N-gated Hacker NewsJan 7
🚨 Big Retail now has its own #CSI unit! 🤦‍♂️ Move over, FBI—Target's taking over with their forensic prowess to tackle the true crime epidemic of... #shoplifting. Because who needs actual law enforcement when you have a red polo and a price scanner? 🕵️‍♀️🔍
https://thehorizonsun.com/features/2024/04/11/the-target-forensics-lab/ #BigRetail #Target #Forensics #TrueCrime #HackerNews #ngated
The Target Forensics Lab

Target, just like many other retailers, has fallen victim to shoplifters, with almost a billion dollars in goods stolen from their stores in 2023. However, the numbers could have been much worse if it weren’t for their unique anti-shoplifting tactics. Target’s way of combating shoplifting was to establish a forensics lab in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that...

The Horizon Sun
Show threadAirplanista 🇺🇦Nov 24, 2024

@avlcharlie Charlie I have always wondered about that exact thing, and now, with you as a prompt, I thought about it and given today's incredibly horrible corporate greed, yes, #BigRetail throwing together electronics on the cheap for "Black Friday" to fleece their often ignorant U.S. buyers makes total sense.

I've never bought into the Black Friday craziness each year. I strive to buy local even if it costs me more. That is however sometimes not possible. But I go there first.

PSiReN-X Nov 20, 2024

#Meanwhile...

#ThisHappened...

This would be #TheSame: #BigRetail that #Profited from the #FailedFurloughBailouts and #AllTheFraud in #PublicOffice during a #GlobalPandemic, right... | #LookNoQuestionMark

🧙⚔️🤖🐺🤖⚔️🧙 | 🚁🚀🪖🦄🪖🚀🚁

https://www.retailgazette.co.uk/blog/2024/11/job-cuts-budget/

Retailers right to warn of post-Budget job cuts, says Bank of England chief - Retail Gazette

Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey has said retailers are right to warn the government of potential job cuts due to tax rises unveiled in the Budget.

Retail Gazette
Show threadWannabe AstronautOct 24, 2021
@mike
I think we just did ....
#BigRetail #NoFreeChoice