Comment on Shopworker sacked for tackling suspected bacon thief
Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 6 days agoPeople 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.
NatakuNox@lemmy.world 6 days ago
You do know the UK publishs info on malnutrition in the kingdom… Right…
Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
OK, what point are you trying to make? The discussion I was having is about when people go into a grocery store and fill up their cart with expensive items that they can resell, and then walk out. Then they go and sell them for cash. Saying that malnutrition has increased is in no way connecting those two things.
When people are hungry I would think they would steal food and eat it, not go sell it. I suppose they could steal expensive items and sell them for cash and then go buy less expensive food? Not even sure if that’s what you’re trying to say. I don’t think we’re discussing the same thing.