**Stores enter the final phase** Stores in Toronto are finding the shoplifters have gone to massive grab, and the police don't do anything. The security guards can only smile and watch them go out. This was all to prevent bad PR regarding the disadvantaged. Now they are going full 'armed camp' with trained special constables. Many stores now have 'ring in' at the door, and I expect to see 'man traps' and fully armed guards. Fun. I'm shopping Amazon.
@hasmis
apparently Portland, Oregon in the states is having similar problems. The county district attorney apparently believes that prosecuting shop lifting is racist and discriminatory and so doesn't even bring charges against most shoplifters. The shoplifters know this and are quite brazen.
Apparently Wal-Mart is closing both of it's stores in the city and a number of other retailers are doing the same.
