Posted on 12/23/2008 10:35:30 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
On a recent day, Jim Cahill strolled through the electronics department and perused the CDs at Nebraska Furniture Mart in Kansas City, Kan.
Instead of buying the Slim Shady CD, he was out to steal it. Within seconds he had the disc in his pants pocket.
He continued strolling through the store, but within minutes he was surrounded by guards. After a brief struggle, he was in handcuffs.
But Cahill wasn’t about to head off to jail. He is the loss prevention general manager for the Omaha-based retailer and was leading a training program. Such programs are important to profitability — particularly this year.
Cahill said shoplifting has increased nearly 60 percent from mid-September through mid-December compared with the same period in 2007.
Consider it another sign of the times.
“There are the pressures of the holidays that always drive up theft,” Cahill said. “But the economic downturn has increased the temptation to steal.
“But it’s not for gift-giving. Now a lot is things for personal use.”
To be sure, this isn’t just the season for giving. Taking also is on the rise.
Shoplifters and employees who steal walked away with $34.8 billion in 2007, or an average of $350 per U.S. household, according to the National Retail Federation in Washington, D.C. The shoplifting portion is estimated at $12 billion.
As the economy has worsened in the last few months, some retailers say they are seeing that figure grow 5 to 20 percent.“People have lost their jobs. They’re paying more for gas. They are getting calls from bill collectors on their home or car. Everything seems to go wrong,” said Joseph LaRocca, vice president of loss prevention for the retail federation.
(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...
Why would anyone steal CDs when with very little effort, you can grab free MP3s off the net?
Another successful MSM self-fulfilling prophecy.
*******.“People have lost their jobs. They’re paying more for gas. They are getting calls from bill collectors on their home or car. Everything seems to go wrong,” said Joseph LaRocca, ....*****
Not EVERYTHING!
PEOPLE are programmed to go wrong or stupid or both!
Who’s paying more for gas? Gasoline is pretty darn cheap here!!
I thought it was a sign of a booming methamphetamine economy.
Hey..let’s go. Free CD’s.
As is NOT my custom, I actually did read far enough to see that he was the loss prevention manager. That being said, what kind of a drooling retard would steal a CD? You can get that stuff on line for pennies.
Stealing hangers from a department store would be more worthwhile.
Owl_Eagle
“When the stock market crashed,
Franklin Roosevelt got on the television
and didn’t just talk about
the princes of greed, he said,
‘Look, here’s what happened.’"
-Slow Joe Biden
WOW!
I feel like such an underachiever now. Others are having to make up for the fact that I'm not contributing a dime to that average!
“...shoplifting is another sign of bad times.”
Bovine manure. It’s evidence that there are some that are thieves, and are of low character.
Not everyone’s’ a victim.
Better yet, why would anybody steal Slim Shady? That’d be like trolling for turds.
Increased illegal immigration with scofflaws who violate laws against identity theft, fraud, drunk driving, etc. A youth culture that downloads stolen mp3s and rips DVDs from blockbuster and netflix.
And somehow this is “bush’s fault” that people steal because of “the economy stupid”.
How about an increase from those taking the anarchist-socialist motto “all property is theft” to heart?
1) Slap the dummy for even wanting a Sorry Sucka CD.
2) M-freakin'-P3s.
But Cahill wasn’t about to head off to jail. He is the loss prevention general manager for the Omaha-based retailer and was leading a training program.
I knew there was something strange about the theft! It wasn't real. ;)
My faith in the inherit goodness of humanity has been restored.
They can't help it. They were born that way.
Fake but accurate headline from the Democrats, again.
yup - MSM news policy: Accent the negative - eliminate the positive and don’t mess with Mr. Common Sense.
This bad economic news on hedge funds, banks etc., only broke a couple of months ago..........how did everyone get affected so quickly by failures that haven’t been completed yet?
Auto workers are still employed and folks are still buying stuff other than shelter, food and necessities.
Increased shoplifting is another sign of bad times?
Increased shoplifting is another sign of bad PEOPLE!...........
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