Re: OT - Re: Program templates as Object Classes

From: Robert Wagner (spamblocker-robert_at_wagner.net)
Date: 12/17/04

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    On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 18:27:10 GMT, "James J. Gavan" <jjgavan@shaw.ca>
    wrote:

    >Robert Wagner wrote:
    >
    >>Theft is trivial. The problem is mismanagement. Stupid ideas cost
    >>owners/stockholders billions of dollars.
    >>
    >Probably true with regard to food - all customers going through
    >checkouts. If my memory serves me correctly, chains/department stores -
    >loss due to theft, somewhere around 3% of gross. Staff can be the major
    >contributors, but customers aren't far behind.

    Theft is less than half of one percent of sales .. unless the store is
    in a ghetto.

    >Even supermarkets - Caters in SE London which we bought out; again a
    >family concern like Sainsbury's, but the family members who were
    >directors were living off the hog. Having lunch with their Operations
    >Director, an old-time retailer. He related how he would visit stores in
    >Essex, doing spot check-ups. Walks up to an entrance where he sees a
    >customer walking out a manual lawn-mower, no tags or bags attached. When
    >he gets in the store he gives 'em hell for not putting some identifier
    >on the purchase. Response, "BUT, we haven't sold any lawn-mowers to-day !

    Your story evokes fond memories of a British manual lawn mower I used
    in West Texas. It was expensive, about $150. I could have bought a
    power mower for less. It was a marvel of precision and so easy to
    push.

    >You have to have the balls to do it - but thieves will walk into the Bay
    >here (department store), looking 'officious' as though they were a
    >supplier's reps and brazenly walk out of the exit pushing a whole rack
    >of fashions on a metal display stand mounted on wheels !

    They'd be easy to spot. Just look for the ones wearing garish clothes.
    Didn't Monty Python do a skit about this?

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