[bomberjet]

What are they going to do with the bats though. A person is running out the store with arms full of meat. They're going to whack them on the leg? That's assault with a weapon, unfortunately.. only thing it would be good for is if the perp has a weapon. Now your employees are in an armed fight in your store.

Better to have something to defend yourself of course. Just a lot of risk for an employer to be doing that, something happens. Someone dies..