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nofearfactor

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Just wondering why a corporation with more money than most others- especially QuikTrip which now has paid armed employees and some have cops on duty hanging around- doesn't have armed security or at the least off duty cop security. Just curious.
 

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Maybe Walmart doesn't want to present an image such as armed guards. Crud, when I was in the Philippines they had armed guards on-base in the bank which was on-base and one had to enter through the entrances with armed military guards...except people had all means of getting on base. They fenced the base off with cyclone fencing 8-10 feet tall and the Filipinos tied ropes to the fence and across an active train track which ran adjacent to the fence and then the train came through the fence rolled up as nicely as you please. Then there was the time phones went out and Filipinos were seen beside the highway digging and working on the lines...except they weren't working to repair anything-they were digging the lines up for the copper content. There are many stories in the naked city...
 

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In a neighborhood like the one on Admiral in Tulsa, they had THOUSANDS of dollars in shoplifting going on weekly if not daily, and yet still opted to close the store rather than post armed security. That tells me it is more a lawsuit-avoidance scenario than even a loss prevention vs salary decision.
 

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In a neighborhood like the one on Admiral in Tulsa, they had THOUSANDS of dollars in shoplifting going on weekly if not daily, and yet still opted to close the store rather than post armed security. That tells me it is more a lawsuit-avoidance scenario than even a loss prevention vs salary decision.

IIRC, walmart says it loses something like $3 billion per year
 

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At one time, most all Walmarts had a non-armed loss prevention agents. That position was pretty much eliminated in the mid 90's. Don't know what they are doing now, but suspect the armed guards are strictly for safety of personnel.
 

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