Comment on Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week agoit doesn’t affect them It’s the shop who takes the loss
So it does affect them, then?
Comment on Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week agoit doesn’t affect them It’s the shop who takes the loss
So it does affect them, then?
scholar@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Producer - has already been paid by legitimate shop for goods, isn’t affected by theft. Legitimate shop - pays for goods then doesn’t get paid. Is affected.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
And? I said “corporation”. I don’t give a fuck how “Legitimate” they are. I hope they are affected and I very much want them to be affected.
Sainsbury’s is majority owned by Qatar Investment Authority - a sovereign wealth fund, the rest is private equity.
Tesco’s is majority owned by fucking BlackRock and over 80% of the shares are other misc private equity.
Morrisons is owned by US private equity in whole.
ASDA is owned by private equity and Walmart.
scholar@lemmy.world 1 week ago
By all means shop at Coop and Waitrose then, but you’re missing the point: this is making things more expensive for everyone else. Shops have to raise prices to offset losses and investment in security.
If everyone bought stolen goods the legitimate shops would go out of business and the shoplifters would have nowhere to steal from. Your cheap goods are being subsidised by honest customers.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
I know I missed a few lol.
It’s you who’s missing the point, though.
I’ve never bought from one of those shoplifters and I’ve never personally met or seen one, I have zero self-interested motivation here.
Now you’re getting it. I do hope they do go out of business, I hope every single corpo goes out of business and we can fix the world’s problems instead of perpetually transferring all our money to the ultra-rich and the elderly boomers who destroyed the world.
Nothing less than total corpo death.
Then we can sail to the stars.