Termyn8or
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This is not a job in the Sunday paper. I guess I will pretty much create it. If I play my cards right I see how I might make some money for the first three years, but I will consider that the job's life cycle. What's more it will be part time and not interfere with my main job (it's just too good to leave).
Remember that song that goes "I've seen the clouds from both sides now" ? Keep that in mind as you read on.
First of all the background, and how I have discovered a need that I might be able to satisfy.
Here in Cleveland proper major retailers leave in droves because of theft. While the population density does support the base profit, theft offsets it to the point to where even Walmart is leaving central Cleveland. They can just go and are going, but Home Depot can't get out of their lease right away, but they are not going to renew, at least at this point in time. When the lease is up they will pack up and they will be gone.
My personal experience in these matters will not come from a college kid. I have been on both sides. First of all I worked for, or should I say with, Wellman and Griffith, one of the local electronics dealers of the highest echelon. Among their customers are Bob Dylan, sports figures, entertainers, politicians and so forth. You get the idea. I met some of the Jacobs back when they owned the Cleveland Ijndians, and what was going on was they were looking to fill their Galleria with businesses. W&G opened up a store ther under the name (IIRC) Nu Image Electronics. Sales were brisk, but proftis were eaten up by the rampant theft going on. Shoplifting was quite popular and apparently still is.The new store was closed in a matter of a few short months.
Note that the owners of W&G are expert retailers, and are very successful, but out in the burbs, and now they have an online presence. IMO, and this is saying alot, I don't think that anyone here would be qualified to give the owners of W&G any advice. Like I said that is saying something. Product that other retailers bid for and beg for they turn away, their floor planning service is so low I bet it wouldn't pay for my beer. And I don't drink that much.
Now we have a corporation that built this big building brand new almost, because if it was intended to be leased to them they had a hand in it, and now they are going to abandon it. This is not good.
Now remember I have experience on both sides. Myself, I have been involved in very little because for one I never really had to steal, paying was usually better than the risk, that's before any real morality set into me so to speak. It was just not worth it to steal for me. But for others the situation is different.
They, in some cases are buying these delapidated houses and rehabbing them on a shoestring budget. They came in with the money to get what they need, but whatever they can steal is partying money. So they steal.
When they steal something it was a possible sale. That compounds the loss so I fully understand the desire to just get out, but consider this beforehand ;
If they turn tail and run away, they will be followed, because all the Home Depots are run pretty much the same way, and what worked here will work out in the burbs. They will come.
Now here come I, with alot of non-storeboughten knowledge. Many people I know or have known have run game on retail outlets, and made alot of money. I have not been involved in most of it, and they have all stopped. Some because they figure they are getting too old for jail and some because they figure the odds will catch up with them. However it can be an interesting topic for discussion, as it has been. I have learned how they operate sometimes with the cooperation of employees of the store, pose as employees of the sore (that I thought was a really good one) and many many other things.
The idea is to change security policy, and even change certain aspect of the packaging of smaller goods. There is some money involved, but when all is said and done the GM of that store can start giving seminars and basically put a corporate feather in his cap, should I be successful.
I think I have a slim chance of selling this, and it would be something today with all the downsizing going on, cutbacks and layoffs left and right, what if I can sell this ?
And what if I am successful and the place turns a profit ? Would that not be a good thing ? So in two to three years I move on, my work would be done, but then there are other retailers experiencing the same problems.
Now for a test, some of you may have read me when I referred to my favorite psychopath. Well, all I have to do is tell him that he cannot steal something, and he will figure out a way. I am talking a cabinet full of guns last time I heard. Try that. They were returned, but he makes it a point to prove his point, now if they happen to sell those backup generators for like ten grand, guess what I would do.
And then I would would tell them that this is the kind of people who will be forthwith coming to their stores in the burbs.
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