"CoteDAzur;c-16514006" wrote:
..But real stores really do get nicked from, you know? Every business has it's monthly profit losses too. Stock and otherwise.
I worked in a record shop about a year ago and we spent a month investigating who was stealing our street signs continuously because we had no CCTV. Good thing we laugh in the face of challenge.
Or in true sims fashion just find the darn hot-handed klampit and lock them in a pool surrounded by walls.
As some others have said, my problem isn't exactly with the stealing but how it's done. If there was a pop-up saying something was stolen, or if a stolen item was replaced with an out-of-stock sign so it's obvious I wouldn't mind so much. But I have kleptos swiping posters off the walls that aren't even for sale, and I like to keep my shops stocked with whatever I bought and it's a pain when I haven't noticed something getting stolen trying to figure out what was supposed to be in the empty space.
It'd be cool if there was a way to combat kleptos in retail, like hiring security guards, placing security cameras as a deterrent, confronting a customer you've witnessed steal. As it is though it seems more like when they made retail lots they forgot about kleptomanics. It really is just an annoyance, it doesn't make it harder necessarily (I mean the tiny amount of profit lost from kleptos is more than made up for by the fact restocking is completely free 95% of the time).
