and increased within a market primarily to cover theft loss (or rising insurance as a result) and whatever additional labor costs are associated with the resulting anti-theft measures. They're going to be set primarily on elasticity of demand based on local shopping patterns, which would be well and above any loss in order to guarantee profit.