edit: I'd seen this mentioned recently, but hadn't realised it was a long running culture war thing so it had already been discredited by research years ago:
I've worked in retail before (walmart) as a 3rd shift stocker, ages ago.
Never once would I even consider saying anything to a suspected thief. In fact, I walked away from at least 2 times where I knew people were destroying the spider-alarms on electronics in the pets aisle. It is not worth my personal safety in saying anything, especially for someone making $9/hr.
Maybe that's the wrong approach. But it's not my stuff, its not my role I was hired in as, and not worth any personal injury I might receive. I will intentionally give a blind eye to petty or professional retail theft. Let security deal with it.
Walgreens and Target and other retailers are shutting down stores and changing the hours so they close earlier. Presumably they’re not doing that because they watched a viral video.
> According to federal data, adults with substance-abuse disorders make up just 2.6 percent of the total population but 72 percent of all jail inmates sentenced for property crimes. Addicts are 29 times more likely to commit property crimes than the average American. Furthermore, as the Bureau of Justice Statistics found, “[39 percent of jail inmates] held for property offenses said they committed the crime for money for drugs”—the most common single motivation for crime throughout the justice system.
In other news, the Sacklers got away with making Billions from creatimg addicts.
edit: I'd seen this mentioned recently, but hadn't realised it was a long running culture war thing so it had already been discredited by research years ago:
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/...