It's an American thing isn't it?Has this always been a thing like it is now? People just running into shops, no fucks given and taking everything and walking out.
Madness.
Happened a lot in 2011 around the UK.Has this always been a thing like it is now? People just running into shops, no fucks given and taking everything and walking out.
Madness.
Are the videos from places where that is the case?In the US in some Progressive cities it is a Misdemeanour. So basically you are booked and released. Can be quite lucrative. It has got to the point that many shops are just closing down and leaving.
Then of course anything American inevitably comes to the UK, and with the Police not interested well why not?
Seen some videos of it going on in London as well.
Literally just crowds of people running in and taking what they want and going.
If you’re rich and you loot the Treasury you get a knighthood.Has this always been a thing like it is now? People just running into shops, no fucks given and taking everything and walking out.
Madness.
You sound as if you're justifying it?If you’re rich and you loot the Treasury you get a knighthood.
What?You sound as if you're justifying it?
It isn't the big corporations who own the supermarkets who foot the bill, it's the honest shoppers who are often facing hardship themselves.
The looting of shops, the subject of this thread.What?
I don’t think he’s justifying the most blatant criminal behaviour there isThe looting of shops, the subject of this thread.
I am certainly not justifying it at all. But the response and sanctions for people who loot a shop should be exactly the same as people that defraud the Treasury.You sound as if you're justifying it?
It isn't the big corporations who own the supermarkets who foot the bill, it's the honest shoppers who are often facing hardship themselves.
I am certainly not justifying it at all. But the response and sanctions for people who loot a shop should be exactly the same as people that defraud the Treasury.
I don’t disagree, but we could start by demonising these people the way we do the looters which primarily fall in the working class bracket. The upper class ‘looters’ are often celebrated and lauded.It should be far worse for people who defraud the treasury given the sums of money involved.
I don’t disagree, but we could start by demonising these people the way we do the looters which primarily fall in the working class bracket. The upper class ‘looters’ are often celebrated and lauded.
Michelle Mone is an excellent example of this.
It should be far worse for people who defraud the treasury given the sums of money involved.
Stock shortages is a cost of doing business and has to be built into the price, when it becomes too much, like any other cost it makes the business unviable.
I can see a move to a warehouse type operation, order and pay online and just have a front counter to pick up.
Turns out Argos were right all along.
Find it mental going into the Co Op and seeing bars of Cadbury and blocks of cheese covered in security boxes.
Ultimately, we live in a society where police are under pressure and not financed properly to deal with it and where many people are struggling to pay for their kids to eat...
Lets be honest here. It’s not people stealing to eat.
no...but there's a rapidly growing market for stolen food.
People hawking stolen meat, cheese & coffee in pubs & out the boot of cars in the same way they used to sell sportswear and makeup.
Most of the time that is people selling it to buy drugs
no...but there's a rapidly growing market for stolen food.
People hawking stolen meat, cheese & coffee in pubs & out the boot of cars in the same way they used to sell sportswear and makeup.
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