2-3 times a week, our local small-town Police Log has listings of people arrested for shoplifting from Wal-Mart. Apparently it happens a lot more than I ever thought. Some even brazen enough to just load up a cart and push it right out the door.
“Walmart probably loses about 1% of its US revenue — or roughly $3 billion every year — to stealing by customers and employees.”
The Commander in Chief has set the tone by which commerce operates.... “You did not build that” means the rest are entitled to your property. The trend begins there.
The great Derek Sanderson of the Boston Bruins once said, "I used to steal cartons of cigarettes from the local grocery store when I was a kid. I figured, if you have the b@ll$ to walk out with six cartons in your arms, people will think you must have bought them."