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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Blaming everyone but themselves but children need to taught thinking by their parents and how many parents have no intelligence themselves so are raising the next generation and so on

Got a source for that?

it hasn’t really.

“Crime overall appears to have decreased significantly since the mid-1990s. For instance, total offenses fell from 19.8 million in 1995 to about 4.7 million in 2024 The Guardian.
Other sources, like The Times, report violent assaults, burglaries, and knife assaults are at their lowest levels in decadesThe Times.
Meanwhile, perception often diverges sharply from reality. Many people believe crime has risen, fueled in part by sensationalist media coverage despite official statistics showing the opposite”

Crime fallen or reporting crime now so difficult people don't bother.

https://www.deloitte.com/uk/en/Industries/consumer/blogs/the-future-of-shrink-the-increase-of-shoplifting.html

Yuuup

https://www.deloitte.com/uk/en/Industries/consumer/blogs/the-future-of-shrink-the-increase-of-shoplifting.html

Both are tracked - people who consider themselves victims of crime those that agree reported. There are approx 2m more people who believe they have been victims of crime than reported crimes, and this measure has also fallen proportionally

Because “thieves” might equally apply to the companies selling goods to a captive market at daylight robbery prices

Erm, because they’re thick and selfish ….

my child is a type 1 diabetic. Pharmacists won’t touch him with a barge pole. Always tell us to speak to our GP.

if someone hasn't heard of a foodbank in 2025 they live in a level of obliviousness so extreme they shouldn't be procreating.

apart from anything else in every supermarket I've ever been in you would have walked past the dropping off point for the local foodbank after nicking your stuff.

Well it's pretty obvious on a base level - if more people steal things from a shop - that shop has to put up prices for everyone.

On a higher level - that criminal has got away with committing a crime and there is a lot of evidence (which I can google if someone can't be bothered to) that someone who commits smaller crimes and gets away with them, goes on to commit bigger ones.

Possibly, but as you're unlikely to be a net contributor to society, maybe that's the only way get you to contribute a bit. (through VAT)

Anyone who works in retail knows that by far the largest amount of shoplifting is done by organised Eastern European gangs who do not come in and steal a loaf and a tin of beans to feed the kids. They come in well prepared, often with their own detaggers , and will take hundreds of pounds worth in one go then travel to the next shop and do the same.

It's more complex than that. She'd need to contact her health visitor or social worker not a gp, and whilst yes they would signpost her to support/a food bank there's a lot of potential shame and fear of being judged as not able to meet the babies needs which could push someone to steal it instead of admitting they don't have enough money to feed their baby.

I only buy george asda or next on ebay. Most designer labels are knock off such as LV bags etc.

I would rather buy a real leather bag from m and s when they have a sale.

Thees a lot more potential Shame in being caught shoplifting.....

Your child is entitled to free prescriptions and always will be as a diabetic then
I'm also the parent of a Diabetic
The lengths people are going to justify why shop lifting is ridiculous
The vast majority of shoplifting isn't dine by desperate mothers to feed their kids .

I'm fully aware of the entitlement. I was simply saying not e eryone can get a pharmacist to prescribe for them.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14994035/Serial-shoplifter-spared-prison-four-times.html

Sometimes it's the only life they know

Because the police do nothing. They’re too often more interested in investigating someone who’s posted something that could possibly offend someone on SM.

Mmmm, I was in Marks & Spencer a few days ago for a couple of things when I overhead two staff members commenting that a couple had gone out with a trolley full of food. That couple walked up to their very large car, she got in the passenger seat, he filled up the boot and away they went! 🤷

This.

Exactly. You say you don't care about your neighbours helping themselves to stuff, but if they stole from you I'd expect you'd feel differently.

I own a shop and shoplifters boil my piss, they're not stealing essential items because they're starving or need medication. It's pure entitlement. The last one I caught was an almost 7ft tall middle aged man, he had no qualms about wrestling with a slight woman (me) as I tried to get my property back off him. I told him he was a pathetic waste of space for fighting a woman and he's stealing directly from my pocket as it's my shop. I got my stuff back and he slunk off, he was clearly counting on me not having the bottle to confront him.

Independent shops can't really afford to put up their prices to cover theft, otherwise noone would buy from them, as they can just buy cheaper online.

This fictional penniless young mother with multi kids, no family, no help from anyone now has a diabetic child. Can her luck get any worse?

But the shop stealing epidemic is not down to this fictional person. It’s entirely down to the fact certain elements of our society know full well how to game what little system is left. Watching a group of teens stroll out of Tesco without a care in the world, you do wonder how things went so wrong.