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yorkiekist · 10-11-2007, 09:56 PM

I have been in the grocery business for 30 years. Some of the major causes for price increases are shoplifting, employee theft, operations expenses, and dwindling farms. On a dailey basis at just one grocery store, at least 500 dollars walks out the door without being paid for.Multiply that by thousands of grocery stores in the US. I have seen baskets of over a thousand dollars worth of merchandise go out the door at one time. Theft is a big racket. People are "paid" to shoplift high dollar items and deliver the goods to a broker, who then sells the items. Most stores have "beer" runs nightly also. One person puts liquor close to an exit door. A few minutes later, another person watches when nobody is looking and runs out the door with it. Customers that bouce checks are "stealing" as well. This is a common occurance around a thousand dollars per month, per store.(or more depending on the area) Employee theft is very common as well. Most are not easy to catch and its not only theft of merchandise, its company theft of time clockings as well. Its a common occurance for an employee to clock in for work and then leave. We had one gal just recentely going to the doctor and Christmas shopping all the while she was "clocked in" and should have been working. Operating expenses are huge!! Here in Arizona, a monthy electric bill is over ten thousand dollars per month. Then there is trashpick-up, gas bills, repairs, trucking and buying the product to sell. Wages and health insurance arent cheap either. Farming is a dieing business. In the ten years I have lived in this area, All the dairy farms, alfalfa, cotton, corn, orange groves, etc are gone.The Phoenix area was one of the major agriculture producers in the US. Now its 90% houses. I think its a crime. Once its farm land, it should stay farm land. It wont be long until all of our food will be imported from Mexico. Milk is expensive because cows are expensive to maintain. Dairy farmers have to get hay further and further away from home because the alfalfa fields are being turned into houses at 200 acres per week. The cost of gas to ship the hay to the farm is so expensive that I am surprised that milk isnt 8 dollar per gallon.
Please think about this as you shop. It will be easier to see why everything is so darned expensive.

10-11-2007, 09:56 PM	#24
yorkiekist YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: HOT, HOT, HOT AZ Posts: 3,150	food outa site!! I have been in the grocery business for 30 years. Some of the major causes for price increases are shoplifting, employee theft, operations expenses, and dwindling farms. On a dailey basis at just one grocery store, at least 500 dollars walks out the door without being paid for.Multiply that by thousands of grocery stores in the US. I have seen baskets of over a thousand dollars worth of merchandise go out the door at one time. Theft is a big racket. People are "paid" to shoplift high dollar items and deliver the goods to a broker, who then sells the items. Most stores have "beer" runs nightly also. One person puts liquor close to an exit door. A few minutes later, another person watches when nobody is looking and runs out the door with it. Customers that bouce checks are "stealing" as well. This is a common occurance around a thousand dollars per month, per store.(or more depending on the area) Employee theft is very common as well. Most are not easy to catch and its not only theft of merchandise, its company theft of time clockings as well. Its a common occurance for an employee to clock in for work and then leave. We had one gal just recentely going to the doctor and Christmas shopping all the while she was "clocked in" and should have been working. Operating expenses are huge!! Here in Arizona, a monthy electric bill is over ten thousand dollars per month. Then there is trashpick-up, gas bills, repairs, trucking and buying the product to sell. Wages and health insurance arent cheap either. Farming is a dieing business. In the ten years I have lived in this area, All the dairy farms, alfalfa, cotton, corn, orange groves, etc are gone.The Phoenix area was one of the major agriculture producers in the US. Now its 90% houses. I think its a crime. Once its farm land, it should stay farm land. It wont be long until all of our food will be imported from Mexico. Milk is expensive because cows are expensive to maintain. Dairy farmers have to get hay further and further away from home because the alfalfa fields are being turned into houses at 200 acres per week. The cost of gas to ship the hay to the farm is so expensive that I am surprised that milk isnt 8 dollar per gallon. Please think about this as you shop. It will be easier to see why everything is so darned expensive.