and each store has their most commonly stolen items. at OfficeMax it was.........writing instruments. Yup, pens and pencils. followed closely by ink cartridges.
Shoplifting Gangs
- Thread starter Big Jim
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and each store has their most commonly stolen items. at OfficeMax it was.........writing instruments. Yup, pens and pencils. followed closely by ink cartridges.
Ebay is the big one. Razors and baby formula seem to be the hot items for stolen goods.
this has been going on in the uk for over 20 years, gangs of drug addicts steal them and sell them around bars, another of the most stolen is joints of meat, the wife of one of my pals is a manager in a big major store, the storys she can tell you about the thing these people steal you would not believe, they have tags on their butcher meat packs because of this.
It was $2.90 in 1980, $3.35 in 1982.
Those Fusion Proglides are close to $50 per dozen!!! And I have a problem when I pay more than 20 cents or so for a blade. Imagine that.
Cartridge Gypsies are a scourge.
I once saw a program on tv that shed light on this problem. From what I remember the rise in cost was somehow related to the losses in retail sales. Pretty much sealed the deal for me. I'm not going to "help" pay for lost revenue. I've seen carts at many flea(how appropriate!) markets. One fellow I work with shaves his head and I asked him once how much he spends a year on razors, he told me he gets approx 200 carts at a time from a guy on his baseball team. Lasts him along time! Man, I despise thieves!
This thread is yet another reason to not use carts!
Along those lines you could even it out by buying every other pack from the cartridge cartels. You'll pay more to subsidize that on the ones you buy legit, then less on the next one to make up for the subsidy you paid...but of course then you're supporting the cartridge cartels.
You need to stop worrying about jail overcrowding and rehabilitation and make jail be Punishment!! The overcrowding would go away as people found out crime has consequences and kids grew up respecting the law and other peoples property! Same thing with welfare, make them take a physical when applying, if no reason they can't work, put them on road gangs, 50 hour weeks or no freebees, you'd be amazed how fast they found jobs
Herd is right, that is the way to go get tough on crime.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate
The numbers are meaningless. Look toward the bottom of the list... some of those countries are extremely crime-infested, it is simply a matter of there not being any enforcement.
And China is only 121 (or 170) incarcerated per 100,000?
I have a feeling a few of those are underreported
Then there's the large area north of China that shows the proper shade for 500-700, yet I don't see it on the list (Russia at #8 with 484?)
