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While most of us are out buying holiday presents some people are getting their gifts with a five-finger discount. Ad Week is reporting that one in every 11 people walks out the door with at least one item they didn’t pay for. With shoplifting up six percent this year, retailers stand to lose a whopping $119 billion of merchandise to shoplifters in 2011.
Not nice to know that so many Americans are thieves. Entitlement minded people who want something for nothing out of someone else's pocket. They take what they want without working for it and probably later wonder why prices get so high. Not good. Says nothing good IMO about the lack of quality of at least some of our people IMO.
My shoplifting days ended many years ago after I turned 18 and getting busted would have given me a criminal record for life. Most people think shoplifting isn't a big deal, but imagine how humiliating it must be to get busted for it, and have it on your record.
They do this because they can. The stores do little about it except push the costs onto the paying customers. The retailers don't lose, the honest customers lose.
I think there should be serious prison time for these low-lives.
My shoplifting days ended many years ago after I turned 18 and getting busted would have given me a criminal record for life. Most people think shoplifting isn't a big deal, but imagine how humiliating it must be to get busted for it, and have it on your record.
Kids are kids and I think they do at times do various dumb things and we give them a break as they are growing up; but most all of these stolen items are taken by adults.
If shoplifting isn't a big deal, then robbing others isn't a big deal.
Taking things from others isn't a big deal for them.
Probably voting things away from people who earned them to themselves is also no big deal either.
Cause and effect in play here.
There is no sense of shame, no self respect or pride in themselves and they have been probably taught all this new age crap in public schools. The effects of doing that over decades has caused a growing number of entitlement minded AAA-holes to manifest themselves now IMO to all kinds of problems for the country.
They do this because they can. The stores do little about it except push the costs onto the paying customers. The retailers don't lose, the honest customers lose.
I think there should be serious prison time for these low-lives.
In addition, lots of failed parenting going on there.
The only ones who wouldn't care are ignorant fools or the ones who are stealing.
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