Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/07/25/group-of-women-steal-up-to-17.html
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That’s $17,000???
Are they $500 a piece? That would be a more interesting story.
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Probably; Lululemon products are known to be ridiculously overpriced.
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So, why are you certain they’re poor? Are you racially profiling black people as poor? For all you know, they are highly successful rich thieves.
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Police hope to recover both pairs of yoga pants
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One reason is because at Lululemon, “Employees are not allowed to confront or chase thieves due to a company policy,”
That suggests a former employee or an inside job, especially if they also grabbed only the most expensive over-priced merch.
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Yeah as @Melz2 said they’re super expensive, and they cultivate a culture of keeping-up-with-the-Jones by getting customers to keep constantly buying new stuff though having yoga instructors shame students for old-wear. Shit piles up real quick.
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No, the non-confrontation policy is ubiquitous in retail and every thief knows it.
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I’ve worked both in corporate retail and a family-owned store. After witnessing the way the corporate store just let blatent theft and fraud happen, it was super surprising to see the manager at the family-owned store not put up with shit from scammers and thieves… I mean, they wouldn’t be afraid to even restrain people on Ocasion.
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Aside from the difference between “no way am I paid enough to risk much of anything here” and “this is my stuff; quite possibly not something I can afford to just assume insurance will cover”; corporate has a tendency to actively suppress initiative.
It’s one thing to take a risk that makes no economic sense just on principle; people do that all the time; but it’s a lot harder to get enthusiastic when it’s very possible that they’ll fire you for it, which is the sort of spiteful insult-to-injury that deflates any enthusiasm for norm enforcement.
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I suspect the $10k number quoted is wrong. $17k is stated as the cumulative loss of many such robberies in the area.
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And they do this right in front of the store’s employees and customers, including kids.
Why is it relevant that there were kids in the shop? Nobody was waving a gun around, were they? There was no violence, if I understand. Just a bunch of people stealing some stuff very quickly. Just think of the poor children…
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Police say the women took 148 pairs of pants worth at least $10,000 and walked away, CNN affiliate KSFN reported.
$67 each, but the thieves made it up volume.
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Yes, limiting your haul to 148 pants at a time certainly suggests selectivity,
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Good luck if they’re the transparent kind.
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Uh, they’re setting a bad example, I guess? Although relatively speaking, their behavior was better-than-presidential, so…
Looking at their catalog, “148 pairs of pants worth at least $10,000” suggests they just grabbed random items, not the most expensive stuff. That’s just $67 per item, which is just slightly above their lowest prices, for shorts. If they went for the expensive stuff, they’d be saying they took “at least” twice that amount.
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Did you vote for them? Then probably not the case.
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surely they cost 65 to produce, and their profits are as thin as their manakins, right?
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