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The Bagel Man and White Collar Crime

This is a fascinating article about an honor-based business involving bagels.  Paul F.'s business model is simple.  He brings bagels, he leaves a drop box, customers put money in the drop box.  In general people only cheat him about 11% of the time.  There are some exceptions:  He is leery of disparaging individual companies or even most industries, for fear it will hurt his business. But he will say that telecom companies have robbed him blind, and another bagel-delivery man found that law firms aren't worth the trouble. He also says he believes that employees further up the corporate ladder cheat more than those down below. He reached this conclusion in part after delivering for years to one company spread out over three floors -- an executive floor on top and two lower floors with sales, service and administrative employees...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on August 19, 2008 (boomark / email).