Shoplifting can eat up every penny of your profits, every minute of your work, every brilliant idea you have to build your consignment, resale, or thrift business.
If you’re consignment, you don’t want to let your consignor know her item was stolen…so you pay for something that’s no longer there.
If you’re buy-outright, the dollars you spent are gone.
And if you’re a donation-only thrift shop, the good intentions of your supporters and the work of your volunteers is flushed down the drain.
And that’s even before you think about the lost opportunity to make money off your (now disappeared) inventory. And the work invested getting it onto the sales floor…only to be given to a thief. It’s enough to make you scream
How do shoplifters GET AWAY with it?
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