Shoplifting reaches crisis proportions
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Re: Shoplifting reaches crisis proportions
#2Let the market handle this. Simply close stores with high theft rates, which will happen anyway since they’re unprofitable.
Re: Shoplifting reaches crisis proportions
#3Let the market handle this. Simply close stores with high theft rates, which will happen anyway since they’re unprofitable.
That's literally the first sentence of the article.
Re: Shoplifting reaches crisis proportions
#4Let the market handle this. Simply close stores with high theft rates, which will happen anyway since they’re unprofitable.
Which seems like a bad deal for everyone (the stores, the people in the neighborhood, and even the shoplifters).
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Re: Shoplifting reaches crisis proportions
#6Let the market handle this. Simply close stores with high theft rates, which will happen anyway since they’re unprofitable.
Already happening in SF as we speak. And the remaining stores have super jacked up prices to the point that it's cheaper to order delivery from a store in the suburbs, pay a tip for a driver, and pay them to do the shopping for you (Instacart) than it is to buy locally.
It's clear that Prop 47 and the general mentality that property crimes don't matter and prosecuting them is racist has failed.
Re: Shoplifting reaches crisis proportions
#7Let the market handle this. Simply close stores with high theft rates, which will happen anyway since they’re unprofitable.
Absolutely not. There are actually human costs to it. My parents are old (in their 70s), and they are lucky to have a CVS near by where they can walk and get their medicine and basic needs.
Pharmacies and grocery stores being forced to close due to unchecked theft inflict pain and major lowering of quality of life to people around the neighborhood, and especially to people that can't just drive to the next store.
Also "just use online", may not be a solution. Medicine (especially pain pills), are continuous target of thefts.
Once the stores are closed, then the organized criminals move into homes. Next you will have to start installing heavy iron bars in your home. If you walk in parts of brooklyn, you'd see older homes that had massive bars even in 2nd floor windows, just to keep the people safe.
The market just doesn't solve the collapse of society. Unchecked theft costs to all society.
Re: Shoplifting reaches crisis proportions
#8Let the market handle this. Simply close stores with high theft rates, which will happen anyway since they’re unprofitable.
when has capitalism ever fixed crime?
Re: Shoplifting reaches crisis proportions
#9Let the market handle this. Simply close stores with high theft rates, which will happen anyway since they’re unprofitable.
Which seems like a bad deal for everyone (the stores, the people in the neighborhood, and even the shoplifters).
The community gets the shopping options it asks for, apparently (or not, according to the article).
Re: Shoplifting reaches crisis proportions
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>Chop off a hand if convicted for theft. Actually enforce our laws.
That's... not a law anywhere in the US that I'm aware of.