Finally caught the bastard!

[TAB]

TAB, could you contact me via email? I saw a post of yours from awhile ago, and have a couple questions for you, if you have the time. I’m new to the site, and not sure how to message your profile. Thanks in advanced.

Mg.scott88@hotmail.com

I think you need 10 or 15 posts too pm, what do you need?  Chances are very good others here would be interested.  I can send you a email, but it won't be until way later in the day

[TAB]

Sent you a pm

[TAB]

I was contacted by the da  secretary today. They wanted too know the dollar ammount for the dumpster so I sent her the invoice.  Got the old, " that's more than I make in a week"   "yep, that's why it sucks"

[Big Frank]

That was the special gold plated deluxe limited edition dumpster. When will I be compensated for it?

[TAB]

Nah, just $842.18 is what I was charged.   All I can get them for is the one they were caught red handed.

[Sponsor]

[Big Frank]

That's more than I make a week too, at least after taxes, but I'm no longer working.

[TAB]

This thread really does remind me just how much I hate theft.

I was at the auto parts store  yesterday, buying grease for my heavy equipment, watched a guy pocket 4 items... don't even get me started on people buying things and returning them used/ empty/ damaged.

Hell  saw that last night at home depot a lady was returning a vanity that had clearly been installed, back cut out, screw holes on the back support... and the cashier took it back.   I even told the manager ( he likes me, I spend 6 figures in that store every year)  he was not shocked and imeditaley  tagged it to be tossed.

[Big Frank]

United States retailers lost $60 Billion in 2015 to shrinkage, up from $57 Billion in 2014. Loss of inventory from stores — due to causes including shoplifting and employee theft — cost the U.S. retail industry nearly $48.9 billion in 2016. That's about $55,000,000,000 a year on average lost due to theft in the U.S. I'm glad I don't own a store.

[Solus]

I'm glad I don't own a store.

That doesn't mean you, as are all honest folks, aren't paying for it.  That lose is recovered by the store in higher prices to stay profitable. 

Every theft is stealing from you and me (all of us)...so TAB, you watched that guy who pocketed items steal from you.

[Big Frank]

The stores have to raise their prices to make up for their loss and it's a fact that we pay more. I was looking for a dollar amount and the first article I found was from 2009. Research shows that, on average, a “low-level” shoplifter caught stealing today has already stolen $1,800 worth of merchandise before being caught.

Retail loss, also known as “shrinkage,” inflicts tremendous damage on an organization’s bottom line. According to the Global Retail Theft Barometer, shrinkage accounted for over $42 billion in lost revenue in the United States in 2014 and over $128.5 billion in annual losses around the world. Price increases directly caused by shrinkage are estimated to cost American consumers $403 each per year.