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  Surprise- people don’t like being inconvenienced as an innocent whole due to the actions of a few. Who would have thunk it?
context: The company has found private security guards to be “largely ineffective” in deterring theft, so instead it’s putting in more police and law enforcement officers.
  
  I'm sorry what? Private companies can turn police officers into glorified security guards? >
  
  No, but they can incentivize them to be more present. An enormous gas station near me, over 100 pumps, has constant police presence because they let them fill their drinks for free. They’re more likely to stop by and wander around for a bit and leave. >
  
  Is it a buc-ees? I just went to one for the first time over Christmas and it was crazy the amount of gas pumps they have. >
  
  
  One of the shuttered stores that closed had only seven reported shoplifting incidents in 2021 and a total of 23 since 2018, according to the newspaper. Overall, the five stores that closed had fewer than two recorded shoplifting incidents a month on average since 2018 >
  
  And they hired a full time person to stop it. Lol. >
  
  Sir! 2% of our sales are being stolen!
  What?  Hire more guards!
  Yes sir, now 2% of our sales are being used to pay the new guards!  And people are still stealing stuff! >
  
  
  So retailers took action. Some began locking up more products like deodorant and toothpaste, 
  
  I don't shop at stores that do this shit..
  The more locked display cases you have, the less likely I will be back..
  Takes too bloody long to find an employee to get the product and then wait in line for whatever specific till they took my item to. >
  
  Where I lived in Baltimore you don’t have a choice. I went with my dad so he could buy batteries one day and he had a fit about them being locked up