Shoplifting: The Temptation

Our posting today starts with a special word -- Kleptomaniac
-- people who feel compelled to steal at any opportunity.

According to an estimate, every year US retailers loose about 10 billions
due to shoplifting. The ratailers of course make sure that the amount is
extracted from average consumers like you and us through higher prices
for their merchandise.

People steal things that they want to have but cannot afford like fancy
cosmetics or apparels or the latest CD/DVD or things that they are
forbidden to purchase like cigarettes. Some do this just out of fun.
However, survey says that majority (about two-third) of shoplifters
resort to this simply because they see the opportunity of doing that,
even though they were not predetermined when they entered the shop.

Some retailers like Walmart takes quite tough stand about this. Many
retailers keep plain-cloth security people in aisles and exit. Walmart, for
example, charges a high amount from the arrested person irrespective
of the outcome of the court. The high cost of the procedures in court and
complexity of expunging the act from the criminal record may take
peace away from the arrested person's mind.

So, never get into such a temptation and make your friends and family
members, especially young people, aware of this. One evening's
temptation may haunt them and their career for a long time.