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The Florida man. A study of misfits with privilege
Don’t bother looking people......he is who you think he is
“I’m entitled to take this stuff. I mean, I can just come in and help myself. If you make any effort to stop me ... well, that would make me mad, and there will be trouble. Obviously.”
Hey bein’ a professional shoplifter ain’t no walk in the park, ok? No bed of roses, ya feel me?
We already see it with all the dead shopping malls out there.
The final challenge is same day delivery for those who need the product now. That is being rapidly resolved as fulfillment centers continue to be massively built out. Once we have the infrastructure in place, no more need for retail stores.
I must have superpowers - I didn’t even need to see a picture to know.
Wow.
He does this bare faced.
Menaces the employees.
Takes the clothes back and leaves the premises with them without paying.
He needs to have the book thrown at him.
Broward got another perp...
My sister used to own a pair of Jewelry stores in good neighborhoods. Typically they’d get attempted robberies 3-4 times a year despite their location.
Every few months Obama’s son would come in, look at the cases and if asked would answer something about buying something for his girl. The pattern was 3-5 days later, a robbery attempt would occur.
After wandering around for a few minutes, he’d head for the door and try to leave. It won’t open. He’d rattle it a bit, still won’t open.
After a few moments one of the staff would say ‘Hold on a second’, they’d purposefully fiddle around with this little case that was nothing at all but a dial and a few buttons, making him wait. Some acting was fun too “Oh, shoot, I’ve forgotten the code again” or somesuch.
After they felt like he got the point, they’d hit the button that released the magnetic lock and the door would open. What most people didn’t realize is that employees paid attention and let people in when they were walking up.
One there was no way out of the store unless you were let out, they didn’t get any attempted robberies at all. Eventually They closed the business and retired but had had a roughly 8 year stretch of no robberies.
Bad decision to lock the door.
The thief has three solutions...
Quietly surrender to the Police (who will take 20 minutes to get there).
Smash open the door (creating a couple thousand dollars of damage).
Attack store employees (possibly creating multiple injury lawsuits).
Anyway, the thief instantly turned a shoplifting charge into a felony robbery charge, so he might do some time for this.
One final observation...
The half dozen stores I shop in (grocery and discount warehouse stores) all give the impression they would like to shut down and go 100% online!