Comment on Shopworker sacked for tackling suspected bacon thief
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 1 week agoThe 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.
NatakuNox@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Mate… (please don’t use backhanded terms of flattery when you are talking about essential needs.) was that bacon going to be in your empty stomach? Are you just upset about the millions of pounds of food the UK while children in the UK have malnutrition?