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I find it incredibly dubious that you've personally witnessed thousands of children transform into "lie-cheat-steal" machines firsthand. An anecdote with no oth
by slingnow 5y ago
I find it incredibly dubious that you've personally witnessed thousands of children transform into "lie-cheat-steal" machines firsthand. An anecdote with no other context about a 7-11 that had to close because it was next to a middle-school is pretty weak evidence.
- CapitalistCartr 5y agoThat's because it's not offered as evidence. As you said, it's an anecdote. I've observed this pattern so often because schoolkids offer masses of kids. Every store had this same problem. I personally found it fascinating, but then, it wasn't my money.
- Wiseacre 5y agoAre adults who slack off on the clock lie-cheat-steal machines? It seems like adults are far worse and do it far more frequently than teens then.
- vlovich123 5y agoI observed it from the other end. There was a group of kids who got together and stole from the neighborhood 7-11 and then everyone got punished with regulations like “no more than 2 kids at a time in the store” because the stores just thought in terms of “it’s always the kids stealing” and not “I’m not prepared to handle an influx of customers some of whom suffer bad impulse control”. Such a policy was problematic for us because the 7-11 was a 15-20 minute walk which meant that trip was the bulk of the lunch hour.