'Tis the season for Shoplifting, when the unemployed, teens, professionals, kleptos, and political shoplifters jack, rack, nick, and stroke holiday gifts.
The BBB anticipates a rise in light-fingered merchandising, but notes that on average, shoplifters get pinched only "once for every 48 times they steal."
Retailers are fighting back in unusual ways.
[Retailers turn to Facebook, YouTube to catch shoplifters]
Wal-Mart, the oft-target of political shoplifters, aggressively guards its merchandise,
[Walmart Kills a Man for "Shoplifting" Diapers
Wal-Mart loss prevention workers tackled a man suspected of stealing diapers - a new father with a two month old child - holding him down with a choke hold and knee to the back while he was shirtless on the scalding pavement of a Wal-Mart parking lot in Texas.August 19 2005]
while across the pond the Dutch approach the problem with bemusement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G8_BbERk8o
--terranova
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