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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 report, don't convict - done.

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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).

"This points more towards" -- you have any source towards this? :)

Why selectively put this onus on the person you've responded to and not the person at the top of this thread?

Um. The same could be said to you? I don't see what your point is.

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.

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-ret...

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.

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?

What makes you think almost everyone steal things sometimes?

Well 40% admit to it but those are just the honest dishonest people

https://losspreventionmedia.com/new-survey-reveals-more-than...

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