This article about brazen, massive thefts targeting a single item comes from The Daily. [www.thedaily.com]

Personally, it feels more like a piece from The Onion.

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Mister, that's a ten-gallon hat on a twenty-gallon head.

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Those bottles are huge, it takes 20 to 30 big bottles of Tide to equal the price of an iPad. That is a whole shopping cart full of Tide. It isn't exactly easy to run out the door with that, or load it into anything. I'm amazed they can steal enough of something that large to get anything worth while out of it.

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Those bottles are huge, it takes 20 to 30 big bottles of Tide to equal the price of an iPad. That is a whole shopping cart full of Tide. It isn't exactly easy to run out the door with that, or load it into anything. I'm amazed they can steal enough of something that large to get anything worth while out of it.

And the bright orange color of the containers make it easy to notice too.

I also wonder if there is some other chemical use for them. Just using it for laundry takes a lot of time to use one container. I can't imagine that the demand for "hot tide" is there for the quantity that is being stolen.

Or maybe there's some executive who's bonus is tied to selling a certain quantity of Tide, and he employed "independent contractors" to help him meet his quotas.

Can you get high drinking it?

No, I'm not going to try.

/Mr Lynn

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Not many other items in a typical drug store that is more expensive than Tide and not locked up or behind a counter. OTC cold ot allergy medicine? That's a bit harder to sell than something universal like soap. Gel insoles? Those are about $10. Giant pkg of diapers maybe? The baby formula is locked up.

If you've seen the typical CVS or Walgreens in a suburban strip mall shopping center at 6am in the morning you know why they get hit. One woman behind the counter and a couple of sleepy teenagers pushing boxes in the back in the entire empty store.

The automatic opening door sensor at the entrance/exit is also very convenient when your cart is full of Tide

I've heard they sell the Tide to then buy drugs. It's the latest form of money laundering.

I'm tide of all this nonsense!

Big chunk of change with an easy to grasp handle that everyone wants and uses.

Sounds third world-ish.

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I've heard they sell the Tide to then buy drugs. It's the latest form of money laundering.

Thread winner!

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What's not mentioned is that many folks who rely on laundromats don't have $20 cash to buy a big jug of detergent at the market, especially after scraping together enough money to wash and dry a couple loads of laundry. So they buy those 1.5oz boxes from the vending machine at $1-$2 per. If you have only $10 -- as many people do -- you don't have much choice. Poverty is pretty freaking expensive.

I remember how much it hurt to need a box of detergent, have that $13 expense blow a hole in the week's budget. And then there's times you really can't manage to buy the big box at the supermarket, you have to buy one of the medium boxes, maybe $7, but only has a quarter of the detergent in the $13 box. You're kicking yourself, but you have to do laundry. You can either buy a big box of detergent, or you can wash your clothes. Not both.

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That's a lot of pesto.

[www.snopes.com]

I only steal Tide when the Tide comes in. Then I wait for the Tide to go out, and go right along with it so
nobody notices me or the Tide.

just read the Snopes thing… this is P&G starting their own little urban legend for press coverage
to assert how it really IS worth paying more for.

That’s all there is to this.

They are doing the reverse of the Satanic thing that brought them so much ill press because
of the way their own “crack team” of idiots handled it in the mid-80s.

Even at $15 per bottle, you gotta steal 1000 bottles (retail) and how many can you fit in a cart
at a time? 6 perhaps? 10?

Let’s say 10. That required a guy going into a store every ~4 days to load a car with 10 bottles of Tide
and NOBODY NOTICED HIM — AFTER THEY NOTICED HIM… on video tape?

This is so stupid. It’s “news” stories like this, that defy any application of logic, that make me want
to hot fire brand idiots on their foreheads for permanent identification as IDIOTS - so you can spot them
from at least 100 meters.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/13/2012 09:30PM by Jimmypoo.

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Poverty is pretty freaking expensive.

Aren't there cheaper options than Tide and the other big name brands?