When The Going Gets Tough, ... The Middle Class Goes Shoplifting!

Posted by Alex in Crime & Law, Money & Finance on November 12, 2009 at 2:45 pm

A new survey by the Centre for Retail Research revealed that shopping shoplifting has increased at an astonishing rate:

They found that shoplifting in Britain has increased in the past year by nearly 20 per cent to almost £5 billion, £750 million more than in 2008, keeping Britain at the top of Europe’s shoplifting table. Clothing and fashion accessory shops were hardest hit, with branded designer goods high on thieves’ shopping lists, closely followed by DIY stores.

Neil Matthews, vice-president of Checkpoint Systems, said that he was astonished at the rise of middle-class shoplifters. “We are not simply looking at your traditional shoplifters here. We are seeing more instances of amateur thieves stealing goods for their own personal use rather than to sell on than before,” he said.

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The Shoplifting Dog

Posted by Alex in Animal, Crime & Law on December 27, 2008 at 1:56 pm

A surveillance video at Smith’s Food & Drug grocery store in Idaho has captured a … shoplifting dog!

Surveillance video at Smith’s Food & Drug shows the dog walking in the front door and giving a friendly sniff to a young girl at a checkout stand.

Then the dog headed straight for the pet food in Aisle 16, grabbed the $2.79 bone and made a break for the door, only to be confronted by store manager Roger Adamson.

Adamson says that when the dog didn’t obey his command to surrender the bone, he decided not to force the issue. Adamson tells KSL-TV, "I decided I wanted to keep all my fingers." (Source)

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