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If the store budgets to lose 1% of their goods to shrink, and the store exceeds that budget, then corporate will make the budget up in other ways.
When I worked retail, the largest budget item was labor. You can cut labor fairly easy to make up for shortfalls on other budgetary items, leaving a skeleton crew
Then why are they ever running any more than a skeleton crew? For fun? You claim they could easily cut labor, but if it was that easy then they would've done it already. They're always looking to maximize profit.
Skeleton crews are overworked and burn out faster, leading to more turnover. They may save you money in the short term but they cost more money in the long term. They also open the door for more shoplifting, as an understaffed store is an easy mark. Lastly, they reduce sales because a poorly staffed store is a messy and understocked store. If things get bad enough, people stop shopping there outright. No one wants to shop in a place that feels dirty and unsafe.
For a store to actually run well you need more than a skeleton crew.
But it's definitely possible to scale down a couple days of the week and make your employee's lives hell.
If you always run a skeleton crew, eventually the store starts to get unorganized and boxes of packed inventory begin piling up everywhere
Oh, so the store can't actually "cut labor fairly easy".