@whatmorefabric wrote:
Walmart lost 3 Billion to Theft, not shoplifting Employee theft still outpaces shoplifting.
Perhaps employee theft is high, so is consumer theft. I read just last week President of the NRF speaking towards retail apparently organized theft, up in 100 billion range. No, that's not employee's.
As I said in prior post I was part owner in a game store that folded in or about 2008, there was no employee theft, not a single item. Pretty much everyday no matter how hard we try prevent it theft happen. We even went to the extent of posting a sign, "Nobody under the age of 18 w/o a parent" only to have police arrive telling us we can't do that. For people who trade in games or systems, yep, receive stolen stuff, cops take the haul we not recover a red cent. When we tried implement requiring a legal ID on file, nope, against the law, we're not a pawn shop.
Ok thing's to understand... On one side of the equation there are sellers who get taken say here on eBay, scammed. There are also buyers same thing, Internet consumer fraud reports to the FTC in 2022 were about 8.8 Billion dollars, FBI says 10 Billion... Likely that number is WAY LOW as more go unreported than reported. Now that's not just hard goods, its "The Internet Consumer Fraud." In the UK, 60 million people, about 3 million complaints and again, likely 2-3 times that actually occur.
There is no simple solution to either portions, thats reality, thats truth and the numbers are going up.
I can tell you the governments answer as not factored into that annual report is the costing of governmental and local resources. We'd a pawn shop here where I live recently hit whereby the owner was gifting addicts money for drugs whilst they stole from retail such as Home Depot. I'm sure those consumers who got great deals on said stuff right here on eBay happy as flowers on a summer day. That's a reality.
Governments, authorities, manufacturer's, retailers and then some solution is to regulate eCommerce moving third party venues gone. They already attempted a moon shot called The Shop Safe Act which had it come to be sought even to fine venues where trademarked terms were found, "Onsies" is Trademarked Term as is Nike, Ford, Mattel and countless other names, words and phrases. Lawfirms deemed it the end of third party ecommerce, game over short of Amazon who'd be the BIG winner. Why? They are THE Internet retailer and already have countless arrangements with said entities and warehousing, checking and delivery abilities. One puppet, problem gets mitigated in big fashion, global solution, case closed.
Reality is that legislation was a moon shot and as with all moon shot legislation the target is never the moon but somewhere's above the horizon. Expect it.
