New \u201cborrowing\u201d trend on TikTok sees users teaching others how to steal TikTokA \u201cborrowing\u201d trend on TikTok is on the rise, which risks the number of shoplift cases rising as well, as people take to the platform to teach others how to essentially steal from retail stores. Shoplifting is on the rise in the US. Some stores now have shoplifting as 2% to 3% of their total sales, which is up from 0.7 to 1% pre-pandemic, CNN reports. At the same time, terms and hashtags about \u201cborrowing\u201d things from stores are soaring, with the hashtag \u201cborrow tip and tricks\u201d amassing 8.9 billion views on TikTok. The trend of \u201cborrowing\u201d things sees people share their tips and tricks of how to \u201cborrowing\u201d things from major stores \u2013 but what exactly does that mean? What is the \u201cborrow tips and tricks\u201d trend on TikTok? TikTokers are using hashtags such as \u201cborrow tips and tricks,\u201d \u201cborrowers,\u201d and \u201cborrowing items\u201d to share tips and tricks on how to best steal things from major stores. According to one viral clip, the most vulnerable retailers are Walgreens, Dollar Tree, and Walmart, while Target, Sephora, Gucci, and Louis Vuitton ranked among the hardest to pillage. Most people also gave tips, such as what kind of items to focus on, and said to not steal from small businesses, ever. People are even sharing the stories of how they got caught. In one of the more shocking clips with more than 7.1 million views, a Target employee who uploads under the handle yoofavhennny warned shoplifters about the perils of stealing at the same store multiple times. While it may seem like the serial shoplifters are getting off scot-free while taking things that aren\u2019t worth that much, she cautioned that the retailer is likely tracking their illicit activities. They wait to bust them when the pilfered items\u2019 value totals $950 \u2014 the threshold for felony charges per the Prop 47 law passed in 2014. In January 2023, a video of a shoplifter went viral after her getaway car ditched her in the parking lot, leaving her to run from the police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New \u201cborrowing\u201d trend on TikTok sees users teaching others how to steal TikTokA \u201cborrowing\u201d trend on TikTok is on the rise, which risks the number of shoplift cases rising as well, as people take to the platform to teach others how to essentially steal from retail stores. Shoplifting is on the rise in the US. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}