1137
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 115 points 6 months ago

If you see someone shoplifting, remember it isn't your job to deal with it, stores pay security for that. getting involved is providing free labor to the company, and they get enough of that through wage theft.

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 71 points 6 months ago

I use to work at a grocery store and for every food item that was stolen, dozens more of the same product was thrown out for being past expiration. Like many companies they want the shelves to be full at all times, which means they over produce and order product. Nothing was recycled or donated, just straight into the trash. If I ever saw anyone stealing while I was working, I just saw it as less work I has to do with taking count and throwing out food later. Plus someone actually got to eat it!

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Similarly- my daughter's last science unit (for some reason) had a big thing about how you shouldn't waste food to help the environment. And I'm fine with telling kids not to waste food to help the environment. But maybe it should also mention that McDonald's throws out every perfectly edible burger that's sat under a heat lamp too long and maybe that should be a bigger concern if we're talking about food waste and the environment.

Even at the middle school level, they're blaming the individual when the corporation is so much worse.

load more comments (9 replies)
[-] frickineh@lemmy.world 56 points 6 months ago

None of these companies are worried about me when they jack their prices up while people are struggling. I don't know why I would ever give a shit about them. I'm just here to buy moisturizer and stay in my lane.

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 36 points 6 months ago

Here is some of the Loblaws grocery store markup that was leaked.

[-] voracitude@lemmy.world 36 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The figures in the screenshot are too small to see clearly; not wanting to be "that guy" who just says so and buggers off, I found an article that has the full-size copy of each page: https://thedeepdive.ca/selling-butter-at-54-profit-leaked-docs-show-loblaws-exorbitant-markups/

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (12 replies)
[-] Roldyclark@literature.cafe 54 points 6 months ago

If I saw someone shoplifting anything I wouldn’t lol none my business

[-] maynarkh@feddit.nl 58 points 6 months ago

Yeah, I'll start caring about shoplifting as soon as it becomes remotely the same magnitude of a problem as wage theft.

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] Protoknuckles@lemmy.world 26 points 6 months ago

Only time I'll say something is a mom and pop store. Then the thief is being shitty. Go steal from a Walmart, not here.

load more comments (4 replies)
[-] penquin@lemm.ee 18 points 6 months ago

The right answer. You never know what people have on them. I personally don't want to get shot or stabbed. Corporations have insurance, AND make enough profit for me to care.

load more comments (3 replies)
[-] EnderMB@lemmy.world 47 points 6 months 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 39 points 6 months 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.

load more comments (3 replies)
[-] SphereofWreckening@ttrpg.network 20 points 6 months ago

Don't really care about some corporations losing out on their margins after nickel and diming everyone as high as they possibly can. Especially if the end result is someone or multiple people eating.

load more comments (13 replies)
[-] art@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months 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.

load more comments (11 replies)
load more comments (14 replies)
[-] GlitterInfection@lemmy.world 44 points 6 months ago

Unless you live where I do, where people steal mass amounts of junk food from convenience stores and then resell it at the nighttime markets to our struggling, marginalized, population of unhoused folks at an exploitative mark-up.

Because that is actively harming me, and the community I live in.

Though even with all that, confronting or reporting them isn't helpful. But if asked, and I saw it, I would say so.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

Hey, this is a thread about supporting shoplifters not price gougers.

load more comments (7 replies)
[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 42 points 6 months ago

Here it's often junkies stealing expensive meats and cheese to sell. I probably wouldn't say anything but I don't really give a shit if they get caught either.

load more comments (10 replies)
[-] psud@lemmy.world 38 points 6 months ago

I'm not in a position to tell if someone can afford to eat. They might look like they're employed or be dressed expensively, but people can fall on hard times suddenly

So I'm not going to report anyone for anything except crimes against individuals

load more comments (27 replies)
[-] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 38 points 6 months ago

devils advocate: what if that person stealing a sandwich turned out to be convicted murderer Robert Durst

On November 30, Durst was caught inside a Wegmans supermarket in BethlehemPennsylvania, after trying to shoplift Band-Aids, a newspaper, and a chicken salad sandwich, despite having $500 in cash in his pocket.

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 35 points 6 months ago

Ok, if you see Robert Durst stealing a sandwich, report him immediately. Otherwise, don't.

load more comments (5 replies)
[-] Pulptastic@midwest.social 22 points 6 months ago

I am less inclined to confront an actual murderer. So my answer is nope and noper.

[-] Skua@kbin.social 13 points 6 months ago

Then I sure as fuck don't want to risk a confrontation with a murderer over a supermarket sandwich

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (5 replies)
[-] WamGams@lemmy.ca 29 points 6 months ago

In the self checkout I watched a man with his children have his card rejected, so he just walked out with the food.

The security guards came up to ask me if I knew what way the man went.

I pointed up in the air to the security camera dome and said, "he sort of went that way, boys."

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago

Can't jack the prices and not expect consequences.

load more comments (5 replies)
[-] graymess@lemmy.world 28 points 6 months ago
load more comments (1 replies)
[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 27 points 6 months ago

If they're shoplifting, I'm shoplifting.

Its only fair.

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

Nobody disagrees.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 25 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Shit if they're stealing a TV from major corporate retailer that has pushed out all the local competition: I didn't see that shit, either.

Oh and people who need baby formula from Walmart: The locks used on those cabinets use a universal key. Obtain one and even if they lock up the baby formula, you can still get it. Even if you intend to pay, it's a time saver if your Walmart is like mine and nobody ever shows up to assist you at the locked cabinets.

load more comments (14 replies)
[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago

Not my circus, not my problem.

Stock shrinkage is expected and baked into the markup you are paying.

load more comments (4 replies)
[-] BoxerDevil@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

Yep not my circus not my monkeys

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] masquenox@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

If you see someone shoplifting ~~food~~ anything, no you didn't.

FTFY.

load more comments (5 replies)
load more comments
view more: next ›
this post was submitted on 19 Apr 2024
1137 points (92.9% liked)

Microblog Memes

5695 readers
1191 users here now

A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

Rules:

  1. Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
  2. Be nice.
  3. No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
  4. Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

Related communities:

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS