In 2022, stores lost about $86.6 billion to retail shoplifting, and that includes employee theft as well as external theft. Too many people are involving themselves in a crime known as petty theft. Petty thefts occur when the person who is stealing the item or items is legally allowed on the property and the value of the items is less than $1000. A recent study done by the PTO (petty theft organization) shows that 7 in 10 people have involved themselves in a crime known as petty theft. As head president of the PTO, it is my duty to resolve the current issue at hand; therefore, I have decided to implement a plan called BGS (Behind the Glass Shopping).
The main idea of Behind the Glass Shopping is the customer never sees the product until they have fully paid for every item they are receiving. When a customer walks into the store it will look kind of like a bank. There will be a small space where the public is allowed to be, but the rest of the store where the product is kept will only be accessible to employees. Once the customer has entered the store they will walk up to a tablet and input every single grocery they want to purchase. Once they have entered everything into the tablet they have to sit down and wait until the employee has grabbed every item they have purchased. The Behind the Glass Shopping method resolves the issue of consumer theft, but there is still another issue at hand known as employee theft. Behind the Glass Shopping has a perfect solution for employee theft. Many stores have an ask-for-help button where employees are called over to your specific location to unlock the glass case where the product is behind. Behind the Glass Shopping will use this system by requiring the employees to press the ask-for-help button every time they attempt to take an item off the shelf. This is unlike other stores now where they only have certain items behind glass because now every item will be behind the glass. When an employee pushes the button a BGS employee will come over and unlock the glass door so the employee can grab the product the customer wants.
Behind the Glass Shopping does not discriminate when hiring. BGS will hire any gender, any race, and most importantly any age. We do not do background checks when hiring too. We also do not look at resumes. We take any person who applies to work at Behind the Glass Shopping. Behind the Glass Shopping trusts their employees one hundred percent, and that is why there will be no more cameras in stores. To maximize the profits of big companies all companies will be required to remove all cameras on the property after signing with BGS
Contracts with Behind the Glass Shopping consist of many things. The first is all of the employees of BGS get paid $43.17 per hour. Now, many people may be wondering where the money is coming from. With companies partnering with BGS they will gain millions of dollars because of how much less product is being stolen. That extra money they now have will be the pool where the BGS employees get paid. The pool will be shared among every single company signed with BGS. The second condition with signed agreements is Behind the Class shopping is not at fault or reliable for any sort of stealing. BGS employees are not security guards and are strictly employed to unlock the glass doors. The last condition of the agreement is that every employee has a 90-second cool down after each time they press the ask-for-help button to ensure the Behind the Glass employees are getting enough rest.
The biggest advantage of Behind the Glass Shopping is the boost it gives to the economy. Without all of the loss in revenue, all products would become cheaper. Retailers factor in loss from theft into their pricing models. This means they raise prices slightly to cover the cost of stolen goods. BGS would make the prices of everything in the world drop and would allow people to afford more things. Thus, this is the reason every single store in the world should sign a contract with Behind the Glass Shopping.
