If people were honest, we’d save so much money. And time. I’ve often remarked technology cannot take the place of honest people.
With emphasis on the word DARK.
Theft is a “right” for some people - retail theft is at a very high level
Yup. Why we can’t have nice things for $300, Alex.
Shopping cart theft in the U.S. is rampant, but curiously enough, you don’t find as much about it doing an online search that you’d think, given the severity and cost of the problem. Some municipalities have tried fining the store itself for carts found on the streets. Sounds bass ackwards but it evidently works. Other suggestions I have heard besides physical wheel locks etc is arresting people for larceny. Anyway it’s a big problem and needs a ‘big’ solution.
Well...
I worked in retail for a little while. One night, I was clearing out the ladies’ dressing room and found empty makeup packages. Someone had torn them open, stolen the makeup, and left the empty packages. I called out to a coworker, who happened to be a black woman, and her immediate comment was, “Black people steal.”
I stopped, looked at her, and said, “What did you say?” She went quiet.
Then another coworker, also a black woman, walked in and heard what I’d found. She made the same comment: “Yeah, black people steal.”
I said, “What?” I wasn’t sure I’d heard them correctly, but neither of them would repeat what they said. Instead, they walked out. Obviously, though, they’d been making that comment to each other.
I sooooo wanted them to repeat it, to make sure I’d heard correctly, because I wanted to say, “Not this time,” and hold up the empty packages for self-tanner and fair-skin foundation I’d found. LOL