K-Mart Employee lets slip PS3 Slim news (to me!)

[Dodece]

The reality isn't that major retailers have bad security, or that someone is particularly good at being a thief. The sad truth is that major retailers do not want to prosecute thieves until they are quite reasonably sure that the perpetrator is pathological. Even then they will rarely go so far as to get law enforcement involved. About the only time that happens is when the theft is organized, or very heinous in its targeting.

The simple truth of the matter is even a bad customer is worth more then no customer at all. What exactly happens if they catch and prosecute you. Well you are publicly shamed, and if you have any shame you will never shop at that retailer again. Perhaps your family is shamed as well especially in the case of young children, and they cannot shop at the retailer as well. That can actually add up to tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars in sales in your life. Then there is the next question where do you shop now that you have been shamed. Well at the competition of coarse.

For retailers it is a no win situation the act of prosecuting costs them business. Probably much more then they are losing on the occasional petty theft. They do not want to do it unless your just dead set on robbing them, or robbing them in such a way as it is costing them a fortune. The truth is you aren't half as clever as you think you are. Over ninety percent of thieves are captured on the repetition. They keep doing things in the same way they did before, and in the end someone will pick up on the pattern. Once that happens they are going to catch you.

Being a thief is not something to brag about. You got caught by people that didn't even want to catch you. How fucking stupid does that make you. I hate thieves, because the retailers just pass the costs off on honest consumers. So I ask you why are you being a dick to me forcing me to spend more money. Your not hurting them your hurting me, and just about everyone else on these forums.