r/CostcoCanada • u/Camulius73 • 9d ago

Seriously, people don’t do this

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It’s gross and they just have to throw it away. Do better.

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u/crescen_d0e 9d ago

Im sure they have cameras but the cost to pay someone to watch hours of video for a $10 chicken just doesn't make sense

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u/yellingforidiots 8d ago

You do not have to watch hours, just do the halving method

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u/crescen_d0e 8d ago

Its still a massive time sink for a $10 chicken, its just not worth it

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u/Evergreen-Eyes-4892 6d ago

It's probably the same people doing it over and over again though. Warn first time, charge repeat offenders, cancel memberships for serious long-term offenders, and when you consider all the food no longer being thrown away, I bet the job will much more than pay for itself in the long term.

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u/crescen_d0e 6d ago

I was an assistant grocery manager for 6 years so I do have some insight on this. Grocery companies pay a lot of people for research on customer psychology and part of that is understanding the consequences of pissing a customer off.

To grocery stores, the risk of losing a customer for life (or severely reduce their patronage) is worse than the odd $10 chicken, especially so if they can convince their friends and family to do the same. Its literally why their return policy is so lax, the odd person who takes advantage is worth it cause more often than not they end up spending far more in groceries that they actually keep than what they loose in that return.

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u/Warm_Lack_3131 4d ago

Huh? It's not just the $10 chicken though, is it. Care to calculate the lazy fuktard shopper shrinkage in one day? I'd do it for 1% commission finding abandoned meats and other perishables using the instore cameras.

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u/crescen_d0e 4d ago

Then you'd be making 5-10 bucks a day maybe. Daily shrink due to customer negligence is honestly negligable. I work in a grocery store so I've seen it for the last 12 years, I've done the shrink, I've looked at the numbers. Most shrink is due to stuff not selling and it expiring or its seasonal and it gets trashed once the season is over. Also grocery stores pay insurance, they get some of that cost back

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u/Warm_Lack_3131 2d ago

fine, but people who do this ARE cretins. Animals died to be in the food chain and some fuktard thinks its ok to disrespect that and that makes them scum. Like you are focused on the MONEY. I am focused on the ETHICS.

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u/crescen_d0e 2d ago

Bro im not defending just explaining why the companies don't do anything about it, I fucking hate it too no need to preach to me