• @EnderMB@lemmy.world
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    431 year ago

    What?

    I’ve watched people shoplift food several times, and they weren’t poor people just looking to eat. I watched someone run out of a M&S store and into an awaiting car with a huge bag full of meat around Christmas time, probably several hundred pounds worth.

    If someone was stealing a loaf of bread or something for themselves, I didn’t see a thing, but let’s not pretend that people aren’t stealing to make some money. Lots of people steal stuff to resell, or because they’re just dicks…

    • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      281 year ago

      let’s not pretend that people aren’t stealing to make some money

      When you rob one grocery store of a 10 lb brisket, its called shoplifting.

      But when you rob every grocery store of 10% of their net revenue, its called paying your shareholders a dividend.

          • @Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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            1 year ago

            For sure. And the mountain is a big one. But when you’re talking about moles digging up your garden, someone pointing to the mountain and telling how that’s much bigger than the molehills doesn’t seem that relevant.

    • arthurpizza
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      131 year ago

      but let’s not pretend that people aren’t stealing to make some money.

      Perhaps it’s safe to say they’re poor. Poor people often don’t have enough money. Still sounds like a job of desperation.

      • ObjectivityIncarnate
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        1 year ago

        Desperation to avoid getting a real, legal job, maybe.

        Perhaps it’s safe to say they’re poor.

        It is not. I’ve seen these scumbags’ subreddit, I’ve seen their Tumblr tags. They’re not poor, they’re just scumbag thieves.

        An actual poor person stealing necessities because they have no other choice does NOT have this ridiculous entitled mindset.

          • Flying Squid
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            51 year ago

            It’s amazing, isn’t it, that there are people out there who think that poor people enjoy it for the benefits…

            • ObjectivityIncarnate
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              1 year ago

              Please, everyone knows the vast majority of you thieves and those cheering them on aren’t even poor, you’re just immoral scumbags who feel entitled to the things you steal. I’ve seen the subreddit, I’ve seen the Tumblr tags. You’re not fooling me, trying to mix yourselves in with those stealing because they have no other way to survive.

          • ObjectivityIncarnate
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            -21 year ago

            Please, cut the crap. I’ve seen the subreddit and the Tumblr tags, I know you thieves aren’t broke, and aren’t stealing necessities. And you guys can’t even help but expose yourselves anyway, unable to resist encouraging the theft of even high-end luxury items.

            The irony is that you try to rationalize it as ‘I’m only hurting the Big Bad Soulless Corporation’, but the fact is that you’re not hurting it, you’re hurting the people who work there to survive, people who probably are much closer to being broke than you are. If shrinkage gets too high, a location isn’t just going to hang around not profiting, it’ll get closed.

            And then, of course, people like you will complain about the food desert that now exists in that area, completely unironically, because you’re just that far gone.

    • Flying Squid
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      21 year ago

      I watched someone run out of a M&S store and into an awaiting car with a huge bag full of meat around Christmas time, probably several hundred pounds worth.

      And yet Google tells me that M&S has a revenue of £11.93 billion.

      So why are you caring about them losing a few hundred of that?

      • @EnderMB@lemmy.world
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        81 year ago

        Because others can’t buy meat because some bellends wanted to steal it to sell during Christmas?

        I don’t give a fuck about M&S losing profit. I do give a fuck about obvious crime that puts people out…

        • @KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          01 year ago

          Are you unaware of the amount of meat that gets thrown out by grocery stores? In the US, it’s billions of pounds a year.

          I highly doubt they ran out of the store with an amount that did more than make someone’s job easier that night, or force someone to pivot their dinner to a different cut of meat.

          Like, I get it. I do. It’s a lot of money, and it’s against the law. But the idea that someone is going to go hungry because of the action is ridiculous.