Mods, please move this thread to the pit.
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No sweat.
This is possible; maybe even likely. But I still would put my copper down on mental illness.
You are probably right. I have seen it myself repeatably and even busted people for it. We didn’t usually prosecute except for a few cases be be we did issue lifetime bans.
Some of it is just simple kleptomania and it affects mostly women for some reason. They have the money to buy whatever they want but decide to steal anyway (see Winona Ryder).
Males tend to steal for different reasons. I busted a coworker who tossed out expensive meat cuts into the dumpster and then came back to retrieve them hours later to support his father’s (very good) BBQ business. He got fired and later apologized.
I can almost understand that but I can’t understand casual stealing. I treat stealing roughly the same as murder because it is the ultimate form of disrespect. I had a project manager joke on the phone that I stole a piece of equipment that was lost in transit a year ago. It finally showed up and he he was instantly fired for even insinuating such a thing.
If the thief was smarter they’d steal Mitchum deodorant, it’s so effective you can skip a week…What’s that you say a day? Well not if you’re that broke Mr. Moneybags!!!
I agree, pharmacy items tend to be unusually expensive so there is a high weight to value ratio.
Around here, meth makers were stealing powdered baby formula to cut the finished product. One grocery store decided to keep it by the pharmacy, in a cubbyhole that could be opened by the manager if the pharmacy was closed. The store still sold the same amount, but immediately started ordering half as much.
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Regarding the OP, the person probably had some kind of connection to a gray-marketeer who flips things at the flea market, no questions asked. :rolleyes:
Hey, I see where we are, but really want to ask for a cite for this old urban legend about drug manufacturers using baby formula. It’s stolen because it’s crazy expensive and shopkeepers prefer to say they’re locking it up to prevent drug dealers from taking it rather than to keep women from stealing it to feed their starving babies.
Just think about the economics involved, crystal meth runs around $80,000 a kilogram on the street, baby formula costs $25 a kilogram. People making drugs don’t need to steal baby formula, there’s enough markup in the cut without taking the risk of a shoplifting beef.
Several of my local convenience stores have the replacement shaving blades under lock and key. Some have the pink full blades locked but not the others. Some will have Gillete Venuses locked, but not the straight pink ones.
It’s like a map of “which stores have seen which blades lifted”.
It’s very common in the UK still - although many spray deororants/antiperspirants are now ‘condensed’ cans with a higher load-to-propellant ratio.
(the OP’s clarification excluding aerosols noted, but the above is still true)
Mom got me one of those Old Spice kits for Christmas (in case she couldn’t get anything else) and it had an aerosol can in it, along with the other varieties. For some reason, the same scent smells very different from the spray, and I didn’t like it.
I think it calls itself body spray instead of deodorant, though. But it’s still the same aerosol cans, not like, say, cologne.
And these day’s you’d have to add Elmer’s Glue.