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Re:Home Depot is introducing power tools that won’t work if ... by michaelt on Monday August 02, 2021 @02:50PM (#28041036)
> Because the amount of labor cost to ensure it's accurate at all times would be a silly use of scarce resources.

I'm no MBA, but if a single store is losing $800,000 of merchandise a year from a single aisle, you could have it guarded 24/7 by guys on $50 an hour and you'd still come out $300k ahead.

Far more likely IMHO is that when the rep said "over $800k of merchandise had disappeared from that aisle" that was actually the loss from all the yard equipment aisles in all stores nationwide.

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Re:Home Depot is introducing power tools that won’t work if ... by matheweis on Monday August 02, 2021 @05:29PM (#28042925)
Well those chainsaws were worth $300 ... that's $2400 in one model of chainsaw alone. I'd guess that's about average for prices of equipment in that aisle, with several hundred different items (mowers, weed eaters, blowers, etc.)

If they are having $2400 worth of a single model walk in a year, over 350 different items, they'd get to over $800k in the one store in a heartbeat. My money would be on this was in fact just the one store, if not just the one aisle.

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