The Bunker Is Moving

Everyone, I'm switching to Wordpress (Actually, I already made the switch), and I've been posting some duplicate info on both blogs, which is becoming a bit of a chore. The new blog is HERE, so please click the link and subscribe to the new blog to continue to receive these great articles, along with some other categories that I'm working on.

Sorry for any inconvenience, and I hope you'll hang in there with me as I make this important transition into bigger and better things.

I will leave this blog up for a couple of weeks before closing it down for good. Hope to see you on the other blog. If you drop by, please leave me a comment to let me know you were there.

 

Joe

Family Goes Shoplifting for the Holidays

This won't be on my list of Top 1000 Things To Do As A Family. People do this kind of thing because they think that if they get caught, the kids are too young to be charged, and since the parents generally don't actually participate in the act of theft itself, there either won't be any charges, or they will be minor. I just wonder how people can justify teaching their kids to steal. Talk about twisted. This gives "family values" a whole new meaning.

 

"There's one of the other young boys, the five or six year old, he's also carrying a helicopter,” said store owner Perry Lutz as he watched the surveillance video of the two adults and three children, the youngest of which could not be more than five years old. “Then the little guy, the little itty bitty guy, he just picked up a bunch of stuff right there too. He's up here helping himself he's loading up," said Lutz.
The family of shoplifters took more than $2,000 worth of goods.

News10.net - Family Goes Shoplifting for the Holidays

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More Parenting Geniusry

A 34-year-old Stuart woman used her 1-year-old daughter and a pair of wire cutters in an unsuccessful attempt to shoplift more than $600 in merchandise, including a baby stroller, from Wal-Mart, according to the Martin County Sheriff’s Office.

Dinah Victoria Williams, 34, of the 2900 block of Northwest Norman Street, Stuart, was charged Saturday with felony retail theft and possession of a countermeasure to anti-shoplifting control device, a deputy’s report said.

 

And that's not the end of it. This family affair also included an 18 year old relative, although the report doesn't specify exactly how they were related.

Here's another type of incident that happens every day. They just keep starting to teach them younger and younger to steal. Although I'm sure the kid doesn't realize what is going on, you can bet she was traumatized by Momma getting handcuffed and led away by police.

Really, how stupid can you be? Why would anyone who cares for their kids ever put themselves in a position like this? I'm sorry, but I don't get it. Personally, I thing people who get caught using their kids to steal, or stealing while their kids are with them, should have their sentences doubled.

Read the full store here

How's This For Parenting?

As if it's not bad enough that this mom is a thief, she's teaching her daughter to follow in her footsteps! This happens all the time, but you don't see it in the news much.

This should anger any parent. It's not like these two were starving and out stealing food to survive. They were stealing shirts! And we wonder why our kids don't seem to have any morals anymore.

There’s a right way to do holiday shopping but taking your teenager on a mother-daughter shoplifting trip is not it.

The Chronicle-Telegram - Lorain county's leading news source

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Illegal Aliens Welcomed Into The US, Again.

Don't believe it? Take a look at this article below. After promising to build a fence along the border, and after increasing funding to secure our borders; congress stripped the funding, AGAIN, without telling the public. BUT, it's not too late: Read Below and click the link to get involved!

Without explanation, Congress has stripped away $3 billion in desperately needed funds to build the Border Fence that it approved last year and to provide for other border security.

That's right—without telling the public, Congress is pulling the plug on the U.S.-Mexico Border Fence that it voted for with such enthusiasm last year (just before they asked voters to re-elect them).

Help us turn this petition into a national overnight phenomenon. Time is critical—Congress will finalize this funding question before Christmas!

Will you take a minute to sign it right now? Go to www.ReformUS.org.

IF CONGRESS DOES NOT RESTORE THE FUNDING . . .

. . . THERE WILL BE NO BORDER FENCE!

Note From Joe - C'mon folks. When is this game going to end? They keep doing what we demand as long as it's making news, and then they go behind our backs and strip away what they just voted to do. We're doomed if people don't start voting for people with common sense, and stop voting their pocket books.

This information comes from NumbersUSA.

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Keys To Consistent Low Shrink - Introduction

I have worked in Loss Prevention for just over 10 years. In that time, I have learned some valuable lessons which have helped me to maintain consistently low shrink numbers in my areas for the past 4 years running. What I have learned is that there are some key factors that enable a company to reduce shrink. No matter the size of the retail company, shrink (or loss) has an impact to the bottom line. So, of course, every company needs to control shrink in order to stay profitable.

There are some things that every company can do to reduce shrink and maintain low shrink numbers, regardless of whether the business is a "big box" department store, or a small specialty retailer. The fact is that shrink costs the company (and its investors and customers) money. So, it only makes sense that any company would want to reduce shrink, thereby increasing profitability.

Over the coming days, I will write about 10 things that, if combined together, will definitely reduce shrink; and, if these things are used consistently, they will maintain low shrink numbers. This is like having the combination to Fort Knox when it comes to saving a company money.

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Refund Fraud Is A Growing Problem With Retailers

We all know how shoplifters work. They come into a store and they steal the merchandise. There are various ways they do this, but that's the basic idea. Refund fraud is a different twist on shoplifting. In a refund fraud case, the shoplifter not only steals from the retailer, but then they return the stolen merchandise to the retailer (without a receipt, of course) for a refund, usually in the form of a store credit. This credit is usually then used in various ways to commit other frauds.

These cases are very difficult to prove because typically the shoplifter and the refunder are not the same person or persons, although they are working together. One person or group will usually steal the merchandise, and then another person or group will return it for the refund.

New technology has made tracking these folks much easier, and retailers policies to log identification for any return without a receipt has helped to slow it down.

So, the next time you need to return something that you lost your receipt for, and the clerk asks for you ID, just thank the folks like the ones in the story below for the trouble.

In a second criminal case, Boise residents Peter Vitale, 38, and Kathleen J. Jones, 34, were arrested on burglary charges. Boise Police, working with loss prevention officers from several local retailers, identified Jones and Vitale as suspects in what appears to be an ongoing retail fraud scheme. Officers are still investigating, but believe monetary losses to the stores may run into the thousands.
The pair was arrested at a retailer in the area of Fairview Avenue and Five Mile Road Monday afternoon by officers who caught the pair in the act of a trying to make a fraudulent return.

Idaho Press-Tribune

Couple Steals $375K in CA

Yes, you read the headline correctly. A couple in California was arraigned on Monday for stealing $375,000.00 in merchandise through fraud. Here's the more interesting facts of this case. One of the two, is a pre-school teacher! What a role-model!!

These two made more than 2,000 fraudulent purchases using 27 different credit and debit cards!! And we wonder where our kids learn to steal??

There's more. The bond for these two was set at $350,000.00, or $25,000.00 less than what they stole.

These two defrauded several companies out of hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of their spree. The report does not mention the time period over which these crimes were committed.

Here's the news story

I wonder how long, on a school teacher's salary, it will take them to pay the restitution on this case. That is, if the judge even orders it. More than likely, these companies are just out, with no real recourse. They can seek restitution through the courts, but even if they win, what do you think these two will pay with? I'd be willing to bet their stolen funds are long gone by now.

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