Even if their claim of “organized theft” is true, that itself would be a self-correcting market force. Your price point should exist somewhere between the extreme of “lock it up so tight nobody can buy it” and “it’s cheaper for people to shoplift it en masse”. If you can’t manage that, maybe you deserve to go out of business (also I think you’ll find that it would also help to increase the number of staff to actually unlock the damn shelves). Perhaps in the long run the market will self correct, but this is absolutely idiotic right now. And the real consequences for people that have lost their local pharmacy are catastrophic.
Even if their claim of “organized theft” is true, that itself would be a self-correcting market force. Your price point should exist somewhere between the extreme of “lock it up so tight nobody can buy it” and “it’s cheaper for people to shoplift it en masse”. If you can’t manage that, maybe you deserve to go out of business (also I think you’ll find that it would also help to increase the number of staff to actually unlock the damn shelves). Perhaps in the long run the market will self correct, but this is absolutely idiotic right now. And the real consequences for people that have lost their local pharmacy are catastrophic.
Some report said the claim of organized theft was not true or greatly exaggerated
It wasn’t true. It was used to disguise crumbling profits as American shopping habits changed out of necessity.
that’s my understanding as well