What age to have sex?

[rockouthippie]

Originally posted by ElChevelle
At the store, they now make you go to the customer service desk for your rubber needs and other sexual related paraphenalia.

That's not modesty or prudishness, it's because of shoplifting. Cigarettes are in the customer service area too, under lock and key. Both are expensive and have a low profit margin. In the store up the street, you may ask for either at a checkstand and they'll get you some.

[ElChevelle]

I know more people that lift the magazines.

Still, the best was when someone stole the shoplifting warning sign from Walmart's shitter.

[Widdykats]

Originally posted by Vie
Just as long as you don't try to have sex for the first time in a Hotel closet you should be ok.

Just wish somebody had told me that, spent the entire next year growing a field of neuroses after somebody walked in on us.

^Prrrrrrrrrrrr

[rockouthippie]

Originally posted by ElChevelle
I know more people that lift the magazines.

Still, the best was when someone stole the shoplifting warning sign from Walmart's shitter.

Magazines have a 80% markup, so it's not as big a deal if someone steals them. Buy 10 magazines, get one stolen and you still have a good profit. Batteries are like that too, they are 90% margin. If shoplifters get a $5 pack of batteries, it cost $.50. If they got a $5 pack of smokes, it cost $4.

I remember back when I did retail electronics sales. Sometimes I'd get shoplifters trying to return stuff they stole. I'd offer them exchanges, and what I'd try to do is make sure they left with high margin merchandise, while recovering the low margin merchandise they stole. For example, if they returned a $100 car stereo that cost $80, I'd try to send them out the door with $100 of merchandise that cost $20.

My boss asked me why I was so eager to give these guys exchanges. I had to show him that I just made the company $60 by doing it. That got his jaw to drop, because he never thought about it. He would have told them no, and lost $60.

[Widdykats]

Old enough not to make Dateline's To Catch A Predator

[ElChevelle]

Originally posted by rockouthippie
That's not modesty or prudishness, it's because of shoplifting.

I wasn't claiming either by the way.
It's stupid to make it that much harder to obtain.

[rockouthippie]

Hell, just take out your spare tire and put it around your waist.



Or like I told my daughter. "Here's a quarter, put it between your knees".