Retail lobby retracts claims about shoplifting/retail crime

then why is CVS locking toothpaste behind glass doors?

 

see you can’t have retail theft
If There is no retail


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@Os Trigonum
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@Salvy
@basso

 

I listened to a more detailed story on NPR last weekend, and while I don't remember every detail, the guy who made up and quoted the numbers to congress was either intentionally lying, or completely and totally uninterested in truth. It was the kind of error that would get you an "F" and an admonishment on a high school paper, much less in front of the entire country.

The big thing about being a grifter is to figure out what people are afraid is true, but feel too much cognitive dissonance to actually voice, and reinforce that. The idea that young brown and black inner city hooligans ruining America for good white rural AARP members plays to a primal emotion.

The people WANT to believe it deep down inside, but are afraid to voice that opinion without having someone to tell them its OK. If you tell them you have facts and proclaim it loudly enough, it sort of subconsciously relieves them of the burden of proof, and lets them feel what they already feel deep down inside.

The paradigm for me is, "The Music Man". Tell everybody we've got trouble right here in River City, then give them a convenient scapegoat like the pool halls that they already don't like, and it frees people of the responsibility if it turns out to be an emotional prejudice with no basis in objective reality.

 

So companies are locking products up because they aren't being stolen? Let's be real on this, thieves in certain areas are having a field day. In my part of Texas nothing I've noticed is locked but again most people have firearms on them.

 

The idea that its all perpetrated by massive gangs of organized urban criminals who are gaming the system. methodically targeting stores sequentially, and are raking in millions of dollars off of it by bulk theft and resale is the "welfare queen" outrage imagery of this story.

It's mostly stupid poor people stealing stuff because they want it for themselves and they don't want to or can't pay. The dumb kid who steals some M&M's because they want them doesn't generate outrage like fat cat professional crime gangs systematically abusing the system and growing wealthy off of it.

Organized crime vs. disorganized crime. The big fraud that was committed in front of congress was that the guy who was an "expert" went before a committee and just took the NRF numbers for TOTAL RETAIL THEFT OF ALL KINDS in 2016, and quoted them in front of congress as thefts attributable to ORGANIZED CRIME RINGS in 2021. Either he was too dumb to understand the difference and why it was relevant in a hearing on organized retail theft, or he intentionally lied to generate fear and outrage in furtherance of his own goals.

 

Omg, where is XI going to get snack's next time he visits? Or will they reopen temporarily.

 

NPR is just Alex Jones for folks with liberal arts degrees.

Spoiler

I have a liberal arts degree

 

nevermind

 

Smells like teen spirit
@basso

 

Lots of overhyped doom and gloom.....

Also lol @tinman

 

So…..all the crime still happened? It was just less organized?

 

Apparently criminals don’t have to be organized , they just have to be
Criminals

 

All the crimes and mishaps (non-crimes) causing 'loss' are still happening, just as they have been for years. Whether it's less organized or not is unknown. The NRF simply doesn't have the data they initially claimed to have, leading to the retraction of their initial claim.

 

Ignoring statistical numbers because 'CVS locking toothpaste' at some stores is such a basic failure of logic.

 

Saw a few days ago and was more informative than I thought it would be, besides who doesn't like criminals getting sprayed down in a musty fart mist.

 

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@Salvy
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@basso

Why Louis Vuitton?

Why not Samsonite?

 

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@tallanvor


I thought Nike was popular! Look at all the shoes that the looters are looting!

Oh wait, when you loot, you steal, when you steal, that negatively affects the company's profits.

when the profits are not there, then they start getting rid of people who actually work for a living.

Economics doesn't make sense for woke people!
reparations!!!

 

mastermind of $8M retail theft ring arrested

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A San Diego County woman who allegedly ran a retail theft ring that targeted stores nationwide and resulted in nearly $8 million in losses has been charged along with her alleged co-conspirators,
the California Attorney General’s Office announced.

Police handcuffed her at her posh home in a North San Diego suburb, w vineyard, tennis courts, bowling alley, pool/jaccuzzi. etc.


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