Retail theft and capitalism today
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4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
There’s been a lot of reporting lately about a rise in retail theft and a growing shoplifting problem. But a closer look at those claims and the relevant data seems to suggest something else is going on. We also revisit the attack on the World Trade Center and consider how American unity and perceptions have changed in the past 22 years. We end with some smiles about Mother Nature and a significant discovery that could be a big deal for the clean energy economy.
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- “Is retail theft really rising?” from Marketplace
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| 0:00.0 | Jake you in charge if you're in charge Jake and if you're ready to go I believe |
| 0:04.9 | we should go that's all I'm saying it's all I'm saying it looks like it works |
| 0:10.4 | like this strong he's like the strong silent that down there everybody I'm |
| 0:15.1 | Kai Rizzo welcome back to make me smart where we make the day make sense and I'm |
| 0:20.2 | Kimberly Adams thank you everyone for joining us on this Monday hope you all |
| 0:24.5 | had a glorious weekend and it is September 11th 22 years man crazy crazy so |
| 0:32.8 | we'll do some news of which the date is relevant to mine anyway and then we'll |
| 0:37.9 | do some smiles Kimberly Adams what do you got I guess today is gonna be the |
| 0:43.4 | Kai Rizzo show because I'm going to point to two things related directly to |
| 0:47.6 | you so first of all the interview that you had today which isn't up on the |
| 0:52.0 | website yet but I'm sure we'll include a link on the show notes with the |
| 0:55.8 | woman from the Marshall project about retail theft so interesting we talked |
| 1:01.4 | about this on the show because I was talking about how and all these earnings |
| 1:04.1 | calls they were saying they being major retailers were saying how retail theft |
| 1:09.6 | was cutting into their bottom line and all these different things that they |
| 1:13.0 | were putting into place to try to reduce theft and you know all these retailers |
| 1:17.4 | calling for her shop penalties and as I learned today some of them seem to be |
| 1:23.1 | making it up and you know I definitely heard from folks on in my DMs and |
| 1:29.8 | things like that about how you know we should spend some time talking about the |
| 1:34.2 | systemic issues that are leading people to need to steal food which has a lot |
| 1:39.9 | to do with what's going on in the economy right now and inflation and also you |
| 1:43.6 | know just late stage capitalism I guess in terms of people just taken stuff but |
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