probably the smarter shoplifters since washing detergent doesnt go bad like lobster, shrimp and meat does.
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They stole a shitload of Tide. At least those degenerate criminals will have clean threads.
Is there a secondary market on Craigslist for laundry detergent?
Perhaps, or they'll barter for crack.
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Flea markets more likely.
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I'm not joking....if I'm watching that, while they are throwing stuff in the back I'm grabbing their car keys in the ignition and throwing them on the roof of the building.
well there you have it. Build Back Better is going to solve inflation.
Actually Tide is used for currency in the ‘hood.
I could only listen to about the first 30 seconds, but you could see her suppressing the urge to cackle.
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Is it my imagination or does she have the exact same hand gestures and idiotic spew of Pelosi? Only not drunk.
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How Tide Detergent Became a Drug Currency -- New York Magazine - Nymag
Tide detergent: Works on tough stains. Can now also be traded for crack. A case study in American ingenuity, legal and otherwise.
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The call that came in from a local Safeway one day in March 2011 was unlike any the Organized Retail Crime Unit of the Prince George’s County Police Department had fielded before. The grocery store, located in suburban Bowie, Maryland, had been robbed repeatedly. But in every incident the only products taken were bottles—many, many bottles—of the liquid laundry detergent Tide. “They were losing $10,000 to $15,000 a month, with people just taking it off the shelves,” recalls Sergeant Aubrey Thompson, who heads the team. When Thompson and his officers arrived to investigate, they stumbled onto another apparent Tide theft in progress and busted two men who’d piled 100 or so of the bright-orange jugs into their Honda. The next day, Thompson returned to the store’s parking lot to tape a television interview about the crimes. A different robber took advantage of the distraction to make off with twenty more bottles.
Later, Thompson reviewed weeks’ worth of the Safeway’s security footage. He found that more than two dozen thieves, working in crews, were regularly raiding the store’s household-products aisle, sometimes returning more than once the same day and avoiding detection by timing their heists to follow clerks’ shift changes. Owners and managers of other area stores, having seen Thompson on the news, reached out to him to report their own vanishing Tide bottles. Since then, the oddly brand-loyal crime wave has gone national, striking bodegas, supermarkets, and big-box discounters from Austin to West St. Paul, Minnesota. In New York, employees at the Penn Station Duane Reade nabbed a man trying to abscond with Tide bottles he’d stuffed into a suitcase. In Orange County, an attempted Tide theft led to a high-speed chase that included the thief crashing his SUV into an ambulance. Last year, for the first time, detergent made the National Retail Federation’s list of most-targeted items. Says Joseph LaRocca, founder of the trade group RetailPartners, who helped compile the report: “Tide was specifically called out.”
As the cases piled up after his team’s first Tide-theft bust, Thompson sought an answer to the riddle at the center of the crimes: What did thieves want with so much laundry soap? To find out, he and his unit pored over security recordings to identify prolific perpetrators, whom officers then tracked down and detained for questioning. “We never promised to go easy on them, but they were willing to talk about it,” Thompson says. “I guess they were bragging.” It turned out the detergent wasn’t being used as an ingredient in some new recipe for getting high, but instead to buy drugs themselves. Tide bottles have become ad hoc street currency, with a 150-ounce bottle going for either $5 cash or $10 worth of weed or crack cocaine. On certain corners, the detergent has earned a new nickname: “Liquid gold.” The Tide people would never sanction that tag line, of course. But this unlikely black market would not have formed if they weren’t so good at pushing their product.
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Wonder where it goes after that?
I suppose ultimately someone uses it to do their laundry. As long as people agree to place a value on something and accept it as cash, then it is accepted as cash.
Couple years ago some sketchy characters were going around my little burg of Rochester, PA trying to sell Tide door to door. They stopped at my house and I'm like "Why the f*ck should I buy Tide from you when there is a Giant Eagle down the street?"
Burgundy is street smart and wisely figured that the interlopers were cutting the Tide 50/50 with water and selling each bottle at a 50% markup.
Me and a few other people called the cops, who told them to leave town. Everyone in Rochester knows everyone else in Rochester. The old saying. "You ain't from here are you?" applies.
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Thanks for answering...That makes sense. Probably taking advantage of the elderly where they could. Hasn't happened yet where I live, and those thieves can rot in Hell.
Or take a baseball bat to their windshields.
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Pisses me off to no end. These are the "important issues" we must address. How about grocery, home heating and gasoline prices? And care for our Vets.
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Frankly, I am thrilled to see Tibilo had the courage to make it out of his studio apartment, brave the chances of encountering wHyTe s0oPrEmAsIsTs, and interact with the general public for the first time since the WuFlu became a thing.
Is there a Bounty on those paper towels?
Oil prices are finally falling. Thank China and Joe Biden
The price of oil has shot up this fall, boosting profits for major producers but hurting the wallets of drivers who need to fill up their tanks. Just a few days back, gas prices in California hit their highest level ever. This week, however, some of the pressure has started to lift.
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I'm dead serious asking this question....is that a man saying he is having a period or a woman dressed like who knows saying she is having a period? I'm so F'n confused by this BS. Imagine being called a bigot or misogynist or transphobic when I don't even know what the hell I'm looking at.
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