2010.54.18683

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Shoplift
Shoplift
1977
12.5 in HIGH x 21 in WIDE
(31.75 cm HIGH x 53.34 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.18683

Printed on the bottom edge: "Red Peper Posters, P.O. Box 29501 San Francisco, CA 94129. statistics: Hightower, Eat Your Heart Out, How Food Profiteers Victimize the Consumer; Cross, the Supermarket Trap; Clark, Crime in America. 1977." Red Pepper Posters address stamped on verso bottom center.





Poster has a stylized green, black and white image of American currency. Where the monetary value is usually listed, there is "Free". Across the top is "Shoplifting". At the center is a shopping bag with phrases about savings. To the left and right of the bag is text about how supermarkets are making more money than they lose from theft. At the bottom is "The Real Savings Start / When You Stop Paying".
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