To wonder why shoplifters are so thick and selfish?

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Pharmacies have today revealed they are suffering from increased shoplifting too.
Where us this all going to end

If people keep stealing there won't be any ships left will there?
Have they ever tried running a business?
What would they do if people kept stealing?
How low as well stealing from an independent pharmacy. It's hard enough for them as it is.

They are there for people in the community as well to help them?
Makes no sense.
People are thick and selfish.
Are they trying to ose everyone down?

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Criminals are usually thick and selfish!

Youre on your own
Your family have bullied you and treated you like shit. Your kids dad is gone. No friends.
Youre down to your last few pounds. And your baby suddenly gets a fever

Are you really thick and selfish for stealing some calpol, which costs over £3?

Imo, no

Edit - ive been in this situation but have never stolen. But I've been so broke i might have had to. Thankfully things are a little better now.

Always wondered why they are called shoplifters and not thieves.

Some are thick and selfish,
others are desperate and at breaking point.

There’s a thick and selfish epidemic in the U.K. generally which is gradually getting worse and worse. Shoplifting, scamming, stabbings, arson, abuse, cruelty to animals I could go on … and I see a lot of people flying into apoplectic rages from nothing for no good reason quite often too.

Most shoplifting is done to order to sell onwards.
People need to STOP buying stuff from the bloke at pub or at car boot sales or from blokes selling out of carrier bags in the high st or from random people on local Facebook groups etc because "it's cheap".
The thieves are the smart ones.
The buyers wanting a bargain are the stupid ones.

No one is stealing from a pharmacy for fun. Medication should be free and is in Scotland, anything you need you can generic versions of.

You can get free paracetamol for babies/children at pharmacies without a prescription.
It's not widely promoted but apparently if you ask you will get it.

How much time have you spent working with acquisitive crime? I'm not endorsing or excusing it, but I don't think you have any idea what you're talking about.

I don't think shoplifters steal out of desperation. If a mother can't afford formula, for example, I doubt any GP would send her away if she begged for it. Shoplifters steal out of entitlement.

At lot is stolen to sell at the pub. Not because they are ill.

Also 40% of shoplifting is done by staff members not the general public

You could buy the own brand which is usually a lot cheaper and has the same active ingredients.

Yes, it's like the term 'Honour Killing' when it is Cold-Blooded Murder, and the Press should stop using it.

A parent with a poorly child won't be able to get a GP appointment to get calpol. Neither will the most vulnerable know there is a scheme to get it from a pharmacist. They shouldn't steal but I can see how it happens

Others are stealing to sell.

Have you tried getting a go appointment? Even if they did get a sympathetic gp there is only so much they can do within regulations and the mum risks being reported to social services.

My Mum used to manage a shop - they had people trying to steal stuff all the time. Majority of their repeat offenders were addicts. Used to steal stuff to sell on for a few pounds to buy drugs or alcohol.

Pharmacists can also prescribe so if you have a sick baby that needs paracetamol prescriptions are free for children..

She will run more of a risk of she s convicted of shoplifting.

My friend works in a large food stop and they get so many shoplifters every day that they have a well practiced routine for not letting them leave with the goods if at all possible. They run an informal game if who has saved the most money per 'catch'. The total often runs into hundreds of pounds in one trolley . This is not a poor mother with no help. This is to feed drugs habits pure and simple . Most of the shoplifters are well known to the police - some are stupid enough to reoffend while out on license. The staff have been known to turn a blind eye if its a person taking a single item of food such as bread milk etc. They are only human and see the amount of wastage that get written off due to sell by dates and broken packaging that they arent allowed to even give away.

We all know the majority of shoplifting is not about feeding or looking after a baby. There is help for people in this situation.
The majority of it is done either by opportunistic individuals or people who shoplift to feed their habit, like the steak man my local supermarket tell me about, who comes in weekly and steals a whole shelf of steak.

Do healthy start vouchers still exist ,I know when my kids were babies people under a certain income could get formula for free with vouchers .

It's unlikely they will because "it costs the NHS too much money" you will be turned away in my area someone was begging on Facebook for calpol after being refused a neighbour gave her half a bottle to last her

Some people like to think people only steal from necessity but it's rarely true. A friend was store security for very much a budget outlet, and they had to security tag so many items because they were the ones the regular shoplifters targeted most, not medicines for DC or nappies but make up, perfume, laundry products, spirits basically anything they could sell on. It's nice to give people the benefit of the doubt but a lot of them don't deserve it

They're stealing because they're allowed to and they know it.

Shop workers are told just to let them do it.
Police don't care.

There's absolutely 0 incentive for them to stop.