Comment on Shopworker sacked for tackling suspected bacon thief
FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 1 week agoI say this a lot but in general theyre not stealing it to eat, theyre stealing large amounts of high value meat to sell it on down the pub.
Theyre actually preventing people from buying good food by nicking it all. We are not talking about someone taking one loaf of bread because theyre hungry.
NatakuNox@lemmy.world 1 week ago
What pub is buying random meat from people off the street? What person would do that, let alone a business. Ps people need protein
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 1 week ago
The pub doesn’t buy it, the customers in the pub buy it. It’s been pretty common (in places I’ve lived) for decades - traditionally it was heroin users stealing and selling.
It’s not as common now, as there’s fewer pubs and they’re a lot more expensive (and richer people are less likely to want cash-in-hand stolen bacon), and everyone buys things with trackable card payments - but when I was younger, bacon, cheese, perfume, cigarettes, casettes, CDs, DVDs etc could all be bought off “smackies” at your local pub.
NatakuNox@lemmy.world 1 week ago
So a apparently decades long black market for food doesn’t alarm you… Doesn’t tell you anything about society. More expensive items. I’m sure things that don’t need to be refrigerated are a bigger problem.
MouldyCat@feddit.uk 5 days ago
mate people selling stolen food (and any other goods) at a lower price than the producers themselves has been a thing since forever, it doesn’t say anything about anything.
Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Some Businesses do buy stolen meat or supplies. There just has to be a crooked kitchen manager or owner who knows a guy. Of course they’d like to save 50%.
NatakuNox@lemmy.world 6 days ago
But my point is the problem is in the system(s) that allows for things to get so bad people are stealing and buying stolen goods to get by. Even more so when there’s more than enough to go around. No one was going to go hungry in the UK because food is being stolen. People are going hungry because of society has become pay to win.
Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
People steal and make money on the black market whether the economy is good or bad. Crime like that goes up in dire economic times, but it’s not even remotely exclusive to dire economic times. Stealing meat and selling it is much more about funding drug habits than staving off starvation.