Greed causes an over abundance of theft. If there is excessive theft, it's because of excessive greed.
When people are struggling and banks are telling retailers there is excessive consumer surplus, and retailers raise prices excessively (greed), theft will inevitably increase.
You had me in the first half, ngl..
Is nearly everything in the 24 hour news cycle overblown?
Everything but the climate catastrophe were facing ...
Schroedinger's retail theft. The answer is both that it's up and that it's overblown.
If you overvalue possessions, People begin to steal.
Tao Te Ching, ch3
this has been known for quite a while
We wouldn't have retail theft if the 1% paid their taxes and shared the wealth they stole from everyone else.
Shouldn’t the free market compensate by hiring more security guards and loss prevention officers?
It’s just that the supply chain excuse for jacking up prices is going away, so they need another BS excuse.
Yes
In my local community I have noticed a strong uptick, talking to store staff. But with wage insecurity and high food prices, “steal or watch your kid starve” isn’t really a decision. And yes, higher ticket items are being stolen, which some people are pointing at like there’s a difference: if the punishment is the same, why not steal the prime rib?
Yes.
There have been lots of stores that claim to close locations due to looting when it’s the not the case. There is a lot of opportunistic bs happening with stores these days from price gouging to straight up shutting down certain areas for things like unionizing
