{"id":199946,"date":"2007-06-15T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/15\/shrinkage-aka-theft-is-rising-at-u-s-wal-mart-stores\/"},"modified":"2007-06-15T06:01:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-15T11:01:00","slug":"shrinkage-aka-theft-is-rising-at-u-s-wal-mart-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/15\/shrinkage-aka-theft-is-rising-at-u-s-wal-mart-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Shrinkage&#8221;, aka Theft is Rising at U.S. Wal-Mart stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gee, you treat you employers and suppliers like crap, and we are supposed to be surprised when they rob you blind?<\/p>\n<p>Payback is a bitch, huh.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 255);\"><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/news\/newsfeeds\/articles\/newstex\/AFX-0013-17462581.htm\">Theft rising at U.S. Wal-Mart stores<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Theft rising at U.S. Wal-Mart stores<br \/>June 14, 2007: 06:25 AM EST<\/p>\n<p>Jun. 14, 2007 (AFX International Focus) &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; businessminute<br \/>Shoppers at Wal-Mart stores (NYSE:WMT) across America are loading carts with merchandise &#8212; maybe a flat-screen TV, a few DVDs and a six-pack of beer &#8212; and strolling out without paying. Employees also are helping themselves to goods they haven&#8217;t paid for.<\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s largest retailer is saying little about these kinds of thefts, but its recent public disclosures that it is experiencing an increase in so-called shrinkage at its U.S. stores suggests that inventory losses due to shoplifting, employee theft, paperwork errors and supplier fraud could be worsening.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gee, you treat you employers and suppliers like crap, and we are supposed to be surprised when they rob you blind? Payback is a bitch, huh. Theft rising at U.S. Wal-Mart stores Theft rising at U.S. Wal-Mart storesJune 14, 2007: 06:25 AM EST Jun. 14, 2007 (AFX International Focus) &#8212; NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; businessminuteShoppers &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[973,1023],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-labor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}