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Seems to me that they break the windows in the roof of the Butchers Market, break into the Cancer Charity shop & other places instead nowadays. Scum, the lot of them. Who pays for all that? Not the little darlings who commit the crime. They just get a slap on the wrist & a little bit of community service if they are caught. The small businesses are the ones who lose out & their insurance premiums go up if they claim. Why would you bother?
Or are shoplifters using new techniques to avoid detection- or are they picking on smaller shops who may not have stock records to show they have lost stock.
The other effect is that if it is down in the town centre have the moved out and the surrounding village shops are being hit instead. There must be a number of reasons as you would think it would increase with people affected by changes in benefits.@JaneJ 16888 wrote:
Or are shoplifters using new techniques to avoid detection- or are they picking on smaller shops who may not have stock records to show they have lost stock.
The other effect is that if it is down in the town centre have the moved out and the surrounding village shops are being hit instead. There must be a number of reasons as you would think it would increase with people affected by changes in benefits.Just because people are on benefits it doesn’t automatically make them thieves.
I think that the reduction in shoplifting has more to do with the fact that seven of the top ten offenders are in custody. We all think that crime is rampant, but it is probably the case that most types of crime are committed by relatively few people.
Perhaps it’s because there are aren’t many shops left in Wrexham that stock stuff that’s actually worth stealing? Can’t see there being a lucrative black market for poor quality greetings cards or pound shop merchandise. Suppose a shoplifter could always do a job on one of the towns bookies but I’m not sure what how far they would get with a handful of 3” pencils!
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