I have created a three-question survey on customer and employee theft in newsagencies this year compared to last year. I’ll leave this up until Monday afternoon.
To take the survey please click here. It will only take a few seconds.
Every week over the last few months I have taken calls from newsagents facing sizeable theft situations. Talking with someone yesterday I had the idea it would be good to harvest more data about the extent of the two key types of theft in a newsagency. Hence the survey.
The survey software (Survey Monkey) doesn’t track your details, you can respond anonymously and it only allows one response per computer.
When we caught our latest shop lifter, he took great pleasure in telling me he was only 17 and that he cannot be charged. We called the police and sure enough he gets away with only a caution no matter what he steals.
Good thing for me was I knew the family and called his dad to ask why he raised a thief and by the sounds of the shock his dad was going to ask him the same question when he got home.
We work hard for a living but these kids know they can get away with it even if caught.
I know another serial shoplifter that has since joined the police force because he had “no record” even though he was arrested many times but could not be charged.
Luke is sucks. I had the same thing happen. Sometimes family justice is the best.