Home Depot CEO Craig Menear says the opioid epidemic is to blame for a surge in shoplifters who have stolen millions of in goods.

Many police depts are not responding to shoplifting call for items under $1,000....junkies hate going to jail where they'll get "sick"....now they are embolden to shoplift.....

True. It is so sad that they had to shutdown many stores in our area due to increase in shoplifting.

No the self check out lanes are responsible!

I am a contractor and often purchase up 700 or 800 in one purchase and often never checked or verified

Good.

I hope they get rid of them and hire more big tittied women.

Lmfao

They're not drug addicts they're thieves.

Crime wave

The end

it's the poor man's welfare when the government doesn't do shit. the economy and atrocious healthcare are to blame.

I’ve often wondered at the grocery store

How do they keep getting from getting robbed blind???

Answer

They don’t

Blabbling the party line because ins.losses had to be paid

i just self checked out scnned the item five time and it said put the item in the bag so i did never rang up.if they cant handle a self check out fuck em im not waiting.

a lot of the missing stuff goes out the back doors sir... not thru check out in your line of buying.. dishonest employees and their "friends" who give them cash back and such.. lot of that going on.

fucking rights it is

Stores no longer paying attention to Shop Lifters and NOT stopping it via in store security and prosecution is leading more and more people to do it.

The drug issue is just a smokescreen ... most companies now PROHIBIT their employees from stopping people who are actively shoplifting. Do that, ie: little risk of any punishment, and you just encourage more, and more, AND MORE of it.

MORE shoplifting to come as companies do everything they can to keep their own employees from stopping it and they continue to NOT prosecute it.

I worked for them for
15 years and we used to
think that drugs drove the theft but also the fear of lawsuits.

Let them shoplift. It's liberal.

I believe it. As drug use gets worse, theft gets worse.
Where I work part time we have a huge problem with theft. We can't catch them all. Most are regulars. They know we know them and they keep coming back. I'd say three fourths of them are addicts. You can see it.
Our losses from theft are more than any of the stores in the Detroit area I've been told.
So many more cars stolen in this area. Cars, anything not locked down, anything that can be sold. Even in my quiet little safe neighborhood. The police and everyone downplays it because tourism is huge and we can't run off the tourists.
We've had several cars stolen from where I work, 6 this year, and every one of them has been recovered and returned...full of used needles. One we found and got back ourselves and it was full of clothes that had been shoplifted, dtug paraphernalia and used needles. Usually with a good bit of damage as well. We've had customers bring them in for service to have vehicles repaired that have been stolen and torn apart. This wasn't happening two and three years ago. It was rare. It's out of hand.
These people aren't teenagers stealing lip gloss or make up for fun, they aren't homeless or broken people trying to steal a Coke and bag of chips to eat or feed their children. No.
When you see them it is obvious by looking at them they are all addicts.

The reason we can not confront them is liability. If there is no security or loss prevention, we can do nothing. We can not leave the store because once we walk through the doors, they are not responsible for us if we are injured or attacked.
We do what we can. We follow them, hand out at the exits. Take armloads of clothes to hold at the register for them. We find stashes hidden near exits so they can grab it and run. We watch them get agitated when they realize they are cornered and won't get out, so they leave what they have and go. They walk around on their phones to whoever they are with trying to figure out how they're going to get out with the goods.
We have had one girl scream at us at the top of her lungs crying racism and throwing things. No racism involved. She is a regular. In fact there are probably more whites than blacks doing the shoplifting.
Employees are limited as to what they can do and say because it is a liability to the stores. And legally, you can't accuse them because as long as they are still inside they can say they just haven't paid for it yet, and you can't prove otherwise.
The thing they do is have someone waiting at a door with the car running and just haul ass.
That is the reason employees are told to not confront.

What dollar value do blacks steal every year shoplifting?

Pulled that right out your ass

Cops murdering pregnant women for shoplifting diapers is closer to truth

I spent over 30 days in county for not self check out-ing something less than $10

Don't think your bullshit is law

Human being over $ & junk. You take an opioid, today, tomorrow, over the weekend, maybe prescribed, maybe helps with your pain or depression, take it again at work, at home, next day ah I don't want to take one lets do something else: DOOM. YOU'RE SICK BEYOND ABILITY TO FUNCTION

I haven’t done it yet but I’ve been tempted.

I steal donuts. I don’t hide that I’m eating a donut. I just don’t pay for it at self check. I’m really glad we have order online and bring to your car now. I was becoming a donut thief. I really don’t care about that but I’m gluten sensitive.

I hate Walmart so much that if their three dollar wine was a screw top I know of have bought a half empty bottle now and then.

He’s just trying to justify sticking a camera in everyone’s fucking face...!


Screw him

But yet the self checkout camera only watches your face and nothing to do with your hands or the items scanned

They’re shitbag liars

Well stop arresting and start killing them off. The rest will get the message.

It's true most stores don't even try to stop you for shoplifting anymore. I guess we can thank lawyers for that one.

I even load up with stolen stuff down my pants and in my pockets when I go to Walmart. Sometimes I go to Walmart and just pick up a fishing rod and walk out the front door.

Maybe should should use her wic, food stamps, assistence instead of stealing. I mean where is her money going.

Whine me a river.. Home Depot is owned by some Tribeters.. Perdue Pharmaceutical is owned by the Tribesters.. 911 was done by tribesters... to get access to the Poppy in Afghanistan... and to try to build a pipeline from the Caspian Sea through Afghanistan.. through Pakistan to the Bay of Bengal.. so Tribesters could steal oil from Kurdistan and get it onto ships in the Bay of Bengal.... Aren’t you People sick of the Tribesters yet?
I say it is high Time for some ready aim fire...

I know a guy that can put in a request to the local meth heads to steal a bunch of DeWalt\Milwaukee tools to buy brand new unopened tools at a great great great price. Yes these people were mostly sucked into the world of gateway addictions due to the easy access of prescription pain pills and have now turned to meth but whatever they are willing to steal any and everything to support that.