Wasn’t there some ridiculous law somewhere with no prosecution below something like $900 in value, and it led to some ridiculous scenes. If it’s happening in London it’s probably TikTok copycats who don’t realise they’ll get a knock at 5am.
In the US in some Progressive cities it is a Misdemeanour. So basically you are booked and released. Can be quite lucrative. It has got to the point that many shops are just closing down and leaving.
Then of course anything American inevitably comes to the UK, and with the Police not interested well why not?
Then of course anything American inevitably comes to the UK, and with the Police not interested well why not?
We done it years ago when we were wagging school.
Got a milky way and a bottle of R Whites between about ten of us.
Didn't bother again.
It's happening here and the cause is a combination of tiktok, austerity and police rating it a lower priority than searching archived social media for nasty words.
The mix has to include large numbers of todays disaffected young adults who have no respect and want/expect something for nothing
If you’re rich and you loot the Treasury you get a knighthood.
You sound as if you're justifying it?
It isn't the big corporations who own the supermarkets who foot the bill, it's the honest shoppers who are often facing hardship themselves.
I don’t think he’s justifying the most blatant criminal behaviour there is
As for your claim about ordinary shoppers footing the bill, I’m not sure that’s true either
Stock shortages is a cost of doing business and has to be built into the price, when it becomes too much, like any other cost it makes the business unviable.
I can see a move to a warehouse type operation, order and pay online and just have a front counter to pick up.
I can see a move to a warehouse type operation, order and pay online and just have a front counter to pick up.
I am certainly not justifying it at all. But the response and sanctions for people who loot a shop should be exactly the same as people that defraud the Treasury.
It should be far worse for people who defraud the treasury given the sums of money involved.
I don’t disagree, but we could start by demonising these people the way we do the looters which primarily fall in the working class bracket. The upper class ‘looters’ are often celebrated and lauded.
Michelle Mone is an excellent example of this.
First person who comes to my mind when these types of people are discussed, her and her husband are vermin.
Find it mental going into the Co Op and seeing bars of Cadbury and blocks of cheese covered in security boxes.
Ultimately, we live in a society where police are under pressure and not financed properly to deal with it and where many people are struggling to pay for their kids to eat...
Ultimately, we live in a society where police are under pressure and not financed properly to deal with it and where many people are struggling to pay for their kids to eat...
Though they've lost a fortune in pencils
no...but there's a rapidly growing market for stolen food.
People hawking stolen meat, cheese & coffee in pubs & out the boot of cars in the same way they used to sell sportswear and makeup.
Most of the time that is people selling it to buy drugs
Yep, this is it. There are groups stealing products on demand.
