I just imagined the Velociraptor scene in Jurassic Park where the kids were hiding from them and pictured it as Dina entering the Store, the clerks then getting terrified of her amazingness and hiding behind the counter before she notices and are relieved that she left, fearing the Pounce, and didn’t even notice she took some Moonshine by the looks of it.
So I don’t know a lot about running a store, but I was under the impression that some shoplifting was expected and built into the budget.
Kyrros
Yes, it falls under the umbrella of the industry term ‘shrink’.
lyzyrdwyzyrd
That doesn’t make it OK. Especially for a small business. Especially when it’s near a college campus and probably at higher risk. And especially not for booze which nobody needs. Booze is a want, not a need.
Just to add: that wasn’t intended to imply anything about the morality of stealing from them. Still, it’s not going to do much of anything to the company’s finances (but, as Bittersweet mentioned in the above-linked strip, it may cause a lot of work for that particular location’s staff).
HueSatLight
1400 in 2019
Freemage
At that point, it depends on whether it’s a franchise operation or an actual chain. Franchisees are far closer to small businesses in terms of how they handle expenses and such, they just also have to abide by rules set down by their brand, in exchange for being able to have the lower wholesale prices and brand recognition.
Those rules can, themselves, sometimes be quite onerous; it’s basically settled fact at this point that the McD’s franchise rules are why the ice cream machine is almost always malfunctioning.
Hexx
Shrink also has Insurance, and so, under a certain amount, the company doesn’t even lose money because of it. This is why if you ever see someone stealing food from a grocery store, the correct reaction is to mind your own business.
lyzyrdwyzyrd
Hey now, I work for an insurance company. You steal from our customers you’re reducing my already reduced bonus. 🙁
Taffy
I don’t think a person who’s desperate and hungry enough to steal food and risk the insanely disproportionate legal penalties is gonna be all that fussed about your bonus. I think they’re mostly gonna worry about not starving.
someone
It is, part of the margin is there for that. It also means that items are more expensive in places with more shoplifting, which can cause a vicious circle or more shoplifting because prices are higher, and so on until the shop just closes.
Taffy
Kinda makes me think the “solution” for those cycles is to inject money into those communities in some way, maybe through welfare, maybe through some other method, but I figure if people start being able to afford the food, they’ll be less likely to steal it in general.
Aelfwine
That thievery is expected doesn’t make thievery a victimless crime.
A certain amount of murder and rape is expected in every nation, those aren’t victimless crimes eithe.r
Could. Won’t. Employees in capitalist countries are paid in wages, which are a commodity sold on a market and priced accordingly. That value stays consistent regardless of the actual value they produce.
Can’t imagine “huh, coulda sworn we had another jug of alcohol there” is traumatic.
Stealing for your own entertainment isn’t exactly good, but this sure ain’t bad enough to warrant actual legal consequences. Not worth messing up someone’s life.
If it’s a small Mom-and-Pop type booze store, a $50 loss is mildly painful, but they probably won’t penalize any employees. If it’s a corporate store, they wouldn’t feel it at all, but they might take the loss out of employees’ bonuses.
…I mean, neither. In all likelihood, we’ll get to see Amazi-Girl trying desperately to reign in her Cop Behavior ™ and and not really succeeding. I don’t think any part of the system has actually gotten to the point where they would be willing to break the law by drinking while underage.
depending on the number of people that invited, chances are that drinks will be just a half cup. Maybe a full cup if there is just 4 to 5 people. I doubt anyone will be drunk.
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NGPZ
ain’t nobody gettin’ hurt AG,
don’t you be snitchin’ on no dino digga
not unless ya want Amber to have an even worse repeat of TODAY
True Survivor
I mean the store lost profit, which its owners could use to for things like paying employees or bills for food or medicine.
Also, I imagine getting robbed by dinosaur you never even saw enter or leave is a traumatic experience.
Switchchris
I just imagined the Velociraptor scene in Jurassic Park where the kids were hiding from them and pictured it as Dina entering the Store, the clerks then getting terrified of her amazingness and hiding behind the counter before she notices and are relieved that she left, fearing the Pounce, and didn’t even notice she took some Moonshine by the looks of it.
Bash
So I don’t know a lot about running a store, but I was under the impression that some shoplifting was expected and built into the budget.
Kyrros
Yes, it falls under the umbrella of the industry term ‘shrink’.
lyzyrdwyzyrd
That doesn’t make it OK. Especially for a small business. Especially when it’s near a college campus and probably at higher risk. And especially not for booze which nobody needs. Booze is a want, not a need.
StClair
but Dina says right here that Becky requires it.
deliverything
It’s not a small business, though.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2024/comic/book-14/04-for-me-it-was-tuesday/nosecondchances/
The name “Village Pantry” may make it sound like a small business but that’s just a name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VPS_Convenience#Village_Pantry says they had 400 locations back in 2011; not sure how many it is now.
deliverything
Just to add: that wasn’t intended to imply anything about the morality of stealing from them. Still, it’s not going to do much of anything to the company’s finances (but, as Bittersweet mentioned in the above-linked strip, it may cause a lot of work for that particular location’s staff).
HueSatLight
1400 in 2019
Freemage
At that point, it depends on whether it’s a franchise operation or an actual chain. Franchisees are far closer to small businesses in terms of how they handle expenses and such, they just also have to abide by rules set down by their brand, in exchange for being able to have the lower wholesale prices and brand recognition.
Those rules can, themselves, sometimes be quite onerous; it’s basically settled fact at this point that the McD’s franchise rules are why the ice cream machine is almost always malfunctioning.
Hexx
Shrink also has Insurance, and so, under a certain amount, the company doesn’t even lose money because of it. This is why if you ever see someone stealing food from a grocery store, the correct reaction is to mind your own business.
lyzyrdwyzyrd
Hey now, I work for an insurance company. You steal from our customers you’re reducing my already reduced bonus. 🙁
Taffy
I don’t think a person who’s desperate and hungry enough to steal food and risk the insanely disproportionate legal penalties is gonna be all that fussed about your bonus. I think they’re mostly gonna worry about not starving.
someone
It is, part of the margin is there for that. It also means that items are more expensive in places with more shoplifting, which can cause a vicious circle or more shoplifting because prices are higher, and so on until the shop just closes.
Taffy
Kinda makes me think the “solution” for those cycles is to inject money into those communities in some way, maybe through welfare, maybe through some other method, but I figure if people start being able to afford the food, they’ll be less likely to steal it in general.
Aelfwine
That thievery is expected doesn’t make thievery a victimless crime.
A certain amount of murder and rape is expected in every nation, those aren’t victimless crimes eithe.r
Taffy
The $14.73 that jug cost could have fed 184 starving middle managers.
Smallmoon
Middle managers can be fed on a budget of US$0.08 per meal?
Formedras
That’s what the owners tend to assume, at least. And the “regular” employees even less.
The Lurker
Don’t forget bonuses!/s
Taffy
Why not? I hear The Companies™ forget them all the time, even if you meet the criteria to earn one.
superglucose
lmao that was *funny*
Aslan
Spoken like someone who’s never worked retail
Bruno
Could. Won’t. Employees in capitalist countries are paid in wages, which are a commodity sold on a market and priced accordingly. That value stays consistent regardless of the actual value they produce.
HueSatLight
GPM Investments would use that money to do more mergers in their monopoly quest.
Jammy
You know Dina left money, right? The only way they lost anything is if the employee saw it and pocketed it.
Taffy
She never said that.
TerribleTransit
She heavily implied she did not do that, actually.
S.R.
Can’t imagine “huh, coulda sworn we had another jug of alcohol there” is traumatic.
Stealing for your own entertainment isn’t exactly good, but this sure ain’t bad enough to warrant actual legal consequences. Not worth messing up someone’s life.
Dday
Idunno some shift manager might really get it if fat bottles of xx go missing.
SpaceDorf
Because it’s the required daily dosage ?
lyzyrdwyzyrd
If it’s a local store there are no middle managers.
Dday
I think it’s a chain.
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anon
watcgh as she puts it back and grabs another identica lj ug XD
Michael Steamweed
If it’s a small Mom-and-Pop type booze store, a $50 loss is mildly painful, but they probably won’t penalize any employees. If it’s a corporate store, they wouldn’t feel it at all, but they might take the loss out of employees’ bonuses.
Username Taken
Corporate retail employees at beer/wine/liquor stores get bonuses?
The Lurker
Total Wine in Austin Tx did. Ahhh the Pizza Parties were auhsum!/s
Kazuma Taichi
Amazi-Girl doesn’t strike me as the type that would snitch
rather more likely to just pull a heist to return the bottle
IntangibleMatter
Amazi-Girl! And computer references! Hell yeah!
The question is is will we see Amber get drunk, Amazi-Girl get drunk, or somehow both?
Mturtle7
…I mean, neither. In all likelihood, we’ll get to see Amazi-Girl trying desperately to reign in her Cop Behavior ™ and and not really succeeding. I don’t think any part of the system has actually gotten to the point where they would be willing to break the law by drinking while underage.
True Survivor
Peg parties – you know the ones with pirate costumes. Yo Ho Me Harties!
shadowcell
a great assortment of booty
Chris
Today’s winner folks, right here.
Michael Steamweed
*applauds
Michael Steamweed
Prepare to be boarded!
Apply the ropes and full-mast!
PirateTawnee
I heard the song of my people and came as soon as I could.
Wait, phrasing. Oh well, never mind.
Michael Steamweed
We don’t judge you for your “enthusiasm.”
Clif
Well, we do, but only in an approving way.
Sirksome
Becky’s peg party might be something to see though.
Chaucer59
Only on Slipshine.
Miri
Wouldn’t that be a pegging party?
Chaucer59
It’s all the same thing—in the end.
Yumi
I was kinda hoping the tags meant the container of booze had been named Parti, and tags had been added retroactively to past appearances.
NGPZ
given how easy that is for Willis to do and the fact that it ain’t happened,
probably no, hmf…
RassilonTDavros
Given that Amazi-Girl refers to Amber as the “cache disk” and herself as “the partition” (emphasis added), maybe it’s a new name for AG?
NGPZ
wait did she say “cache disk” or “disk cache”? (this refers to the small RAM hard drives used to move and copy data from the disk).
honestly a more accurate analogue would be if both of them were partitions?
Arioch
I’ve seen them both used to describe the same thing, so I assume that is what she meant. Which, I think, would make them both partitions…?
HueSatLight
AG’s not as knowledgeable about this kind of thing.
HueSatLight
parti liquor
NGPZ
Party… parti… the I in parti…
There’s no “I” in party… drop the “I”, spell it backwards, and what do ya get?
a/snow/mous/e
you’ve activated my trap card!
Reltzik
t
Which is also what you get when you drop the i and spell it forwards, so I’m not sure what the point of that step was.
a/snow/mous/e
ah yes, it is a two-letter word after all
quark
become ungovernable
JA
Amazi-Girl could probably use a stiff drink, tbh.
Wraithy2773
I get the feeling she’d be a real angry drunk. Weed might be better for her.
Bruno
She’d be an angry stoner too.
Jon
My roommate has PTSD and anger issues. He’s broken shit and put holes in walls while drunk. Give him some weed and he’s mellow. Might be worth a shot.
Mturtle7
I instead propose that Amazi-Girl is actually a happy/giggly drunk, mostly because it would be MUCH more interesting, narratively speaking.
While I’m at it, Amber is clearly a horny drunk. Two shots and she’s immediately hitting on everyone at the bar.
Rook
depending on the number of people that invited, chances are that drinks will be just a half cup. Maybe a full cup if there is just 4 to 5 people. I doubt anyone will be drunk.
gears