DungeonmasterCal
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It really sucks that so many gaming books are stolen. Several chain stores in the Little Rock area no longer carry RPG books because of this.
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Lonely Tylenol
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Wow. It's been like 10 years since I've been in a bookstore that didn't have electronic security devices. Hell, I don't think I've been in a retail store period for about 5 years without being irradiated as I left the place to see if I had any transponders on me.
Olgar Shiverstone
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ExplorersVP
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Well, pretty much with our big sister, Barnes and Noble down the street about a mile, anything for our store beyond the normal stuff is out of the question. Heck, we have even been told to not persue shoplifters, because the amount they steal is an accepted loss in our stores and we lose more money due to paperwork mistakes, etc.
Shoot, we barely have enough payroll to have two people in the entire store at all times. Oh well...thats the way it goes in book retail.
So, if you have a B. Dalton near you, make sure to buy a book or two from there once in a while. We REALLY need it...lol.
Well, pretty much with our big sister, Barnes and Noble down the street about a mile, anything for our store beyond the normal stuff is out of the question. Heck, we have even been told to not persue shoplifters, because the amount they steal is an accepted loss in our stores and we lose more money due to paperwork mistakes, etc.
Shoot, we barely have enough payroll to have two people in the entire store at all times. Oh well...thats the way it goes in book retail.
So, if you have a B. Dalton near you, make sure to buy a book or two from there once in a while. We REALLY need it...lol.
Lonely Tylenol
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KaeYoss said:
You don't want discreet. You want obvious. A discreet camera will allow you to finger a thief if you bother to call the police and they bother to find the thief and charge him with petty theft...which, I am led to believe, is unlikely. An obvious camera makes the would-be thief feel like he's being watched, and will therefore be caught and prosecuted. Hell, it doesn't even have to be plugged in. It just has to look like a camera.
The key is not that the thief will be punished, but that he thinks he will be punished. After all, you don't want to actually go to court over every theft you have. What you want is for the theft to stop. And a method that makes the thief feel like he will be caught will work better than a method that will actually get him caught. Why do you think stores put up those "you are under video surveillance" signs everywhere? It's to make thieves paranoid.
TheAuldGrump
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DungeonmasterCal said:
In our area the books most likely to be stolen, at least ten years ago, were RPGs, H.P.Lovecraft hardcovers, and the Bible.
The Auld Grump
