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Jul 6Edited

Sticking it to the greedy corporations sounds nice but "they" just pass the cost on to us paying shoppers. Part of that outrageous olive oil price is due to shoplifters getting it for free. Why don't the police do their jobs anymore?

https://smallbusiness.chron.com/impact-can-shrinkage-company-10159.html

" When a store visitor shoplifts a retail item, the store must recover the entire cost of the item, rather than the store's profit margin on the lost inventory. The amount the store must recover depends on the store's profit margin and the cost of the shoplifted item. For example, grocery stores commonly operate on a 1-percent profit margin. This means that a grocery must recover $100 for every $1 worth of shoplifted inventory, according to Rutgers University. The high cost-per-dollar is typically distributed across the pricing for the store's remaining inventory."

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Shoplifting and petty theft is not new in London, where i am originally from, its still theft, crime is not justifiable. But agree with the prices! The anger And the airline comment! And laughed all the way through reading this well presented essay. Btw. Name of the rub a dub?

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Caught my eldest frying eggs in olive oil the other day. I was furious; told him if he was going to waste it like that he can bloody well go out and steal his own bottle!

(The first bit is actually true, teenagers are like wealthy celebs, they don’t live in the real world and don’t know the price of anything)

I could turn a blind eye to your run of the mill thieving smack heads or your desperate single mum nicking nappies but more often than not it’s organised groups of cultural enrichers these days, coming over here stealing our stealing from us.

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I mean the price of olive oil is just absurd! Yes, we have all gone a bit mental.

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One more instance of "that which cannot continue -- won't." Not sure in what form the clamp-down will come, but come it will. And none of us will like it.

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Maybe Gen Z and the thieving millennial are just entitled spoiled brats with no morals? Just a thought....There is a pub like that in every town. Some guy can get you anything you want for 40 quid. Sky q box, 40 quid. IPhone 15, 40 quid. 50 quid in cash - 40 quid 🤣

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I feel there's a chain of causality here...but for a bottle of olive oil, a kingdom was lost...🤔

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I have to agree.

but it started a long time ago.

for me, it seems like when the airlines took the olive out of the salad.

do you remember when flying was actually enjoyable and comfortable

they nickel and dimed us to death while delivering ever shittier service.

seems to be across the board.

I feel that as things get worse economically, we shall see much worse than some simple SWIPERS.

(nice term, by the way. so genteel and middle class)

how much worse?

we merely need look at our friends in california. where things are so bad they shut down the Hilton in oakland and the small shop owners have left san francisco.

and the crowd, the hoi polloi, shall justify ever worse behavior with ever flimsier excuses until we dont bother anymore.

the rot started at the top and its rolling downhill fast.

could we expect otherwise when crime at the highest levels is never punished.

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Shoplifting in California... "Hawk Tuah!"

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