shoplifting costs £4.4bn

nightwatchman

poppingjay wrote: »

I don't know how the high street manages to make a profit, the poor loves

They bumping their prises up…… so I & you are pay for it.

Also some inside anecdotal fact (or gossip..… or whatever you want to call it):
My OH is working for a major supermarket chain.
Her work is to stock control & stack up the high value items like mobile phones, DVD’s, video games, electronic gadgets & such.
Last month her department has made few thousand £.00 loss……

Now if they where not making this loss would they goods be cheaper?

I can not answer that.

What I can say for sure, is that there is a talk about axing her department off, if this situation continues.

mostlycheerful

Bo drinker : “I came in to this world with nothing and I've still got most of it left. :rolleyes:”

Nice. Do you know if that is the original version or is :

“I Started Out With Nothin And I Still Got Most Of It Left”

the song and third album by Seasick Steve released 2008?

Or is it from somewhere else?


And do you know or like this one :

All my life I give you nothing and still you ask for more.

Title of a Gilbert and George picture 1970
http://www.culturekiosque.com/art/exhibiti/rhelife.htm

I’d assume they probably originated it as no other reference to it comes up via google. But possibly they were referring to an earlier example. If so does anyone know what?

The version that somehow came to my ears years ago substituted “f all” for “nothing” and was spoken in a florid expressive faux Italian accent for some reason. Maybe it was used in a film which I saw? Anyone here recognise it? I’d be curious to know, I’ve entertained quite a few people with it over the years, it generally gets a laugh.


And another one in a similar vein that I like is :

Ten percent of something is better than 100% of nothing.

No source available via google, so maybe it’s an old general saying and the originator is lost in the mists of time. In fact it’s a kind of obvious thing to say in some circumstances so maybe lots of people originate it and variations of it without necessarily having heard it previously.

Heyman_2

They had a piece on shoplifting on Radio Five a few months back, saying that the police are asking shopkeepers not to report shoplifting thefts under £20 in value!!!

I believe the Daily Wail had the original story which isn't too much of a surprise, but still -

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1296836/Dont-report-shoplifters-theyve-stolen-goods-worth-20-police-tell-shoplifters.html#ixzz0uQI68FuU

I hardly think the situation is going to get much better with the cuts announced yesterday.

System

It's an inevitable wastage brought about by the changeover to self-service. Retailers obviously realised that and costed it into their calculations when deciding to go self-service.
They should have thought of that beforehand. If they don't like it then keep the baked beans on a shelf behind the counter and the assistant can get them.

bendix

vaporate wrote: »

Toffs avoiding tax is more interesting...shifting public attention.

UK armed forces is a joke now too with cuts lol Let's hope no country starts a war. UK Gov kissing Americas !!!! wont help either lmao.

That's an excellently argued point, expressed articulately and with sophisticated precision.

There are no flies on you, are there?

lemonjelly

bendix wrote: »

That's an excellently argued point, expressed articulately and with sophisticated precision.

There are no flies on you, are there?

bendix

lemonjelly wrote: »

Admit it. You like me really, don't you?

antrobus

So "Shoplifting cost UK stores £4.4bn". Based on a survey "carried out on behalf of retail security company Checkpoint Systems". But why should a retail security company waste its money on such things when the Centre for Retail Research (mentioned by the BBC in its report) already publishes the impressively sounding 'Global Retail Theft Barometer 2010'.

You can actually see the summary results of this report at http://www.retailresearch.org/ukretailcrime.php which tells is all that the cost of 'Customer theft' is "£1886 M" or £1.9 billion; a number which is considerably less than "£4.4bn". From the looks of things, Checkpoint Systems appear to have lumped in all the other causes of 'shrinkage' in order to artificially boost the headline figure. In any case, the Centre for Retail Research states that shrinkage has been on the decline; down from 1.77% in 2002 to 1.29% this year.