{"id":25325,"date":"2024-11-09T04:05:33","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T12:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=25325"},"modified":"2024-11-09T04:05:33","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T12:05:33","slug":"america-has-a-shoplifting-epidemic-the-thieves-arent-who-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/america-has-a-shoplifting-epidemic-the-thieves-arent-who-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"America has a shoplifting epidemic. The thieves aren\u2019t who you think."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carson\u2019s not sure why he\u2019s never been able to kick his shoplifting habit. It started in his teens, when he and his friends would steal beer, and escalated when the installation of what he describes as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/self-checkout-alienating-shoppers-according-to-new-research-2024-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">self-checkout silliness<\/a>\u201d made it easy to buy a couple of things, phantom swipe the rest, and walk out of Walmart with \u201ca huge amount of shit.\u201d In his early 20s, he took a chair from Target by just waltzing out the front door with it. He figured everyone would assume he bought it.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/dnyuz.com\/2024\/11\/03\/america-has-a-shoplifting-epidemic-the-thieves-arent-who-you-think\/\">dnyuz.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carson\u2019s not sure why he\u2019s never been able to kick his shoplifting habit. It started in his teens, when he and his friends would steal beer, and escalated when the installation of what he describes as \u201cself-checkout silliness\u201d made it easy to buy a couple of things, phantom swipe the rest, and walk out of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/america-has-a-shoplifting-epidemic-the-thieves-arent-who-you-think\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">America has a shoplifting epidemic. The thieves aren\u2019t who you think.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/watching-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6At","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25326,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25325\/revisions\/25326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}