It’s not delivery, it’s a death wish
A Domino’s delivery driver was robbed twice. It was originally reported that the driver had to pay back the money that was stolen from him, but that turned out to be incorrect.
It is true that Domino’s has a policy that drivers carry less than $20 on them. They even put it on their advertisements. Domino’s figures that people out there won’t bother to rob driver for only $20.
I don’t think Domino’s really thought that one through. A quick search for “pizza delivery robbery” shows that this is not an uncommon occurrence. Robbers seem to usually take the pizza, because “when you’re hungry, you’re hungry.” If the robbers manage to get a couple of bucks and a cell phone in addition, it’s what they were after. Ambushing and robbing a pizza guy is not exactly an Ocean’s Eleven type caper.
Given the number of pizza delivery drivers that have been shot, the argument could be made that being a pizza delivery driver is one of the most dangerous jobs in America.
It’s a good thing then that Domino’s has a strict no guns by drivers policy because “if an altercation [were to] occur, it would put the company in a position of looking poor.”
That’s what will make Domino’s look bad, a driver defending himself from an ambush. The driver having his brains splattered all over the place, well… that’s just the cost of doing business.
I have never delivered pizzas. Hopefully, I’ll never have to. But whenever I go somewhere new in the dark, I’m packing. It’s not the $20 in my wallet I’m protecting, or even my old Samsung. I’m armed because I don’t want to die or spend the rest of my life being fed through a tube because of some punk.
Maybe if a few drivers did deliver some hot lead instead of a hot pepperoni, they won’t seem like such easy marks and will stop getting robbed.