Thursday, December 14, 2023
The Morning Show Podcast
Carla Marie and Anthony
4.9 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Morning Show Podcast, a daily dose of audio to make your day a little better. |
| 0:07.0 | A quick reminder, it's not a good idea to just walk around punching people on the head. |
| 0:12.3 | Oh. |
| 0:12.7 | We'll talk about that in today's pop stop. |
| 0:15.1 | And in today's nerd news, book, drama. |
| 0:18.7 | Like, get ready. |
| 0:19.5 | It is the nerdiest kind of drama you're going to hear. |
| 0:21.9 | All right. Welcome to the Morning Show podcast. My name is Anthony. I'm Carla Marie. And today is Thursday, |
| 0:26.7 | December 14th, 2020. |
| 0:29.8 | The Core 4. The four headlines you need to know. Is there a wave of shoplifting sweeping over the country? |
| 0:37.3 | Back in 2021, a lobbying group that represents most of the major retail chains |
| 0:41.8 | claimed that organized crime accounted for nearly 50% of all inventory lost in America. |
| 0:48.8 | That seems like a huge problem that needs to be addressed. |
| 0:51.5 | And certain media companies definitely jumped on that story and made |
| 0:55.0 | it seem like America was some sort of lawless wasteland. Here in Seattle, literally down the street |
| 0:59.9 | from me, Target claimed they needed to close one of their stores because of how out of control |
| 1:04.5 | the crime has been. But then something interesting happened. The lobbying group for these big retail |
| 1:09.9 | stores just retracted their |
| 1:11.8 | statement about shoplifting that they've been leaning on for over two years. So what happened |
| 1:16.7 | you might be asking? Did people just stop shoplifting? Well, no. Turns out the statistics that |
| 1:22.8 | they were using warrant accurate. Now, that doesn't mean shoplifting doesn't exist. Of course it does, but it turns out |
| 1:29.7 | the retail companies like Target, Walmart, CVS, and a bunch of others needed to blame someone for the |
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