Four Home Depot employees fired for preventing loss, violating loss prevention policy
Apparently (and confusingly), Home Depot employees will be fired if they try to prevent shoplifters from leaving the store. Four employees in Midwest City, OK, were fired after one asked two men to see their receipt after they walked into the store and grabbed three chainsaws and a weed cutter while a friend waited in a car out front.
It seems that Home Depot only allows loss prevention officers to do this, so if none are on duty, anyone can apparently walk out of the store with anything they can grab. Any employees who intervene will be fired for their trouble, so after this, I doubt any will go to the trouble.
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