Why Shop When You Can Steal

In one of my posts back in October, I wrote that customers are presumed thieves in the Czech Republic. Now I know why. According to the Czech daily MF DNES, the guards at an average hypermarket (a large supermarket) catch thieves trying to steal products worth a total of 300,000 – 500,000 CZK (roughly 10 – 20 thousand EUR/USD) every month. Products worth a similar amount are actually stolen on a monthly basis.