Re: Boy, 10, gets locked in gun safe at Sam's Club

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:00:04 CDT, Brian Loe said:

> Let me ask you, is that manager supposed to allow for a certain amount
> of damage done to his store by maladjusted teens? I mean, is the
> manager/store supposed to pay for product that some kid breaks? Is he
> suppose to "allow for" that kind of incident and budget accordingly?

Yes, they *do* allow for it, on the assumption that *despite best efforts*,
a certain amount of merchandise will get spilled, dropped, broken, or stolen,
and they won't be able to extract payment from the responsible person.

The line item in the budget is usually called "shrinkage".

And incidentally, banks and credit card companies *also* have to budget
a certain amount against fraud and chargebacks, because they realize that
a given percentage of transactions *will* go bad.

Remember - the world is as it is, not as you would like it to be.  Any
store manager that makes plans and budgets while thinking that nobody ever
drops merchandise, and nobody ever knocks over displays accidentally, and
nobody ever steals merchandise, is going to be surprised at the end of the
quarter when he looks at the actual sales numbers.

> Oh, a HANDLE INSIDE the safe, which would somehow over-ride the lock
> on the outside of the safe allowing it to turn and open.

Well, *duh*. Where did you *think* it was going to be, on the *outside*?
That would be stupid.

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