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More consumers, workers shoplift as economy slows

By Congress Check in US Economics on June 21st, 2008

Christine Dugas
USA Today
June 20, 2008
One morning last month, the manager of a Stop & Shop in Methuen, Mass., noticed a man, along with his young daughter, leave the store without paying for several bags of shrimp. When police arrived, they found something else on him, too: 20 cans of baby formula.
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