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Quincy Quarry News Police Scanner Snippets – Quincy’s new Target a target for shoplifters
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Fast food and even faster shopping in North Quincy!
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Quincy’s Target location has been open a bit over a year and already police radio calls tied to it are regularly heard by Quincy Quarry’s Citizen Police Radio Scanner Monitor.
The primary reason?
Shoplifting.
For example, on Thursday last week, the Quarry’s police scanner monitor heard a number of radio calls over a thousand dollars in product said to have been stolen from the Target store in North Quincy.
This incident quickly as well as dramatically metastasized
“Have visual contact. In hot pursuit,”
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For example, a store security employee apparently battled with the purported perp all the way to the nearby North Quincy MBTA station until police back-up arrived on the scene to arrest the alleged shoplifter.
While Quincy Quarry is not privy to the inventory shrinkage metrics for Target’s North Quincy location, it is reasonable to suspect that this actually mini-Target store probably suffers serious shrinkage in comparison to its sales volume.
The Quarry’s Loss Prevention expert takes a look at how to fight crime
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Accordingly, the Quarry’s City Editor opted to dispatch the loss prevention expert in the Quarry’s crime unit to do a little undercover reconnaissance of the scene of so many shoplifting incidents.
What was the most surprising thing of all going away that was so found by the Quarry’s loss prevention expert was this Target’s store’s vulnerable layout.
In brief, to provide ready access for MBTA straphangers to shop at this Target store, it features a second floor entrance along West Squantum Street adjacent to the North Quincy MBTA Station’s bus platforms so as facilitate access to the lower level main floor of this store as well as a lower level entrance for shoppers driving to this Target to shop.
Target’s West Squantum Street entrance
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While such is an understandable design approach given a problematic venue, the Quarry’s loss prevention expert was surprised that a major international retailer such as Target did not opt to put some checkout registrars or at least more a robust store security presence in the second floor entryway area.
In turn, such design shortcomings thus surely facilitate shoplifters exiting with their takings.
That and then often opting to risk the “reliability” of Red Line service so as to attempt to make a quick getaway.
(Hurry up – I gotta get back to Dot with my take!)
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In fact, so frequently do purported five-finger discount shoppers endeavor to flee the scene via the Red Line that it has become unofficially as well as also amusingly known as “The Getaway Express.”
Conversely disconcerting is the maze that paying customers must overcome if they seek to drive to this Target store to do a little shopping, with little the operative word.
Further, Quincy Quarry’s retail shopping reviewers noted that while North Quincy’s roughly but one quarter or smaller than the usual Target store than the typical Target has a surprisingly wide range of product offerings, the number of each product offering on hand is thus both thin as well as subject to being sold out even before consideration of still lingering supply chain shortages.
An urban Target test store design
A Target rendering for its Chicago Streeterville small store design
And overall as well as finally, Quincy Quarry News’ Citizen Box Store Retail Consultant is of the mind that Target will likely pull the plug on at least its North Quincy’s location market testing of Target’s mini store format for more densely developed urban venues within but a handful of years or thereabouts.
Accordingly, Target thus likely as well as most prudently thus signed a shorter term lease than usual on its problematic North Quincy space given its challenges.
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Retail inventory shortages or theft is reported as “Shrinkage”. In Target’s last quarterly earnings release, increasing shrinkage was reported as one major reason for the decline in the company’s net income.