Is organized retail crime a problem where you live?

[Lynx122]

It hasn't been an issue where I'm at so I wanna get a feel for it. Is it happening where you live and are you worried it will damage the economy?

[NaultD]

It's a made up buzzword to justify prices well over inflation. It's common knowledge 2% shirk is always a thing. So add 20% and say organized retail crime on top of inflation no one has room to question everything. Most important question being retail places are richest money makers.

Everyplace closing was scheduled a decade ago to close to build a new one down the block. Shake fist at clouds and prey for a new store and here we are opening that takes years to plan. It's always been garbage.

[JCIrons]

It's not organized, but it's endemic where I live. People are stealing from grocery stores like it's a sport. I've never seen anything like it.

[LaurenM1997]

People love to steal here in the UK take drugs and all the rest 🤦‍♀️

[Lynx122]

Are you scared to be in public?

[LaurenM1997]

No I was more scared of Covid

[LaurenM1997]

I only go to the places that I know that are safe

[Lynx122]

Oh ok :)

[LaurenM1997]

I couldn’t live at home and not go out Covid was bad enough for me I felt like I was going crazy

[DryGermanGuy]

Organized as in groups or gangs? I have never heard of that here. I noticed a couple of years ago, that some often stolen items (e. g. razor blades) were behind glass. But that's currently not the case, so...

[KostasKouvalis]

Not so much in my town, but in some of the larger cities it is. Though in my town there's an N worder who goes into Marshall's once a week and walks out with a bunch of stuff, and the staff said they were basically instructed to let him getaway with it. My mom was in the store when he was N wording

[DrPepper12]

It's a overblown thing that faux news loves to put on loop. In NYC it's hardly a thing! You're on camera on avg 375 times a day. Good luck not getting caught!

[Anonymous]

I know it would make me sound bad but I will tell you this,

As someone not living in the US, I really grow up watching their toxic environment we wouldn’t have the Kardashians and GTA games If it wasn’t for America.

Everything toxic and undignified came from there.

hell even porn.

[Fireguy17]

no, I live out in the boondocks by a small town, so we are lucky, so far.

[avery58]

It's a big issue here in Florida

[mandyfire98]

Not at all here really