• Naich@piefed.world
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      8 days ago

      Supposedly because they are fronts for money laundering. It is such common knowledge that it seems like they would be the first places to get a visit from the constabulary or Customs and Excise, so I’m wondering if they actually are.

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        5 days ago

        What is generating the need for money laundering? If the thinking is pot is about to be legal.

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    Vape shops have been flooding my little town for the past 5 years. We’ve probably had about 8 new ones open in up in that time. Most of them are only a quarter mile away from each other.

    My theory is that they expect cannabis to be legalized soon and are staking their claims now so they’ll be ready to start selling that ASAP.

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    The only logical conclusion I can draw is that there’s a lot of money laundering going on. Otherwise, it is remarkably stupid to open a business in a market that is already overserved.

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      Seems a bit daft to do your money laundering with a type of business that is renown for money laundering. Seems like they would be very likely to be visited by the authorities.

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          Because they can sit outside and see how many people go in for a day or two, look at the books and instantly see if they are laundering money. Daily visits: 25, income £10,000 is either a bit of a red flag or a fucking expensive hair cut.

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            There is no way any police organization will dedicate that much time to that.

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              You just have to get the work experience kid to count the number of people going in during the day. Divide their income by that number x number of days it’s open in a year and you can instantly tell if it’s laundering money.

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                Or you can do it like NCIS does.

                Take a cell phone camera picture and yell enhance and it will give you a details HD video and do all the counts for you.

                Oh you mean we aren’t writing fiction?

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                  Yeah, I guess it’s completely beyond the bounds of possibility to spend a day counting and then divide one number by another. Impossible.

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        Not a problem if you’re confident in your laundering skills. Easy to build them by doing business in Moneylaunderingburgh