Adding up all of these stolen goods doesn’t amount to small change. Grocery store shoplifters astonishingly get away with more than $35 million worth of products per day,according to the National Association for Shoplifting Prevention in a Forbesmagazine article focused on shoplifting that was published last December.
“Shoplifters cross all ages and economic backgrounds, and include celebrities, district attorneys and physicians to those who are on tight fixed incomes. There is no general profile,” Daniel Reynolds, vice president of North America EAS Solutions & Customer Services
Not surprisingly, meat is still the most attractive category for shrinkage, the Forbes article relayed. Fresh meat remains a high-theft category for supermarkets and hypermarkets, and news stories about shoplifters apprehended with stolen meat on their person appear regularly in the media. “The most stolen meats include Premium cut meats, such as fillets, NY strip and T-bone steaks. Premium seafood is also high theft,” Reynolds said. It is not uncommon to hear reports of a full grocery cart full of Premium-cut meats bypassing the checkstand and being pushed right out the store.” Not a week goes by when I don’t see news stories in Yahoo News about people who were caught shoplifting meat.
Anyone caught shoplifting should not be allowed to get away with it. But dealing with shoplifters must be done on a case-by-case basis. Issuing the same punishment to someone who is truly down on his or her luck with a clean background versus a career shoplifter who has the money to pay for food wouldn’t be right.
Whatever the attempted fix is to try and stem the tide of shoplifting will mean more money will have to be spent by either the store or meat suppliers—or both. Doing nothing about shoplifting should never be an option.
The picture looks sort of posed, is it? She's too pretty to get away with stealing in my store. We'd be watching her too much. Also, she should steal smaller packages. A lobster tail, or a New York or two
burgermeister, I'm with you on the pose, they got her to be pretty for the story and you also right about it would be hard for her to steal anything around the meat case because all us pervert meat men would be watching her lol
