I think it started after the 08 crash.
I think maybe for young now unemployment or under employed family’s who some were forced to shoplift getting little things to eat or like diapers or whatever and getting arrested. I remember helping a young woman going through the Motrin Tylenol Isle looking at the prices and crying as it turned out she didn’t have enough money to get Motrin for her child so I helped her.
I was helping a few young family’s at that time.
One cute instant I brought food over for a out of work dad injured and couldn’t get unemployment and waiting for disability or help because the mother was getting it but separated and he was the one with the kids and two siblings two and three yrs old were so hungry they couldn’t wait. When I put food on the table with fruit too the strawberries were gone. I walked around the corner to the living room and they were eating a strawberry. I said have you seen the strawberries? No they said and they walked to the corner of the couch and both came up with another strawberry. I said are you sure you haven’t seen them?
That turned in to the problem they have now with people using it as a life style taking advantage.
I remember walking into a store at a gas station and some guy think he was Indian running the store was yelling at some black guy for walking off without paying.
He said to me that’s it he’s selling the station. He’s sick and tired of the shop lifters. There was a bus drop off right there and he said they come in buses from the low income area and shop lift here and the police won’t do anything about it if it’s under a certain amount. So thins had been going on for sometime now.
The manager on the video said he told his workers not to intervene when they come in to steal for their safety. Maybe now but they don’t have a job, either does he.
Cost of living snd who the hell is managing the REE thinking the cost of housing is okay????!!!! Frigging greedy idiots are contributing to the downfall snd can’t wait till it hits them again because next time maybe they won’t get out of it so fast.