Speaker 1: It's with Dan Ray.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you easy Boston New Video.
Speaker 1: All right, we are talking and we're going a little
Speaker 1: longer than I had expected on this issue. And that
Speaker 1: is stores that now are locking up items, making it
Speaker 1: less convenient for you as a shopper, less convenient for
Speaker 1: me as a shopper. Don't know why they feel they
Speaker 1: need to do this. There are stores that are closing
Speaker 1: in some poor neighborhoods, which of course is their choice. However,
Speaker 1: it leads a lot of people in poor communities without
Speaker 1: access to to stores like CBS, Walgreens or whatever. I'm
Speaker 1: not pinning that on any one of them, but those
Speaker 1: are the pharmacies or the drug stores as we call them,
Speaker 1: and those are the ones in this area now that
Speaker 1: may be different, different ones in your area. So I
Speaker 1: think it comes down what's called moral relativism, meaning I
Speaker 1: go into a store and I feel that why should
Speaker 1: I pay for that tube of toothpaste? Why should I
Speaker 1: pay for that shampoo? I put it in my pocket? Oh, right,
Speaker 1: because the company makes too much money. Anyway. That's the
Speaker 1: problem in this society right now is when you have
Speaker 1: more relative relativism, you know you're in a in a
Speaker 1: parking lot and you you scrape the car next to you,
Speaker 1: you know, do you stop? Do you put a little
Speaker 1: note of that with your name and say, g I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I have no idea who you are, but give me
Speaker 1: a call. I'll run this to my insurance company. Probably not.
Speaker 1: Most people just drive away. Yeah, think about it. Oh
Speaker 1: you open your door, I mean you slam into your doors,
Speaker 1: scratches the car next to you. Are you honest enough?
Speaker 1: It's it's all part of the same thing. Now, you
Speaker 1: do have people who just feel they have a right
Speaker 1: to go in with a shop bag and walk out.
Speaker 1: Those those are that's that's those are criminals. Those are criminals.
Speaker 1: How did we get here? How do we get out
Speaker 1: of here? Six one seven ten thirty No guest tonight.
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Speaker 1: one seven four ten thirty one line there and six
Speaker 1: one seven nine three one ten thirty. There's another topic
Speaker 1: we intend to get to later on tonight, and that
Speaker 1: is the US Surgeon General has now issued an advisory
Speaker 1: on a link between the use of alcohol and that
Speaker 1: includes beer, wine as well as spirits and cancer. Not
Speaker 1: going to slow down your your consumption of alcohol. I
Speaker 1: don't know they stop this phill in Boston. Hey Phil,
Speaker 1: welcome back. How are you?
Speaker 3: I forget I'm so confused though, I think you said,
Speaker 3: what will we going leave it? The beaver days are
Speaker 3: over there. The society that gentlemen'callum society is breaking down.
Speaker 3: He's found too, a car and a body. In this plot,
Speaker 3: I was at a store. I went to a store
Speaker 3: and can I mission the name of this It was
Speaker 3: a major retail because of w went into the store Walmart,
Speaker 3: and I picked up some sneakers. A few left there,
Speaker 3: I guess because then I locked up and I got
Speaker 3: in the same shoe with a different price. So I walked.
Speaker 3: I was trying to find the manager, and I walked
Speaker 3: towards us. Well, the man's down there. And then I'm
Speaker 3: walking towards where the manager was, and this woman who
Speaker 3: worked there Walmart vessel and walks bot walks towards me
Speaker 3: and I start talking. Can you tell me? She just
Speaker 3: walks right on by? It was beautiful. It was on
Speaker 3: candy camb it will be beautiful. I talked to him, finally
Speaker 3: found a man to explained to him. It's just sort
Speaker 3: of at the bottom line is it's just falling up.
Speaker 3: Everything's falling apart, and the worst it gives and I
Speaker 3: don't know how the course, there's the works. No one
Speaker 3: cares anymore. You got rod rage, you got supermarket rage.
Speaker 3: I was trying to be funny to lay you the story.
Speaker 3: Stop the shop and the woman should be mimicking me.
Speaker 3: I just said to tools, everyone's angry one another. It's
Speaker 3: just crazy, man. It's getting out of hand. I mean,
Speaker 3: by the way, and Walmart told they told me they
Speaker 3: take the proof of purchase things they stick is off
Speaker 3: the high end productor the low wind products and put
Speaker 3: them on a high end. So you're going to get
Speaker 3: a low wind product six balls and you walk out
Speaker 3: and put on a six year old product. And those
Speaker 3: things you skin on the wall where it's just check
Speaker 3: out our check out our our that's right, herd. I'm
Speaker 3: not a computer guy. Check out our menu or whatever. If
Speaker 3: you scan that on the compute, the on your cell phone.
Speaker 3: Some bad guys are putting their their thing. They're cut
Speaker 3: off a little white thing of the carse QR board
Speaker 3: or onto that piece covering it, meaning that you'd be
Speaker 3: contacting them. It's getting soaken.
Speaker 1: Oh no, this look the the idea of all the
Speaker 1: identity theft issues, that's all part of it. I get
Speaker 1: to the point where I don't want to shop online
Speaker 1: because I don't know who's getting my credit cards. And
Speaker 1: even I'm going to get to the point where I'm
Speaker 1: going to start paying cash at restaurants now, because when
Speaker 1: you credit credit card and they walk away and you
Speaker 1: have no idea where your credit card goes.
Speaker 3: I well, that's what I'm saying I have. I was
Speaker 3: in this restaurant I go to all the time. The
Speaker 3: woman used use a credit card. Now, this is the
Speaker 3: first spot woman. The woman charged them was I could say,
Speaker 3: fifty bucks in charge guy. The woman she gave it to,
Speaker 3: she wrote her own tip on it. She wrote down
Speaker 3: a hundred dollar tips and she would tell me about
Speaker 3: it and she would have gone away with it. But
Speaker 3: the woman, you know, she used the used spot. Woman.
Speaker 3: But I mean, it's just getting cool.
Speaker 1: You're right, I mean, do you want to The thing
Speaker 1: that I love is that when you when you when
Speaker 1: you order, if you've ever ordered, uh, you know, takeout
Speaker 1: at a store, you you you call up a local
Speaker 1: restaurant and uh and you're going to order. You know,
Speaker 1: a couple of meals for Saturday night and okay, they
Speaker 1: they hand you you got your credit card there and
Speaker 1: they hand you the bill and immediately it's like, what
Speaker 1: do you want to tip them? Wait a sec? Hold on,
Speaker 1: there's been no table service here. You go to a
Speaker 1: restaurant and you sit down and the person you know
Speaker 1: greets you, and here's the menu. Do you have any questions?
Speaker 1: And yes I do? And would you like this? I'll
Speaker 1: be right back, and would you you know, you get
Speaker 1: your your tip for service. I don't really feel like
Speaker 1: I want to tip when I'm going to the restaurant, driving,
Speaker 1: picking up the meal and leaving.
Speaker 3: Actually asked the question, I'm going to give me a tip?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah? They make you feel guilty if you know. Hey, Phil,
Speaker 1: there's a lot that lot let's talk about here. We'll
Speaker 1: tell you. We'll continue our ongoing conversation.
Speaker 3: Thanks, Hill, I hope.
Speaker 1: So all right, man, right back at you, good night,
Speaker 1: take a very quick break at Alex coming up, Darryl
Speaker 1: Wendy room for you. We got one line at six one, seven, two, five,
Speaker 1: four ten thirty. One line at six one, seven, nine three,
Speaker 1: one ten thirty. We will not go past eleven o'clock
Speaker 1: on this topic no matter what, because I do want
Speaker 1: to spend a little bit of time tonight. We had
Speaker 1: promoted earlier today that we would talk about the Surgeon
Speaker 1: General's report on a link between alcohol and cancer. Uh,
Speaker 1: if we go to eleven, that's great. If we don't,
Speaker 1: we'll switch to this, but you decide back on night
Speaker 1: Side right after this. Now back to Dan ray Line
Speaker 1: from the Window World night Side Studios on w b Z,
Speaker 1: the news radio. All right, we're talking about little things,
Speaker 1: stealing little things from stores and the inconveniencing. It's causing
Speaker 1: all of us to have to sit and wait for
Speaker 1: a toothpaste tube to be unlocked so we can buy
Speaker 1: a toothpaste tube, or three bars of soap or whatever,
Speaker 1: the odorant or shaving cream. Ridiculous Alex and Millis Alex.
Speaker 4: Next on Nightside, go right ahead, Hey, Dan Greavy, I
Speaker 4: didn't notice it too much in the CBS where I
Speaker 4: go to, you know, in our town. But I don't
Speaker 4: know what what has to be done short of like
Speaker 4: you know how banks have red die packs. You know,
Speaker 4: if they're perpetrator shoots out the door, you know, and
Speaker 4: that way, you know, people a person would red dye
Speaker 4: would kind of be embarrassed, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Embarrassed, but also identified for the police pretty easily something
Speaker 1: identify them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, true, Yeah, it doesn't come up very easily.
Speaker 5: I guess.
Speaker 4: The other thing I just was going to mention a
Speaker 4: lot of the stores. Now, okay, I understand, you know,
Speaker 4: they'll ask you to give to whatever cause happens to be.
Speaker 4: So we have the fires, which I did, but every
Speaker 4: time I go in there they ask you again, so
Speaker 4: they sort of put you on the spot. And friends
Speaker 4: of mine told me that not all the money goes
Speaker 4: where it's supposed to because a lot of the CEOs
Speaker 4: of charities or the people that are running the charity,
Speaker 4: you know, they get you know, they get a handsome salary.
Speaker 4: So unfortunately, you know, we were.
Speaker 1: Talked about that before. It's called it's called administrative costs
Speaker 1: within the charity. So for every you know, either one
Speaker 1: hundred dollars or whatever you donate, you should always ask
Speaker 1: what are the administrative costs and the administrative cost whatever
Speaker 1: the charity is. A charity should be giving ninety five
Speaker 1: percent of the money that's donated to that charity to
Speaker 1: the cause and maybe maybe maximum five percent administrative costs.
Speaker 1: But you have charities which it's they're giving fifty percent
Speaker 1: of the money and fifty percent of administrative cost Those
Speaker 1: are bad charities, man, those are You don't want to
Speaker 1: be donating to those charities. I get it all the time.
Speaker 1: You get the police, the National Police Benevolent Society, and
Speaker 1: we're hoping that you might be able to care for
Speaker 1: some one hundred dollars. And I'll say, what's your administrative Well,
Speaker 1: we really not quite sure. See you later. Or I'll say,
Speaker 1: why do I send one hundred bucks to you? You're
Speaker 1: somewhere in Poughkeepsie, New York, or or Santa Clara, California.
Speaker 1: I'd rather just write a check and walk down to
Speaker 1: my local police station. Well, the work that we do
Speaker 1: is are so critical in helping police across the nation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's a tango on those people. They're skim artists.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I was going to also mention you know you
Speaker 4: talked about dogs. My dog is so lovable. He's a
Speaker 4: golden doodle. So I take him everywhere with me and
Speaker 4: people don't mind. And like you know, when we go everywhere,
Speaker 4: he gets he gets all kinds of accolades and stuff
Speaker 4: from you know I got treats and.
Speaker 1: Probably more accolades than you get. Right.
Speaker 4: Oh, absolutely, they say if she if you want to
Speaker 4: be popular, have a have a baby or a pet.
Speaker 1: You know. Yeah, all right, man, talk soon, Alex. Appreciate it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we hit another thing already, So I'm gonna let I gotta,
Speaker 1: I gotta keep calling here for going. There's too many
Speaker 1: other things in this call Alex. Right now, Thanks man,
Speaker 1: Talk to you soon. Daryl's in New Brunswick. Daryl, welcome back.
Speaker 5: Hey Dan, great topics. You can carry this probably for
Speaker 5: the next week, for the next two months minimum.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm not.
Speaker 1: Gonna do that, but thank you anyway, go ahead.
Speaker 5: But no, I believe Tricia had a good point to
Speaker 5: reference this new tech they're trying to put where you
Speaker 5: open the door with your app.
Speaker 1: If you after they had that in Canada, Darryl.
Speaker 5: I haven't seen it yet, but they do lock up
Speaker 5: the razors and what you really?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so how tough is it up there when you
Speaker 1: go to a throw and you want to buy something
Speaker 1: that's under lock and key?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: What what?
Speaker 1: What's the what's the most popular pharmacy in in your
Speaker 1: neck of the woods up there in Canada?
Speaker 5: I'm assuming they're the mocks U three razors because there's
Speaker 5: they're they're attracted.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no, Darrel, listen to my question. If
Speaker 1: you would we have CVS, we have Walgreens, all those
Speaker 1: we have right aid? What what's the pharmacy the big store?
Speaker 1: Do you have a pharmacy change of stores up there
Speaker 1: in Canada that you could reference.
Speaker 5: We have Shoppers drug Marked. We used to have h
Speaker 5: the one Darryl Kates Howstone any Key was part of CBS,
Speaker 5: but it was the Canadian version.
Speaker 1: Okay, So so when you go in there, what what?
Speaker 1: What items tend to be locked up under.
Speaker 5: Lock and key, uh, electric shavers, razor blades. But the
Speaker 5: funny thing is that perfumes and colognes are not.
Speaker 1: I don't know. So how long does it take you
Speaker 1: if you've got to buy some razor blades and and
Speaker 1: if they're under lock and key. Give me an example
Speaker 1: of how long it takes.
Speaker 5: It couldn't be up to five minutes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's aggravating. That's aggravating. I don't care what anybody says.
Speaker 5: Well, but what you might do, pardon me, how much stealing?
Speaker 1: How much thievery? We have quite a bit down here. Now,
Speaker 1: I would hope that in Canada, you folks are more
Speaker 1: honest than we are. And I mean that seriously. I
Speaker 1: don't I don't think of Canadians as thieves.
Speaker 5: No, we have homeless too. And actually I walked into
Speaker 5: people are familiar with a store called Giant Tiger. I
Speaker 5: walked in, the girl walked in and walked right back
Speaker 5: out the entrance with a bundle of socks. Okay, and so,
Speaker 5: but yeah, it's if that was me, I.
Speaker 1: Would have said, come on, let's go buy these socks
Speaker 1: for you. It's cold in Canada. I'll buy your socks,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, no, she was.
Speaker 5: She was already out the door before I recognize what happened.
Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah.
Speaker 5: So but the next time I went into that store,
Speaker 5: after telling the manager had a new detection device. So
Speaker 5: you can only walk in. You have an entry and
Speaker 5: an e rest point.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, sure that's smart, that's smart. But all right, Darla,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you run. I got a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of calls here. I gotta keep rolling. Man, How cold
Speaker 1: is it in New Brunswick tonight, Daryl?
Speaker 5: It's only about minus ten celsius. But I was gonna
Speaker 5: mention about the dog thing. Uh, I actually went to
Speaker 5: take my dog out d day and he actually chased
Speaker 5: a raccoon into the house.
Speaker 1: Well, but I'll tell you that I'm not sure. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well I hope you got the raccoon out because they
Speaker 1: could be nasty devils.
Speaker 5: No, he was dealt with, But you're dealt with.
Speaker 1: Okay, I know that. I know what that means. I
Speaker 1: get it your doc.
Speaker 5: Thanks to he was coming in the note right.
Speaker 1: Talk too soon. Okay, have a great one, A great night,
Speaker 1: good night. Let's go next to Wendy and Marlborough. Hey, Wendy,
Speaker 1: next night.
Speaker 5: Right ahead, Wendy.
Speaker 1: Hear me, dam I can hear you. Find I'll even
Speaker 1: be able to hear you better once that radio is
Speaker 1: turned down.
Speaker 2: Go right ahead, okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know the radio could be distracting. That's why
Speaker 1: Rob tells you to turn the radio down, and you should. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: no problem.
Speaker 6: But I drop walking into CVS and I've noticed a
Speaker 6: lot of stuff is locked up there. Also, I agree
Speaker 6: with that. They've a couple of calls before you.
Speaker 2: I hate the self check ups.
Speaker 4: I don't like them.
Speaker 6: I think they take jobs away from people.
Speaker 1: I couldn't agree with you more. And in addition to that,
Speaker 1: they're really confusing. I mean, you know, for particularly for
Speaker 1: older people, I mean you have to sort of like
Speaker 1: have this intuition. You know. It's one thing if you
Speaker 1: if you've got three items that that have some sort
Speaker 1: of a barcode and you go click click click, But
Speaker 1: if you get like a bunch of bananas, you gotta
Speaker 1: you gotta figure out, well, where how do I find
Speaker 1: how do I find the way to bananas? It's basically,
Speaker 1: I'm going to the store paying money for for for
Speaker 1: stuff that you're selling me, and you're making me do
Speaker 1: the work to wring the stuff up and put it
Speaker 1: in the basket. How about giving me a discount?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Really, I mean I used to work all my a
Speaker 6: long I used to go on a long time ago
Speaker 6: and you checkouts and the only thing is down was
Speaker 6: under lock and key was of course like the jewelry.
Speaker 6: And I don't have an expensive electronics like, yeah, I
Speaker 6: can see that I could like that nowadays. Nowadays it
Speaker 6: was funny because I wanted a twelve dollars iPhone card
Speaker 6: because my my my phone was dying and I'm walking
Speaker 6: like things to toes over phone cord. You have the lock.
Speaker 1: I was. I was. I said, I was in Target
Speaker 1: and I was looking for men's socks and they were
Speaker 1: like men's socks were like eight dollars or whatever it
Speaker 1: was walking key, Come on, so I get it. Someone
Speaker 1: can grab the shock and stick it in their pocket
Speaker 1: and nobody's gonna know. Give me a break. I mean
Speaker 1: when when I coming back. And Rob was the one
Speaker 1: who mentioned this to me before, he said, when when
Speaker 1: you got to do self checkout, you're doing the job
Speaker 1: for them. They don't have to hire as many clerks.
Speaker 1: So it would be like if if you and I
Speaker 1: went to the store, let's say, to wherever you know
Speaker 1: that has you know, Shaws, which has shelves self checkout,
Speaker 1: and there was a snowstorm before you were allowed to
Speaker 1: go in and shop, you would they would hand you
Speaker 1: a shovel and you'd have to shovel off a little
Speaker 1: bit of the walkway of the snowstorm because they didn't
Speaker 1: want their employees to do it. We got it all wrong, folks.
Speaker 1: We got to start boycotting those stores that have self
Speaker 1: checkout or never using them. Refuse to use them, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean they make you use them.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I.
Speaker 6: Wanted nail glue because I used to wear a fake
Speaker 6: nailse I broke a nail. I want a nail glue
Speaker 6: that was singing items five dollars?
Speaker 3: What the hell?
Speaker 1: I mean, Well, again, if it's a small if it's
Speaker 1: a small item, they figured that the people who were
Speaker 1: dishonest will take it and slip it in their pocket.
Speaker 1: That's why, you know, that's why they're doing it. I
Speaker 1: don't know, Wendy. It's all moral relativism. It's it's a country.
Speaker 1: We used to be an honest country where people were
Speaker 1: honest with each other. And in stores now some people
Speaker 1: walk into the stores and say, these are big corporations.
Speaker 1: They're big companies. The profit margin of a drug store
Speaker 1: or the profit margin of a grocery store is not
Speaker 1: that great.
Speaker 2: You know, no, no, but I.
Speaker 1: Just think we're going I think we're going the wrong direction,
Speaker 1: and we got to turn it around.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I'm kind of old school when compani things. I don't
Speaker 6: like just I made this thing for the credit card.
Speaker 6: I like the old machine and the throw I'm mean,
Speaker 6: I'm kind of old and coming to alat I think,
Speaker 6: and this is one of it.
Speaker 1: I'm old school too. We can I'll join you in
Speaker 1: old school. Hey, Wendy, thanks so much for your call.
Speaker 1: We'll talk soon. Okay, appreciate it. Happy New Year, Yeah yeah, okay, thanks,
Speaker 1: good night. We'll take a very quick break here. Six one, seven, two, five, four,
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Speaker 1: We're going to switch topics at eleven. I want to
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Speaker 1: between alcohol, all sorts of alcohol, whether it's wine, beer, spirits,
Speaker 1: hard liquor whatever, and cancer. Pretty serious stuff. I don't
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Speaker 1: who enjoy alcohol, because that's part of you know, enjoy
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Speaker 1: Okay, we are talking tonight about the whole question of
Speaker 1: as I indicated before, these stores that now are walking
Speaker 1: things up. I I just think from a from a
Speaker 1: practical point of view, it's driving customers away. I know
Speaker 1: it's going to drive me away eventually. Uh. And stores
Speaker 1: are just reacting wrong to this, this spate of again theft,
Speaker 1: That's what it is. Just the theft more but it's
Speaker 1: moral relativism. People look at it and say, well, I
Speaker 1: can steal a toothpaste. I mean, look, stores should have
Speaker 1: taken a different posture toward it. They should have hired police,
Speaker 1: details and let the word go for it. You're not
Speaker 1: ripping this store off. We got problems in this country
Speaker 1: and we got to turn We got to turn it around.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Mary and Newton. See what she has
Speaker 1: to say. Mary. I don't know if you agree or not,
Speaker 1: but I think that that this is an unfortunate sign
Speaker 1: and I hope that we can turn this thing around.
Speaker 1: What say you.
Speaker 6: Happy?
Speaker 8: To me again, thank you for taking my call to
Speaker 8: make a long story short as quick as I can.
Speaker 8: I do agree. I do thank you. I do agree
Speaker 8: with you one And I have to say, what gets
Speaker 8: locked up and everything is because you good have to
Speaker 8: suffer for the bad. When the bad to do things
Speaker 8: like this, the good have the supper. And you know,
Speaker 8: besides people stealing things, I think people walk into stores
Speaker 8: purposely without cash and being hungry. They walk into the
Speaker 8: stores they do shopping if they really have to. But
Speaker 8: then again, they walk around the aisles, they take their time,
Speaker 8: they can believe they're doing something, and before you know it,
Speaker 8: when you're carefree going down those aisles, you're seeing wrappers
Speaker 8: stuffed up, stuffed behind spaghetti boxes, You're seeing egg boxes empty.
Speaker 8: You're finding h crack boxes opened up and up laying
Speaker 8: around another aisle. They going hungry. They I mean, what
Speaker 8: is this? They got no respect, no concern. They just
Speaker 8: walk in and do what they want. What are they taking?
Speaker 1: Well, the reason they do that is a lot of
Speaker 1: the stores took the posture of we're not going to
Speaker 1: interfere with this. So what happens is the word spreads
Speaker 1: And if if you were of such a mindset that
Speaker 1: you feel that you have a right to walk into
Speaker 1: a store and take whatever you want and not pay
Speaker 1: for it. The word gets around, you tell your buddies.
Speaker 1: Your buddies tell you, and all of a sudden you say, hey,
Speaker 1: I can walk in there and do what I want.
Speaker 1: And you walk in, you walk out. Then they've they've
Speaker 1: they've created the stores have created their own problem. They
Speaker 1: should have a security guard, police officer. You know, if
Speaker 1: the store is getting hit. If the store is not
Speaker 1: getting hit, then you don't need it. But once you
Speaker 1: see them getting hit, you got to have. You got
Speaker 1: to react. The other thing which all these stores should have,
Speaker 1: they should have buzzers, you know, buttons that the clerks
Speaker 1: can push very discreetly. They don't have to call nine
Speaker 1: to one. One on the phone, goes directly to the
Speaker 1: local police station, says we've got a robbery in progress,
Speaker 1: and get the police down there as quickly as possible.
Speaker 1: I I don't know what cost you saw something like that.
Speaker 1: One thousand dollars, two thousand dollars. It's well worth it.
Speaker 8: That's true, Dan, I believe it, And you know, I
Speaker 8: believe that the managers and everything are probably afraid one.
Speaker 8: Number one, not losing customers when there's a way they
Speaker 8: can teach. Try to teach customers that they're doing themselves
Speaker 8: wrong by not going back to the store because they
Speaker 8: want to go the way they want not follow rules,
Speaker 8: and you know, it's like they want to go their
Speaker 8: way and that's wrong. And I believe the store is
Speaker 8: afraid of what that person would do to them or
Speaker 8: to the store, and of losing customers. I believe they're
Speaker 8: not actually looking at it. And they do have security,
Speaker 8: but I don't know what the hours are or anything,
Speaker 8: but they should be enforced and be more structed in that.
Speaker 8: I believe if this customers will understand, they will continue
Speaker 8: to go back to that store if they like it
Speaker 8: and believe it.
Speaker 1: You should be in charge of security at some of
Speaker 1: these stores. Simple as that. You're you got it down.
Speaker 1: Thanks Mary, Happy New Year.
Speaker 8: You're welcome. You took him to you again. Thank you
Speaker 8: tonight you too.
Speaker 1: Let me go to Patrick in DC. Patrick, I saw
Speaker 1: I read your email today. You thought my audio level
Speaker 1: was down a little bit. I uh, thank you for
Speaker 1: that little that observation.
Speaker 7: Go right ahead, yes, you know, speaking of little things
Speaker 7: that I went to school in Philadelphia and I am
Speaker 7: originally from Washington, d C. I guess I would have
Speaker 7: a super super PhD. In little triviality, that's just that
Speaker 7: anybody when we start with triviality during Washington DC. I
Speaker 7: guess maybe it's just it's just spread out the country,
Speaker 7: you know, that has to do any tiny little things
Speaker 7: that's gonna be so going. You did read the one
Speaker 7: way email. If you're coming to Washington, DC, do not
Speaker 7: drive over thirty miles per hour.
Speaker 1: You saw that. Yeah, camvas everywhere, right, but.
Speaker 7: They're supposed to warn you. But also they're supposed to
Speaker 7: post the speed limit in a legal regulation sign. And
Speaker 7: she she does did that. If you come into town,
Speaker 7: you buzz out, get your red light ticket, uh, and
Speaker 7: they want one hundred dollars, and you know you're out
Speaker 7: of town.
Speaker 1: You know, well, well they've figured they've just figured that's
Speaker 1: another revenue stream.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: It's like yeah, yeah, well we get you coming and
Speaker 1: going up here. In Boston, they're they're they're talking about
Speaker 1: putting a tax, uh the city council and we may
Speaker 1: have the councilor on who's who's advocating this a tax
Speaker 1: on soda products, meaning we call it soda up here,
Speaker 1: pepsi and coke and all the different mountain dew and
Speaker 1: gatorade and stuff like that. And because they're not water,
Speaker 1: they they you know, they want to try to tax them.
Speaker 1: And again, well, how much money are they going to
Speaker 1: raise and what are they going to do with it?
Speaker 1: I mean, they tax you on everything, and of course
Speaker 1: you pay your federal taxes. Then you got to pay
Speaker 1: your state taxes, and in New York you gotta pay
Speaker 1: your city income tax. And now they're going to get
Speaker 1: you for the congestion pricing tax or fee, whatever you
Speaker 1: want to call it. Government has an appetite with this
Speaker 1: which is insatiable. Patrick. And so you know, people go
Speaker 1: to Washington and they like, oh, let's let's go down
Speaker 1: and see the White House and the Capital, the mall
Speaker 1: and the Capitol and all of that, the Lincoln Memorial
Speaker 1: and the Jefferson Memorial. And then they come back two
Speaker 1: weeks later and they find out that they have twenty
Speaker 1: you know tickets on their car.
Speaker 7: Yeah, right right. Because sometimes they do not put in
Speaker 7: the no parking signs. They'll use a tree as a marker.
Speaker 7: And this has happened before. They use a tree. They
Speaker 7: don't have a sign that says no parking. Right, let
Speaker 7: me ask you.
Speaker 1: I want to get you back to what we're talking
Speaker 1: about tonight, and that is down in Washington. I know
Speaker 1: that there's Uh. I've spent some time in Washington, not
Speaker 1: nearly as much as you, obviously, But when you walk
Speaker 1: into your your big I guess you probably have Walgreens
Speaker 1: in CVS. And I'm trying to remember what's the big
Speaker 1: drug store chain down in DC.
Speaker 7: It will be right now at CVS, right.
Speaker 1: But there used to be one and I was down
Speaker 1: there for a while that well, Walgreens and CBS are
Speaker 1: the big nationals. Have they knocked? There was? I think
Speaker 1: they were right Aids. There were other ones anyway. How
Speaker 1: much of the inventory in those stores in Washington, d c.
Speaker 2: Is under lock and key in those.
Speaker 7: In those neighborhood type stores a lot. And one of
Speaker 7: the things now that in the grocery stores is locking
Speaker 7: up and putting behind the counter these dish the soap
Speaker 7: powder that.
Speaker 1: Yes, wait your dish wise, I said, your dishwash your detergent,
Speaker 1: or you dishwash it.
Speaker 7: And you wash it and your clothes washer. The tide
Speaker 7: tie and tie is big out the door is very
Speaker 7: big out the door. And here it isn't that bit
Speaker 7: you know? They're in that a large orange container.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but now the not easy to get seal.
Speaker 1: You can't put those in your pocket and run to
Speaker 1: your coat too easily.
Speaker 7: No, no, you really can't, but you unless you're wearing
Speaker 7: the big coat.
Speaker 2: They do come in.
Speaker 7: With the idea to steal, and they have little rating
Speaker 7: parties and they do that and it has to also
Speaker 7: go with how they dress their fashion. And they'll they'll
Speaker 7: they'll load up underneath. One of the cute thing is
Speaker 7: when you used to you would see the underwear of
Speaker 7: somebody sticking up above. Right, okay, so what would happen
Speaker 7: They would start lowering the baggies and lowering the baggies
Speaker 7: all right. And what they do is they just go
Speaker 7: along and drop their stuff down in there, because you
Speaker 7: know you're not going to go down in there and walk,
Speaker 7: you know, And they have this baggy kids. It's just
Speaker 7: very it's very clever. It's very sad. They'll do a
Speaker 7: rating party.
Speaker 1: But how do you how do you put how do
Speaker 1: you steal a big box, not a big box, but
Speaker 1: a big container of tide that's a big plastic container
Speaker 1: that probably weighs ten pounds, right.
Speaker 7: They what they do is they they put it in
Speaker 7: with other things and they just down to the bottom
Speaker 7: of the basket and hand it to one person, handed
Speaker 7: to the next person, and there's you know, like a
Speaker 7: basketball relay, and right out the door goes okay.
Speaker 1: And then the other question is, so I assume they're
Speaker 1: not stealing it for themselves. They're stealing it to to
Speaker 1: to sell the capitol. I guess. Oh yeah, so it's
Speaker 1: cost fifteen bucks and they're going to resell it for
Speaker 1: seven Yeah, yeah, wow, Well that's great. This is the
Speaker 1: nation's capital. They can't even clean up the nation's capital.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, they have to.
Speaker 7: They're going to have to st ans capital and they're
Speaker 7: gonna have to.
Speaker 1: And that's well, we'll see, I hope. So I hope.
Speaker 1: So if not, the whole country is going to go.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll all have to move to a place like
Speaker 1: Kansas where it's where it's simple and safe and some
Speaker 1: there are some old time values in America.
Speaker 7: Well, you know, real quick, due to the fact that
Speaker 7: I get to move around this area and go mid
Speaker 7: Atlantic is my area. I'll go into Pa into smaller
Speaker 7: towns stopping works, relaxed and they can help you and
Speaker 7: you don't have to even worry about anything like that.
Speaker 7: It's very very nice. So there it is by jurisdiction.
Speaker 7: Not every jurisdiction is that that way. But you know,
Speaker 7: a large store like Walmart will have a lot of
Speaker 7: theft and things like that. But you can go into
Speaker 7: other areas where.
Speaker 1: You hire hire some some security and shut and stop it.
Speaker 1: Simple as that, you know, simple as that. In my opinion, Patrick,
Speaker 1: I'm up with my brag. I get out your run
Speaker 1: as always, enjoy your calls. Thanks much, my friend. Big week,
Speaker 1: big goings on this weekend. Are you in the city.
Speaker 7: Are you out of the No, no, no, no no,
Speaker 7: I get out of the city when it comes about Thanksgiving,
Speaker 7: out of the back till February.
Speaker 5: It's just not right.
Speaker 7: Let me, it's not right.
Speaker 1: All right, man, talk soon, okay, ever, go by Happy
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Speaker 1: Steven Revere coming up. Room for a couple more and
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Speaker 5: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
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Speaker 1: Allright, let's go to Steve and Revere. Steve, you were
Speaker 1: next at night Side. We're talking about small items toothpaste,
Speaker 1: the odorant, shampoo be locked up in pharmacies because they're
Speaker 1: concerned about pilfridge.
Speaker 2: What do you think, Hi, Dan, how are you? You know,
Speaker 2: it's kind of sad. Well, spending forty years in my
Speaker 2: career in retail as some form of management for the
Speaker 2: past thirty now retired. Ye, it's kind of interesting. But
Speaker 2: I had a call if I heard the tide story,
Speaker 2: but the a whole different spin on that. A lot
Speaker 2: of the chemicals that are taken. You'd be surprised at
Speaker 2: how many people will commit with water bottles and just
Speaker 2: pour the chemicals right in the water bottles and take
Speaker 2: some dryer sheets to go along with it, just enough
Speaker 2: what they need. But I just started how to get
Speaker 2: that out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's crazy, It's absolutely crazy. Yeah, you said you
Speaker 1: were in retail for thirty years. Okay, that's to tell
Speaker 1: me what type of stories you were working at. But
Speaker 1: my question, my question is.
Speaker 2: Has it always been this bad or you know, I
Speaker 2: have to say that the past ten years of my
Speaker 2: career was probably the worst that I've seen. The shrink
Speaker 2: rate go up in our companies that were astronomical shrink
Speaker 2: rates between four and six percent. And of course some
Speaker 2: of the cities I worked in shrink rate is Pilfridge, Pilfridge. Correct, Yes,
Speaker 2: that's correct, And a real funny story. I'll tell you
Speaker 2: one place I worked for. They're no longer in business.
Speaker 2: I spent I worked twelve years at Sports Authority and
Speaker 2: we used to get the Patriot shirts and all the
Speaker 2: team shirts walked up. We put them on what was
Speaker 2: called the floorway. Would they were scream a locks? You
Speaker 2: would think that you couldn't take them off a fourway. Well, well,
Speaker 2: and behold the Somerville store that I worked in, and
Speaker 2: what was sports? I thought he was at the at
Speaker 2: the mall, they literally walked out the door with the
Speaker 2: whole rack down the street, so you'd be amazed. I
Speaker 2: tell you, some stories work and there was just I
Speaker 2: don't know, it's just sad. I can't believe the risk
Speaker 2: of people take and the things that they do. It's crazy,
Speaker 2: it really is. But I just wanted to shed a
Speaker 2: little light on that.
Speaker 1: So you're is, why do okay, explain this one to me?
Speaker 1: Why do the stores one tolerate this? It would seem
Speaker 1: to me that if your shrink rate your pil fridge
Speaker 1: is four or five six percent, that's a lot of money.
Speaker 1: Why not hire a security guard, police officer just as
Speaker 1: a deterrent. Why did they do?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny they have them, but they don't keep
Speaker 2: them in the stores because they don't want to pay
Speaker 2: the cost. And sadly, you know where that cost is going.
Speaker 2: It's going right to the consumer. Because the higher the pilfridge,
Speaker 2: the price changes. Once a month, we would get a
Speaker 2: price change report and believe it or not, ninety percent
Speaker 2: of the time those price changes would be increased as
Speaker 2: supposed to being decreased.
Speaker 1: So therefore the store, So from the store's point of view,
Speaker 1: as they must know what time of day theft occurs. Obviously,
Speaker 1: they must know what time of month theft occurs, and
Speaker 1: they also must know what day week it's likely. I
Speaker 1: assume it's more likely on a Thursday or a Friday
Speaker 1: night going into the weekend than it is on a
Speaker 1: Monday afternoon.
Speaker 2: Well, believe it or not, your highest shrink rates opens
Speaker 2: could be when you first open, your first hour and
Speaker 2: your last hour, because believe it or not, they have
Speaker 2: the least amount of employees on it at that time
Speaker 2: because they know they're not going to get busy, and
Speaker 2: if they only have a manager working with a cashier
Speaker 2: and maybe one flour associate. Basically, that's the best time
Speaker 2: to come in and do what you need to do.
Speaker 2: And it's just and they most companies today do have
Speaker 2: no chase policy. You're not allowed to chase or interact.
Speaker 2: You can only give them good, good shopping experience by
Speaker 2: constantly being on top of them. But then unfortunately, when
Speaker 2: you get pulled away, if you have a delivery at
Speaker 2: a back door or something like that. And the people
Speaker 2: these customers know that, well they're not all the customers
Speaker 2: is the ones that know the game. They know once
Speaker 2: you're out back handling a call that you have to
Speaker 2: be at a back door to receiving DOC. They know
Speaker 2: exactly what's going on, and that's the time when they
Speaker 2: make their move.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's pretty sad. It's pretty sad familiar that
Speaker 1: the companies have given.
Speaker 2: Up and that's why so many of these stores are
Speaker 2: closing in the inner cities.
Speaker 1: Well, and then the people who suffer are the older
Speaker 1: people who do not have the ability to maybe they
Speaker 1: don't have a car. There are a lot of folks
Speaker 1: who are older, have never even learned to drive, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, that lifeline, that pharmacy there was
Speaker 1: one or two blocks away now is five miles away.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: And they're the people who suffer the most. And on
Speaker 1: these stores, you know, whoever they are, whatever they are,
Speaker 1: they should hire police detail. It's going to cost them
Speaker 1: a little bit of money, but they're gonna they're gonna
Speaker 1: save the money because of the pilfridge we all away.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I'll tell you on that note. Years ago,
Speaker 2: I did work. I also worked for Christmas tree shops
Speaker 2: for many years, and the one I worked for was
Speaker 2: in Lynnfield and they actually had police detail When they
Speaker 2: first opened, they had police detail at night and on
Speaker 2: the weekends, and then as the years went on they
Speaker 2: did away with it because they didn't want to pay
Speaker 2: the expense.
Speaker 1: Well again, it's it's I understand that if there was
Speaker 1: no pilfriage, but once the police left, I assume you
Speaker 1: got pilfridge. You got. It comes back to the concept
Speaker 1: they talked about, and that is what's called moral relativism.
Speaker 1: It's like I walk into the store and I said
Speaker 1: to myself, that toothpaste, that's fifteen dollars. You know I
Speaker 1: don't need to pay fifteen dollars. Let me. I'll walk
Speaker 1: out of here with it because I have a right
Speaker 1: to it. And I'm serious. That's yeah, it's moral relativism.
Speaker 1: The store. The store makes a lot of money. Now
Speaker 1: they don't need my money. You rationalize it, You rationalize it.
Speaker 1: There's no danger involved, no one's going to stop me.
Speaker 1: It becomes it becomes easy. Steve. I appreciate you your perspective.
Speaker 1: It's interesting to hear how things have changed.
Speaker 2: Sure, thank you so much for taking my call.
Speaker 1: Thank you much for listening to my friend. And happy
Speaker 1: New year.
Speaker 5: Same to you.
Speaker 1: But by no will we get back we go to
Speaker 1: talk about another problem. Yeah, and the problem is the
Speaker 1: link between alcohol and cancer risk and what can be
Speaker 1: done about it. And I'd also like to have you
Speaker 1: weigh in as to whether or not this warning from
Speaker 1: the Surgeon General is going to make you look at
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