FBI: Delivery drivers involved in Amazon theft ring

Re:FBI: Delivery drivers involved in Amazon theft ring by one2know on Saturday August 03, 2019 @07:04PM (#20603273)

Thousands of managers. Not all are honest. As an example, I toured an FC once and there was a still boxed perfect $9000 TV sitting in the damaged area. Most retail has a policy that damaged has to be destroyed. In reality places I have worked, managers came through and picked through it.

This is nothing new for retail or warehouses. If a manager is suspected of helping thieves, they might be moved around instead of fired due to politics.

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Re:FBI: Delivery drivers involved in Amazon theft ring by steve19 on Saturday August 03, 2019 @10:27PM (#20604088)

I have worked in the shipping industry (shipping as in ocean transportation). We had a very high rate of damage to pallets containing beer. A forklift clips a 6 pack on the corner breaking one or two bottles. Insurance pays out for entire pallet, stevedores go home with a lot of beer.

Theft was considered a insurable cost of business. I am sure insurance rates were priced accordingly. I am also sure our rate of theft was no different to any other port in the country.

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Re:FBI: Delivery drivers involved in Amazon theft ring by learc83 on Saturday August 03, 2019 @07:36PM (#20603409)

When I worked at Best Buy years ago our Inventory/LP manager was fired (and later arrested from what I heard) because he was involved in a theft ring with other Inventory/LP managers/supervisors across the district. If I remember correctly, they were transferring items between stores and then saying they never arrived.

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