Shoplifting in Helsinki surges by over 50% | Yle News

by Fast-State9988

11 comments
  1. “People shoplift so we need to raise prices to compensate” – Average Kesko bigbrain

    Funny how that directly influences the rate of shoplifting. ¯l_(ツ)_/¯

  2. When you cut on social security benefits for the poorer people you also cut on everyone safety. When people are desperate everything can happen.

  3. There may be markets for these items elsewhere. They often leave Finland by mail or other transport. This is cross-border professional crime,” he said

    Read the article. Cutting social secutity does not mean finnish people are suddenly stealing food not to starve, get real.

  4. Maybe arrest the shoplifters and lock them up? When there are no consequences why they wouldn’t? Gotta get that daily dose….

    If someone really needed to steal food for living ( which you don’t need to unless you waste your money) , they’d steal potatoes, sausages or something like that, not the 29€/kg meats.

  5. Immigrants are overrepresented in the shoplifting business

  6. I’ve lived in quite a poor area of the UK before and petty shoplifting is obviously something that can increase in times of hardship. However – most people do not turn to that, no matter how badly they are off. What happens is that career criminals will find more demand for cut price items, and they will increase activity. I knew plenty of people who around Xmas time would make orders with ‘Christmas Jeff’ or whoever, and they’d steal to order.

    If someone offers you a big old salmon or ham and you’ve been spreading the margarine thin for a long time, I think that’s a lot more of an acceptable crime barrier to break than stealing first hand.

  7. Hard times. A national embarrassment of a government.

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