Why Thieves Steal Soap
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Why Thieves Steal Soap
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#2Reminds me of this article I read a few years back, also interesting: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-tide-black-market-2013-1
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#3how did you manage to make a whole article out of 'soap is easy to sell illegaly'
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#4how did you manage to make a whole article out of 'soap is easy to sell illegaly'
I wish I had this skill. I generally can't make even complex topics more than a paragraph or so..
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#5Reminds me of this article I read a few years back, also interesting: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-tide-black-market-2013-1
The Priconomics article mentions and links the New York Magazine article that your link is based on.
The NYM article reads an awful lot like a submarine piece for that amazing technological wonder, Tide, the expensive to produce detergent that gives anything you wash with it a quality feel.
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#6how did you manage to make a whole article out of 'soap is easy to sell illegaly'
Even shorter, the whole article could be a single word: liquidity.
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#7how did you manage to make a whole article out of 'soap is easy to sell illegaly'
Because that's exactly what they do for living http://priceonomics.com/about/
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#8how did you manage to make a whole article out of 'soap is easy to sell illegaly'
Lists. Quotes. Quadrants.
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#9"The top of thieves’ mental loot list features expensive electronics like Playstations, GPS systems, and DVD players."
Playstations maybe, but DVD players?
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#10Reminds me of this article I read a few years back, also interesting: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-tide-black-market-2013-1
The Priconomics article mentions and links the New York Magazine article that your link is based on. The NYM article reads an awful lot like a submarine piece for that amazing technological wonder, Tide, the expensive to produce detergent that gives anything you wash with it a quality feel.
Maybe, but in DC a few years ago the CVS near me put Tide (and only Tide) behind the counter and left other brands on the shelf.