re: #32 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Always blaming those people.

Not that the executives sucked out all the money with their elaborate compensation.

Think about this: it’s a 99¢ store. If every item is sold for one dollar (rounding up), then how much did the corporation pay for that item? Fifty cents?

Then how many items have to be stolen to be equivalent to a million dollar salary of an executive? (Do the math.)

Tens of millions of items will have to be stolen to equate to the salaries of the top executives.

Of course, it’s just a BS excuse. That’s not to say there isn’t shoplifting at any retail store, but like you said, it’d have to a storewide, thrice-weekly “Five Finger Discount Day!” event to come to that level.

No, Ares Management and CPP Investment Board stripped the company for everything it was worth, and now they’re doing the Fortune 500 equivalent of the Mob’s “bust the place out”.