Rich robbers: why do wealthy people shoplift?
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Rich robbers: why do wealthy people shoplift?
Rich robbers: why do wealthy people shoplift?
Evidence suggests the rich actually do steal more than the poor – and shoplifting is only ‘the first layer of the onion’
On 6 April 2019, a man was arrested in a Kmart store after returning purchases for refunds. There was just one problem: the packaging he returned didn’t contain the original products.
According to the police report, his bait-and-switch scam included two coffee makers – a Keurig ($153.99) and a Hamilton Beach ($54.99). But inside the returned Keurig box was a deflated basketball, and a heavily used coffee machine was stuffed into the other box.
Reached by phone, the man denied the charge he was booked on – first-degree petit larceny, a misdemeanor that covers a theft of property valued between $100 and $300. In a rambling, vague explanation, he stated: “There’s an attorney, and I believe that he’s found some other people, relating to the store, who are involved. That’s all I can say right now.” The case is pending.
There’s nothing unusual about this type of shoplifting. A 2018 National Retail Federation study pegged the cost of “return fraud” at a staggering $18.4bn. What is unusual is that this shoplifting suspect, Andrew Francis Lippi III, is rich. A week before his Kmart arrest, he paid $8m for an island in the Florida Keys
Kabinet Bangoura, the Kmart loss prevention manager who scanned hours of surveillance video to build the case, is blunt about Lippi’s motivation: “Millionaires think they’re above the law and can get away with anything.”
While it’s impossible to profile shoplifters – the crime transcends gender, age and all socio-demographic strata, and about one in 11 people commit it – evidence suggests the rich actually do steal more than the poor.
The paper cited most often to support this theory, Prevalence and Correlates of Shoplifting in the United States (American Journal of Psychology, 2008), states that people with incomes of $70,000 shoplift 30% more than those earning $20,000 a year.
Https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... -steal-why
Evidence suggests the rich actually do steal more than the poor – and shoplifting is only ‘the first layer of the onion’
On 6 April 2019, a man was arrested in a Kmart store after returning purchases for refunds. There was just one problem: the packaging he returned didn’t contain the original products.
According to the police report, his bait-and-switch scam included two coffee makers – a Keurig ($153.99) and a Hamilton Beach ($54.99). But inside the returned Keurig box was a deflated basketball, and a heavily used coffee machine was stuffed into the other box.
Reached by phone, the man denied the charge he was booked on – first-degree petit larceny, a misdemeanor that covers a theft of property valued between $100 and $300. In a rambling, vague explanation, he stated: “There’s an attorney, and I believe that he’s found some other people, relating to the store, who are involved. That’s all I can say right now.” The case is pending.
There’s nothing unusual about this type of shoplifting. A 2018 National Retail Federation study pegged the cost of “return fraud” at a staggering $18.4bn. What is unusual is that this shoplifting suspect, Andrew Francis Lippi III, is rich. A week before his Kmart arrest, he paid $8m for an island in the Florida Keys
Kabinet Bangoura, the Kmart loss prevention manager who scanned hours of surveillance video to build the case, is blunt about Lippi’s motivation: “Millionaires think they’re above the law and can get away with anything.”
While it’s impossible to profile shoplifters – the crime transcends gender, age and all socio-demographic strata, and about one in 11 people commit it – evidence suggests the rich actually do steal more than the poor.
The paper cited most often to support this theory, Prevalence and Correlates of Shoplifting in the United States (American Journal of Psychology, 2008), states that people with incomes of $70,000 shoplift 30% more than those earning $20,000 a year.
Https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... -steal-why
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Nah, I think they're just trying to get their taxes back. Although, in that article Psychologist Stanton E Samenow, the author of The Myth of the Out of Character Crime, is convinced wealthy people shoplift because, as he puts it: “Why buy it if you can steal it?”.
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So why ask a question to which you have already the answer?kungfufighter wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2019 5:50 pmNah, I think they're just trying to get their taxes back.
TheGrimReaper wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2019 1:45 pmSlavedog, you do not belong on this forum as you talk too much sense.
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slavedog wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2019 5:57 pmSo why ask a question to which you have already the answer?kungfufighter wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2019 5:50 pmNah, I think they're just trying to get their taxes back.
That's just an idea. Are you saying I'm right? Although, again from the full article
Then there’s the grim and troubling “candy experiment”, where researchers observed wealthy people remove twice as much candy from a jar that had been earmarked for children than people of more modest means did.
Experiments have also shown that wealthy people are more likely to cheat on their taxes and their romantic partners.
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It must be awful being poor and bitter, and always looking for ways to give comfort to yourself nevertheless.
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That's even funnier than Slavedog's post.Dallow Spicer wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2019 6:38 pmIt must be awful being poor and bitter, and always looking for ways to give comfort to yourself nevertheless.
Aren't you even going to offer some snowflake excuse?
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Why would I? I really don't care enough to comment.kungfufighter wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2019 6:43 pmThat's even funnier than Slavedogs post.Dallow Spicer wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2019 6:38 pmIt must be awful being poor and bitter, and always looking for ways to give comfort to yourself nevertheless.
Aren't you even going to offer some snowflake excuse?
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I am way beyond caring about this to comment either.
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It's a form of acquired arrogance, many wealthy people get away with murder as well.
There's a severe lack of real life Columbos, out there in the swamps of reality. IMO,
There's a severe lack of real life Columbos, out there in the swamps of reality. IMO,
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Very well, seeing as you refuse to defend the person you see yourself as being, against the "poor and bitter" who you seem to believe make these reports, I suppose I'll have to defend you myself. I mean, you come across as a mild mannered one-nation Tory, so I feel it is my duty to try:Dallow Spicer wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2019 6:46 pmWhy would I? I really don't care enough to comment.kungfufighter wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2019 6:43 pmThat's even funnier than Slavedogs post.Dallow Spicer wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2019 6:38 pmIt must be awful being poor and bitter, and always looking for ways to give comfort to yourself nevertheless.
Aren't you even going to offer some snowflake excuse?
Terrence Shulman, the founder of the Shulman Center for Compulsive Theft, Spending and Hoarding suggests unresolved losses, traumas, abuses and repressed memories are the cause. He emphasizes that these psychic scars aren’t always rooted in the past. Tragic events like a recent divorce, a bankruptcy or death in the family could trigger a shoplifting episode. “These people are self-medicating. Theft becomes their drug of choice,” he says.
There you are, defended. And not one snowflake excuse passed your proud lips.
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Thanks. Fascinating stuff. Keep it coming.
Remind me again though what any of this bollocks has to do with Cambodia?
Remind me again though what any of this bollocks has to do with Cambodia?
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Wealth, tax evasion, taking too many sweeties from the jar and thereby disadvantaging children. No, nothing at all to do with Cambodia...
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