Summary of Walmart's Out-of-Control Crime Problem Is Driving Police Crazy
The retailer's aggressive cost cutting has unintended consequences.
Bloomberg Businessweek , 2016
Walmart is a big store with a big crime problem.
Recommendation
When shopping for household goods, clothing or groceries at Walmart, the last thing anyone wants to worry about is crime. Yet, the megastore chain faces numerous instances of crime at its various properties on any given day. Bloomberg Businessweek journalists Shannon Pettypiece and David Voreacos investigate the excessive crime rate at the superstore and look at how Walmart’s profit-driven security choices led to this issue. They also bring much-needed attention to the burden that Walmart places on local police departments, which have to respond to incident after incident. getAbstract recommends this revealing article to shoppers, community advocates, retail workers and those interested in corporate responsibility.
In this summary, you will learn
- Why Walmart has a crime problem,
- How Walmart is addressing the problem, and
- How Walmart’s corporate policies are, in part, responsible for the crimes and for draining local police resources.
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About the Authors
Shannon Pettypiece is a reporter for Bloomberg News, and David Voreacos is a corporate and political misdeeds reporter for Bloomberg News.
