Plus CA will not prosecute anyone if they go into a store and take $950 or less of merchandise, stores can't even get a police response for that. 

Unfortunately, in CA people can walk into a store, walk out with under $1000 worth of merchandise and the cops don't even come.

Imagine "Bob" owns a pawn shop and a neighbor down the street "Phil" breaks in one night and steals $10,000.00 in merchandise from Bob.

This year's gross margin rate reflected higher markdown rates, inventory shrink, and merchandise and freight costs, net of retail price increases, compared with last year.

Wayne, when you go into Walmart and make a purchase, how many times has the sales clerk charged you for the merchandise + applicable tax and then also informed you that you owe that amount PLUS the tax and delivery costs associated with purchasing that item from their vendor?

You may have missed me saying to "be up front" with both sides, it takes a bit more skill than asking a store owner to mark down the demo model everyone has played with or for damaged merchandise.....not much to it.Excluding the Realtors attempting to WH (probably sideways with the concept of "net listings") I haven't seen any WH on here that 1. really knows the basics of RE or 2. if they do, they can't apply the more ethical/legal applications, or 3. they know but don't care.