Joyanna Adams

Nobody’s Perfect: Stealing: The Rich VS the Poor

Nobody Perfect:

Famous-Barr. Maybe you haven’t heard the name. It was a big department store that used to be a favorite place to shop here in St. Louis. Every single Mall outlet for miles around in the Midwest had a Famous-Barr anchored at one end. They were one step up from Sears and J.C. Penny’s and just one step down from Macy’s. In fact, they probably took most of Macy’s customers away.

Macy showed them. They put Famous Barr into the dustbin of history. That’s saying something for taking over the first department store in the United States to have air-conditioning.  

Famous-Barr, originally owned by the May Company, had a big office building downtown..where it employed literally hundreds of people. I use to go downtown St. Louis to met my old girlfriend for lunch who had a good paying job there.  Many an afternoon was spent in the Famous-Barr restaurant chatting about boys over French Onion soup. It was the best in the city.  

A few years ago, when I was feeling rather poor, I used to go to the nearest Famous just to try clothes on for fun. I couldn’t afford any of them, but it gave me a lift just to try on something new. Once in a great while, I wanted to buy something, and I was always shocked that you could never find anyone to help you. In the whole huge place, you had to search desperately for someone to ring you up. Cameras’ were watching you..but no people.

One day, around about 2001, I asked a lady at the perfume counter if anyone ever stole stuff from them.

“Oh yes,” said  “Once a week, four big burly men come into the perfume department, and stack as many boxes of perfume that they can carry, and just walk out the door.”

“You’re kidding!” I said. “Don’t you have Mall security?”

“Yep. They can’t do anything, and they always get here too late.” The attendant didn’t care at all. In fact, she was used to it.

Now, according to experts, one out of eleven people steal: in fact, Twitter has made it a favorite Friday night pastime. (See Video)

During the four weeks leading up to Christmas, an estimated $1.8 billion in merchandise will be shoplifted this year, according to The Global Retail Theft Barometer, a survey of retailers worldwide. That’s up about 6 percent from $1.7 billion during the same period last year. In the four weeks leading up to Christmas, retailers in the U.S. are expected to lose $5 billion in theft and other crimes. About 36 percent of those losses come from shoplifting. Employee theft represents about 44 percent. Vendor theft and administrative error make up the remainder.

Nobody Imagines what the economy would be like if all these people that are stealing, stopped.

Why do people steal? No morality. And it can be fun..to some a thrill.  AND they all figure..if Wall Street can steal, why can’t they? Superficially, it’s a good point.

As we all know, the rich hardly ever get caught, and they steal big time. Except for Winona Ryder, who was caught on tape stealing $5,500 worth of designer clothes at Saks Fifth Avenue. Hopefully they let her keep that swan outfit, in her last movie. 

How can all these people be stealing?  

Our government turns a blind eye to stealing, unless  you are one of the 99% that didn’t pay your taxes. But— over in Saudi Arabia, they are teaching 15-year olds that thieves who break Sharia law should have their hands cut off for a first offence and their feet amputated for a subsequent crime. Teenagers are presented with diagrams showing where cuts should be made.

If we had Sharia law here in the United States, not many people would be walking around.

I’m just saying.

When Time Magazine puts the window-smashing, flash-mob-stealing hoody person, as “Man of the Year” what can you expect?’—a President that works hard to bring the crime rates down?

Something tells me, Nike’s aren’t going to cut it.  

Stealing is now a Prime Time is any good time, national occupation for the rich, and the poor.

December 26, 2011 Posted by Joyanna Adams | criminals, Uncategorized | corruption, Obama, poor, rich, Sharia, Steaing | 2 Comments