Economy

I've seen a lot of the ways people try to beat the system, whether it's swapping price tags, putting things in pockets of other things they're buying, putting $40 shoes in a box for $15 shoes, and on and on and on. None of this surprises me. None of it. And you can expect it to continue to get worse.

For a long time, Walmart had a policy of not chasing down even the most blatant of shoplifters. That should tell you how inflated even their cheap prices are.

Internal theft is a whole different -- and uglier -- story.