Walmart earning notoriety with police

[MikeyB]

I don't disagree. Maybe what I'm thinking of is creating a special branch office of the local law enforcement agency complete with holding cells and full capability officers - paid for by WalMart.

I'm not a Walmart fan, but why should they have to do this when no other retailer would? Shouldn't Target, Best Buy, etc. need to do it too then? They're not making false calls, just higher volume.

 

[ecanderson]

. No, the idea is to get RID of walmarts, not keep them ( unless they start selling American made goods). :lol: 73, n9zas

There are a great many things that aren't made here at all these days. You can start by wiping out entire departments like 'electronics'.

 

[902]

There are a great many things that aren't made here at all these days. You can start by wiping out entire departments like 'electronics'.

Don'cha'know, at least one candidate says that'll change? (I don't know how one person can direct that, but I'm not a smart man by any stretch.) The trend for buying overseas products has been there for years. I mean, look at component stereo systems and SLR cameras. Even amateur radio products, with the one last American hold-out, TenTec, in an uncertain fate after being absorbed by Dishtronix. Even the Japanese manufacturers are not immune to off-shoring, with many of their radios being manufactured by the lowest current bidder. My last Kenwood was made in China.

All that said, I would love to have things manufactured here, but I drove through my home state of New Jersey - once a cornerstone of American industry - and saw many of the factories converted into housing, and chemical plants (we were famous for them, and on occasion things got out of hand and some cratered) were being dismantled. When my kids were little, I cruised up the New Jersey Turnpike with them and they made a comment about the stench around the Bayway refinery. I said, "That's the smell of people at work." Years ago, I put video cameras and two-way radio systems into those refineries, automobile assembly plants, and pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities. Many of them are empty lots today, partly by regulation, partly by NIMBY (not in my back yard!) neighbors who knew they were moving next to a chemical plant, but, hey..., and partly by being under-expensed in a global economy. I'm at a loss to explain how an economy based mostly on consumerism can survive on an ongoing basis.

What's interesting is the current corporate philosophies of non-engagement. I keep reading in social media (red flag for "who knows if it's true or how embellished to someone else's personal agenda it really is?") that employees have been fired for engaging someone or defending themselves or others. I'd be bugged more about that than where things are made. I guess the Risk Management side of the house takes all of that into consideration and preemptively cuts its losses.

 

[GrayJeep]

I'm not a Walmart fan, but why should they have to do this when no other retailer would? Shouldn't Target, Best Buy, etc. need to do it too then? They're not making false calls, just higher volume.

They are the biggest attractant. Make it like the Roach Motel - shoplifter version. Shoplifters check in but they don't get out. Savings from losses not taken could pay the deputies. Harvesting of organs from repeat offenders would turn a profit.

 

[KK4JUG]

They are the biggest attractant. Make it like the Roach Motel - shoplifter version. Shoplifters check in but they don't get out. Savings from losses not taken could pay the deputies. Harvesting of organs from repeat offenders would turn a profit.

Everything but the brains.

 

[poltergeisty]

It's not just metro Denver.
I hear lots of activity dispatched to Loveland and Ft. Collins Wal-Marts.

Perhaps the store loss prevention folks should be deputized and trained in the spectrum of force?

Maybe even allocate some storage space for holding cells so the county jail could just send a bus over once per day to collect them all?

Perhaps the county should charge Wal-Mart on a per-call basis to encourage WM to do more for themselves?

Like in the cartoon American Dad, perhaps they should all be sent to a sweat shop somewhere in Asia to make more products. :lol:

 

[gewecke]

They are the biggest attractant. Make it like the Roach Motel - shoplifter version. Shoplifters check in but they don't get out. Savings from losses not taken could pay the deputies. Harvesting of organs from repeat offenders would turn a profit.

Sounds like a creepy, but good idea for a new video game there somewhere lol, but I'm betting walmart wouldn't sell it because, after all GP you're probably from the U.S. . 73, n9zas

 

[poltergeisty]

I love that idea but it'll never happen. Almost no consumer electronics are made in this country anymore. I think Warner electronics was the last company to make TVs in this country. They made them for Sears. If you look at the label in your clothes, you'll find Bangladesh, Viet Nam, El Salvador and on and on. But almost no clothes are made in this country. I bought a pair of shorts one time that were made in Mongolia.

I remember when Motorola portables were made in Malaysia. I don't know where they put them together now.

I'd love to see someone do something about it but it's probably reached the point of no return.

Socks & underwear are about the only articles of clothing you can buy that are made in the USA.

I don't want to get political, but corporate inversion due to the outrages 35% corporate tax and overzealous regulations are partly to blame.

It really is interesting. For thousands of years countries have traded with China and the black death of the 1300's is proof. Now it's a black death of an economy based on a lopsided trading partner. They (China) need to start buying our stuff.

 

[ecanderson]

What's interesting is the current corporate philosophies of non-engagement. I keep reading in social media (red flag for "who knows if it's true or how embellished to someone else's personal agenda it really is?") that employees have been fired for engaging someone or defending themselves or others. I'd be bugged more about that than where things are made. I guess the Risk Management side of the house takes all of that into consideration and preemptively cuts its losses.

Sad but true. Yet another recent example:

Army veteran fired from CVS after trying to stop robbery | Fox News

Seems like there's about one a week somewhere.