how did you manage to make a whole article out of 'soap is easy to sell illegaly'
Well, it did feel like I read the same thing three times, worded differently.
Why Thieves Steal Soap
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#12This article is from March 2014. Top date is incorrect.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Yeah, it's probably not fair to speculate about it being a submarine piece, but it really does meander around and extol the many virtues of Tide.
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#14"The top of thieves’ mental loot list features expensive electronics like Playstations, GPS systems, and DVD players." Playstations maybe, but DVD players?
why not? they're cheap entertainment
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#16Reminds 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.
Tide is HUGE in the hood.
Hell, it's even huge ON the hood of a NASCAR team.
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#18Reminds me of this article I read a few years back, also interesting: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-tide-black-market-2013-1
...and reminds me of this[0] where residents of hard-hit Beattyville Kentucky use Coke or Pepsi as currency to support their addictions. Both this soap situation and the cola situation are horrible, but it's fascinating to see how people cope.
[0] http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/12/beattyville-k...
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#19how did you manage to make a whole article out of 'soap is easy to sell illegaly'
and than mix up the two diagrams titles...
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#20"The top of thieves’ mental loot list features expensive electronics like Playstations, GPS systems, and DVD players." Playstations maybe, but DVD players?
One way to think of it is that torrenting movies requires an (expensive) internet connection, where all you need for a DVD player is electricity and some DVDs someone else ripped.