January 14, 2025 • 40 mins
Continued conversation about how grocery stores and other retailers are not just locking up the expensive items anymore. They're also locking up everyday essentials like toothpaste and deodorant in an effort to curb shoplifting. Have you experienced this and has it changed the way you shop?
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's with Dan Ray.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm telling you easy Boston New Video.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
All right, we are talking and we're going a little
longer than I had expected on this issue. And that
is stores that now are locking up items, making it
less convenient for you as a shopper, less convenient for
me as a shopper. Don't know why they feel they
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need to do this. There are stores that are closing
in some poor neighborhoods, which of course is their choice. However,
it leads a lot of people in poor communities without
access to to stores like CBS, Walgreens or whatever. I'm
not pinning that on any one of them, but those
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are the pharmacies or the drug stores as we call them,
and those are the ones in this area now that
may be different, different ones in your area. So I
think it comes down what's called moral relativism, meaning I
go into a store and I feel that why should
I pay for that tube of toothpaste? Why should I
pay for that shampoo? I put it in my pocket? Oh, right,
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because the company makes too much money. Anyway. That's the
problem in this society right now is when you have
more relative relativism, you know you're in a in a
parking lot and you you scrape the car next to you,
you know, do you stop? Do you put a little
note of that with your name and say, g I'm sorry.
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I have no idea who you are, but give me
a call. I'll run this to my insurance company. Probably not.
Most people just drive away. Yeah, think about it. Oh
you open your door, I mean you slam into your doors,
scratches the car next to you. Are you honest enough?
It's it's all part of the same thing. Now, you
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do have people who just feel they have a right
to go in with a shop bag and walk out.
Those those are that's that's those are criminals. Those are criminals.
How did we get here? How do we get out
of here? Six one seven ten thirty No guest tonight.
You are my guest if you make the call six
one seven four ten thirty one line there and six
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one seven nine three one ten thirty. There's another topic
we intend to get to later on tonight, and that
is the US Surgeon General has now issued an advisory
on a link between the use of alcohol and that
includes beer, wine as well as spirits and cancer. Not
going to slow down your your consumption of alcohol. I
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don't know they stop this phill in Boston. Hey Phil,
welcome back. How are you?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
I forget I'm so confused though, I think you said,
what will we going leave it? The beaver days are
over there. The society that gentlemen'callum society is breaking down.
He's found too, a car and a body. In this plot,
I was at a store. I went to a store
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and can I mission the name of this It was
a major retail because of w went into the store Walmart,
and I picked up some sneakers. A few left there,
I guess because then I locked up and I got
in the same shoe with a different price. So I walked.
I was trying to find the manager, and I walked
towards us. Well, the man's down there. And then I'm
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walking towards where the manager was, and this woman who
worked there Walmart vessel and walks bot walks towards me
and I start talking. Can you tell me? She just
walks right on by? It was beautiful. It was on
candy camb it will be beautiful. I talked to him, finally
found a man to explained to him. It's just sort
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of at the bottom line is it's just falling up.
Everything's falling apart, and the worst it gives and I
don't know how the course, there's the works. No one
cares anymore. You got rod rage, you got supermarket rage.
I was trying to be funny to lay you the story.
Stop the shop and the woman should be mimicking me.
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I just said to tools, everyone's angry one another. It's
just crazy, man. It's getting out of hand. I mean,
by the way, and Walmart told they told me they
take the proof of purchase things they stick is off
the high end productor the low wind products and put
them on a high end. So you're going to get
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a low wind product six balls and you walk out
and put on a six year old product. And those
things you skin on the wall where it's just check
out our check out our our that's right, herd. I'm
not a computer guy. Check out our menu or whatever. If
you scan that on the compute, the on your cell phone.
Some bad guys are putting their their thing. They're cut
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off a little white thing of the carse QR board
or onto that piece covering it, meaning that you'd be
contacting them. It's getting soaken.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Oh no, this look the the idea of all the
identity theft issues, that's all part of it. I get
to the point where I don't want to shop online
because I don't know who's getting my credit cards. And
even I'm going to get to the point where I'm
going to start paying cash at restaurants now, because when
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you credit credit card and they walk away and you
have no idea where your credit card goes.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I well, that's what I'm saying I have. I was
in this restaurant I go to all the time. The
woman used use a credit card. Now, this is the
first spot woman. The woman charged them was I could say,
fifty bucks in charge guy. The woman she gave it to,
she wrote her own tip on it. She wrote down
a hundred dollar tips and she would tell me about
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it and she would have gone away with it. But
the woman, you know, she used the used spot. Woman.
But I mean, it's just getting cool.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
You're right, I mean, do you want to The thing
that I love is that when you when you when
you order, if you've ever ordered, uh, you know, takeout
at a store, you you you call up a local
restaurant and uh and you're going to order. You know,
a couple of meals for Saturday night and okay, they
they hand you you got your credit card there and
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they hand you the bill and immediately it's like, what
do you want to tip them? Wait a sec? Hold on,
there's been no table service here. You go to a
restaurant and you sit down and the person you know
greets you, and here's the menu. Do you have any questions?
And yes I do? And would you like this? I'll
be right back, and would you you know, you get
your your tip for service. I don't really feel like
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I want to tip when I'm going to the restaurant, driving,
picking up the meal and leaving.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Actually asked the question, I'm going to give me a tip?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Oh yeah? They make you feel guilty if you know. Hey, Phil,
there's a lot that lot let's talk about here. We'll
tell you. We'll continue our ongoing conversation.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Thanks, Hill, I hope.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
So all right, man, right back at you, good night,
take a very quick break at Alex coming up, Darryl
Wendy room for you. We got one line at six one, seven, two, five,
four ten thirty. One line at six one, seven, nine three,
one ten thirty. We will not go past eleven o'clock
on this topic no matter what, because I do want
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to spend a little bit of time tonight. We had
promoted earlier today that we would talk about the Surgeon
General's report on a link between alcohol and cancer. Uh,
if we go to eleven, that's great. If we don't,
we'll switch to this, but you decide back on night
Side right after this. Now back to Dan ray Line
from the Window World night Side Studios on w b Z,
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the news radio. All right, we're talking about little things,
stealing little things from stores and the inconveniencing. It's causing
all of us to have to sit and wait for
a toothpaste tube to be unlocked so we can buy
a toothpaste tube, or three bars of soap or whatever,
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the odorant or shaving cream. Ridiculous Alex and Millis Alex.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Next on Nightside, go right ahead, Hey, Dan Greavy, I
didn't notice it too much in the CBS where I
go to, you know, in our town. But I don't
know what what has to be done short of like
you know how banks have red die packs. You know,
if they're perpetrator shoots out the door, you know, and
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that way, you know, people a person would red dye
would kind of be embarrassed, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Embarrassed, but also identified for the police pretty easily something
identify them.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Yeah, yeah, true, Yeah, it doesn't come up very easily.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
I guess.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
The other thing I just was going to mention a
lot of the stores. Now, okay, I understand, you know,
they'll ask you to give to whatever cause happens to be.
So we have the fires, which I did, but every
time I go in there they ask you again, so
they sort of put you on the spot. And friends
of mine told me that not all the money goes
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where it's supposed to because a lot of the CEOs
of charities or the people that are running the charity,
you know, they get you know, they get a handsome salary.
So unfortunately, you know, we were.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Talked about that before. It's called it's called administrative costs
within the charity. So for every you know, either one
hundred dollars or whatever you donate, you should always ask
what are the administrative costs and the administrative cost whatever
the charity is. A charity should be giving ninety five
percent of the money that's donated to that charity to
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the cause and maybe maybe maximum five percent administrative costs.
But you have charities which it's they're giving fifty percent
of the money and fifty percent of administrative cost Those
are bad charities, man, those are You don't want to
be donating to those charities. I get it all the time.
You get the police, the National Police Benevolent Society, and
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we're hoping that you might be able to care for
some one hundred dollars. And I'll say, what's your administrative Well,
we really not quite sure. See you later. Or I'll say,
why do I send one hundred bucks to you? You're
somewhere in Poughkeepsie, New York, or or Santa Clara, California.
I'd rather just write a check and walk down to
my local police station. Well, the work that we do
is are so critical in helping police across the nation. Yeah,
(10:26):
it's it's a tango on those people. They're skim artists.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Yeah. I was going to also mention you know you
talked about dogs. My dog is so lovable. He's a
golden doodle. So I take him everywhere with me and
people don't mind. And like you know, when we go everywhere,
he gets he gets all kinds of accolades and stuff
from you know I got treats and.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Probably more accolades than you get. Right.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Oh, absolutely, they say if she if you want to
be popular, have a have a baby or a pet.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
You know. Yeah, all right, man, talk soon, Alex. Appreciate it. Yeah,
we hit another thing already, So I'm gonna let I gotta,
I gotta keep calling here for going. There's too many
other things in this call Alex. Right now, Thanks man,
Talk to you soon. Daryl's in New Brunswick. Daryl, welcome back.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Hey Dan, great topics. You can carry this probably for
the next week, for the next two months minimum.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Oh, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Gonna do that, but thank you anyway, go ahead.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
But no, I believe Tricia had a good point to
reference this new tech they're trying to put where you
open the door with your app.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
If you after they had that in Canada, Darryl.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
I haven't seen it yet, but they do lock up
the razors and what you really?
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Yeah, so how tough is it up there when you
go to a throw and you want to buy something
that's under lock and key?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
What what?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
What's the what's the most popular pharmacy in in your
neck of the woods up there in Canada?
Speaker 5 (11:57):
I'm assuming they're the mocks U three razors because there's
they're they're attracted.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
No, no, no, no, no, Darrel, listen to my question. If
you would we have CVS, we have Walgreens, all those
we have right aid? What what's the pharmacy the big store?
Do you have a pharmacy change of stores up there
in Canada that you could reference.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
We have Shoppers drug Marked. We used to have h
the one Darryl Kates Howstone any Key was part of CBS,
but it was the Canadian version.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Okay, So so when you go in there, what what?
What items tend to be locked up under.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Lock and key, uh, electric shavers, razor blades. But the
funny thing is that perfumes and colognes are not.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
I don't know. So how long does it take you
if you've got to buy some razor blades and and
if they're under lock and key. Give me an example
of how long it takes.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
It couldn't be up to five minutes.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Yeah, that's aggravating. That's aggravating. I don't care what anybody says.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
Well, but what you might do, pardon me, how much stealing?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
How much thievery? We have quite a bit down here. Now,
I would hope that in Canada, you folks are more
honest than we are. And I mean that seriously. I
don't I don't think of Canadians as thieves.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
No, we have homeless too. And actually I walked into
people are familiar with a store called Giant Tiger. I
walked in, the girl walked in and walked right back
out the entrance with a bundle of socks. Okay, and so,
but yeah, it's if that was me, I.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Would have said, come on, let's go buy these socks
for you. It's cold in Canada. I'll buy your socks,
you know. I mean, no, she was.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
She was already out the door before I recognize what happened.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Wow. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
So but the next time I went into that store,
after telling the manager had a new detection device. So
you can only walk in. You have an entry and
an e rest point.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Yeah yeah, sure that's smart, that's smart. But all right, Darla,
I'm gonna let you run. I got a whole bunch
of calls here. I gotta keep rolling. Man, How cold
is it in New Brunswick tonight, Daryl?
Speaker 5 (14:18):
It's only about minus ten celsius. But I was gonna
mention about the dog thing. Uh, I actually went to
take my dog out d day and he actually chased
a raccoon into the house.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Well, but I'll tell you that I'm not sure. Yeah.
Well I hope you got the raccoon out because they
could be nasty devils.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
No, he was dealt with, But you're dealt with.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Okay, I know that. I know what that means. I
get it your doc.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Thanks to he was coming in the note right.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Talk too soon. Okay, have a great one, A great night,
good night. Let's go next to Wendy and Marlborough. Hey, Wendy,
next night.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
Right ahead, Wendy.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Hear me, dam I can hear you. Find I'll even
be able to hear you better once that radio is
turned down.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Go right ahead, okay.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Yeah, you know the radio could be distracting. That's why
Rob tells you to turn the radio down, and you should. Yeah, yeah,
no problem.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
But I drop walking into CVS and I've noticed a
lot of stuff is locked up there. Also, I agree
with that. They've a couple of calls before you.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
I hate the self check ups.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
I don't like them.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
I think they take jobs away from people.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
I couldn't agree with you more. And in addition to that,
they're really confusing. I mean, you know, for particularly for
older people, I mean you have to sort of like
have this intuition. You know. It's one thing if you
if you've got three items that that have some sort
of a barcode and you go click click click, But
if you get like a bunch of bananas, you gotta
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you gotta figure out, well, where how do I find
how do I find the way to bananas? It's basically,
I'm going to the store paying money for for for
stuff that you're selling me, and you're making me do
the work to wring the stuff up and put it
in the basket. How about giving me a discount?
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (16:16):
Really, I mean I used to work all my a
long I used to go on a long time ago
and you checkouts and the only thing is down was
under lock and key was of course like the jewelry.
And I don't have an expensive electronics like, yeah, I
can see that I could like that nowadays. Nowadays it
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was funny because I wanted a twelve dollars iPhone card
because my my my phone was dying and I'm walking
like things to toes over phone cord. You have the lock.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
I was. I was. I said, I was in Target
and I was looking for men's socks and they were
like men's socks were like eight dollars or whatever it
was walking key, Come on, so I get it. Someone
can grab the shock and stick it in their pocket
and nobody's gonna know. Give me a break. I mean
when when I coming back. And Rob was the one
who mentioned this to me before, he said, when when
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you got to do self checkout, you're doing the job
for them. They don't have to hire as many clerks.
So it would be like if if you and I
went to the store, let's say, to wherever you know
that has you know, Shaws, which has shelves self checkout,
and there was a snowstorm before you were allowed to
go in and shop, you would they would hand you
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a shovel and you'd have to shovel off a little
bit of the walkway of the snowstorm because they didn't
want their employees to do it. We got it all wrong, folks.
We got to start boycotting those stores that have self
checkout or never using them. Refuse to use them, yeah,
I mean they make you use them.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
Yeah, I mean I.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
Wanted nail glue because I used to wear a fake
nailse I broke a nail. I want a nail glue
that was singing items five dollars?
Speaker 3 (18:03):
What the hell?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
I mean, Well, again, if it's a small if it's
a small item, they figured that the people who were
dishonest will take it and slip it in their pocket.
That's why, you know, that's why they're doing it. I
don't know, Wendy. It's all moral relativism. It's it's a country.
We used to be an honest country where people were
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honest with each other. And in stores now some people
walk into the stores and say, these are big corporations.
They're big companies. The profit margin of a drug store
or the profit margin of a grocery store is not
that great.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
You know, no, no, but I.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Just think we're going I think we're going the wrong direction,
and we got to turn it around.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
I'm kind of old school when compani things. I don't
like just I made this thing for the credit card.
I like the old machine and the throw I'm mean,
I'm kind of old and coming to alat I think,
and this is one of it.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
I'm old school too. We can I'll join you in
old school. Hey, Wendy, thanks so much for your call.
We'll talk soon. Okay, appreciate it. Happy New Year, Yeah yeah, okay, thanks,
good night. We'll take a very quick break here. Six one, seven, two, five, four,
ten thirty, six one seven, nine, three, one, ten thirty.
We got one line at each of those numbers, so
if you want to get in, I will cut this
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off at eleven. If we go to eleven, that's great. Uh,
We're going to switch topics at eleven. I want to
talk about the US Surgeon General's warning about a link
between alcohol, all sorts of alcohol, whether it's wine, beer, spirits,
hard liquor whatever, and cancer. Pretty serious stuff. I don't
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know what's going to influence people, particularly people you know
who enjoy alcohol, because that's part of you know, enjoy
a glass of wine, glass of beer or whatever. It's
part of living life. Back on nights that we've got
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who's coming up next, we got Mary, I got Patrick
down in DC, and I got Linda. They're all set.
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Speaker 5 (20:20):
It's night Side with Dan Ray on.
Speaker 7 (20:23):
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Okay, we are talking tonight about the whole question of
as I indicated before, these stores that now are walking
things up. I I just think from a from a
practical point of view, it's driving customers away. I know
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it's going to drive me away eventually. Uh. And stores
are just reacting wrong to this, this spate of again theft,
That's what it is. Just the theft more but it's
moral relativism. People look at it and say, well, I
can steal a toothpaste. I mean, look, stores should have
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taken a different posture toward it. They should have hired police,
details and let the word go for it. You're not
ripping this store off. We got problems in this country
and we got to turn We got to turn it around.
Let's go to Mary and Newton. See what she has
to say. Mary. I don't know if you agree or not,
but I think that that this is an unfortunate sign
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and I hope that we can turn this thing around.
What say you.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
Happy?
Speaker 8 (21:36):
To me again, thank you for taking my call to
make a long story short as quick as I can.
I do agree. I do thank you. I do agree
with you one And I have to say, what gets
locked up and everything is because you good have to
suffer for the bad. When the bad to do things
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like this, the good have the supper. And you know,
besides people stealing things, I think people walk into stores
purposely without cash and being hungry. They walk into the
stores they do shopping if they really have to. But
then again, they walk around the aisles, they take their time,
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they can believe they're doing something, and before you know it,
when you're carefree going down those aisles, you're seeing wrappers
stuffed up, stuffed behind spaghetti boxes, You're seeing egg boxes empty.
You're finding h crack boxes opened up and up laying
around another aisle. They going hungry. They I mean, what
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is this? They got no respect, no concern. They just
walk in and do what they want. What are they taking?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Well, the reason they do that is a lot of
the stores took the posture of we're not going to
interfere with this. So what happens is the word spreads
And if if you were of such a mindset that
you feel that you have a right to walk into
a store and take whatever you want and not pay
for it. The word gets around, you tell your buddies.
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Your buddies tell you, and all of a sudden you say, hey,
I can walk in there and do what I want.
And you walk in, you walk out. Then they've they've
they've created the stores have created their own problem. They
should have a security guard, police officer. You know, if
the store is getting hit. If the store is not
getting hit, then you don't need it. But once you
see them getting hit, you got to have. You got
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to react. The other thing which all these stores should have,
they should have buzzers, you know, buttons that the clerks
can push very discreetly. They don't have to call nine
to one. One on the phone, goes directly to the
local police station, says we've got a robbery in progress,
and get the police down there as quickly as possible.
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I I don't know what cost you saw something like that.
One thousand dollars, two thousand dollars. It's well worth it.
Speaker 8 (24:00):
That's true, Dan, I believe it, And you know, I
believe that the managers and everything are probably afraid one.
Number one, not losing customers when there's a way they
can teach. Try to teach customers that they're doing themselves
wrong by not going back to the store because they
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want to go the way they want not follow rules,
and you know, it's like they want to go their
way and that's wrong. And I believe the store is
afraid of what that person would do to them or
to the store, and of losing customers. I believe they're
not actually looking at it. And they do have security,
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but I don't know what the hours are or anything,
but they should be enforced and be more structed in that.
I believe if this customers will understand, they will continue
to go back to that store if they like it
and believe it.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
You should be in charge of security at some of
these stores. Simple as that. You're you got it down.
Thanks Mary, Happy New Year.
Speaker 8 (25:06):
You're welcome. You took him to you again. Thank you
tonight you too.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Let me go to Patrick in DC. Patrick, I saw
I read your email today. You thought my audio level
was down a little bit. I uh, thank you for
that little that observation.
Speaker 7 (25:21):
Go right ahead, yes, you know, speaking of little things
that I went to school in Philadelphia and I am
originally from Washington, d C. I guess I would have
a super super PhD. In little triviality, that's just that
anybody when we start with triviality during Washington DC. I
guess maybe it's just it's just spread out the country,
(25:42):
you know, that has to do any tiny little things
that's gonna be so going. You did read the one
way email. If you're coming to Washington, DC, do not
drive over thirty miles per hour.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
You saw that. Yeah, camvas everywhere, right, but.
Speaker 7 (25:58):
They're supposed to warn you. But also they're supposed to
post the speed limit in a legal regulation sign. And
she she does did that. If you come into town,
you buzz out, get your red light ticket, uh, and
they want one hundred dollars, and you know you're out
of town.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
You know, well, well they've figured they've just figured that's
another revenue stream.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
You know.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
It's like yeah, yeah, well we get you coming and
going up here. In Boston, they're they're they're talking about
putting a tax, uh the city council and we may
have the councilor on who's who's advocating this a tax
on soda products, meaning we call it soda up here,
pepsi and coke and all the different mountain dew and
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gatorade and stuff like that. And because they're not water,
they they you know, they want to try to tax them.
And again, well, how much money are they going to
raise and what are they going to do with it?
I mean, they tax you on everything, and of course
you pay your federal taxes. Then you got to pay
your state taxes, and in New York you gotta pay
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your city income tax. And now they're going to get
you for the congestion pricing tax or fee, whatever you
want to call it. Government has an appetite with this
which is insatiable. Patrick. And so you know, people go
to Washington and they like, oh, let's let's go down
and see the White House and the Capital, the mall
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and the Capitol and all of that, the Lincoln Memorial
and the Jefferson Memorial. And then they come back two
weeks later and they find out that they have twenty
you know tickets on their car.
Speaker 7 (27:44):
Yeah, right right. Because sometimes they do not put in
the no parking signs. They'll use a tree as a marker.
And this has happened before. They use a tree. They
don't have a sign that says no parking. Right, let
me ask you.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
I want to get you back to what we're talking
about tonight, and that is down in Washington. I know
that there's Uh. I've spent some time in Washington, not
nearly as much as you, obviously, But when you walk
into your your big I guess you probably have Walgreens
in CVS. And I'm trying to remember what's the big
drug store chain down in DC.
Speaker 7 (28:17):
It will be right now at CVS, right.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
But there used to be one and I was down
there for a while that well, Walgreens and CBS are
the big nationals. Have they knocked? There was? I think
they were right Aids. There were other ones anyway. How
much of the inventory in those stores in Washington, d c.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Is under lock and key in those.
Speaker 7 (28:42):
In those neighborhood type stores a lot. And one of
the things now that in the grocery stores is locking
up and putting behind the counter these dish the soap
powder that.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Yes, wait your dish wise, I said, your dishwash your detergent,
or you dishwash it.
Speaker 7 (29:02):
And you wash it and your clothes washer. The tide
tie and tie is big out the door is very
big out the door. And here it isn't that bit
you know? They're in that a large orange container.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Yeah yeah, but now the not easy to get seal.
You can't put those in your pocket and run to
your coat too easily.
Speaker 7 (29:23):
No, no, you really can't, but you unless you're wearing
the big coat.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
They do come in.
Speaker 7 (29:29):
With the idea to steal, and they have little rating
parties and they do that and it has to also
go with how they dress their fashion. And they'll they'll
they'll load up underneath. One of the cute thing is
when you used to you would see the underwear of
somebody sticking up above. Right, okay, so what would happen
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They would start lowering the baggies and lowering the baggies
all right. And what they do is they just go
along and drop their stuff down in there, because you
know you're not going to go down in there and walk,
you know, And they have this baggy kids. It's just
very it's very clever. It's very sad. They'll do a
rating party.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
But how do you how do you put how do
you steal a big box, not a big box, but
a big container of tide that's a big plastic container
that probably weighs ten pounds, right.
Speaker 7 (30:23):
They what they do is they they put it in
with other things and they just down to the bottom
of the basket and hand it to one person, handed
to the next person, and there's you know, like a
basketball relay, and right out the door goes okay.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
And then the other question is, so I assume they're
not stealing it for themselves. They're stealing it to to
to sell the capitol. I guess. Oh yeah, so it's
cost fifteen bucks and they're going to resell it for
seven Yeah, yeah, wow, Well that's great. This is the
nation's capital. They can't even clean up the nation's capital.
(30:55):
Oh my god, they have to.
Speaker 7 (30:57):
They're going to have to st ans capital and they're
gonna have to.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
And that's well, we'll see, I hope. So I hope.
So if not, the whole country is going to go.
Maybe we'll all have to move to a place like
Kansas where it's where it's simple and safe and some
there are some old time values in America.
Speaker 7 (31:13):
Well, you know, real quick, due to the fact that
I get to move around this area and go mid
Atlantic is my area. I'll go into Pa into smaller
towns stopping works, relaxed and they can help you and
you don't have to even worry about anything like that.
It's very very nice. So there it is by jurisdiction.
(31:34):
Not every jurisdiction is that that way. But you know,
a large store like Walmart will have a lot of
theft and things like that. But you can go into
other areas where.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
You hire hire some some security and shut and stop it.
Simple as that, you know, simple as that. In my opinion, Patrick,
I'm up with my brag. I get out your run
as always, enjoy your calls. Thanks much, my friend. Big week,
big goings on this weekend. Are you in the city.
Speaker 7 (31:59):
Are you out of the No, no, no, no no,
I get out of the city when it comes about Thanksgiving,
out of the back till February.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
It's just not right.
Speaker 7 (32:10):
Let me, it's not right.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
All right, man, talk soon, okay, ever, go by Happy
Inauguration day. All right, we get some move. I got
Steven Revere coming up. Room for a couple more and
we're gonna break this at eleven. So if you're holding
on saying, I'm gonna get last word six one seven,
two five four ten thirty six one seven nine three one,
(32:34):
ten thirty. Different topic. On the other side of the eleven.
Alcohol is causing cancer according to the US Surgeon General.
Back on night Side, we got Steve and I'd love
to have you join us. No guest tonight, you're the
guest six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty six
one seven nine three one ten thirty. Back on nights Side.
After this brief break.
Speaker 5 (32:56):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Allright, let's go to Steve and Revere. Steve, you were
next at night Side. We're talking about small items toothpaste,
the odorant, shampoo be locked up in pharmacies because they're
concerned about pilfridge.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
What do you think, Hi, Dan, how are you? You know,
it's kind of sad. Well, spending forty years in my
career in retail as some form of management for the
past thirty now retired. Ye, it's kind of interesting. But
I had a call if I heard the tide story,
but the a whole different spin on that. A lot
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of the chemicals that are taken. You'd be surprised at
how many people will commit with water bottles and just
pour the chemicals right in the water bottles and take
some dryer sheets to go along with it, just enough
what they need. But I just started how to get
that out.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Yeah, it's crazy, It's absolutely crazy. Yeah, you said you
were in retail for thirty years. Okay, that's to tell
me what type of stories you were working at. But
my question, my question is.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Has it always been this bad or you know, I
have to say that the past ten years of my
career was probably the worst that I've seen. The shrink
rate go up in our companies that were astronomical shrink
rates between four and six percent. And of course some
of the cities I worked in shrink rate is Pilfridge, Pilfridge. Correct, Yes,
(34:37):
that's correct, And a real funny story. I'll tell you
one place I worked for. They're no longer in business.
I spent I worked twelve years at Sports Authority and
we used to get the Patriot shirts and all the
team shirts walked up. We put them on what was
called the floorway. Would they were scream a locks? You
would think that you couldn't take them off a fourway. Well, well,
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and behold the Somerville store that I worked in, and
what was sports? I thought he was at the at
the mall, they literally walked out the door with the
whole rack down the street, so you'd be amazed. I
tell you, some stories work and there was just I
don't know, it's just sad. I can't believe the risk
of people take and the things that they do. It's crazy,
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it really is. But I just wanted to shed a
little light on that.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
So you're is, why do okay, explain this one to me?
Why do the stores one tolerate this? It would seem
to me that if your shrink rate your pil fridge
is four or five six percent, that's a lot of money.
Why not hire a security guard, police officer just as
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a deterrent. Why did they do?
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Yeah, it's funny they have them, but they don't keep
them in the stores because they don't want to pay
the cost. And sadly, you know where that cost is going.
It's going right to the consumer. Because the higher the pilfridge,
the price changes. Once a month, we would get a
price change report and believe it or not, ninety percent
of the time those price changes would be increased as
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supposed to being decreased.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
So therefore the store, So from the store's point of view,
as they must know what time of day theft occurs. Obviously,
they must know what time of month theft occurs, and
they also must know what day week it's likely. I
assume it's more likely on a Thursday or a Friday
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night going into the weekend than it is on a
Monday afternoon.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Well, believe it or not, your highest shrink rates opens
could be when you first open, your first hour and
your last hour, because believe it or not, they have
the least amount of employees on it at that time
because they know they're not going to get busy, and
if they only have a manager working with a cashier
and maybe one flour associate. Basically, that's the best time
to come in and do what you need to do.
(36:59):
And it's just and they most companies today do have
no chase policy. You're not allowed to chase or interact.
You can only give them good, good shopping experience by
constantly being on top of them. But then unfortunately, when
you get pulled away, if you have a delivery at
a back door or something like that. And the people
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these customers know that, well they're not all the customers
is the ones that know the game. They know once
you're out back handling a call that you have to
be at a back door to receiving DOC. They know
exactly what's going on, and that's the time when they
make their move.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Yeah, it's it's pretty sad. It's pretty sad familiar that
the companies have given.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
Up and that's why so many of these stores are
closing in the inner cities.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Well, and then the people who suffer are the older
people who do not have the ability to maybe they
don't have a car. There are a lot of folks
who are older, have never even learned to drive, and
all of a sudden, that lifeline, that pharmacy there was
one or two blocks away now is five miles away.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
And they're the people who suffer the most. And on
these stores, you know, whoever they are, whatever they are,
they should hire police detail. It's going to cost them
a little bit of money, but they're gonna they're gonna
save the money because of the pilfridge we all away.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
Yeah, you know, I'll tell you on that note. Years ago,
I did work. I also worked for Christmas tree shops
for many years, and the one I worked for was
in Lynnfield and they actually had police detail When they
first opened, they had police detail at night and on
the weekends, and then as the years went on they
did away with it because they didn't want to pay
the expense.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Well again, it's it's I understand that if there was
no pilfriage, but once the police left, I assume you
got pilfridge. You got. It comes back to the concept
they talked about, and that is what's called moral relativism.
It's like I walk into the store and I said
to myself, that toothpaste, that's fifteen dollars. You know I
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don't need to pay fifteen dollars. Let me. I'll walk
out of here with it because I have a right
to it. And I'm serious. That's yeah, it's moral relativism.
The store. The store makes a lot of money. Now
they don't need my money. You rationalize it, You rationalize it.
There's no danger involved, no one's going to stop me.
(39:31):
It becomes it becomes easy. Steve. I appreciate you your perspective.
It's interesting to hear how things have changed.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Sure, thank you so much for taking my call.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Thank you much for listening to my friend. And happy
New year.
Speaker 5 (39:46):
Same to you.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
But by no will we get back we go to
talk about another problem. Yeah, and the problem is the
link between alcohol and cancer risk and what can be
done about it. And I'd also like to have you
weigh in as to whether or not this warning from
the Surgeon General is going to make you look at
your relationship with beer, wine, or hard liquor. Back on Nightside,
(40:11):
right after the eleven o'clock news
It's with Dan Ray.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm telling you easy Boston New Video.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
All right, we are talking and we're going a little
longer than I had expected on this issue. And that
is stores that now are locking up items, making it
less convenient for you as a shopper, less convenient for
me as a shopper. Don't know why they feel they
(00:29):
need to do this. There are stores that are closing
in some poor neighborhoods, which of course is their choice. However,
it leads a lot of people in poor communities without
access to to stores like CBS, Walgreens or whatever. I'm
not pinning that on any one of them, but those
(00:51):
are the pharmacies or the drug stores as we call them,
and those are the ones in this area now that
may be different, different ones in your area. So I
think it comes down what's called moral relativism, meaning I
go into a store and I feel that why should
I pay for that tube of toothpaste? Why should I
pay for that shampoo? I put it in my pocket? Oh, right,
(01:14):
because the company makes too much money. Anyway. That's the
problem in this society right now is when you have
more relative relativism, you know you're in a in a
parking lot and you you scrape the car next to you,
you know, do you stop? Do you put a little
note of that with your name and say, g I'm sorry.
(01:36):
I have no idea who you are, but give me
a call. I'll run this to my insurance company. Probably not.
Most people just drive away. Yeah, think about it. Oh
you open your door, I mean you slam into your doors,
scratches the car next to you. Are you honest enough?
It's it's all part of the same thing. Now, you
(01:56):
do have people who just feel they have a right
to go in with a shop bag and walk out.
Those those are that's that's those are criminals. Those are criminals.
How did we get here? How do we get out
of here? Six one seven ten thirty No guest tonight.
You are my guest if you make the call six
one seven four ten thirty one line there and six
(02:18):
one seven nine three one ten thirty. There's another topic
we intend to get to later on tonight, and that
is the US Surgeon General has now issued an advisory
on a link between the use of alcohol and that
includes beer, wine as well as spirits and cancer. Not
going to slow down your your consumption of alcohol. I
(02:38):
don't know they stop this phill in Boston. Hey Phil,
welcome back. How are you?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
I forget I'm so confused though, I think you said,
what will we going leave it? The beaver days are
over there. The society that gentlemen'callum society is breaking down.
He's found too, a car and a body. In this plot,
I was at a store. I went to a store
(03:05):
and can I mission the name of this It was
a major retail because of w went into the store Walmart,
and I picked up some sneakers. A few left there,
I guess because then I locked up and I got
in the same shoe with a different price. So I walked.
I was trying to find the manager, and I walked
towards us. Well, the man's down there. And then I'm
(03:26):
walking towards where the manager was, and this woman who
worked there Walmart vessel and walks bot walks towards me
and I start talking. Can you tell me? She just
walks right on by? It was beautiful. It was on
candy camb it will be beautiful. I talked to him, finally
found a man to explained to him. It's just sort
(03:46):
of at the bottom line is it's just falling up.
Everything's falling apart, and the worst it gives and I
don't know how the course, there's the works. No one
cares anymore. You got rod rage, you got supermarket rage.
I was trying to be funny to lay you the story.
Stop the shop and the woman should be mimicking me.
(04:06):
I just said to tools, everyone's angry one another. It's
just crazy, man. It's getting out of hand. I mean,
by the way, and Walmart told they told me they
take the proof of purchase things they stick is off
the high end productor the low wind products and put
them on a high end. So you're going to get
(04:28):
a low wind product six balls and you walk out
and put on a six year old product. And those
things you skin on the wall where it's just check
out our check out our our that's right, herd. I'm
not a computer guy. Check out our menu or whatever. If
you scan that on the compute, the on your cell phone.
Some bad guys are putting their their thing. They're cut
(04:51):
off a little white thing of the carse QR board
or onto that piece covering it, meaning that you'd be
contacting them. It's getting soaken.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Oh no, this look the the idea of all the
identity theft issues, that's all part of it. I get
to the point where I don't want to shop online
because I don't know who's getting my credit cards. And
even I'm going to get to the point where I'm
going to start paying cash at restaurants now, because when
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you credit credit card and they walk away and you
have no idea where your credit card goes.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I well, that's what I'm saying I have. I was
in this restaurant I go to all the time. The
woman used use a credit card. Now, this is the
first spot woman. The woman charged them was I could say,
fifty bucks in charge guy. The woman she gave it to,
she wrote her own tip on it. She wrote down
a hundred dollar tips and she would tell me about
(05:50):
it and she would have gone away with it. But
the woman, you know, she used the used spot. Woman.
But I mean, it's just getting cool.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
You're right, I mean, do you want to The thing
that I love is that when you when you when
you order, if you've ever ordered, uh, you know, takeout
at a store, you you you call up a local
restaurant and uh and you're going to order. You know,
a couple of meals for Saturday night and okay, they
they hand you you got your credit card there and
(06:18):
they hand you the bill and immediately it's like, what
do you want to tip them? Wait a sec? Hold on,
there's been no table service here. You go to a
restaurant and you sit down and the person you know
greets you, and here's the menu. Do you have any questions?
And yes I do? And would you like this? I'll
be right back, and would you you know, you get
your your tip for service. I don't really feel like
(06:40):
I want to tip when I'm going to the restaurant, driving,
picking up the meal and leaving.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Actually asked the question, I'm going to give me a tip?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Oh yeah? They make you feel guilty if you know. Hey, Phil,
there's a lot that lot let's talk about here. We'll
tell you. We'll continue our ongoing conversation.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Thanks, Hill, I hope.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
So all right, man, right back at you, good night,
take a very quick break at Alex coming up, Darryl
Wendy room for you. We got one line at six one, seven, two, five,
four ten thirty. One line at six one, seven, nine three,
one ten thirty. We will not go past eleven o'clock
on this topic no matter what, because I do want
(07:22):
to spend a little bit of time tonight. We had
promoted earlier today that we would talk about the Surgeon
General's report on a link between alcohol and cancer. Uh,
if we go to eleven, that's great. If we don't,
we'll switch to this, but you decide back on night
Side right after this. Now back to Dan ray Line
from the Window World night Side Studios on w b Z,
(07:45):
the news radio. All right, we're talking about little things,
stealing little things from stores and the inconveniencing. It's causing
all of us to have to sit and wait for
a toothpaste tube to be unlocked so we can buy
a toothpaste tube, or three bars of soap or whatever,
(08:07):
the odorant or shaving cream. Ridiculous Alex and Millis Alex.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Next on Nightside, go right ahead, Hey, Dan Greavy, I
didn't notice it too much in the CBS where I
go to, you know, in our town. But I don't
know what what has to be done short of like
you know how banks have red die packs. You know,
if they're perpetrator shoots out the door, you know, and
(08:32):
that way, you know, people a person would red dye
would kind of be embarrassed, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Embarrassed, but also identified for the police pretty easily something
identify them.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Yeah, yeah, true, Yeah, it doesn't come up very easily.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
I guess.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
The other thing I just was going to mention a
lot of the stores. Now, okay, I understand, you know,
they'll ask you to give to whatever cause happens to be.
So we have the fires, which I did, but every
time I go in there they ask you again, so
they sort of put you on the spot. And friends
of mine told me that not all the money goes
(09:09):
where it's supposed to because a lot of the CEOs
of charities or the people that are running the charity,
you know, they get you know, they get a handsome salary.
So unfortunately, you know, we were.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Talked about that before. It's called it's called administrative costs
within the charity. So for every you know, either one
hundred dollars or whatever you donate, you should always ask
what are the administrative costs and the administrative cost whatever
the charity is. A charity should be giving ninety five
percent of the money that's donated to that charity to
(09:42):
the cause and maybe maybe maximum five percent administrative costs.
But you have charities which it's they're giving fifty percent
of the money and fifty percent of administrative cost Those
are bad charities, man, those are You don't want to
be donating to those charities. I get it all the time.
You get the police, the National Police Benevolent Society, and
(10:04):
we're hoping that you might be able to care for
some one hundred dollars. And I'll say, what's your administrative Well,
we really not quite sure. See you later. Or I'll say,
why do I send one hundred bucks to you? You're
somewhere in Poughkeepsie, New York, or or Santa Clara, California.
I'd rather just write a check and walk down to
my local police station. Well, the work that we do
is are so critical in helping police across the nation. Yeah,
(10:26):
it's it's a tango on those people. They're skim artists.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Yeah. I was going to also mention you know you
talked about dogs. My dog is so lovable. He's a
golden doodle. So I take him everywhere with me and
people don't mind. And like you know, when we go everywhere,
he gets he gets all kinds of accolades and stuff
from you know I got treats and.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Probably more accolades than you get. Right.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Oh, absolutely, they say if she if you want to
be popular, have a have a baby or a pet.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
You know. Yeah, all right, man, talk soon, Alex. Appreciate it. Yeah,
we hit another thing already, So I'm gonna let I gotta,
I gotta keep calling here for going. There's too many
other things in this call Alex. Right now, Thanks man,
Talk to you soon. Daryl's in New Brunswick. Daryl, welcome back.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Hey Dan, great topics. You can carry this probably for
the next week, for the next two months minimum.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Oh, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Gonna do that, but thank you anyway, go ahead.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
But no, I believe Tricia had a good point to
reference this new tech they're trying to put where you
open the door with your app.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
If you after they had that in Canada, Darryl.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
I haven't seen it yet, but they do lock up
the razors and what you really?
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Yeah, so how tough is it up there when you
go to a throw and you want to buy something
that's under lock and key?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
What what?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
What's the what's the most popular pharmacy in in your
neck of the woods up there in Canada?
Speaker 5 (11:57):
I'm assuming they're the mocks U three razors because there's
they're they're attracted.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
No, no, no, no, no, Darrel, listen to my question. If
you would we have CVS, we have Walgreens, all those
we have right aid? What what's the pharmacy the big store?
Do you have a pharmacy change of stores up there
in Canada that you could reference.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
We have Shoppers drug Marked. We used to have h
the one Darryl Kates Howstone any Key was part of CBS,
but it was the Canadian version.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Okay, So so when you go in there, what what?
What items tend to be locked up under.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Lock and key, uh, electric shavers, razor blades. But the
funny thing is that perfumes and colognes are not.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
I don't know. So how long does it take you
if you've got to buy some razor blades and and
if they're under lock and key. Give me an example
of how long it takes.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
It couldn't be up to five minutes.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Yeah, that's aggravating. That's aggravating. I don't care what anybody says.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
Well, but what you might do, pardon me, how much stealing?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
How much thievery? We have quite a bit down here. Now,
I would hope that in Canada, you folks are more
honest than we are. And I mean that seriously. I
don't I don't think of Canadians as thieves.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
No, we have homeless too. And actually I walked into
people are familiar with a store called Giant Tiger. I
walked in, the girl walked in and walked right back
out the entrance with a bundle of socks. Okay, and so,
but yeah, it's if that was me, I.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Would have said, come on, let's go buy these socks
for you. It's cold in Canada. I'll buy your socks,
you know. I mean, no, she was.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
She was already out the door before I recognize what happened.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Wow. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
So but the next time I went into that store,
after telling the manager had a new detection device. So
you can only walk in. You have an entry and
an e rest point.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Yeah yeah, sure that's smart, that's smart. But all right, Darla,
I'm gonna let you run. I got a whole bunch
of calls here. I gotta keep rolling. Man, How cold
is it in New Brunswick tonight, Daryl?
Speaker 5 (14:18):
It's only about minus ten celsius. But I was gonna
mention about the dog thing. Uh, I actually went to
take my dog out d day and he actually chased
a raccoon into the house.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Well, but I'll tell you that I'm not sure. Yeah.
Well I hope you got the raccoon out because they
could be nasty devils.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
No, he was dealt with, But you're dealt with.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Okay, I know that. I know what that means. I
get it your doc.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Thanks to he was coming in the note right.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Talk too soon. Okay, have a great one, A great night,
good night. Let's go next to Wendy and Marlborough. Hey, Wendy,
next night.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
Right ahead, Wendy.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Hear me, dam I can hear you. Find I'll even
be able to hear you better once that radio is
turned down.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Go right ahead, okay.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Yeah, you know the radio could be distracting. That's why
Rob tells you to turn the radio down, and you should. Yeah, yeah,
no problem.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
But I drop walking into CVS and I've noticed a
lot of stuff is locked up there. Also, I agree
with that. They've a couple of calls before you.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
I hate the self check ups.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
I don't like them.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
I think they take jobs away from people.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
I couldn't agree with you more. And in addition to that,
they're really confusing. I mean, you know, for particularly for
older people, I mean you have to sort of like
have this intuition. You know. It's one thing if you
if you've got three items that that have some sort
of a barcode and you go click click click, But
if you get like a bunch of bananas, you gotta
(15:57):
you gotta figure out, well, where how do I find
how do I find the way to bananas? It's basically,
I'm going to the store paying money for for for
stuff that you're selling me, and you're making me do
the work to wring the stuff up and put it
in the basket. How about giving me a discount?
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (16:16):
Really, I mean I used to work all my a
long I used to go on a long time ago
and you checkouts and the only thing is down was
under lock and key was of course like the jewelry.
And I don't have an expensive electronics like, yeah, I
can see that I could like that nowadays. Nowadays it
(16:39):
was funny because I wanted a twelve dollars iPhone card
because my my my phone was dying and I'm walking
like things to toes over phone cord. You have the lock.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
I was. I was. I said, I was in Target
and I was looking for men's socks and they were
like men's socks were like eight dollars or whatever it
was walking key, Come on, so I get it. Someone
can grab the shock and stick it in their pocket
and nobody's gonna know. Give me a break. I mean
when when I coming back. And Rob was the one
who mentioned this to me before, he said, when when
(17:11):
you got to do self checkout, you're doing the job
for them. They don't have to hire as many clerks.
So it would be like if if you and I
went to the store, let's say, to wherever you know
that has you know, Shaws, which has shelves self checkout,
and there was a snowstorm before you were allowed to
go in and shop, you would they would hand you
(17:32):
a shovel and you'd have to shovel off a little
bit of the walkway of the snowstorm because they didn't
want their employees to do it. We got it all wrong, folks.
We got to start boycotting those stores that have self
checkout or never using them. Refuse to use them, yeah,
I mean they make you use them.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
Yeah, I mean I.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
Wanted nail glue because I used to wear a fake
nailse I broke a nail. I want a nail glue
that was singing items five dollars?
Speaker 3 (18:03):
What the hell?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
I mean, Well, again, if it's a small if it's
a small item, they figured that the people who were
dishonest will take it and slip it in their pocket.
That's why, you know, that's why they're doing it. I
don't know, Wendy. It's all moral relativism. It's it's a country.
We used to be an honest country where people were
(18:24):
honest with each other. And in stores now some people
walk into the stores and say, these are big corporations.
They're big companies. The profit margin of a drug store
or the profit margin of a grocery store is not
that great.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
You know, no, no, but I.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Just think we're going I think we're going the wrong direction,
and we got to turn it around.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
I'm kind of old school when compani things. I don't
like just I made this thing for the credit card.
I like the old machine and the throw I'm mean,
I'm kind of old and coming to alat I think,
and this is one of it.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
I'm old school too. We can I'll join you in
old school. Hey, Wendy, thanks so much for your call.
We'll talk soon. Okay, appreciate it. Happy New Year, Yeah yeah, okay, thanks,
good night. We'll take a very quick break here. Six one, seven, two, five, four,
ten thirty, six one seven, nine, three, one, ten thirty.
We got one line at each of those numbers, so
if you want to get in, I will cut this
(19:23):
off at eleven. If we go to eleven, that's great. Uh,
We're going to switch topics at eleven. I want to
talk about the US Surgeon General's warning about a link
between alcohol, all sorts of alcohol, whether it's wine, beer, spirits,
hard liquor whatever, and cancer. Pretty serious stuff. I don't
(19:43):
know what's going to influence people, particularly people you know
who enjoy alcohol, because that's part of you know, enjoy
a glass of wine, glass of beer or whatever. It's
part of living life. Back on nights that we've got
the news at the bottom of the era. I got
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down in DC, and I got Linda. They're all set.
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Speaker 5 (20:20):
It's night Side with Dan Ray on.
Speaker 7 (20:23):
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Okay, we are talking tonight about the whole question of
as I indicated before, these stores that now are walking
things up. I I just think from a from a
practical point of view, it's driving customers away. I know
(20:46):
it's going to drive me away eventually. Uh. And stores
are just reacting wrong to this, this spate of again theft,
That's what it is. Just the theft more but it's
moral relativism. People look at it and say, well, I
can steal a toothpaste. I mean, look, stores should have
(21:08):
taken a different posture toward it. They should have hired police,
details and let the word go for it. You're not
ripping this store off. We got problems in this country
and we got to turn We got to turn it around.
Let's go to Mary and Newton. See what she has
to say. Mary. I don't know if you agree or not,
but I think that that this is an unfortunate sign
(21:30):
and I hope that we can turn this thing around.
What say you.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
Happy?
Speaker 8 (21:36):
To me again, thank you for taking my call to
make a long story short as quick as I can.
I do agree. I do thank you. I do agree
with you one And I have to say, what gets
locked up and everything is because you good have to
suffer for the bad. When the bad to do things
(21:59):
like this, the good have the supper. And you know,
besides people stealing things, I think people walk into stores
purposely without cash and being hungry. They walk into the
stores they do shopping if they really have to. But
then again, they walk around the aisles, they take their time,
(22:19):
they can believe they're doing something, and before you know it,
when you're carefree going down those aisles, you're seeing wrappers
stuffed up, stuffed behind spaghetti boxes, You're seeing egg boxes empty.
You're finding h crack boxes opened up and up laying
around another aisle. They going hungry. They I mean, what
(22:41):
is this? They got no respect, no concern. They just
walk in and do what they want. What are they taking?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Well, the reason they do that is a lot of
the stores took the posture of we're not going to
interfere with this. So what happens is the word spreads
And if if you were of such a mindset that
you feel that you have a right to walk into
a store and take whatever you want and not pay
for it. The word gets around, you tell your buddies.
(23:09):
Your buddies tell you, and all of a sudden you say, hey,
I can walk in there and do what I want.
And you walk in, you walk out. Then they've they've
they've created the stores have created their own problem. They
should have a security guard, police officer. You know, if
the store is getting hit. If the store is not
getting hit, then you don't need it. But once you
see them getting hit, you got to have. You got
(23:31):
to react. The other thing which all these stores should have,
they should have buzzers, you know, buttons that the clerks
can push very discreetly. They don't have to call nine
to one. One on the phone, goes directly to the
local police station, says we've got a robbery in progress,
and get the police down there as quickly as possible.
(23:52):
I I don't know what cost you saw something like that.
One thousand dollars, two thousand dollars. It's well worth it.
Speaker 8 (24:00):
That's true, Dan, I believe it, And you know, I
believe that the managers and everything are probably afraid one.
Number one, not losing customers when there's a way they
can teach. Try to teach customers that they're doing themselves
wrong by not going back to the store because they
(24:22):
want to go the way they want not follow rules,
and you know, it's like they want to go their
way and that's wrong. And I believe the store is
afraid of what that person would do to them or
to the store, and of losing customers. I believe they're
not actually looking at it. And they do have security,
(24:42):
but I don't know what the hours are or anything,
but they should be enforced and be more structed in that.
I believe if this customers will understand, they will continue
to go back to that store if they like it
and believe it.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
You should be in charge of security at some of
these stores. Simple as that. You're you got it down.
Thanks Mary, Happy New Year.
Speaker 8 (25:06):
You're welcome. You took him to you again. Thank you
tonight you too.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Let me go to Patrick in DC. Patrick, I saw
I read your email today. You thought my audio level
was down a little bit. I uh, thank you for
that little that observation.
Speaker 7 (25:21):
Go right ahead, yes, you know, speaking of little things
that I went to school in Philadelphia and I am
originally from Washington, d C. I guess I would have
a super super PhD. In little triviality, that's just that
anybody when we start with triviality during Washington DC. I
guess maybe it's just it's just spread out the country,
(25:42):
you know, that has to do any tiny little things
that's gonna be so going. You did read the one
way email. If you're coming to Washington, DC, do not
drive over thirty miles per hour.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
You saw that. Yeah, camvas everywhere, right, but.
Speaker 7 (25:58):
They're supposed to warn you. But also they're supposed to
post the speed limit in a legal regulation sign. And
she she does did that. If you come into town,
you buzz out, get your red light ticket, uh, and
they want one hundred dollars, and you know you're out
of town.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
You know, well, well they've figured they've just figured that's
another revenue stream.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
You know.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
It's like yeah, yeah, well we get you coming and
going up here. In Boston, they're they're they're talking about
putting a tax, uh the city council and we may
have the councilor on who's who's advocating this a tax
on soda products, meaning we call it soda up here,
pepsi and coke and all the different mountain dew and
(26:45):
gatorade and stuff like that. And because they're not water,
they they you know, they want to try to tax them.
And again, well, how much money are they going to
raise and what are they going to do with it?
I mean, they tax you on everything, and of course
you pay your federal taxes. Then you got to pay
your state taxes, and in New York you gotta pay
(27:07):
your city income tax. And now they're going to get
you for the congestion pricing tax or fee, whatever you
want to call it. Government has an appetite with this
which is insatiable. Patrick. And so you know, people go
to Washington and they like, oh, let's let's go down
and see the White House and the Capital, the mall
(27:29):
and the Capitol and all of that, the Lincoln Memorial
and the Jefferson Memorial. And then they come back two
weeks later and they find out that they have twenty
you know tickets on their car.
Speaker 7 (27:44):
Yeah, right right. Because sometimes they do not put in
the no parking signs. They'll use a tree as a marker.
And this has happened before. They use a tree. They
don't have a sign that says no parking. Right, let
me ask you.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
I want to get you back to what we're talking
about tonight, and that is down in Washington. I know
that there's Uh. I've spent some time in Washington, not
nearly as much as you, obviously, But when you walk
into your your big I guess you probably have Walgreens
in CVS. And I'm trying to remember what's the big
drug store chain down in DC.
Speaker 7 (28:17):
It will be right now at CVS, right.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
But there used to be one and I was down
there for a while that well, Walgreens and CBS are
the big nationals. Have they knocked? There was? I think
they were right Aids. There were other ones anyway. How
much of the inventory in those stores in Washington, d c.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Is under lock and key in those.
Speaker 7 (28:42):
In those neighborhood type stores a lot. And one of
the things now that in the grocery stores is locking
up and putting behind the counter these dish the soap
powder that.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Yes, wait your dish wise, I said, your dishwash your detergent,
or you dishwash it.
Speaker 7 (29:02):
And you wash it and your clothes washer. The tide
tie and tie is big out the door is very
big out the door. And here it isn't that bit
you know? They're in that a large orange container.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Yeah yeah, but now the not easy to get seal.
You can't put those in your pocket and run to
your coat too easily.
Speaker 7 (29:23):
No, no, you really can't, but you unless you're wearing
the big coat.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
They do come in.
Speaker 7 (29:29):
With the idea to steal, and they have little rating
parties and they do that and it has to also
go with how they dress their fashion. And they'll they'll
they'll load up underneath. One of the cute thing is
when you used to you would see the underwear of
somebody sticking up above. Right, okay, so what would happen
(29:51):
They would start lowering the baggies and lowering the baggies
all right. And what they do is they just go
along and drop their stuff down in there, because you
know you're not going to go down in there and walk,
you know, And they have this baggy kids. It's just
very it's very clever. It's very sad. They'll do a
rating party.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
But how do you how do you put how do
you steal a big box, not a big box, but
a big container of tide that's a big plastic container
that probably weighs ten pounds, right.
Speaker 7 (30:23):
They what they do is they they put it in
with other things and they just down to the bottom
of the basket and hand it to one person, handed
to the next person, and there's you know, like a
basketball relay, and right out the door goes okay.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
And then the other question is, so I assume they're
not stealing it for themselves. They're stealing it to to
to sell the capitol. I guess. Oh yeah, so it's
cost fifteen bucks and they're going to resell it for
seven Yeah, yeah, wow, Well that's great. This is the
nation's capital. They can't even clean up the nation's capital.
(30:55):
Oh my god, they have to.
Speaker 7 (30:57):
They're going to have to st ans capital and they're
gonna have to.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
And that's well, we'll see, I hope. So I hope.
So if not, the whole country is going to go.
Maybe we'll all have to move to a place like
Kansas where it's where it's simple and safe and some
there are some old time values in America.
Speaker 7 (31:13):
Well, you know, real quick, due to the fact that
I get to move around this area and go mid
Atlantic is my area. I'll go into Pa into smaller
towns stopping works, relaxed and they can help you and
you don't have to even worry about anything like that.
It's very very nice. So there it is by jurisdiction.
(31:34):
Not every jurisdiction is that that way. But you know,
a large store like Walmart will have a lot of
theft and things like that. But you can go into
other areas where.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
You hire hire some some security and shut and stop it.
Simple as that, you know, simple as that. In my opinion, Patrick,
I'm up with my brag. I get out your run
as always, enjoy your calls. Thanks much, my friend. Big week,
big goings on this weekend. Are you in the city.
Speaker 7 (31:59):
Are you out of the No, no, no, no no,
I get out of the city when it comes about Thanksgiving,
out of the back till February.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
It's just not right.
Speaker 7 (32:10):
Let me, it's not right.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
All right, man, talk soon, okay, ever, go by Happy
Inauguration day. All right, we get some move. I got
Steven Revere coming up. Room for a couple more and
we're gonna break this at eleven. So if you're holding
on saying, I'm gonna get last word six one seven,
two five four ten thirty six one seven nine three one,
(32:34):
ten thirty. Different topic. On the other side of the eleven.
Alcohol is causing cancer according to the US Surgeon General.
Back on night Side, we got Steve and I'd love
to have you join us. No guest tonight, you're the
guest six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty six
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After this brief break.
Speaker 5 (32:56):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Allright, let's go to Steve and Revere. Steve, you were
next at night Side. We're talking about small items toothpaste,
the odorant, shampoo be locked up in pharmacies because they're
concerned about pilfridge.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
What do you think, Hi, Dan, how are you? You know,
it's kind of sad. Well, spending forty years in my
career in retail as some form of management for the
past thirty now retired. Ye, it's kind of interesting. But
I had a call if I heard the tide story,
but the a whole different spin on that. A lot
(33:42):
of the chemicals that are taken. You'd be surprised at
how many people will commit with water bottles and just
pour the chemicals right in the water bottles and take
some dryer sheets to go along with it, just enough
what they need. But I just started how to get
that out.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Yeah, it's crazy, It's absolutely crazy. Yeah, you said you
were in retail for thirty years. Okay, that's to tell
me what type of stories you were working at. But
my question, my question is.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Has it always been this bad or you know, I
have to say that the past ten years of my
career was probably the worst that I've seen. The shrink
rate go up in our companies that were astronomical shrink
rates between four and six percent. And of course some
of the cities I worked in shrink rate is Pilfridge, Pilfridge. Correct, Yes,
(34:37):
that's correct, And a real funny story. I'll tell you
one place I worked for. They're no longer in business.
I spent I worked twelve years at Sports Authority and
we used to get the Patriot shirts and all the
team shirts walked up. We put them on what was
called the floorway. Would they were scream a locks? You
would think that you couldn't take them off a fourway. Well, well,
(35:01):
and behold the Somerville store that I worked in, and
what was sports? I thought he was at the at
the mall, they literally walked out the door with the
whole rack down the street, so you'd be amazed. I
tell you, some stories work and there was just I
don't know, it's just sad. I can't believe the risk
of people take and the things that they do. It's crazy,
(35:23):
it really is. But I just wanted to shed a
little light on that.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
So you're is, why do okay, explain this one to me?
Why do the stores one tolerate this? It would seem
to me that if your shrink rate your pil fridge
is four or five six percent, that's a lot of money.
Why not hire a security guard, police officer just as
(35:49):
a deterrent. Why did they do?
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Yeah, it's funny they have them, but they don't keep
them in the stores because they don't want to pay
the cost. And sadly, you know where that cost is going.
It's going right to the consumer. Because the higher the pilfridge,
the price changes. Once a month, we would get a
price change report and believe it or not, ninety percent
of the time those price changes would be increased as
(36:13):
supposed to being decreased.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
So therefore the store, So from the store's point of view,
as they must know what time of day theft occurs. Obviously,
they must know what time of month theft occurs, and
they also must know what day week it's likely. I
assume it's more likely on a Thursday or a Friday
(36:35):
night going into the weekend than it is on a
Monday afternoon.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Well, believe it or not, your highest shrink rates opens
could be when you first open, your first hour and
your last hour, because believe it or not, they have
the least amount of employees on it at that time
because they know they're not going to get busy, and
if they only have a manager working with a cashier
and maybe one flour associate. Basically, that's the best time
to come in and do what you need to do.
(36:59):
And it's just and they most companies today do have
no chase policy. You're not allowed to chase or interact.
You can only give them good, good shopping experience by
constantly being on top of them. But then unfortunately, when
you get pulled away, if you have a delivery at
a back door or something like that. And the people
(37:19):
these customers know that, well they're not all the customers
is the ones that know the game. They know once
you're out back handling a call that you have to
be at a back door to receiving DOC. They know
exactly what's going on, and that's the time when they
make their move.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Yeah, it's it's pretty sad. It's pretty sad familiar that
the companies have given.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
Up and that's why so many of these stores are
closing in the inner cities.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Well, and then the people who suffer are the older
people who do not have the ability to maybe they
don't have a car. There are a lot of folks
who are older, have never even learned to drive, and
all of a sudden, that lifeline, that pharmacy there was
one or two blocks away now is five miles away.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
And they're the people who suffer the most. And on
these stores, you know, whoever they are, whatever they are,
they should hire police detail. It's going to cost them
a little bit of money, but they're gonna they're gonna
save the money because of the pilfridge we all away.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
Yeah, you know, I'll tell you on that note. Years ago,
I did work. I also worked for Christmas tree shops
for many years, and the one I worked for was
in Lynnfield and they actually had police detail When they
first opened, they had police detail at night and on
the weekends, and then as the years went on they
did away with it because they didn't want to pay
the expense.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Well again, it's it's I understand that if there was
no pilfriage, but once the police left, I assume you
got pilfridge. You got. It comes back to the concept
they talked about, and that is what's called moral relativism.
It's like I walk into the store and I said
to myself, that toothpaste, that's fifteen dollars. You know I
(39:09):
don't need to pay fifteen dollars. Let me. I'll walk
out of here with it because I have a right
to it. And I'm serious. That's yeah, it's moral relativism.
The store. The store makes a lot of money. Now
they don't need my money. You rationalize it, You rationalize it.
There's no danger involved, no one's going to stop me.
(39:31):
It becomes it becomes easy. Steve. I appreciate you your perspective.
It's interesting to hear how things have changed.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Sure, thank you so much for taking my call.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Thank you much for listening to my friend. And happy
New year.
Speaker 5 (39:46):
Same to you.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
But by no will we get back we go to
talk about another problem. Yeah, and the problem is the
link between alcohol and cancer risk and what can be
done about it. And I'd also like to have you
weigh in as to whether or not this warning from
the Surgeon General is going to make you look at
your relationship with beer, wine, or hard liquor. Back on Nightside,
(40:11):
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!