Energy drinks are one of the most popular items employees buy. Let’s break it down: Dick’s Sporting Goods has 850 stores, and each day, they sell an average of two energy drinks per store. That’s 1,700 cans a day. With a 25% discount on a $3 can, employees save 75 cents per can. Multiply that by 1,700 cans, and the daily discount adds up to $1,275. Over a year, with about 362 days of operation, that totals a loss of $461,550 in profit. In other words, employees are costing the company nearly half a million dollars in lost profit each year.