25 July

Talking to a manager of a Big W store the other day, and they revealed that annual stocktake regularly reveals a discrepancy of about $500,000. Mostly attributed to shoplifting. Shoplifting is interesting, it was negligible in old shops, retail was a relationship between a customer and the person behind the counter. Part of the change has been big reductions in staff together with big growth in profits. That’s what the Economy is, strip mining of basic commerce as part of a social system, to funnel wealth to a tiny few.