{"id":481,"date":"2023-04-28T11:16:09","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T17:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/?p=481"},"modified":"2023-04-28T11:16:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T17:16:10","slug":"target-using-locked-cases-to-deal-with-shrinkage-and-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/target-using-locked-cases-to-deal-with-shrinkage-and-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Target Using Locked Cases to Deal with “Shrinkage,” and “Shortage”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Target now joins Walmart and many other retailers in detailing the struggles they face with the breakdown in American Society. The result: Shoplifting on a massive scale. Of course, they make it sound more innocuous by calling it – “shrinkage,” or “shortage” – you wouldn’t want to offend the thieves, after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Target is now using “locked cases” for more goods, especially in Democrat strongholds (they wouldn’t say that though!). Somehow, I don’t think locked cases will solve the problem in those areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of the strategies Target has utilized amid its efforts to curb more shoplifting are locked-up cases.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company has resorted to keeping all items in the personal care aisle at a location on San Francisco\u2019s Folsom Street in locked shelves, footage of which recently received significant engagement<\/a> on social media. WNCT-TV reported that has been the case for some things there since at least October. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another Target outside of Manhattan in Riverdale, New York, has also made it so rows in\u00a0its personal care section<\/a>\u00a0are locked up and require a staffer to open. . . . CEO Brian Cornell described “shortage” as an industry-wide “financial headwind”\u00a0on the company\u2019s third-quarter earnings call<\/a>\u00a0in November. Retailers often use that term or “shrink” for theft and other types of inventory losses.\u00a0. . . <\/p>\nFOX BUSINESS<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Target now joins Walmart and many other retailers in detailing the struggles they face with the breakdown in American Society. The result: Shoplifting on a massive scale. Of course, they make it sound more innocuous by calling it – “shrinkage,” or “shortage” – you wouldn’t want to offend the thieves, after all. Target is now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,118,119,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-retail","category-target-stores","category-walmart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions\/482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}