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While my Target puts Legos behind plexiglas. While my Safeway puts deodorant behind plexiglas. Statistics are amazing. Even crime stats are "down". Don't rep

While my Target puts Legos behind plexiglas. While my Safeway puts deodorant behind plexiglas. Statistics are amazing. Even crime stats are "down". Don't report, don't convict - done.

photochemsyn 1y ago
This points more towards organized crime rings targeting stores, taking large amounts of the same popular items, then reselling them on eBay or Amazon. If you have a smallish number of people doing a largish number of crimes, this won't be reflected in incarceration statistics (particularly if the resellers rarely get caught).
- chaps 1y ago
  "This points more towards" -- you have any source towards this? :)
  - dfxm12 1y ago
    Why selectively put this onus on the person you've responded to and not the person at the top of this thread?
    - chaps 1y ago
      Um. The same could be said to you? I don't see what your point is.
  - germinalphrase 1y ago
    I know that in recent years Target has announced that they were investigating, in partnership with local and federal law enforcement, organized theft rings. It was publicly reported on here in Minneapolis.
    - chaps 1y ago
      Many, many of those claims were found to be significantly exaggerated. It bothers me immensely that people still talk about this nonsense. https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-12-14/column-retail-lobby-confesses-it-lied-about-organized-shoplifting-rings https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-12-14/column-ret...
- UncleMeat 1y ago
  Even the organized crime ring panic was made up. The data presented to congress was completely wrong and various organizations had to publicly eat crow about it.
joshuahaglund 1y ago
Or maybe they're low sales-volume items in a low profit margin store and it's cheaper to put some things behind glass than post up a security guard to deal with the fact that almost everyone, even nice old ladies at the grocery store, steal things sometimes?
- witty_username 1y ago
  What makes you think almost everyone steal things sometimes?
  - joshuahaglund 1y ago
    Well 40% admit to it but those are just the honest dishonest people https://losspreventionmedia.com/new-survey-reveals-more-than-40-of-adults-have-shoplifted/ https://losspreventionmedia.com/new-survey-reveals-more-than...

While my Target puts Legos behind plexiglas. While my Safeway puts deodorant behind plexiglas. Statistics are amazing. Even crime stats are "down". Don't report, don't convict - done.

photochemsyn 1y ago

This points more towards organized crime rings targeting stores, taking large amounts of the same popular items, then reselling them on eBay or Amazon. If you have a smallish number of people doing a largish number of crimes, this won't be reflected in incarceration statistics (particularly if the resellers rarely get caught).

chaps 1y ago
"This points more towards" -- you have any source towards this? :)
- dfxm12 1y ago
  Why selectively put this onus on the person you've responded to and not the person at the top of this thread?
  - chaps 1y ago
    Um. The same could be said to you? I don't see what your point is.
- germinalphrase 1y ago
  I know that in recent years Target has announced that they were investigating, in partnership with local and federal law enforcement, organized theft rings. It was publicly reported on here in Minneapolis.
  - chaps 1y ago
    Many, many of those claims were found to be significantly exaggerated. It bothers me immensely that people still talk about this nonsense. https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-12-14/column-retail-lobby-confesses-it-lied-about-organized-shoplifting-rings https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-12-14/column-ret...
UncleMeat 1y ago
Even the organized crime ring panic was made up. The data presented to congress was completely wrong and various organizations had to publicly eat crow about it.

joshuahaglund 1y ago

Or maybe they're low sales-volume items in a low profit margin store and it's cheaper to put some things behind glass than post up a security guard to deal with the fact that almost everyone, even nice old ladies at the grocery store, steal things sometimes?

witty_username 1y ago
What makes you think almost everyone steal things sometimes?
- joshuahaglund 1y ago
  Well 40% admit to it but those are just the honest dishonest people https://losspreventionmedia.com/new-survey-reveals-more-than-40-of-adults-have-shoplifted/ https://losspreventionmedia.com/new-survey-reveals-more-than...