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Walgreens CEO says anti-shoplifting strategy backfired: 'When you lock things up…you don't sell as many of them’ (fortune.com)

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[–] Habahnow@sh.itjust.works 66 points 1 week ago (4 children)

article is paywalled. I found a similar article with no paywall: https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/walgreens-shoplifting-retailer-james-kehoe/

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 107 points 1 week ago (2 children)

paywalled

Headline is right.
'When you lock things up…you don't sell as many of them’

[–] IAmLamp@fedia.io 32 points 1 week ago

The irony…

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 21 points 1 week ago

I mean when you give things away you don’t sell as many of them either.

Selling stuff works best in an environment where the goods aren’t free but the people are.

People make money at roadside food stands based on the honor system. Anyone who just thinks “that’s naive” doesn’t know what they’re missing. A trust-based society that keeps accounts is the best society.

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Reminder, using the reader function in Firefox skips almost all pay walls.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

More and more sites are only partially loading the reader function info so that it cuts out at the same place as the preview part.

Used to be very helpful though!

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I've noticed some will truncate if you scroll before entering reader mode, can you provide an example that didn't work?

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

Archive copy of the Fortune article: https://archive.is/PoraP

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thank you! It wasn't paywalled on my end and I wonder if it activates on traffic.

[–] Habahnow@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

How interesting, and annoying. Thank you for the post regardless.