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2021-12-27 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Don Surber - Left denies there's a shoplifting boom

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Posted by Besoeker 2021-12-27 07:21|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Watched the cops take a woman out of CVS in handcuffs a couple days before Christmas. Don't know if she was shoplifting, trying to pass a bad prescription, or what. But that wild-west business ain't playing here.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-27 07:55|| 2021-12-27 07:55|| Front Page Top

#2 When was the last time anyone read about an Amazon delivery truck being hijacked ?

Your laptop is now your store. Order 'on-line' from Home Depot and your purchase can be picked up from an (outside the store) locker. Sears stores eventually became little more than ordering and pick-up centers as well.

The middle-man (brick & mortar stores) are rapidly disappearing. Once you hit the "Purchase item" button, you are dealing directly with the Chinese manufacturing facility. Shoplifters and 'smash & grab' gangs are simply facilitating the transition.

I am certain you are familiar with the marketing term...."Factory Direct."

Posted by Besoeker 2021-12-27 07:58|| 2021-12-27 07:58|| Front Page Top

#3 And this is a good thing how exactly? Amazon is exactly the kind of megacorp that nobody should be doing business with.

Why do you think Antifa/BLM are attacking these stores? They need to destroy small business, because SMEs are the foundation of strength for America. More closed stores, more unhappy people, more recruits for them. The Bolsheviks did the same thing with the Czar.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2021-12-27 08:09|| 2021-12-27 08:09|| Front Page Top

#4 He's sayin' it's a bad thing, Hoib

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-12-27 08:11|| 2021-12-27 08:11|| Front Page Top

#5 Well, the writing may be on the wall.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-27 08:21|| 2021-12-27 08:21|| Front Page Top

#6 More closed stores, more unhappy people, more recruits for them. The Bolsheviks did the same thing with the Czar.

The government after Nicholas II's abdication shared a significant culpability for the problems they created prior to the October Revolution.

Posted by badanov 2021-12-27 08:42|| 2021-12-27 08:42|| Front Page Top

#7 Is herb McCoy (r)?

Posted by Vespasian Ebboting9735 2021-12-27 09:55|| 2021-12-27 09:55|| Front Page Top

#8 It's difficult to succeed when people expect you to actually do something.

Posted by ed in texas 2021-12-27 13:09|| 2021-12-27 13:09|| Front Page Top

#9 A large amount of Amazon sales are Amazon renting out digital storefront to small businesses.

Yes Amazon is evil and only looking for a profit, but it does seem what they do could easily be reproduced by others but so far nobody has seriously stepped up and tried.

Posted by ruprecht 2021-12-27 13:41|| 2021-12-27 13:41|| Front Page Top

#10 ^ GrubHub, Uber eats, etc gives brick and mortar food stores and restaurants door delivery nich that Amazon does not do.

Posted by Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2021-12-27 16:37|| 2021-12-27 16:37|| Front Page Top

#11 .
More closed stores

More homeless housing.
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Posted by Skidmark 2021-12-27 17:58|| 2021-12-27 17:58|| Front Page Top

#12 ^ Ask, receive.

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-12-27 20:03|| 2021-12-27 20:03|| Front Page Top

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