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Originally Posted by puckluck
Really do not understand people blaming the parents in this situation.
Kids are at school for 7-8 hours a day interacting and learning from other children. You can teach your child all the bad things about this world and what is right or wrong, but kids will be kids.
So maybe we can blame schools?
What Zellers is doing is Horse crap and they are punishing the kid a lot more than the kid being charged. That $600 might not seem much to some people, but to a lot of families that is the difference between paying rent or being evicted.
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Why is that relevant at all to Zellers.
To them they had to spend time and money on both loss prevention and on this particular case. They probably also factor in their overall losses to theft.
Zellers isn't there to care about families of customers and shoplifters paying rent at all.
The fine is probably much cheaper then the family hiring a lawyer and going through the court system.
And to me, theft is theft whether its a candy bar or a T.V. or clothes. If you give the kid a 50 dollar fine its probably not going to have an impact or act as a preventive measure in the future.
This calls attention to the crime, and sufficiently punishes the shoplifter to make him think twice.
I have no problems with the fine or the system.
If the parents don't like it, they can go to the court system.