Talk about advertising your trade. According to NY Daily News, 5 convicted shoplifters will have their faces featured on electronic billboards every 6 minutes at the Staten Island Mall. The District Attorney’s office created the pogram to help deter the rising rate of shoplifting, and to warn would-be shoplifters what would happen if they are caught and convicted.
Now, if these shoplifters show their faces at the mall, they will likely be recongnized, and hopefully, reported to the mall security office and police. I like it. I say every mall should join in, and every retailer should be permitted to post pictures of convicted shoplifters up in their stores, too.
Although not as extreme as the cases in Anderson, South Carolina, where a local judge has ordered convicted shoplifters to stand outside the establishments where they shoplifted holding a sign; this program, hopefully, will also be a pretty good deterrent.
What do you think? Will this program make a positive impact on the shoplifting situation at this mall? Anybody want to venture a prediction?
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