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8The Tar Heel Thursday, June 2, 1988
Business
New law affects shoplifting costs
From Associated Press reports
GREENSBORO Only five of
North Carolina's major retailers are
using a new state law that allows them
to demand costs and damages from
shoplifters, the president of a retail
organization says.
"Generally, I don't think the
retailers across the state are that
familiar with the law," said Morris
McKnight of Charlotte, whose N.C.
Retail Loss Prevention Association
lobbied for the statute.
Under the law, which took effect
in October, store managers can
apprehend shoplifters, verify their
names and addresses and demand
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that they pay a sum of money,
including the cost of any merchandise
that has been lost or destroyed and
damages beyond that.
If the offender refuses to pay, the
store files suit in small claims court.
About 40 percent of the shoplifters
begged for civil damages have been
paying without court action, said
McKnight.
The new law allows a merchant to
collect up to $1,000 in each instance.
The average retailer demands $150 to
$300, McKnight said.
"It stemmed basically from the fact
that North Carolina retailers last year
lost $500 million," he said. "The
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CHICKEN SALAD
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Vegetables only 2.50
Vegetables & Cheese only 3.00
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merchants and the consumers have
been the ones to pay the cost of this."
The money collected is still only
a fraction of the amount lost.
McKnight estimated if a company
loses $1 million from shoplifting in
a year, it could expect to recover
about $4,000 to $5,000 depending,
for example, on how much is col
lected from each offender and how
many offenders are caught.
Some stores are using restitution
as an alternative to criminal action;
more are taking criminal and civil
action simultaneously.
"It's a very reasonable approach to
a very serious problem," Mike
Zagorac, vice president for public
affairs for Eckerd Drugs, told the
Greensboro News & Record.
Eckerd is one of the chains, along
with Lowe's Foods and Harris Teeter,
that is using the new law.
Eckerd managers, for example, try
to discern which shoplifters are
professional criminals and which
have stolen on impulse for the first
time, Zagorac said. The store uses the
civil route for first-time shoplifters in
lieu of criminal prosecution.
Because the financial returns are
so small, retailers who use restitution
say one of its biggest benefits may
be reducing the load on the criminal
justice system.
Zagorac said, "Overall, it's been
pretty well-received by law enforce
ment officials and. the local district
attorneys."
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New trends reflect
keeping the house
instead of moving
From Associated Press reports
NEW YORK During the
1960s, it was common for young
couples to buy a relatively low
priced "first house," which was a
subtle way of letting you know
they really aspired to much better
things.
A few years later, having
acquired some equity, they moved
to a more commodious dwelling
in what they considered a better
neighborhood, one that they felt
was more in keeping with their
view of themselves.
While the motive was snobbish,
the results often were quite prac
tical. The better house in a better
neighborhood might rise sharply
in value, as many of them did
during the inflated 1970s. Smart
move.
Now something quite different
is taking place. Rather than
moving, many young couples are
staying put, fixing up the old house
to suit their needs, and in the
process saving themselves a lot of
headaches and dollars.
Look around the old neighbor
hood and youll see the evidence:
new rooms, decks, energy-efficient
doors and windows, swimming
pools. In some instances small
houses are almost encased by
additions twice the size.
And once again, the reasons for
so doing make sense.
Two big factors are at work:
1. Many families prefer to
stay put for financial and socio
cultural reasons.
By remaining, they save various
closing costs, taxes, legal fees,
moving expenses and the like.
They are able to retain ties to
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churches, schools and other organ
izations. And the home might be
more convenient to their work.
2. A percentage of families
that once might have sought new
homes in new developments, as in
the 1960s, might be more inclined
now to move into homes in
existing neighborhoods, fixing up
to meet their specific needs.
Influencing such behavior
might be the surge in new-home
prices, contrasted with bargain
prices that sometimes can be
found for fix-up houses in older
but still desirable neighborhoods.
Whatever the reasons, expendi
tures for residential remodeling in
the past three years have exceeded
$270 billion, and about $200
billion is expected to be added to
that total by the end of 1989.
Last year, according to a pre
liminary estimate by the Census
Bureau, $94. 1 billion was spent on
alterations and repairs.
Martin Azola, chairman of the
National Association of Realtors'
remodeling council, believes the
pace will quicken to $98 billion this
year and to more than $100 billion
in 1989.
Of 77 million people born
during the post-World War II
baby boom, about half own their
homes, Azola says. He observes
that while many have been trading
up, "others are staying put and
upgrading."
The upgrading trend doesn't
seem to be a reflection of a tougher
housing market, as some market
analysts contend. It appears not
to be solely, if at all, a consequence
of couples being unable to make
any other choice.
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