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Lifting a pound of flesh

January 19th, 2007 by Talboito

Apparently the most shoplifted item these days isn’t batteries or razors, it is meat:

Meatlifting is a grave problem for food retailers: According to the Food Marketing Institute, meat was the most shoplifted item in America’s grocery stores in 2005. (It barely edged out analgesics and was a few percentage points ahead of razor blades and baby formula.)

I’m sure some op-edist could infer any number of wacky observational dicta from this sort of story:

  • Look what the Atkins diets have done to our nation’s morals!
  • Red Stater’s steal T-Bones! Blue Stater’s steal Filet Mignon!
  • etc…

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