If they catch me walking out with twenty shirts, I would get charged with theft over five hundred dollars... when all they would have been out is a hundred bucks if I'd gotten away with it. Why is that?
2006-10-19 16:19:29 · 7 answers · asked by eantaelor 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
But if I buy some items at whole sale and put ad in the paper .. somebody rips me off the first thing the police ask is how much did I pay for them.
2006-10-19 16:25:40 · update #1
Store inventories are based on retail values of merchandise and not what the company paid for the merchandise. After stores take their inventories, when shrinkage is calculated, its always based on the retail value of merchandise. You would be held responsible for the retail value of merchandise because its the value of merchandise that is how much the company is really out. Not how much they paid for the item.
2006-10-19 16:33:12 · answer #1 · answered by hollyberry 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
So is this a question about why the police aren't treating a person selling shirts through a newspaper ad as being as legitimate as a person who has all of their papers in order and a storefront (and possibly a newspaper ad?)
Is it possible they may think that a person who sells shirts in this manner may have stolen the shirts? So asking how much you paid may be a way of asking IF you paid.
With the business with the storefront it is more apparent that they didn't shoplift the clothes, they have truckloads of the stuff delivered.
2006-10-19 17:57:45 · answer #2 · answered by RainbowSeer 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
because that is the expected value to the store of the property taken.
The value of items for sale is not just what they pay for it either, there is overhead costs in advertizing, upkeep of property and so on.
This is a added value of the property.
And the shirts would be on the accounting of the store at the 35 dollar value as to the assests of the store.
2006-10-19 16:29:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because they are 'out' the retail amount, which the business needs to pay rent and other operating costs, like say employee wages. So, you are like totally business clueless or what ?
2006-10-19 16:31:12 · answer #4 · answered by kate 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is called unrealized income. They are still out the profit. Would you go to work for free?
2006-10-19 16:22:33 · answer #5 · answered by c.arsenault 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You wear 5.00 shirts?.....lol.
2006-10-19 16:27:42 · answer #6 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
jeez buddy come on think about it
2006-10-19 16:33:02 · answer #7 · answered by Paul I 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋