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Kroger's Panopticon: Making Criminals of Grocery Shoppers

Kroger has added multiple anti theft 'features' at my local store. These features are hostile to shoppers and treat their customers like thieves.

Pulling the most recent income statement from the 10K into Excel and analyzing merchandise costs and operating profit as a percentage of sales is indicative of the situation: This increase resulted primarily from strong Our Brands performance, our ability to effectively manage product cost through strong sourcing practices, lower transportation costs, as a percentage of sales, and the effect of our terminated agreement with Express Scripts, partially offset by increased promotional price investment and higher shrink, as a percentage of sales.” Most retail stores have long maintained cameras, security staff, anti-theft tags and other loss prevention techniques.

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