If you can read this, either the style sheet didn't load or you have an older browser that doesn't support style sheets. Try clearing your browser cache and refreshing the page.

(Adweek) Interesting The top ten most shoplifted items this Christmas, brought to you by the Institute of Blindfolded Dart Throwing   (adweek.com) divider line 83
More: Interesting, Apple Products, Tommy Hilfiger, power tools, designer clothing, big-box stores, shower gel, plants  
•       •       •

14193 clicks; posted to Main » on 30 Nov 2011 at 4:05 PM   |  Favorite    |   share:  Share on Twitter share via Email Share on Facebook   more»   |    Get this fabulous T-Shirt and impress the methane out of your friends! shirt it!



83 Comments   (+0 »)
   

First | « | 1 | 2 | » | Last | Show all
 
2011-11-30 01:42:55 PM
I've never shoplifted in my life but some of those things I can't see how'd they get out with. A fifth of liquor? Where are you going to put that? And the pints are always behind the counter. And don't electronic stuff have those magnetic things you need a special key or a lightsaber to take off? And I don't want to know where they hide the filet mignon.

Anyway, this isn't a bookmark for when I get home to check the article on the same page..."Wicked Lesbian Foreplay: An Idea Worth Stealing?"
 
2011-11-30 02:08:48 PM
Now adding blindfold dart board set to wish list.
 
2011-11-30 02:11:20 PM
"Check the online auction sites, and you'll see a tremendous number of people trying to sell razor blades,"

I never thought of looking for blades there. Thanks for the tip.
 
2011-11-30 03:11:03 PM
Really, America? Axe Body Spray/Wash? Really? Have some self respect about the things you steal.
 
2011-11-30 04:09:42 PM
My husband and I used to work for Unilever, the company that makes Axe Body Spray. Back in the late 1980s/early 1990s, we couldn't give that shiat away! Now people are stealing it?
 
2011-11-30 04:10:15 PM
Mugato: I've never shoplifted in my life but some of those things I can't see how'd they get out with. A fifth of liquor? Where are you going to put that? And the pints are always behind the counter. And don't electronic stuff have those magnetic things you need a special key or a lightsaber to take off? And I don't want to know where they hide the filet mignon.

Anyway, this isn't a bookmark for when I get home to check the article on the same page..."Wicked Lesbian Foreplay: An Idea Worth Stealing?"


Turkey stuffed down dudes PANTS (new window)
 
2011-11-30 04:10:44 PM
Maybe people wouldn't steal razors if they weren't so farkign expensive.
 
2011-11-30 04:11:04 PM
Skrimps ....
 
2011-11-30 04:11:05 PM
"luxury meat"

Guess who's got two thumbs and a new name for his cock!?
 
2011-11-30 04:16:20 PM
But what about that report of a woman trying to shoplift a microwave oven?

I've heard of people shoplifting big screen TVs.

Once, a person tried to shoplift a refrigerator. Where I worked.
 
2011-11-30 04:16:32 PM
Mugato: And don't electronic stuff have those magnetic things you need a special key or a lightsaber to take off? And I don't want to know where they hide the filet mignon.

predisc.files.wordpress.com

These tags are easily defeated, as they can simply be bent and they won't work. If they are located on the inside of the package, shoplifters know it's located by the UPC code so they simply cut it out and pull it out.

www.shopbrodart.com

Not so easy, but plenty of people head to the hardware department and find a tool to crack them open.

Mugato: A fifth of liquor? Where are you going to put that?

Shoplifters dress in layers to have places to stash things. I have seen women stuff video game systems under their dress. I guess they hold them between their knees or something.

I've seen people work as teams too, back when they were hitting the store I worked at for Norton software and HP ink.

Some stores in the district lost $40,000-50,000 worth of HP ink in a matter of a few months. No joke.
 
2011-11-30 04:18:42 PM
Gillette mach 4s?

There is no such thing. Are they just making shiat up?

Filet Mignon being the most stolen thing from a grocery store? Then why is it that in a poor area the baby formula is locked up and the filet is out in the shrink wrapped meat counter?

Ralph Lauren? Since when has that brand been popular?
 
2011-11-30 04:20:23 PM
Glitchwerks: Some stores in the district lost $40,000-50,000 worth of HP ink in a matter of a few months. No joke.

Wow. That's like 5 or 6 cartridges.
 
2011-11-30 04:20:51 PM
Looking at #1 and #2, I might well be a holiday-season cleptomaniac.

These are a few of my faaaaavoorriiitteee things...
 
2011-11-30 04:21:27 PM
twfeline: But what about that report of a woman trying to shoplift a microwave oven?

I've heard of people shoplifting big screen TVs.

Once, a person tried to shoplift a refrigerator. Where I worked.


I've seen people (on camera, not in the act) walking out of stores with laser printers (the really big ones.) It's not that hard to do, they hit a store during really busy times, sometimes they come in with a small item and get the return sticker that some stores use. They then put that sticker on a big ticket item, and then head for the door.

Cashiers are generally quite distracted and busy, and even if the cashier did notice, what are they going to do? The shoplifter is usually male, the cashier is usually female, they aren't going to try and stop them.
 
2011-11-30 04:21:51 PM
Wow. I was thinking batteries. Seems like they're kinda expensive and an afterthought and they are right at the checkout.

Would have never thought about some of the stuff on the list.
 
2011-11-30 04:22:35 PM
The grocery store where I went to college had those alarm tags on all their meat.
 
2011-11-30 04:22:42 PM
IrateShadow: Maybe people wouldn't steal razors if they weren't so farkign expensive.

I recently switched to the old school razors.

For around 30-40$ I found a seller on ebay and got two half decent razors and over a hundred blades. I've bought two other razors and a few more things, such as a stand, soaps and brushes.

So for about 100-150$, I have enough for a few years and now that I have the razors and accessories, I'll only need new blades and soap, maybe a replacement brush at some point. So maybe 20$ -30$ per year.

As opposed to 100-150$ which would be about 5-6 packs of 4 cartridges. (so 20-24 blades) which for anyone that shaves on an almost daily basis, would be less than 6 months' worth at 5 shaves per cartridge, not counting the gels/foam, etc.

All this, and I no longer feel like I'm pulling/ripping my face off.
 
2011-11-30 04:25:04 PM
imfallen_angel: I recently switched to the old school razors.

Like a strait razor? I always wanted to shave with one of those.

/mach3
//other than Movember!!
 
2011-11-30 04:25:47 PM
Around here stealing Tide is the big crime. Walk into a store with a cart walk out with a cart full of Tide. Then sell it at swap meets for 5 bucks less. They busted a guy with $80k in cash and his garage was packed with Tide.
 
2011-11-30 04:26:36 PM
I have an aunt who was caught shoplifting over $1,000 worth of shiat at a Wal-Mart two Christmases ago. I want to say it was something ludicrous like $1500 listed in the online newspaper article I read about it after my mother informed me of it on the phone. The comments were pretty funny...lots of people saying things like "I didn't know you could fit $1500 worth of Wal Mart in one shopping buggy."

Bonus: She's in her late 60's. She isn't all there. Not completely insane, either, so it's not an excuse, she knew what she was doing. Moron just got community service for it, too.
 
2011-11-30 04:26:49 PM
They didn't mention self-respect..

huh. huh, are ya with me.
 
2011-11-30 04:27:17 PM
Menace II Sobriety: imfallen_angel: I recently switched to the old school razors.

Like a strait razor? I always wanted to shave with one of those.

/mach3
//other than Movember!!


Or a straight razor even.

/ftfm
//unless you are shaving gibraltar
 
2011-11-30 04:27:25 PM
Jameson is not "expensive liquor"
 
2011-11-30 04:28:01 PM
Glitchwerks: I've seen people work as teams too, back when they were hitting the store I worked at for Norton software and HP ink.

Who the hell would want to steal anything made by Norton?

/farking invasive resource hogging shiat
//and fark macafee, too
///jeebus people are stupid
////steal these slashies!
 
2011-11-30 04:28:11 PM
imfallen_angel:
So for about 100-150$, I have enough for a few years and now that I have the razors and accessories, I'll only need new blades and soap, maybe a replacement brush at some point. So maybe 20$ -30$ per year.


Just make sure to keep the blades out of humidity (and not in the bathroom)... I stocked up on blades when they were on sale, only to find the last pack had started to rust/corrode when I went to bust them out a year and a half later. (That's what my stupid arse gets for storing them in the bathroom. Hurped that durp real good.)
 
2011-11-30 04:28:28 PM
1. see GOP? people on welfare don't spend my tax dollars on fancy meat... your holly homemaker wife stole them all.
2. jameson: i'll give you a 5th for a kilt check ;)
3. "Electric tools" "DIY" "global shrinkage"..... are they stealing pocket rockets?
4. droooiid
5. why do i see so many men with a perpetual 5oclock shadows then? obviously they are innocent...
6. EW! worse than a stinky hipster smelling of patchuli
7.hmmm. overpriced threads made for 5 cents in a foreign sweatshop by tiny fingers are stolen after tag shows 500$ ... i don't see how stealing these are a bad thing.
8. is elmo holding pepper sppray and a trash lid for defense? man, toys are getting close to mimicing reality
9. shiat stanks
10. why steal from the store? the rich kid down the street just got a pair... look! there he is!
 
2011-11-30 04:28:50 PM
Glitchwerks: Mugato: And don't electronic stuff have those magnetic things you need a special key or a lightsaber to take off? And I don't want to know where they hide the filet mignon.

[predisc.files.wordpress.com image 297x81]

These tags are easily defeated, as they can simply be bent and they won't work. If they are located on the inside of the package, shoplifters know it's located by the UPC code so they simply cut it out and pull it out.

[www.shopbrodart.com image 250x250]

Not so easy, but plenty of people head to the hardware department and find a tool to crack them open.

Mugato: A fifth of liquor? Where are you going to put that?

Shoplifters dress in layers to have places to stash things. I have seen women stuff video game systems under their dress. I guess they hold them between their knees or something.

I've seen people work as teams too, back when they were hitting the store I worked at for Norton software and HP ink.

Some stores in the district lost $40,000-50,000 worth of HP ink in a matter of a few months. No joke.


I visited a sister store to one I worked to cover a shift. One of those old fashion music stores where they sell CD's in those plastic cages. While straightening, I found an empty cage with the corners melted out, like they used a lighter. I still don't understand how they didn't at least smell it.
 
2011-11-30 04:30:39 PM
Menace II Sobriety: imfallen_angel: I recently switched to the old school razors.

Like a strait razor? I always wanted to shave with one of those.

/mach3
//other than Movember!!


Nah, just the double edge stuff.

In time I'm thinking that I'll try a strait razor, but that takes dedication to sharpen it constantly, and much trickier to use correctly. It's one thing to nick yourself with a safety razor, another with a strait blade.

There's new strait type with replacement blades, which looks like a double edge blade cut in two.)
 
2011-11-30 04:31:12 PM
you know you're in the ghetto when you see the baby formula under lock and key.
 
2011-11-30 04:31:53 PM
I have yet to be in a store where they just have iPhones sitting on a shelf where you can grab one and walk out.
 
2011-11-30 04:32:01 PM
imfallen_angel: IrateShadow: Maybe people wouldn't steal razors if they weren't so farkign expensive.

I recently switched to the old school razors.

For around 30-40$ I found a seller on ebay and got two half decent razors and over a hundred blades. I've bought two other razors and a few more things, such as a stand, soaps and brushes.

So for about 100-150$, I have enough for a few years and now that I have the razors and accessories, I'll only need new blades and soap, maybe a replacement brush at some point. So maybe 20$ -30$ per year.

As opposed to 100-150$ which would be about 5-6 packs of 4 cartridges. (so 20-24 blades) which for anyone that shaves on an almost daily basis, would be less than 6 months' worth at 5 shaves per cartridge, not counting the gels/foam, etc.

All this, and I no longer feel like I'm pulling/ripping my face off.


I use the cheapest gillette disposables I can get. $20 for 52, and they work just fine. A $2.50 cake of Col. Conk lasts months.

Eventually, I'll get the straight blade and never buy another razor again.
 
2011-11-30 04:32:08 PM
I use an electric razor and only just a few weeks ago replaced the blades for the first time. I had been using the old ones as my only shaving method for 20 years.
 
2011-11-30 04:32:49 PM
Replace for areas that you know (this is Vancouver, BC):

Q. What does a Surrey kid get for Christmas?

A. A Langley kids' bike
 
2011-11-30 04:33:11 PM
WarszawaScream: imfallen_angel:
So for about 100-150$, I have enough for a few years and now that I have the razors and accessories, I'll only need new blades and soap, maybe a replacement brush at some point. So maybe 20$ -30$ per year.


Just make sure to keep the blades out of humidity (and not in the bathroom)... I stocked up on blades when they were on sale, only to find the last pack had started to rust/corrode when I went to bust them out a year and a half later. (That's what my stupid arse gets for storing them in the bathroom. Hurped that durp real good.)


ok thanks... ... as they are sealed and wrapped I didn't think that the humidity would or could get to them... I'll move them tonight..
 
2011-11-30 04:33:29 PM
imfallen_angel: There's new strait type with replacement blades, which looks like a double edge blade cut in two.)

The disposable straights. I'm looking at one of those. Much cheaper than a real straight and I'll get to decide if that style is suited for me and worth dropping big bucks on a good blade.
 
2011-11-30 04:33:55 PM
Bukharin: Jameson is not "expensive liquor"

It is next to a bottle of Thunderbird
 
2011-11-30 04:37:52 PM
Menace II Sobriety: imfallen_angel: I recently switched to the old school razors.

Like a strait razor? I always wanted to shave with one of those.


I did for a while (got tired of throwing stuff away).

Helpful hint for the novice: Pre-dial 9-1-1 on your phone and have it with you at the sink.

/went back to disposable razors, way faster and less lethal
 
2011-11-30 04:38:28 PM
groppet: Around here stealing Tide is the big crime. Walk into a store with a cart walk out with a cart full of Tide. Then sell it at swap meets for 5 bucks less. They busted a guy with $80k in cash and his garage was packed with Tide.

People steal all kinds of crazy stuff. Years ago, when I worked for Cover Girl Cosmetics and called on Wal-Mart and KMart, the top three Health and Beauty items stolen at discount stores were: #1 Cover Girl Liquid Makeup #2 EPT Early Pregnancy Tests and #3 Lee Press-on Fingernails.
 
2011-11-30 04:42:05 PM
Call of Duty and Skyrim. Hell, any xbox game. Once you have an Alpha s3 key, the world is your oyster.
 
2011-11-30 04:44:22 PM
vodka: I use an electric razor and only just a few weeks ago replaced the blades for the first time. I had been using the old ones as my only shaving method for 20 years.

I have at least 4-5 electric shavers sitting in a drawer... they all gave me trouble.

I've even cut/nicked myself many times with some of them, and lots of other issues with my skin, I just kept hoping that I'd find something better, then went back to disposable (and cartridges type).

I kept reading posts from other Farkers about the old school being the way to go for sensitive skin, and when the last razor I got had a single "precision" blade that I was using more and more instead of the 4-5 blade side, I figured that I might as well go for it.

Turns out that it's a full hobby to get into... who knew?
 
2011-11-30 04:45:30 PM
UtileDysfunktion: Menace II Sobriety: imfallen_angel: I recently switched to the old school razors.

Like a strait razor? I always wanted to shave with one of those.


I did for a while (got tired of throwing stuff away).

Helpful hint for the novice: Pre-dial 9-1-1 on your phone and have it with you at the sink.

/went back to disposable razors, way faster and less lethal


The hairline scar I have running right under my chin agrees with you.
 
2011-11-30 04:48:26 PM
Mugato:
Anyway, this isn't a bookmark for when I get home to check the article on the same page..."Wicked Lesbian Foreplay: An Idea Worth Stealing?"


No. Nudity and kissing is about it. No audio. And it's 45 minutes long. Just a stupid webcam thing. Unless their being sisters is that big of a deal. Can't confirm that though.
 
2011-11-30 04:49:28 PM
Electric shavers are the biggest scam in the history of the world
 
2011-11-30 04:53:01 PM
Edsel: I have yet to be in a store where they just have iPhones sitting on a shelf where you can grab one and walk out.

This. How would one even go about shoplifting an iPhone? You have to go into the store, sign up for a service contract, pay, and then the pompous schmuck in the Apple store goes to the back and gets it for you. It's not like you can just grab and run.

Anyways, Shoplifting is so twenty years ago, now it's all about return fraud. Buy those discount DVDs at Big Lots and hand them over to Wal-Mart for huge gains. Just bought a $60 PS3 game at Target on sale for $25? Take it over to Wally World and make a cool easy $35. And no, I don't do this shiat, I actually have a concious, but I know people that do, and have been to sites where they actively conspire on various ways to accomplish this. Buying from one store and returning to another is bad enough, now people are switching UPC labels, printing fake receipts on their computer, and doing all sorts of nasty things that cause retailers to pass the cost of their losses back onto you, the consumer.
 
2011-11-30 04:55:45 PM
imfallen_angel: IrateShadow: Maybe people wouldn't steal razors if they weren't so farkign expensive.

I recently switched to the old school razors.

For around 30-40$ I found a seller on ebay and got two half decent razors and over a hundred blades. I've bought two other razors and a few more things, such as a stand, soaps and brushes.

So for about 100-150$, I have enough for a few years and now that I have the razors and accessories, I'll only need new blades and soap, maybe a replacement brush at some point. So maybe 20$ -30$ per year.

As opposed to 100-150$ which would be about 5-6 packs of 4 cartridges. (so 20-24 blades) which for anyone that shaves on an almost daily basis, would be less than 6 months' worth at 5 shaves per cartridge, not counting the gels/foam, etc.

All this, and I no longer feel like I'm pulling/ripping my face off.


This plus eleventy. I shave with old straight razors from antique stores. 18 bucks or less, an hour on the stones, and it's good to go.
Or my gillette fatboy double edge razor. 20 bucks on the bay. 10 pack of blades from Sally for $3, 3 shaves per blade. Hella cheaper than any cartridge razor on the market.
 
2011-11-30 04:56:26 PM
Ro_thunder: Mugato: I've never shoplifted in my life but some of those things I can't see how'd they get out with. A fifth of liquor? Where are you going to put that? And the pints are always behind the counter. And don't electronic stuff have those magnetic things you need a special key or a lightsaber to take off? And I don't want to know where they hide the filet mignon.

Anyway, this isn't a bookmark for when I get home to check the article on the same page..."Wicked Lesbian Foreplay: An Idea Worth Stealing?"

Turkey stuffed down dudes PANTS (new window)


fandaily.info

...and he nearly got away with it, too.
 
2011-11-30 04:58:53 PM
IrateShadow: Maybe people wouldn't steal razors if they weren't so farkign expensive.

This. I love the Fusion (got one for free), but I'm not paying 40 bills for 8 cartridges.

Uses the 5 pack disposable razors from 99 Cent store.
 
2011-11-30 05:11:02 PM
spunkymunky: This plus eleventy. I shave with old straight razors from antique stores. 18 bucks or less, an hour on the stones, and it's good to go.

Got any tips or a nice How To? I see them in antique stores now and then, but I'm always worried about actually trying to restore and use them.
 
2011-11-30 05:11:35 PM
spunkymunky:

This plus eleventy. I shave with old straight razors from antique stores. 18 bucks or less, an hour on the stones, and it's good to go.
Or my gillette fatboy double edge razor. 20 bucks on the bay. 10 pack of blades from Sally for $3, 3 shaves per blade. Hella cheaper than any cartridge razor on the market.



The things I discovered with doing the switch is that.

1) I was afraid to cut myself with the DE blades as, after being used to the disposable with the 3mm wide blades, the DE blades look scary, huge compared, and I expected a serious bunch of nicks and such. But I watched a lot of tutorials on Youtube (as I never had anyone show me when I was much younger), I made my best to follow proper procedures and preparation... the hardest thing was getting the lather to be right.

2) Today, I remember the disposable cartridges as toys and cheap. No wonder I had so much trouble with them.

I'm waiting to received my adjustable Gillette and very curious about how that's gonna be.

My main one is a Parker and it's very nice... heavy, easy to use.

I'm just perplexed to why DE razors (and blades, etc.) are so freaking hard to find locally and why Gillette stopped making them, then I do the math and the $$$ they make with the cartridges is amazing.
 
Displayed 50 of 83 comments

First | « | 1 | 2 | » | Last | Show all


This thread is closed to new comments.

Continue Farking
Submit a Link »