Idk, hurts the employees more than the big box store
Wut, how are employees hurt in any way ?
Should probably look at the corpos like Nestle’s extortionate pricing of newborn supplies to the point that a black market emerges first. (And then whining about low birth rate)
If the store budgets to lose 1% of their goods to shrink, and the store exceeds that budget, then corporate will make the budget up in other ways.
When I worked retail, the largest budget item was labor. You can cut labor fairly easy to make up for shortfalls on other budgetary items, leaving a skeleton crew
Then why are they ever running any more than a skeleton crew? For fun? You claim they could easily cut labor, but if it was that easy then they would’ve done it already. They’re always looking to maximize profit.
Wut, how are employees hurt in any way ?
Should probably look at the corpos like Nestle’s extortionate pricing of newborn supplies to the point that a black market emerges first. (And then whining about low birth rate)
If the store budgets to lose 1% of their goods to shrink, and the store exceeds that budget, then corporate will make the budget up in other ways.
When I worked retail, the largest budget item was labor. You can cut labor fairly easy to make up for shortfalls on other budgetary items, leaving a skeleton crew
Then why are they ever running any more than a skeleton crew? For fun? You claim they could easily cut labor, but if it was that easy then they would’ve done it already. They’re always looking to maximize profit.
For a store to actually run well you need more than a skeleton crew.
But it’s definitely possible to scale down a couple days of the week and make your employee’s lives hell.
If you always run a skeleton crew, eventually the store starts to get unorganized and boxes of packed inventory begin piling up everywhere
Because in some (most) parts of this world, the concept is
Privatize profit, socialize losses.
So the company gets to keep all profit during good times, but employees “solidarily pay” for the losses.