Showing posts with label Crain's Chicago Business. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crain's Chicago Business. Show all posts

Saturday, February 12, 2022

Maybe the shoplifting would decrease if we started chopping off their hands



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Shoplifting reaches crisis proportions

  • "It's out of control — it is just out of control," Lisa LaBruno, SVP of operations and innovation at the Retail Industry Leaders Association, tells Axios. ...
  • “They come in every day, sometimes twice a day, with laundry bags and just load up on stuff,” the Post quoted a store employee saying. ... 
  • District attorneys in cities like Chicago and New York are considering harsher measures against shoplifters. ...
  • Teams of "boosters" will throng a store with laundry bags, grabbing what they can and assaulting workers who confront them — sometimes fatally.

Saturday, January 27, 2018

Illinois legislature calls the market top, plans to borrow $107 billion and invest it to rescue failing pension system

From the story here:

(Bloomberg) — Springfield lawmakers are so desperate to shore up the state's massively underfunded retirement system that they're willing to entertain an eye-popping wager: Borrowing $107 billion and letting it ride in the financial markets.