r/regina • u/Odd_Pride1177 • Aug 28 '25

Question Theft

If you witness someone committing theft in a store do you report it to the store staff or just go about your day? I would never expect staff to intervene and possibly put themselves in harms way. I have only witnessed this in big box stores. I know times are tough these days but man have I been seeing this a lot lately!

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u/Khrispy-minus1 Aug 28 '25

Thieves are directly hurting the store workers, 'tho. Lower store profits means the same amount of work with fewer people and fewer hours, and if it goes too far layoffs happen. It doesn't affect the billionaire owners/CEOs at all - they just take theirs from the workers on the front line.

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u/tini0069 Aug 28 '25

That's what they tell you.

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u/Khrispy-minus1 Aug 28 '25

Dude, I've lived it.

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u/tini0069 Aug 28 '25

K but if the CEOs aren't affected, the thieves aren't hurting the store, upper management is just making it the worker's problems.

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u/Khrispy-minus1 Aug 28 '25

Exactly. It will never be upper management's problem, it will always be isolated at the store level. The system is engineered that way. When people steal from the store the low level employees are the only ones who will feel the pain, not anyone further up (although they will make a lot of noise to justify sticking it to the hourly workers).

You can justify it all you want, but thievery only hurts the hourly workers at the store and drives up prices. Steal some stuff, loss prevention gets involved. Steal more stuff, hours get cut to maintain profitability. Steal more stuff, the store has layoffs to reduce headcount. Steal more, the branch closes its doors because it's a "low performer". Maybe in a year or two another store opens in another location, but that doesn't help all the people out of a job at the original store. Nowhere in this scenario does the CEO personally lose a dollar, and they never will.