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Minding the store... If you haven't experienced it, you may have seen it happen to others. Let's say you are a vendor at a flea market. You have literally hundreds of goods on a few tables in front and on the sides of you. When business is slow, you can handle all the business that comes your way. Saturday morning could be your busiest time with 20 people surrounding your little business and all trying to get your attention. If you are occupied with 2 people on the left side, it's very easy to loose sight of a table on the right and totally miss someone slipping something of value off the table and under their coat. The casually walk away and it isn't until later your inventory check shows your daily losses exceed your profits. As a one person operation, you are not capable of minding the store and conducing business at the same time. if this continues, it would undermine your operation enough to make your close the business and work elsewhere or hire some help hoping that added salary will help sell more product and reduce the amount of theft. Many shops have glass display cases so your customers can view but not touch and your wares are safe. If someone shows interest in a specific item, you unlock the case and remove it for inspection. This way, you control the pace of what gets sold. Maybe that's not a good thing as many places rely on 'impulse sales' where customers (for example) could be waiting in line at the cash register and see a few things on the shelves they had no intentions of buying... but the urge was there. Candy, for example. It's always found on both sides of the lane when you are waiting to pay for your items and... a $1.50 candy bar is staring you in the face !! |
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Correction... candy bars are $1.79
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