Retail Shoplifting Debate
The cluster discusses the prevalence and impact of shoplifting on retail stores, debates over whether theft rates are rising based on data, store responses like locking items or closing locations, and criticisms of lenient prosecution policies.
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it's a sad state of affairs when the shoplifters make more than loss prevention.
Someone from the Marshall Project was on APM Marketplace recently expressing similar facts.https://www.marketplace.org/2023/09/11/is-retail-theft-reall...
Of course. It's similar to a store that wants to stop crimes of convenience or easy methods of theft, while knowing they can't stop all thieves.
What is this article?! What's the point? It's seemingly arguing in favor of ignoring the crime by downplaying it. That's crazy, and also probably part of the problem.Article makes no mention of the policies that explicitly prevent authorities from apprehending shoplifters, from lowering requirements of arrest for less than ~$900 value, to defunding the police. There is no mention of any of this, yet it still tries to justify this by alluding to how little impact it causes on th
Because of shoplifting or just consumers don't want to risk street crime to shop there?
This is one of the side effects of the shoplifting trends in recent years.
Stores DO lock stuff up. Nevermind that shoplifting is barely even a concern for most large stores, as they lose significantly more to other means of "shrink"
The data does not back up this claim, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/29/briefing/shoplifting-data...
plenty of people walk into stores and get robbed. sometimes it's just 1$, sometimes it's more, sometimes it's misleading advertising, but the physical world has exactly the same problems.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/shoplifting-stores-problem-1167...