<story><title>Cargo theft, led by food and beverage, is surging across the U.S.</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/25/cargo-theft-led-by-food-and-beverage-is-surging-across-the-us.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>solatic</author><text>The question is, where is the food and beverage going to? Containers don&amp;#x27;t have $214k of a balanced variety of foods, they have thousands of boxes of cereal. No thief is eating their way through a shipping container&amp;#x27;s worth of cereal.&lt;p&gt;Prior articles (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnbc.com&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;17&amp;#x2F;the-fight-against-stolen-products-on-amazon-and-facebook-marketplace.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnbc.com&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;17&amp;#x2F;the-fight-against-stolen-pro...&lt;/a&gt; ) have written about how Amazon is turning into a semi-legitimate fence for stolen goods; the seller-thief can list the stolen goods, ship to an Amazon warehouse, where Amazon provides the marketplace for a cut of the proceeds. The FTC may not care enough about Amazon turning into a front for counterfeit goods; will the FTC finally wake up and target Amazon for dealing in stolen goods?</text></comment>
<story><title>Cargo theft, led by food and beverage, is surging across the U.S.</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/25/cargo-theft-led-by-food-and-beverage-is-surging-across-the-us.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>boomboomsubban</author><text>Cargo theft accounts for $15-30 billion dollars lost each year, my quick search says shoplifting accounts for $15-20 billion dollars per year.&lt;p&gt;Why do we hear so much more about shoplifting? Sure it&amp;#x27;s more public, but I&amp;#x27;ve seen dozens of stories about how shoplifting is destroying retail and this is the first one about cargo theft I can recall.</text></comment>