When you’re a teenagers it is the time children start rebelling against their parent in various ways is shoplifting seem to be a big one. Teens just don’t understand yet that when they shoplift it doesn’t just concern them but it also concerns there parent, the community, and the store. About 13 billion dollars in the United States has been stolen for shoplifters every day. This means stores must have to higher there price to cover the amount of money that has been stolen which means more money out your parent pocket. Not only has that but they must also higher taxes so once the shoplifter has to pay taxed there higher just because they have been stealing. Even when they end up being caught they still go do again because you can do four and be only get caught once out of those four times. Many teenagers at their school now a days may not be stealing but they know of other teenagers that are and have yet to be caught. Then they start to think it easy and they won’t get caught so they end up going and shoplifting because they tell them they probably will not get caught because they have not. At this point in time teen are not thinking about the world around them they only think about themselves until they get …show more content…
Habitual shoplifters steal an average of 1.6 times per week which is just hurting our world more and more each week. Every time a person is caught shoplifting they should have to go through a class not just there first time but every time to put it into their brain. This is hurting people that don’t even think about shoplifting people have to pay more on everything just because someone got it for free which is not fair to this society. There are approximately 27 million shoplifters (or 1 in 11 people) in our nation today. More than 10 million people have been caught shoplifting in the last five years. The world just needs to understand more the meaning of growth and they will just have to work for the possessions that they want and need. Just because they didn’t doesn’t mean you will not get caught you first time either. People need to be more aware that this is one of the cause for higher prices on everything. No one is taught this out of there free will they have to walk into the situation themselves without even knowing the background about it. Before anyone does in anything they should know the pros and cons of it. This just makes is harder for you to get into any bad situations that can cause you some