Yesterday as my family and I were going into Target (TGT) to browse the toy section for holiday gift ideas, we witnessed a middle-aged man with a cart full of baby products (diapers, wipes, baby lotion, baby shampoo, and a small baby toy) walk out of the store without paying. There were many people around, some noticed as we did, some didn’t and it was a busy time of day, almost perfect to pull off such a heist.
The man had a determined look on his face, almost a desperate, “I don’t know what else to do” look. He simply focused straight ahead to the exit and never looked back.
This is a prime example of how inflation affects America today. Forget the recent Quantitative Easing solution that is “supposed” to help the economy, in truth all that money that pumped into the system only went to the top-tier citizens of the United States anyway. The same citizens that caused this demise in the first place!
But, I can relate with the shoplifter, after all I have two young kids of my own, and a baby on the way. Diapers costs $45 per box of 216 pieces. Babies go through 8 per day on average. So, in a little under a month, you’re spending $45 dollars on diapers alone, wipes come to about $20 per box on top of all the other expenses required for a baby. Crib and crib mattress, sheets for the crib, a changing pad, strollers, car seats, appropriate-sized clothing, formula (if not breastfed), bottles for the milk, bottle warmers, disinfecting bags for pacifiers, bibs, and the list goes on and on!
Desperate times calls for desperate measure, and with the economy the way it is, where jobs are gone, incomes are down or at a plateau, consumer prices are up, the dollar value at an all time low, and lending institutions tightening their standards. It’s no wonder some can be driven to bunk the system and steal.
Brace yourselves, my feeling is, more and more people will be driven to do extreme things.
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