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    Come gli “imprenditori” stanno alimentando il problema dei taccheggi nel Regno Unito

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    1. JackStrawWitchita on

      Summary:

      Organised gangs of criminals (mostly middle-aged men, apparently) are stealing higher end goods that are in demand and selling them online via sites like Facebook, Gumtree, Vinted and such saying things like ‘bought it new but don’t need, selling cheap to get rid’. High demand means fewer people check provenance and like a bargain. Criminals get cash in hand very quickly and hard to trace.

    2. Desperate_Caramel_10 on

      If heroin addicts could get their fix from their doctor (like the way we used to do it) there’d be no shoplifting to fund it.

    3. UnravelledGhoul on

      I’d argue that corporate price gouging is what is actually fuelling shoplifting.

    4. Anyales on

      Alternatively it started rising in the 2010s took a break for covid and continued to rise as self checkout became more widespread.

      Shops chose this, they were warned and accepted the risk so they could hire fewer people.

      A simple method to make shoplifting stats fall through the floor would be to get rid of self checkout. Any analysis that doesn’t put that as a prime factor is a waste of time.

    5. Swimmy on

      I see jellycats get a mention; some stores have stopped selling them entirely as they get stolen so often.

    6. PsycommuSystem on

      I think the time that really got me was my local Games Workshop when I was about 16. A bloke just walked in through the front door, picked up a £150 box set (a huge cardboard box) just went ‘see ya later’ and walked back out again. No running or urgency, and the shop manager looked at him, shurgged, and said ‘another one to add to the list’ and went back to painting some Space Marines. I suppose if you fully expect the police to do nothing about it you just have to hope people will adhere to the social contract of not brazenly nicking stuff.

    7. shishr2 on

      Mum works at Primark, gangs are the main issue. Kids steal alot too, especially girls who are 13 to 16 from the more rough schools. It’s a very significant amount stolen so the cost are definitely passed down to law abiding people

    8. Loreki on

      An increase in the cultural importance of consumerism must be a factor here. People are absolutely desperate to have the “right” stuff which is in fashion or conveys the correct status. Social media with its constant comparison to others seems to me to have made it worse.

      Why the hell else would anyone buy a stolen trinket like a jelly cat?

    9. Visual_Astronaut1506 on

      Argos business model validated.

      Shops will just start putting more things behind the counter/in the back. Shop floors will just become show rooms with everything nailed down like an apple store.

    10. cornedbeef101 on

      The price of living for most, and poverty for the most unfortunate are fuelling the shoplifting problem.

      Fix the economy, theft declines.

    11. Plus-Literature-7221 on

      > said it was tracking 63 organised criminal groups across the UK who have stolen at least £2.4m of goods in five years. Of these, it told us, 26 groups originate from the UK and Ireland and the rest predominantly from Eastern European countries

      Government are powerless to stop foreign gangs

    12. Blahaj4ever on

      There is a shoplifting problem? I thought that the crime was down. This sounds like some kind of far-right talking point to get people scared about crime. And as we all know people only shoplift to feed their little babies because of austerity

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