true story:
I saw a woman shop lift from a Wal-Mart in south Florida. Middle aged black woman took some stuff from a checkout lane, walked through, and began to head for the door. She also had some cleaning supplies—like a broom and some other items.
I said, loudly to the people working—HEY! She is walking out! She didn’t pay! She looked back, scared, but continued to walk.
The employees didn’t do anything. I looked at them as she walked out the door...
Afterwards, an employee kind of shrugged and said, “We can’t do anything about it, sometimes they just get away.”
I couldn’t believe it if I had not see it with my own eyes.
Those people not only take our money in the form of EBT, WIC, Setion 8, medicaid, and welfare. And those people not only take our money through violence, robbery, and murder, but those people also take our money with the cost of law enforcement and incarceration.
And those people also take our money through raising the cost of goods and services by thievery, burglary, and shoplifting. When they shoplift and steal, Walmart looks upon it as the price of doing business, and passes the cost along to we the consumer.