Just youths?

[Sqad]

Shoplifting costs the retail outlet something like £5 billion per year.

Yes shop lifting is looting without the violence.

I just wonder if many of the people and some ABers who condemned the looting would indeed have helped themselves had they had access to a store with no security in an atmosphere of "come on in and fill yer boots"..

Just a thought.

[ummmm]

Not me...I couldn't live with myself. I'd spend everyday waiting for karma to get revenge.

[Old_Geezer]

Without the violence is quite a reduction.
Anyway I don't take a large enough shoe size.

[Bobbisox]

any form of taking something which does not belong to you with or without a security deterrent, is totally wrong

[jackthehat]

Absolutely not.
I don't take stuff which doesn't belong to me, or that I haven't paid for.

Never have, never would.

[whiskeryron]

Exactly Jack, I was always taught that honesty is the best policy,it would appear that ''not a lot of people know that''.

Ron.

[honky-tonk]

Well i dont usually jackthehat but i would be tempted if there was say a nice Cartier Watch within my grab. Who knows what we would do in that situation.

[Brenden]

Same at jackthehat, If you cannot pay for it you go without, or save for it.

[craft1948]

Never, and if I saw someone shoplifting I'd report them.

[boxtops]

^^what craft said

[JMR27]

Just like jackthehat I've never stolen anything and never would.
A couple of months ago I was given £5 too much in change from W H Smith. I walked half a mile back to the shop to return it. Some would call me a mug but that's the way I was brought up.

[craft1948]

No need to bring Top Shop into it triggs..........

[Sqad]

Well, someone is "nicking" £5 billion worth during "normal" times.

[craft1948]

lol sqad it can't be me............all my shopping is done online.

[jackthehat]

It's all of those elderly people stealing Dog Food from Sainsbury's........

[boxtops]

I don't have any boots to fill ;-(

[craft1948]

Do you not like their ready meals Jack?

[jackthehat]

See?????

http://www.metro.co.u...or-99p-cat-food-theft

:o)

[Sqad]

//The widow, 85, insisted she had no recollection of taking the goods and was left ‘inconsolable’ after her ordeal. Son Julian claimed his mother has had memory problems for years //

Inconsolable..........son Julian...........yeah! right.