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牙医 Every year thousands of people are arrested and taken to court for shoplifting. In Britain alone, about HK $ 3 ,000,000’s worth of goods are stolen from shops every week. This amounts to something like HK $ 150 million a year, and reprents about 4 percent of the shop’s total stock. As a result of this 角色意识“shrinkageu盘制作系统”亚太区番组词 as the shops call it, the honest public has to pay higher prices. Shoplifters can be divided into three main categories: the professionals, the deliberate amateurs, and the people who just can’t help themlves. The professionals do not po much of a problem for the store detectives , who, assisted by clod circuit television, two-way mirrors and various other technological devices, can usually cope with them. The professionals tend to go for high value goods in parts of the shops where curity measures are tightest. And, in any ca, they account for only a small percentage of the total loss due to shoplifting. The same applies to the deliberate amateur who is, so to speak, a professional in training. Most of them get caught sooner or l
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读后感开头唯美句子ater, and they are dealt with verely by the courts. The real problem is the person who gives way to a sudden temptation and is in all other respects an honest and law-abiding citizen. Contrary to what one would expect, this kind of shoplifter is rarely poor. He does not steal becau he needs the goods and cannot afford to pay for them. He steals becau he simply cannot stop himlf. And there are countless others who, becau of age, sickness or plain abnt-mindedness, simply forget to pay for what they take from the shops. When caught, all are liable to procution and the decision whether to nd for the police or not is in the hands of the store manager. In order to prevent the quite incredible growth in shoplifting offences, some stores, in fact, are doing their best to parate the thieves from the confud by prohibiting customers from taking bags into the store. However, what is most worrying about the whole problem is, perhaps, that it is yet another instance of the innocent majority being penalized and inconvenienced becau of the actions of a small minority. It is the aircraft hijack situation in another form. Becau of the possibility of one pasnger in a million boarding an aircraft with a weapon, the other 999,999 pasngers must subject themlves to arches and delays.
Unless the situation in the shops improves, in ten years’ time we may all have to subject ourlves to a body-arch every time we go into a store to buy a tin of beans!
