most shoplifted items

[Miss Maya Blue]

One out of 11, that's surprising isn't it?

***********************************************************



By Joanna Douglas, Shine Fashion and Beauty Editor | Fashion – Fri, Dec 2, 2011. Ad Week is reporting that one in every 11 people walks out the door with at least one item they didn’t pay for.

Exactly what are people stealing?

Ad Week has compiled the top 10 most shoplifted items of 2011 and they’re truly bizarre. Let's rock Elmo? lol


1. Filet mignon
2. Expensive bottle of liquor
3. Electric tools
4. iPhone 4
5. Gillette Mach 4
6. Axe
7. Polo Ralph Lauren
8. Let’s Rock Elmo
9. Chanel No. 5
10. Nikes

 

[Ceiling Cat]

Some people are cleptos all their life, I knew a guy all throughout grade school and high school. He has stolen things from stores all his life. He is also a mootch. The list on the OP is for luxury items, I understand that most stores get a lot of theft of batteries, underwear, pantyhose, and gloves. Of course the small items that can be tucked into a pocket are stolen most.

 

[fuji]

I would have thought "chocolate bar" would be #1. I figure convenience stores are the #1 target and most thieves will be drunks and chuckleheads who grab something just because they can.

 

[GG2]

I wonder how accurate that list is. A top ten list that only includes one food item is indicative of a well fed vain greedy populace.

1 in 11 people being outright petty thieves, criminals under the law, seems high.

 

[fun-guy]

I don't know if that's a list for the US, but a couple of weeks ago I heard a radio station say that the number thing that is stolen in the world is cheese, lol. I know, I laughed when I heard it but on average across every country in the world, cheese the number 1 stolen item, and you can't blame the mice on this one.

 

[Brill]

I can see why meat would top the list - it's small, expensive and consumed by everyone and there aren't any tags that would trigger an alarm. A pound of good deli meat is about $15 and fits in your pocket or purse.

I'll bet liquor in Ontario is much lower on the list because of the LCBO, if it was in corner stores it would jump to the top.
I thought make-up would be there, it's small and expensive.

 

[userz]

I'll bet liquor in Ontario is much lower on the list because of the LCBO, if it was in corner stores it would jump to the top.
I thought make-up would be there, it's small and expensive.

I saw loss prevention in action at an LCBO outlet a few weeks ago. Those guys are incredibly swift and will resort to force to subdue you if you resist. The suspects in question did pay for things but I guess they had concealed goods in their coats.

 

[simon482]

back in the day when i shoplifted and stole shit, i had a rule. never from a mom and pop joint, only from the big name stores.

 

[Brill]

I remember in 1989 when NDP MP Lorne Nystrom was charged with shoplifting many years ago, he was accused of taking an $8 bottle of contact lens solution. He claimed forgetfulness, but I remembered thinking this was a common item to steal because it's so small and fairly expensive for what you get.

Then fellow NDPer Svend Robinson swiping that expensive piece of jewellery, that didn't shock me either.

 

[userz]

I remember in 1989 when NDP MP Lorne Nystrom was charged with shoplifting many years ago, he was accused of taking an $8 bottle of contact lens solution. He claimed forgetfulness, but I remembered thinking this was a common item to steal because it's so small and fairly expensive for what you get.

Then fellow NDPer Svend Robinson swiping that expensive piece of jewellery, that didn't shock me either.

In the early 80's the speaker of the National Assembly of Quebec PQ MNA Claude Charron put on a coat at an Eaton's store and made a run for it. Quebec nationalists had long hated Eaton's since it was perceived to be the store of the English bourgeois. Even in the children's story The Hockey Sweater the cigar chomping Mr. Eaton in Toronto sends the protagonist a Maple Leafs jersey in response to his mother's request for a new hockey sweater. There was a joke at the time: PQ brand paint: put on two coats and it runs. I remember Marilyn Lastman also tried the five finger discount at Eaton's about 15 years ago but was never charged.

 

[Art Mann]

Stole second base once, but got caught by a pitcher with a sharp eye and a fast hand.

Had to put it back.

 

[Doot]

Cashiers get caught up with the position and then they become addicted to cash money.

 

[sleazure]

The razor blades didn't surprise me too much, just because I've noticed that the stores have been putting more security on them.

Nike, Axe and Chanel all sound like something the teenagers might be into. At least it's not OldSpice.

Elmo? That surprises me. Maybe he just got up and walked out on his own.

 

[FatOne]

I walked out of a fish and chips place without paying. I was a regular there and just plain forgot. I was almost home, had a OH SHIT moment and rushed back and explained what happened at the cash. The chick at the cash didn't seem to care much that I walked out, or that I was honest enough to go back and pay up.

I shoplifted a chocolate bar from a Miracle Mart when I was about 5 or less, however in my defense I thought they were free, they were set up in some sort of bowl setting like candy and again I was a wee lad. Parentals saw me eating a bar and asked about it. Never went back to pay for it, but I never did that again except...

Some time in my later pre teens I stuffed my face with chocolate from the bulk bin at a grocery store. Sure enough I got caught but nothing happened but a few words. The only time I did it when I was old enough to know better.

 

[havingfun]

When I was a young teenager (13/14), I used to shoplift porn. Probably explains a lot (like why I am here on Terb, 40 years later). (there was no free porn on the internet then - there was no internet period, teenage boys have it so much better now).

 

[afterhours]

In the early 80's the speaker of the National Assembly of Quebec PQ MNA Claude Charron put on a coat at an Eaton's store and made a run for it. Quebec nationalists had long hated Eaton's since it was perceived to be the store of the English bourgeois. Even in the children's story The Hockey Sweater the cigar chomping Mr. Eaton in Toronto sends the protagonist a Maple Leafs jersey in response to his mother's request for a new hockey sweater. There was a joke at the time: PQ brand paint: put on two coats and it runs. I remember Marilyn Lastman also tried the five finger discount at Eaton's about 15 years ago but was never charged.

and Lastman threatened a journalist and also was never charged.

 

[CUPID]

Preparation H is the most shoplifted item from Shoppers Drug Mart.

 

[Rockslinger]

Surprised not to see ladies panties on the list.

 

[d_jedi]

Preparation H is the most shoplifted item from Shoppers Drug Mart.

And "extra small" sized condoms

 

[Rockslinger]

Preparation H is the most shoplifted item from Shoppers Drug Mart.

Would you take Prep H to the lineup at the cash and then place it on the counter for all to see? Hee, hee, hee. I once bumped into a female co-worker at Kanes Drugmart and she had this huge box of tampons in her cart. Of course, I pretended to have never seen it.