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“Ya think?”
Walgreens says locking up products to prevent shoplifting hurts salesWalgreens says locking up products to prevent shoplifting hurts sales
Locking up store merchandise can deter shoplifters and paying customers alike, according to Walgreens.
The pharmacy chain’s CEO Tim Wentworth said in Walgreens Boots Alliance’s first-quarter earnings call Tuesday that “When you lock things up … you don’t sell as many of them. We’ve kind of proven that pretty conclusively.”
Keeping retail products under lock and key is a maneuver designed to thwart rising retail theft. But it also irks — and turns away — would-be paying customers who don’t have the patience to wait for a retail clerk to retrieve goods they wish to buy.
Bill’s Commentary:
“Hey, at least they gave the guy one full day!”
In Her Last Official Act, Yellen Warns US Will Hit Debt Ceiling One Day After Trump Inauguration
Back in the last week of December, when the stock market was desperately trying to reverse the slump of the Santa rally which prevented stocks from closing 2024 at an all time high, we warned that a bigger threat than a modest 1% market drawdown was looming: the countdown to the next debt ceiling crisis. We quoted Democratic operative – and the only US government official who has personally overseen total debt increase by a staggering $15 trillion under her watch at both the Fed and Treasury – Janet Yellen…
Bill’s Commentary:
“I personally lived through a wildfire in 2011, we lost everything… including all the trees. Why are trees not burning in current fires? Very suspicious!”
Bill’s Commentary:
“And #12 is what, just sit down and watch?”
11 Things to Do on Inauguration Day That Are Great for Your Mental Health
On Monday, Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 47th President of the United States. For some, it’s a highly anticipated day of celebration. Others have been dreading it—and would happily finagle a deal with the universe to skip to some other day four years down the road instead.
Why so much distress after months of processing the outcome of this divisive election? Many people are probably catastrophizing, experts say, a cognitive distortion that involves fixating on the worst possible outcome and believing it’s bound to happen. The thinking goes like this: “‘Oh my God, if everything is going to have to be that way, and follow that thread, then we’re all going to die,’” says Emiliana Simon-Thomas, science director at the University of California at Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center.
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