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This whole thing aggravated the hell out of me. Activists were trying to help out people from having their lives ruined with petty crimes by reducing some of the minimum sentencing around theft, #ratchetset used it as an excuse to go out and steal more

OT a couple of those hos need some deep down mentoring
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Geek Nasty said:
This whole thing aggravated the hell out of me. Activists were trying to help out people from having their lives ruined with petty crimes by reducing some of the minimum sentencing around theft, #ratchetset used it as an excuse to go out and steal more

OT a couple of those hos need some deep down mentoring
:whew:
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nikka couldn't resist activating his JBO status
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Geek Nasty said:
This whole thing aggravated the hell out of me. Activists were trying to help out people from having their lives ruined with petty crimes by reducing some of the minimum sentencing around theft, #ratchetset used it as an excuse to go out and steal more

OT a couple of those hos need some deep down mentoring
:whew:
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Had bozos like @bnew shilling for this stuff. Absolute idiocy
 
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I wasn't complaining about your thread, but the media's lack of attention given to a far larger and damming epidemic that affects millions of workers to the tune of an estimated $50b a year.

Two billion dollars in stolen wages were recovered for workers in 2015 and 2016—and that’s just a drop in the bucket

These wages were stolen by employers who, for example, refuse to pay promised wages, pay employees for only some of the hours worked, or fail to pay overtime premiums when employees work more than 40 hours in a week.
www.epi.org www.epi.org

Given that wage theft disproportionately affects workers from low-income households—who are already struggling to make ends meet—the loss of wages can be devastating. And these recovery numbers likely dramatically underrepresent the pervasiveness of wage theft—it has been estimated that low-wage workers lose more than $50 billion annually to wage theft. Regardless of what share of actual wage theft the recovery numbers represent, these data are one more reminder that wage theft is not isolated to a few bad employers, but affects workers much more broadly.
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As far as these shoplifting crisis stories:

The retail lobby is very powerful.

Back in June, Nardelli’s former company settled a class-action lawsuit with workers alleging widespread wage theft for $72.5 million.

More than 885,000 Home Depot workers were members of the various classes, including those who were locked in their stores off-the-clock following the day’s closing shift until a supervisor got around to letting them out. Home Depot didn’t admit to the allegations, and said it had settled merely to make the lawsuit go away.

Juxtaposing Nardelli’s remarks and the settlement points to the discordance in how we define “crime” in the workplace. On the one hand, sporadic robberies inflated by retail lobbyists and media via eye-catching reports; on the other, the pervasive shortchanging of hourly workers by their employers.
Estimates of the scale of both phenomena are all over the map, but run into billions of dollars a year. Yet it’s reasonable to conclude that, in terms of the direct impact on households, wage theft is the bigger deal.

Let’s take a look, starting with what retailers call “shrink.”

The term covers three categories of loss: First is “external theft,” such as individual shoplifting and organized retail crime exemplified by those mass invasions of shops by gangs. Then there’s internal theft — pilferage or embezzlement by employees. Finally, what retailers call process and control failures, such as paperwork glitches and other mixups that result in their losing track of inventory.

It’s the first category that gets all the attention, thanks to those video reports so popular on cable and local news shows, and to corporate executives trying to blame their inventory shortfalls on outside parties beyond their control, rather than breakdowns in their internal systems.

A survey published last year by the National Retail Federation attributed 37% of all “shrink” to external theft, but more than 54% to those two internal categories.

Yet executives talk as though external theft is the whole ballgame. They lobby local, state and federal law enforcement agencies to pump up their efforts against it — and largely succeed.

As it happened, an independent study commissioned by the NRF itself acknowledged that the public’s perception of the scale of organized retail theft has been distorted by “selective reporting of retail theft incidents by retailers and skewed media coverage of retail theft,” which has “tended to focus on sensational incidents that feature violence or brazen daytime theft operations.”

The panic inspired by these reports has gone on for years, as my colleague Sam Dean documented in 2021. Dean showed that retail groups’ estimate of $70 billion lost annually to organized thieves was conjured out of thin air. The NRF last year raised its estimate to $94.5 billion for 2021.

That feeds the claim commonly heard these days that the level of organized theft has reached “unprecedented levels” (to quote a recent report by ABC News). But it’s based on very misleading math.

As a percentage of total retail sales, “shrink” has barely budged. The NRF estimated it at 1.4% of retail sales in fiscal 2021, the latest year available. That’s exactly what it was in fiscal 2016. The percentage edged up to 1.6% in fiscal 2019 and 2020 before falling back down.

Total retail sales, however, have risen inexorably, according to the Census Bureau, from about $6.2 trillion in 2019 to $7.4 trillion in 2021 and $8.1 trillion in 2022. That means that retail theft will continue to reach “unprecedented” levels in absolute terms even if its percentage of total sales doesn’t change.

It’s not unusual for corporate leaders to play games with these figures to distract investors. dikk’s Sporting Goods, which is often cited as a victim of organized theft rings, said its gross profit for the second quarter of this year that ended July 30 fell “in large part to the impact of elevated inventory shrink, an increasingly serious issue impacting many retailers,” as CEO Lauren Hobart put it.

The company’s quarterly earnings report, however, explained that only about one-third of the decrease in its quarterly profit margin was due to “inventory shrink.” Most of the rest was due to larger discounts on merchandise — another issue “impacting many retailers” that had saddled themselves with excess inventory after misjudging consumer demand.
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Column: Businesses keep complaining about shoplifting, but wage theft is a bigger crime.
 
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Pull Up the Roots said:
I wasn't complaining about your thread, but the media's lack of attention given to a far larger and damming epidemic that affects millions of workers to the tune of an estimated $50b a year.

Two billion dollars in stolen wages were recovered for workers in 2015 and 2016—and that’s just a drop in the bucket

These wages were stolen by employers who, for example, refuse to pay promised wages, pay employees for only some of the hours worked, or fail to pay overtime premiums when employees work more than 40 hours in a week.
www.epi.org www.epi.org



As far as these shoplifting crisis stories:

The retail lobby is very powerful.



Column: Businesses keep complaining about shoplifting, but wage theft is a bigger crime.
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I think two things can be true.

I think first time offenders can be minor, but after three, it’s habitual and a felony.

To address your query, how do you hold a business or corporation accountable outside of fines? Penalties for white collar crimes should be more punitive.
 
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