Shoplifting & December Things

Do you intentionally skip scanning items at the self checkout? Dangerous Dave talks about a survey that says people with money are more likely to do it than broke people. Plus, December things we plan to do like listen to music and decorate.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is steeper in the den with dangerous day. So
have you ever intentionally lied about the number of lines
in your bag at the self checkout? Some people do
cheat the system to save forty cents, and you know
who does it? Rich people. A new report looked into
stealing it self checkout machines and twenty seven percent of

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people admit to taking an item without scanning it on purpose,
and surprisingly, the ones most likely to do it are
not poor. Forty percent of the people with household incomes
of over one hundred thousand dollars or more admit they've
stolen something at least once. That's a drop of twenty
seven percent of households making fifty k to ninety nine

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K and seventeen percent of people making less than fifty
thousand dollars have done it. This was self reported, so
maybe rich people are just more honest with their dishonesty,
and they didn't distinguish between people who admit to having
done it once or twice or people who do it habitually.
Men thirty eight percent more likely to cheat the self

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checkout than women, Millennials and Gen z ers more likely
to admit it than Gen xers or boomers. Boomers by
the way, just two percent parents with children at home,
forty four percent more likely than adults with children, and
seven percent of adults without children. So why are people

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taking the risk of shoplifting over a few bucks? Thieves
given ten options. Most common rationale was they're having trouble
affording things these days due to the current financial climate.
Price increase due to tariffs was a most common answer,
followed by prices feel unfair, feel the checkout as unpaid work,

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so taking small items feel like compensation. Stores are large
and profitable, and the harm feels minimal and low chance
of being caught was also on the list other excuses
down the list, seventeen percent of people said they feel
stealing is justified because of long lines, fourteen percent just
because they have falsely accused of stealing in the past

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when they didn't so they feel like this is their retribution.
I try not to steal at the self checkout. As
a matter of fact, I'm still waiting for my rais
well big plans this month. And if you do everything
on this list, you might officially be a holiday psycho.
But that's okay. They pulled a thousand Americans and asked

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them how many December things they plan on doing this month.
Top thing we're doing listening to holiday music hard to avoid.
Probably can hear it no matter what, but seventy five
percent of people intentionally listening to it this month. Sixteen
percent said they will do everything to avoid it. Watch
a holiday movie came at number two, followed it seventy
two percent, followed by looking at lights, exchanging presents, drinking

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hot chocolate, decorating a tree, putting up lights, baking cookies,
going to at least one holiday party, donating to charity,
end a holiday card, wearing a holiday pajamas, other Christmas
things we plan to do, Attending a religious service and
let's hope that's not in your holiday pajamas, display a

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Nativity scene, attend a holiday concert or play, do a
secret Santa, build a snowman, kiss somebody under the missiletoe,
get arrested for sexual harassment. That's part of the number eighteen.
Kiss somebody under a mistletoe. Okay, I might have made
that part up. Build a gingerbread house made the list,
and also making a snow angel. Do it it can

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