How much did the store lose?

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Arguy37 · Accepted Answer

I get drunk and buy sex toys online I can't judge anyone honestly

exitseven · Accepted Answer

It depends on what the markup on the good is.

ObscuredBeyond · Answer

My experiences, working in Florida:

Since all that money was stolen, all $100 of it is loss. Add to that, the fact that he buys $70 worth of merch with stolen money. But he also gets $30 cash back. So even though the store gets back $70 worth of cash, it still counts as $100 of loss. And since that $70 wasn't reimbursement for the robbery, the store is going to state that the $70 is still not accounted for. So the man is going to be on the hook for $170 stolen, by virtue of store accounting.

Under those circumstances, depending on the business, the cashier will probably be fired, even if the cashier isn't the thief. Because even if the safe is broken, the cashier must somehow make that money vanish, so that the thief never has the ability to steal more than $75, not counting coins, which could put that at $90.

Given how the company would do round-ups when prosecuting, especially given the cost of time to investigate the theft, the thief's amount "stolen" would be rounded up to $200. Police would then investigate in follow-up to loss prevention. And decide they want to get their cut of the take. So then, the amount stolen gets rounded up by magic accounting to $500.

Now, the thief is looking at felony charges for the fact that $500 are wanted in restitution at minimum. Add to that, if not the cashier, then the thief who is someone else is now on the hook for trespassing. And if one of the items purchased with that stolen $100 bill just so happens to be beer, lotto, or tobacco, then additional felony charges are applied automatically.

So this simple opportunistic trip to the gas station, theft of a hundred-dollar bill, and quick-and-dirty shopping spree will then be escalated into a full-on manhunt for a "drug dealer," in which anyone who has so much as stood by the rail of a building stairway and waved at the guy is now a suspect, accused of being part of some imaginary drug ring that the thief must surely be a part of.

Anyone seen with him who has blue hair, wears a green windbreaker in 80-degree weather, smokes Newports while wearing fingerless gloves, has a mullet, walks around shirtless, or likes feeding stray cats, is now automatically likely to face an extra two months of constant police harassment. In which any little thing THEY do will also be bloviated into a felony! And if they're seen driving, and their bumper sticker looks a little funny, screw the 4th Amendment, it's time for the K9 drug sniffers!

Poof! Even if Ms. Blue Hair has never once seen a brown sugar needle in her life, a 3-pound bag of pure heroin powder will guaranteed magically manifest in her trunk, just as soon as the officer turns off his body cam and she gets dragged far enough away from the car!

Poof! This will be "proof" that the thief is part of a drug cartel, and then both of them are looking at spending a VERY long time in prison!

Lynx122 · Answer

They lost 30 dollars plus whatever it cost them to buy the goods he bought. Since the store makes profit on everything he bought a part of the money does come back to the store. It's better for them than if he just stole the money and left or stole the goods but it's still bad.

RavVid · Answer

$100 dollars because they could have sold the boots to the next customer so it is irrelevant the thief bought them.

Or it could be figured as 30 plus the profit margin of the boots they failed to make plus what they paid the wholesaler to get the boots in store. Still 100.

If you think they would never have sold the boots than it is 30 plus the wholesale value of the boots which at a 30% mark up would be approx 46.67 or 76.67 in total.

PointTaken · Answer

That all depends on the price of goods the store paid for that the their bought. Starting at $30 because he handed back the $100 and got $30 back. Let's say the store paid $40 for the items he purchased, then that would make it $70 that the store lost. $30 in cash and $40 in merchandise.

OfMiceandMen · Answer

The store still lost $100, $70 in merch (purchased with the stolen money) and $30 in change (that was stolen in the first place).

Static_In_The_Attic · Answer

OVER $200.00 because if he used a store bonus card where you earn reward points towards gas or other free goodies he pounded them again.

Leapfrog00 · Answer

The store lost $70 worth of goods and $30 in cash.

If he stole $100 and bought $70 worth of goods and got $30 back, and walked out of the store with it, the store loses $70 for the goods, and the $30 that he kept.

Red-Blaze · Answer

100$ 30 in cash 70 in goods Maybe get a little return on what ever there profit is

AviatorTom · Answer

The store has lost $60. $100 minus $70 means he still has $30 in his pocket, then the store gives him $30 in change, so he now has $60.

CassandraSpender · Answer

$100... the rest of it is an otherwise normal transaction

Agape93 · Answer

200.  100 from the drawer, then 70 in merchandise and another 30 in change back to him

Sevenpointfive · Answer

$100 plus the merch. could be a better deal in merch? but numerically $200

Anonymous · Answer

Using 50% mark up as a rule of thumb the store loses the $30 in cash and half the value of the goods which is $35 for a total of $65.

ChiTown33 · Answer

Hard to say because I don't know what the store paid for inventory. Inventory costs them as well.

AngryCarl2 · Answer

I'm guessing the store didn't lose anything. They were going to reduce the price on the stock anyway if it didn't sell.

Sparkie460 · Answer

Being a business owner I have to agree with @exitseven

WhiteBoyChill · Answer

They lost $100. They made no money and the guy got $70 of merch for free and kept the rest of what he stole

Summeroflove · Answer

Still a 100 because they lost merchandise

NathanDavis · Answer

that's a 💯 loss...

Reddy4it · Answer

I’m assuming…on face value…cash and goods…$200

Xtendable · Answer

$130 in cash, another $70 worth of goods

Grond21 · Answer

$100

Fuentes · Answer

170$

Kelly6 · Answer

100 dollar

dreamstar72 · Answer

two hundred dollars

ImalwaysrightOK · Answer

$100

Guardian45 · Answer

Pardone?

TallAnon · Answer

100.

TrillXHippy · Answer

$100

nawtee_me · Answer

100.00

Reorx · Answer

200.

Tonitos · Answer

170 dollars

eagle1951 · Answer

200 dollars

riverrat3 · Answer

100 dollars

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