I read yesterday that there is a new hot item that's being targeted by thieves from retail stores. This item has two things going for it: it's relatively expensive, and so can be sold at steep discounts on the street for all profit; and it has a relatively low getting-chased-for-snatching score, lower than jewelry or medicines used for cooking up meth.
I'm talking about Tide.
The laundry detergent.
In an alarming new trend, the theft of Tide has been increasing in regularity. Some establishments put those electronic alarms on them. The thieves just run out of the place and remove them later. Some stores have started putting Tide behind glass, like they would over-the-counter pharmaceutics.
Authorities have said that the uses for Tide laundry detergent seems to be of the non-nefarious type: actually doing laundry.
A dealer speaking to an informant was recorded as saying that he was out of weed, but that after he re-upped he would accept cash or bottles of Tide as payment.
Procter and Gamble, makers of Tide, were unaware of the new trend, and expressed concern.
If this article had run on April Fool's it would have made more sense. Maybe it was a hoax, but it seems just strange enough to be legit while sounding totally fake. Doing a quick internet search yields dozens of articles and news clips from television channels. Weird world...
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