odanny
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"Shrinkage" is the industry term for loss, usually the result of theft. The organized crime rings, made worse by corporate hands-off approach to stopping thefts in progess, need to be addressed more aggressively.
Dicks's Sporting Goods (DKS) stock tumbled more than 20% Tuesday morning after the sporting goods retailer said organized retail crime has cut into its profits.
"The biggest impact in terms of the surprise for Q2 primarily came from shrink," Dick's CFO Navdeep Gupta said on the company's earnings call. "We thought we had adequately reserved for it. However, the number of incidents and the organized retail crime impact came in significantly higher than we anticipated, and that impacted our Q2 results."
Dicks's Sporting Goods (DKS) stock tumbled more than 20% Tuesday morning after the sporting goods retailer said organized retail crime has cut into its profits.
"The biggest impact in terms of the surprise for Q2 primarily came from shrink," Dick's CFO Navdeep Gupta said on the company's earnings call. "We thought we had adequately reserved for it. However, the number of incidents and the organized retail crime impact came in significantly higher than we anticipated, and that impacted our Q2 results."
Dick's Sporting Goods stock tanks as retail thieves snatch profits
Retail crime weighed on Dick's Sporting Goods profits in the second quarter and has the retailer lowering its outlook for the full-year.
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