{"id":1945208,"date":"2023-06-06T11:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T15:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lululemon-ceo-backs-firing-employees-who-intervened-in-store-robbery\/"},"modified":"2023-06-06T11:27:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T15:27:08","slug":"lululemon-ceo-backs-firing-employees-who-intervened-in-store-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lululemon-ceo-backs-firing-employees-who-intervened-in-store-robbery\/","title":{"rendered":"Lululemon CEO supports firing staff who stopped store robbery."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flululemon-ceo-backs-firing-employees-who-intervened-in-store-robbery%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1945208&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Lululemon CEO Defends Firing of Employees Who Intervened in Store Robbery<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Retail theft and shrinkage has been a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-only-merchandise-lululemon-ceo-defends-firing-of-employees-who-confronted-thieves\/\" title=\"Lululemon CEO justifies firing staff who confronted thieves: \u2018Merchandise only\u2019.\">growing topic<\/a>,&#8221; Lululemon CEO Calvin McDonald told CNBC&#8217;s Sara Eisen Friday. &#8220;In this particular case, we have a zero-tolerance policy that we train our educators on around engaging during a theft.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>McDonald emphasized that the safety of their team and guests is their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/here-we-go-first-confirmed-case-of-significantly-more-contagious-covid-19-variant-found-in-us\/\" title=\"HERE WE GO: First Confirmed Case of \u201cSignificantly More Contagious\u201d Covid-19 Variant Found in US\">top priority<\/a>. While theft is a concern, the products being stolen are only merchandise. Employees are trained to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-conservatism-must-conserve\/\" title=\"What Conservatism Must Conserve\">step back<\/a> and let the theft occur, knowing that there are cameras and technology in place, and that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-red-wave-of-conservative-women-elected-to-congress\/\" title=\"The Red Wave of Conservative Women Elected to Congress\">law enforcement<\/a> is involved.<\/p>\n<p>However, in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-here-are-the-10-worst-colleges-for-free-speech\/\" title=\"Report: Here Are The 10 Worst Colleges For Free Speech\">recent incident<\/a> at the Peachtree Corners location in metro Atlanta, two employees, Jennifer Ferguson and Rachel Rogers, knowingly broke the policy by engaging with the thieves across multiple points and following them out of the store. This resulted in their termination, as per the company&#8217;s zero-tolerance policy.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald clarified that employees are allowed to call the police and that the policy is in place to protect them. Other retailers have seen instances where employees who intervene are hurt or killed. Lululemon takes this policy seriously and enforces it to ensure the safety of their team.<\/p>\n<h3>Takeaways:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Lululemon CEO defends the company&#8217;s zero-tolerance policy on employee engagement during theft.<\/li>\n<li>The safety of their team and guests is their top priority.<\/li>\n<li>Employees are trained to step back and let the theft occur, knowing that there are cameras and technology in place, and that law enforcement is involved.<\/li>\n<li>Engaging with thieves and following them out of the store is a violation of the policy and can result in termination.<\/li>\n<li>The policy is in place to protect employees, as other retailers have seen instances where employees who intervene are hurt or killed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s clear that Lululemon takes the safety of their team and guests seriously. While theft is a concern, the company&#8217;s zero-tolerance policy on employee engagement during theft is in place to protect their team. It&#8217;s important for employees to follow this policy to ensure their safety and the safety of others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lululemon&#8217;s CEO, Calvin McDonald, justified the dismissal of two employees who intervened in a store robbery in Georgia. McDonald stated that the company has a zero-tolerance policy on retail theft and shrinkage, which is taught to employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1945209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[3850,4274,27880,12304,8037,6115,4314,9787],"class_list":["post-1945208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-ceo","tag-firing","tag-lululemon","tag-robbery","tag-staff","tag-stopped","tag-store","tag-supports"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1945208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1945209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1945208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1945208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1945208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}