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In an Instagram post, the Robins des ruelles said four masked "Santa Clauses" and a "swarm of elves" redistributed the alleged stolen goods after the symbolic “food drive” to community fridges across Montreal and under a Christmas tree in Place Valo
Fuck yeah
Santa Hood and his band of Merry Elves
God this story is getting better and better
I thought it was called "Christmas of elves", not swarm.
Depends how they are deployed.
The elves are drones, run by fiber cables
Retail crime resulted in losses of $9.2 billion in Canada in 2024.
I don't think I really care how much money billionaires lose.
That's the thing. They lost $9.2 billion, but they still turned a profit.
They factor the cost of theft into their item pricing.
And yet, if theft stopped, prices wouldn't go back down.
Naturally. By not stealing you are giving them free money.
Doubt they'd have these losses if they stopped throwing away the food and instead gave it to people in need.
Major retail theft is almost always done by employees, anyway. Very intellectually lazy reporting to just drop that factoid (produced by retail stores, not independent studies) without that context.
been this way for decades or since like ever. I remember working at Best Buy in the early 00s and the primary shrink factor was internal theft not shoplifting. Hell the LP guy that stood in the front of the store with the yellow shirt spent more time watching employees than actual customers.
If wage theft totals to a greater number (I read than in the US it is the biggest form of theft, not canada, but dont have data for canada), then it is not the poor who are stealing food, it is the rich who stole and the poor are starving
In the US, wage theft is larger than every other form of theft combined. It’s literally over 51% of all theft. But it’s typically considered a civil issue, not criminal. So cops won’t help, and individual employees need to sue to get anything. And when those employees are being stolen from, they can’t afford a lawyer to sue.
And the current administration has systematically defunded, delegitimized, and dismantled organizations like the National Labor Relations Board, the Department of Labor, etc which actually had the teeth to fight for workers.
When people talk about white collar crime not being prosecuted, this is the kind of shit they’re talking about. You walk into a gas station and blatantly steal a $2 candy bar every day. By the end of the week, they’ll have a cop waiting for you to show up… But that same gas station chain steals $2 from every single employee every single day, by requiring them to show up 15 minutes before their clock-in time, netting them hundreds of thousands of dollars in stolen wages every year? That’s a civil issue, and the employees need to take it up with the gas station’s corporate lawyers… Who will drag a court case out until the employees are all broke and have to drop the case.
You know you’re right, we could do better ! That’s rookies number
"Retail crime resulted in losses of $9.2 billion in Canada in 2024."
I wonder how that compares to wage theft for the same period.
In 2017 Ontario found ~60M in wage theft.
With this we can deduce that it's about 2 billion in wage theft in canada in 2017.
So not quite total offset but significant enough that this is gonna have to fall under the cost of doing business.
Found wage theft. That is, of the number of incidents reported, which ones were ruled to be theft. But there's the undocumented part of wage theft.
On top of that, there are "legitimate" cases that should be considered wage theft, i.e. extraction of value from the worker. The tally on that is essentially the entire world economy.
most wage thefts are not even reported. boss makes you come in early? stay late? have lunch at your desk? answer emails and calls outside of work? those are still wage theft even if they never touch your pay check.
and if I were to put my Marx hat, then all for profit business is wage theft (although I get it is not legally so, but who made that fucking law?)
This is actual action, folks. This puts food in bellies and hurts the rich. Not a protest or a hashtag campaign.
BTW, if you see anyone stealing food, you saw nothing.
Sorry, I had an onset of sudden blindness. I didn't see anything.
when it comes to food , no ine stole shit, other than some fatass greedy cunt overcharging we humans
If there are hungry people in a state, while there are people with more resources than they can spend in a lifetime, it is the state that stole (or allowed the rich to steal) the food from the poor.
"No matter the reason, it is unacceptable and a criminal act,” Metro spokesperson Geneviève Grégoire told CBC News in a statement. ”Retail crime resulted in losses of $9.2 billion in Canada in 2024. Many factors influence food inflation, including disruptions in the global supply chain, volatility in commodity prices, changes in international trade conditions, and retail crime.”
Let me play the world's smallest violin
I wonder how much wage theft losses are
Hell yea, new Christmas lore!
"stole" from a Metro. Good. in Canada all of THREE companies own ALL the grocery chains in the country. Metro being one of them. So I totally support this.
Also if you ever see someone stealing food from a Canadian owned grocery store, no you didn't. and if you ever report ANYONE for stealing from a Metro or Loblaws or Sobeys or ANY of their subsidiaries then you're a piece of shit.
So ... Half a dozen eggs?
This is Montréal. No egg shortage here
So you're saying there's un œuf?
Stealing food….yeah I hope they get away with it in this evil dystopia
Laurie: you were there, what did you see?
Me: sorry, mate. I didn't see anything. Must've happened while I was over by the bread.
The heroes this world needs.
Title is misleading. It's not theft. It's direct action.