Why Are Grandpas and Grandmas Shoplifting?

Numbers don’t lie: there is a trend going on in Japan that is seeing the number of elderly people committing petty crimes go up. Among these crimes, the top one is shoplifting. Upon seeing these numbers, researchers and demographers became puzzled as they tried to come up with a good hypothesis that could explain the shocking trend. photo-ac.com/ As one of the world’s largest economies and a country that prides itself on its small wealth inequality gap, demographers found this steady increase in numbers of elderly shoplifters quite intriguing. To understand what was going on, they had to look

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