A Simple Proposition
By Mitch Berg
To: Calvin McDonald, CEO, Lululemon
From: Mitch Berg, Irascible Peasant
Re: Business Stuff
Mr. McDonald,
Last week, a couple of employees at a Lululemon store were axed after they tried to react like a normal law-abiding human when someone robbed their store.
You defended this response:
Lululemon’s CEO stands by his decision to axe two employees who called the police while three masked men robbed a Georgia outpost, citing the company’s “zero-tolerance policy” for intervening with a robbery as reason for firing the workers.
“We have a zero-tolerance policy that we train our educators on around engaging during a theft,” Lululemon CEO Calvin McDonald told CNBC during Friday’s “Squawk on the Street.”
“Educators” are what Lululemon calls its workers…
Ferguson said that once a robbery occurs, workers are instructed to “scan a QR code. And that’s that. We’ve been told not to put it in any notes, because that might scare other people. We’re not supposed to call the police, not really supposed to talk about it.”
However, McDonald said that the policy is in place “because we put the safety of our team, of our guest, front and center. It’s only merchandise,” he told CNBC.
Question : Since it’s “only merchandise”, why even charge for it?
That is all.
June 9th, 2023 at 11:43 am
So payment is optional? I can either pay for it or I can steal it, but I won’t be accosted or prosecuted?
I can’t wait till Ted’s Bar adopts this model. No more rail booze, give me the top shelf stuff and don’t bother rinning a tab, I’m not paying for anything ever again.
June 9th, 2023 at 12:17 pm
The young ladies in question need to get a job at a place like one pickup accessories store here in Rochester. Where a lot of businesses will post the employees’ credentials, they post their carry permit letters.
Although, to be sure, it’s harder to conceal that pistol when wearing Lululemon tights than it is to do so wearing jeans or cargo pants. So maybe a few lifestyle changes might be in order.
June 9th, 2023 at 12:56 pm
WTF is “Lululemon?
June 9th, 2023 at 12:58 pm
“Although, to be sure, it’s harder to conceal that pistol when wearing Lululemon tights than it is to do so wearing jeans or cargo pants.”
Is that why the Ukes are getting BTFO, Mr. Bubble? They get a shipment of lulu cammo?
June 9th, 2023 at 1:21 pm
Most likely, both of those people received several offers from companies that appreciate their loyalty.
I’m also hoping Lululemon gets the “Bud Light” treatment.
June 9th, 2023 at 2:17 pm
What grates me about this is they just made a police report. What is wrong with the world that making a police report about shoplifters is a firing offense?
Oh, I forget the police are all automatically evil to the urban progressive.
June 9th, 2023 at 2:33 pm
What grates me about this is they just made a police report.
M., you are forgetting that if there is no police report then no crime was committed. Hmmm… I wonder how LLL files insurance claims without police reports. And if they don’t, how do they write off the merch on the books? This is why they want QR codes scanned! Bu then they are defrauding IRS since they cannot write stolen stuff off without a police report. If only we had an IRS that was interested in REAL tax fraud! I wonder who owners of LLL donate to… Two Amerikkkas indeed…
June 9th, 2023 at 2:35 pm
OK, I’m gonna try and figure out what caused moderation:
What grates me about this is they just made a police report.
M., you are forgetting that if there is no police report then no crime was committed. Hmmm… I wonder how LLL files insurance claims without police reports. And if they don’t, how do they write off the merch on the books? This is why they want QR codes scanned! Bu then they are defrauding IRS since they cannot write stolen stuff off without a police report. If only we had an IRS that was interested in REAL tax fraud! I wonder who owners of LLL donate to…
June 9th, 2023 at 2:36 pm
OK, I’m gonna try and figure out what caused moderation, try #2:
What grates me about this is they just made a police report.
M., you are forgetting that if there is no police report then no crime was committed. Hmmm… I wonder how LuLu files insurance claims without police reports. And if they don’t, how do they write off the merch on the books? This is why they want QR codes scanned! But then they are defrauding IRS since they cannot write stolen stuff off without a police report. If only we had an IRS that was interested in REAL tax fraud! I wonder who owners of LuLu donate to…
June 9th, 2023 at 2:38 pm
OK, I’m gonna try and figure out what caused moderation, try #3:
What grates me about this is they just made a police report.
M., you are forgetting that if there is no police report then no crime was committed. Hmmm… I wonder how LuLu files insurance claims without police reports. And if they don’t, how do they write off the merchandise on the books? This is why they want QR codes scanned! But then they are defrauding IRS since they cannot write stolen stuff off without a police report. If only we had an IRS that was interested in REAL tax fraud! I wonder who owners of LuLu donate to…
June 9th, 2023 at 2:38 pm
OK, I give up after 3 tries trying to figure out what caused moderation
June 9th, 2023 at 4:45 pm
You can say that again, JPA!
Seriously, good point.
And how cute. Not only does Kremlin Tom believe everything coming from Putina’s spokes-liars, he thinks that the Ukrainian Army is concealing their weapons underneath their clothes.
June 10th, 2023 at 11:46 am
The Ruskis are hammering the shit out of the Ukes last few days.
The front lines are being described as “graveyards of NATO armored vehicles”.
The RF is using cheap $20k drones against all those new $10 million Leopard tanks and US Bradley fighting vehicles. Assessments say they are devastatingly effective.
There are reports of crews deserting their tanks…just leaving them there for the Ruskies to destroy.
This is a catastrophe.
June 10th, 2023 at 11:49 am
Drones have become the #1 weapon to use against armored vehicles. It will cost millions to equip tanks with effective counter measures.
Pity that the US brass is spending their money on vaginaplasti for the tranny corps.
June 10th, 2023 at 12:14 pm
The importance of what’s going on over there cannot be overstated.
The Russians are developing effective tactics to neutralize NATO’s top of the line hardware. They have captured Javelin’s and HIMARS, which they are no doubt reverse engineering right now.
And don’t think they won’t share info with China.
Of course they also know they really don’t have to engage us. They can see we’re edging towards the brink of massive civil unrest and small unit conflicts between civilized Americans and our degenerate enemies.
What a shitshow
June 10th, 2023 at 12:16 pm
War in Ukraine, women and girls hardest hit, war is disrupting access to “reproductive services” aka abortions. You can help. Send money to kill babies.
https://www.unfpa.org/ukraine-war
June 10th, 2023 at 2:37 pm
Drop of the Trump indictment timed to get the FBI doc (which shows the Biden family receiving 10 million from Ukraine) off the news cycle. No wonder gropey joe is giving them so much of OUR money.
June 11th, 2023 at 6:43 pm
I keep saying this, but no one listens. If you are interested in having people think good things about black people, you really shouldn’t be spreading the message “the best way to keep black people out of jail is to stop prosecuting shop lifters.”
June 12th, 2023 at 8:23 am
My Lord, what a weak-woke-dumshit. Think I’ll stop in and start taking their crap…oh wait..I have morals. Never mind. But what a weak idiot this sic-fok is.